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A great portent appeared in heaven.

A woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of 12 stars.

She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs in the agony of giving birth.

Then another portent appeared in heaven, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns,

and seven diadems on his heads.

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to

the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, so that he might

devour her child as soon as it was born. And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all

the nations with a rod of iron. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne,

and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God,

so that she can be nourished for 1,260 days. So when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

But the woman was given two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent into the wilderness,

to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

Then from his mouth, the serpent poured water like a river after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood.

But the earth came to help the woman.

It opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth. The

The So when you look at a book like Revelation and the picture is painted in really stark black and whites.

There can be, for a lot of us, a revulsion at that.

We feel a tribalism and kind of describing the world as a mixture of the good and the evil,

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