Revelation 12:1-2

¹A great Sign appeared in Heaven: a Woman dressed all in sunlight, standing on the moon, and crowned with Twelve Stars.a

²She was giving birth to a Child and cried out in the pain of childbirth.

Revelation 12 presents a cosmic drama of salvation history: a woman clothed with the sun gives birth to a male child who will rule the nations, while a great red dragon waits to devour him. The child is snatched up to God's throne, and war breaks out in heaven. Michael and his angel