Chapter 12

℣.4 The great dragon (the Devil) watching the woman that brought forth a man child, to devour it, God took away the child to him self, and fed the woman in the desert. ℣.7 Michael fighting with the dragon overcometh him, ℣.13 who being thrown down to the earth, persecuteth the woman & her seed.

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   And a great sign appeared in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, & on her head a crown of twelve stars:

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   and being with child, she cried also travailing, and is in anguish to be delivered.

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   And there was seen another sign in heaven, and behold a great red dragon having seven heads, & ten horns: and on his heads seven diadems,

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   and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered; that when she should be delivered, he might devour her son.

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   And she brought forth a man child, who was to govern all nations in an iron rod; & her son was taken up to God and to his throne,

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   & the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared of God, that there, they might feed her a thousand two hundred sixty days.

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   And there was made a great battle in heaven, Michael and his Angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought and his Angels:

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   and they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven.

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   And that great dragon was cast forth, the old serpent, which is called the devil and Satan, which seduceth the whole world: and he was cast into the earth, & his Angels were thrown down with him.

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    And I heard a great voice in heaven saying: Now is there made salvation and force, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before the sight of our God day and night.

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    And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives even unto death.

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    Therefore rejoice, o heavens, and you that dwell therein. Woe to the earth & to the sea, because the devil is descended to you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath a little time.

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    And after the dragon saw that he was thrown into the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man-child:

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    and there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert unto her place, where she is nourished for a time & times, & half a time, from the face of the serpent.

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    And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman, water as it were a flood: that he might make her to be carried away with the flood.

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    And the earth holp the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

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    And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make battle with the rest of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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    And he stood upon the sand of the sea.