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Revelation 12:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
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Quick Meaning
This verse sends the woman to a prepared wilderness refuge for 1,260 days.
Read It With
- Revelation 12:1-6
Read Revelation 12:6 with 12:1-6. This verse sends the woman to a prepared wilderness refuge for 1,260 days. The complete unit's controlling movement is: A celestial woman labors while a red dragon waits to devour her Psalm-2 son; the child is caught to God's throne and the woman receives a prepared wilderness refuge.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The preceding movement establishes: Revelation 11:15-19 established this prior movement: Heaven proclaims the world's kingdom as the Lord's and Christ's; elders worship as reign, judgment, reward, and destruction of destroyers are announced, and the heavenly ark appears amid storm. This unit then contributes: A celestial woman labors while a red dragon waits to devour her Psalm-2 son; the child is caught to God's throne and the woman receives a prepared wilderness refuge. The following movement develops: Revelation 12:7-12 continues the book through this next movement: Michael's forces expel the dragon; heaven celebrates salvation because the accuser falls and the siblings conquer through the Lamb's blood, testimony, and fidelity, while earth faces his brief fury. At Revelation 12:6, this verse sends the woman to a prepared wilderness refuge for 1,260 days.
Follow the Context
- The paired signs, birth threat, child rescue, and woman's flight create one opening conflict scene.
- A celestial woman labors while a red dragon waits to devour her Psalm-2 son; the child is caught to God's throne and the woman receives a prepared wilderness refuge.
- The woman can evoke Israel, Zion, Mary, the people of God, and the church in different relations; the child is messianic. Birth imagery must not erase women's embodied pain or invite astronomical date-setting.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Revelation 12:6 does not turn the fact that it sends the woman to a prepared wilderness refuge for 1,260 days into a standalone universal rule. The woman is not a modern nation, celebrity, constellation event, or guaranteed single referent.
What Remains True
Revelation 12:6 shows that sends the woman to a prepared wilderness refuge for 1,260 days; its faithful force remains governed by creator worship, the slain Lamb, truthful witness, patient endurance, justice, and new creation.
How It Can Shape Life
- Use Revelation 12:6 by attending to its actual contribution: it sends the woman to a prepared wilderness refuge for 1,260 days. Before a modern analogy, explain this role inside Revelation 12:1-6, state the unit's uncertainty or first-century control, and refuse unsupported mapping or coercive imitation.
Teach It Back
Explain Revelation 12:6's specific contribution to Revelation 12:1-6: sends the woman to a prepared wilderness refuge for 1,260 days. Include the surrounding movement, one material uncertainty, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read Revelation 12:1-6 — A Woman Gives Birth under the Dragon's ThreatSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The package keeps the leading alternatives visible and weights them by textual, historical, literary, and reception evidence rather than pretending every proposal is equally strong. The woman can evoke Israel, Zion, Mary, the people of God, and the church in different relations; the child is messianic. Birth imagery must not erase women's embodied pain or invite astronomical date-setting.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete coverage.
Exact location: Revelation 12:1-6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations checked independently of the KJV.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Revelation.txt, 12:1-6
Open the Revelation Greek text file ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — Revelation with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual variants, imagery, cross-references, and stated alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible Revelation PDF, printed pp. 2408–2447, 12:1-6 and attached translator/textual notes
Open the official NET Revelation PDF ↗