{ "schemaVersion": 1, "kind": "event", "id": "revelation-dragon-defeated", "era": "revelation", "order": 515, "title": "The accuser is cast down", "group": "rev-conflict", "date": { "kind": "relative", "label": "Revelation 12 · reading sequence", "note": "This is the order of the book. It does not assign a calendar date to a vision or choose one scheme of fulfillment." }, "summary": "Michael and his angels defeat the dragon, identified as the devil and Satan. Heaven celebrates victory through the Lamb and faithful testimony, while the dragon pursues the woman and wages war on her other children.", "context": "Heaven’s celebration is paired with a warning of trouble on earth. The witnesses conquer through the Lamb’s blood and their testimony, even at the cost of life; this is not a call to take up violence. Eagle wings and wilderness nourishment recall deliverance imagery, while the earth helps the woman escape the serpent’s flood. The final shoreline clause is included in the bundled BSB’s verse 17; some editions number it 12:18 or attach related wording to 13:1. Keep the scene connected to the sea beast that follows.", "question": "How does this account define victory differently from simply avoiding suffering?", "locationNote": "Visionary setting; no geographic pin or route. The background map shows the historical recipients in western Asia Minor, not the location of this vision.", "relatedNote": "These readings illuminate biblical language and themes. Connections do not by themselves settle the timing or every interpretation of the vision.", "passages": [ { "reference": "Revelation 12:7–17", "range": [ 66012007, 66012017 ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2012%3A7%E2%80%9317&version=BSB", "availability": "bundled", "verses": [ { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back." }, { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "But the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels." }, { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him." }, { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God." }, { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death." }, { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”" }, { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child." }, { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time." }, { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent." }, { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth." }, { "book": "Revelation", "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "And the dragon was enraged at the woman and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea." } ] } ], "related": [ { "range": [ 2019004, 2019004 ], "kind": "teaching", "note": "God’s description of carrying Israel on eagles’ wings helps illuminate the woman’s protection.", "reference": "Exodus 19:4", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2019%3A4&version=BSB" } ], "places": [], "mapPeriod": "revelation-asia", "further": [], "provenance": { "sources": [ { "name": "editorial", "ref": "content/authored/revelation.json" } ], "review": "draft" }, "eraName": "Revelation", "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=revelation-dragon-defeated", "attribution": [ "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.", "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.", "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm" ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-dragon-defeated/", "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-dragon-defeated/index.md", "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-dragon-defeated/index.json", "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.", "revision": "b68ff366df16e275" }