12:1 天上現出大異象來：有一個婦人身披日頭，腳踏月亮，頭戴十二星的冠冕。
12:2 她懷了孕，在生產的艱難中疼痛呼叫。
12:3 天上又現出異象來：有一條大紅龍，七頭十角；七頭上戴著七個冠冕。
12:4 牠的尾巴拖拉著天上星辰的三分之一，摔在地上。龍就站在那將要生產的婦人面前，等她生產之後，要吞吃她的孩子。
12:5 婦人生了一個男孩子，是將來要用鐵杖轄管（轄管：原文是牧）萬國的；她的孩子被提到上帝寶座那裡去了。
12:6 婦人就逃到曠野，在那裡有上帝給她預備的地方，使她被養活一千二百六十天。
And a great sign appeared in heaven:a woman
clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of
twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony
of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven:behold, a great red
dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His
tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And
the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she
bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is
to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God
and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a
place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.
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這段敘述讓我們想到耶穌基督的誕生，也讓我們感受到耶穌基督道成肉身來到世界，也是充滿著爭戰。若不是上帝的保守，耶穌可能在剛出生時就被希律王所殺，上帝的救恩就無法成就。
但是上帝既然執意要進行的，魔鬼再厲害也無法阻擋，無法勝過上帝的作為。也因此，我們不要害怕環境中充滿許多反基督的勢力，上帝必定用祂的熱心成就祂要成就的大事！
因此，我們要勇敢地配合上帝的作為，而不是我們想像用自己的方法來完成上帝所託付的，我們在上帝面前不是說：「我想做什麼！」或是「我要做什麼！」而是要說：「我當做什麼？求主指引、扶持我完成祢的旨意！」
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