012:012 For this reason be glad, O Heaven, and you who live
in Heaven! Alas for the earth and the sea! For the Devil
has come down to you; full of fierce anger, because he knows
that his appointed time is short."
012:013 And when the Dragon saw that he was hurled down to the earth, he went in pursuit of the woman who had given birth to the male child.
012:014 Then, the two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman to enable her to fly away into the Desert to the place assigned her, there to be cared for, for a period of time, two periods of time, and half a period of time, beyond the reach of the serpent.
012:015 And the serpent poured water from his mouth—a very river it seemed—
after the woman, in the hope that she would be carried away
by its flood.
012:016 But the earth came to the woman's help: it opened its
mouth and drank up the river which the Dragon had poured
from his mouth.
012:017 This made the Dragon furiously angry with the woman, and he went
elsewhere to make war upon her other children—those who keep
God's commandments and hold fast to the testimony of Jesus.
013:001 And he took up a position upon the sands of the sea-shore. Then I
saw a Wild Beast coming up out of the sea, and he had ten
horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten kingly crowns,
and inscribed on his heads were names full of blasphemy.
013:002 The Wild Beast which I saw resembled a leopard, and had feet
like the feet of a bear, and his mouth was like the mouth
of a lion; and it was to the Dragon that he owed his power
and his throne and his wide dominion.
013:003 I saw that one of his heads seemed to have been mortally wounded; but his mortal wound was healed, and the whole world was amazed and followed him.
013:004 And they offered worship to the Dragon, because it was to him that the Wild Beast owed his dominion; and they also offered worship to the Wild Beast, and said, "Who is there like him? And who is able to engage in battle with him?"