20:1 Then 7 I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding 8 in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain. 20:2 He 9 seized the dragon – the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan – and tied him up for a thousand years. 20:3 The angel 10 then 11 threw him into the abyss and locked 12 and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished. (After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)
20:4 Then 13 I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. 14 I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These 15 had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They 16 came to life 17 and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 20:5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) 18 This is the first resurrection. 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one who takes part 19 in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, 20 but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
20:7 Now 21 when the thousand years are finished, Satan will be released from his prison 20:8 and will go out to deceive 22 the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, 23 to bring them together for the battle. They are as numerous as the grains of sand in the sea. 24 20:9 They 25 went up 26 on the broad plain of the earth 27 and encircled 28 the camp 29 of the saints and the beloved city, but 30 fire came down from heaven and devoured them completely. 31 20:10 And the devil who deceived 32 them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, 33 where the beast and the false prophet are 34 too, and they will be tormented there day and night forever and ever.
20:11 Then 35 I saw a large 36 white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven 37 fled 38 from his presence, and no place was found for them.
12:1 Then 39 a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars. 40 12:2 She 41 was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling 42 to give birth. 12:3 Then 43 another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon that had seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadem crowns. 44 12:4 Now 45 the dragon’s 46 tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then 47 the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born. 12:5 So 48 the woman gave birth to a son, a male child, 49 who is going to rule 50 over all the nations 51 with an iron rod. 52 Her 53 child was suddenly caught up to God and to his throne, 12:6 and she 54 fled into the wilderness 55 where a place had been prepared for her 56 by God, so she could be taken care of 57 for 1,260 days.
12:7 Then 58 war broke out in heaven: Michael 59 and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 12:8 But 60 the dragon was not strong enough to prevail, 61 so there was no longer any place left 62 in heaven for him and his angels. 63 12:9 So 64 that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him. 12:10 Then 65 I heard a loud voice in heaven saying,
“The salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the ruling authority 66 of his Christ, 67 have now come,
because the accuser of our brothers and sisters, 68
the one who accuses them day and night 69 before our God,
has been thrown down.
12:11 But 70 they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony,
and they did not love their lives 71 so much that they were afraid to die.
12:12 Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them!
But 72 woe to the earth and the sea
because the devil has come down to you!
He 73 is filled with terrible anger,
for he knows that he only has a little time!”
12:13 Now 74 when the dragon realized 75 that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 12:14 But 76 the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, 77 to the place God 78 prepared for her, where she is taken care of – away from the presence of the serpent – for a time, times, and half a time. 79 12:15 Then 80 the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to 81 sweep her away by a flood, 12:16 but 82 the earth came to her rescue; 83 the ground opened up 84 and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth. 12:17 So 85 the dragon became enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, 86 those who keep 87 God’s commandments and hold to 88 the testimony about Jesus. 89 (12:18) And the dragon 90 stood 91 on the sand 92 of the seashore. 93