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Revelation 12:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. "
Revelation 12:15
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13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
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Revelation 12:1
"A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars."
Revelation 12:2
"She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth."
Revelation 12:3
"Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns."
Revelation 12:4
"His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child."
Revelation 12:5
"She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne."
Revelation 12:6
"The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days."
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