The Revelation

Next there was a battle in heaven — Mikha’el and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

But it was not strong enough to win, so that there was no longer any place for them in heaven.

The great dragon was thrown out, that ancient serpent, also known as the Devil and Satan [the Adversary], the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “Now have come God’s victory, power and kingship, and the authority of his Messiah; because the Accuser of our brothers, who accuses them day and night before God, has been thrown out!

“They defeated him because of the Lamb’s blood and because of the message of their witness. Even when facing death they did not cling to life.

“Therefore, rejoice, heaven and you who live there! But woe to you, land and sea, for the Adversary has come down to you, and he is very angry, because he knows that his time is short!”

When the dragon saw that he had been hurled down to the earth, he went in pursuit of the woman who had given birth to the male child.

But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly to her place in the desert, where she is taken care of for a season and two seasons and half a season, away from the serpent’s presence.

The serpent spewed water like a river out of its mouth after the woman, in order to sweep her away in the flood;

but the land came to her rescue — it opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had spewed out of its mouth.

The dragon was infuriated over the woman and went off to fight the rest of her children, those who obey God’s commands and bear witness to Yeshua.

and I saw a beast come up out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads. On its horns were ten royal crowns and on its heads blasphemous names.

The beast which I saw was like a leopard, but with feet like those of a bear and a mouth like the mouth of a lion. To it the dragon gave its power, its throne and great authority.

One of the heads of the beast appeared to have received a fatal wound, but its fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed after the beast in amazement.

They worshipped the dragon, because he had given his authority to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who can fight against it?”

It was given a mouth speaking arrogant blasphemies; and it was given authority to act for forty-two months.

So it opened its mouth in blasphemies against God to insult his name and his Sh’khinah, and those living in heaven;

it was allowed to make war on God’s holy people and to defeat them; and it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.

Everyone living on earth will worship it except those whose names are written in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb slaughtered before the world was founded.

Those who have ears, let them hear!

“If anyone is meant for captivity, into captivity he goes! If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he is to be killed!” This is when God’s holy people must persevere and trust!

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like those of a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.

It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence; and it makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, the one whose fatal wound had been healed.

It performs great miracles, even causing fire to come down from heaven onto the earth as people watch.

It deceives the people living on earth by the miracles it is allowed to perform in the presence of the beast, and it tells them to make an image honoring the beast that was struck by the sword but came alive again.