Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, which the prostitute was sitting on, stand for the races, multitudes, nations, and languages of the world.
But just as Eve’s mind was tricked by the snake’s clever lies, I’m afraid that your minds will also be led astray somehow from your true and pure love for Christ.
The great dragon was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. That dragon is the old serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray.