The Turker’s Gospel

The Bible According To Mechanical Turk Workers

Revelation 12:1-10

Revelation 12:1 - Among the highest clouds was a beautiful woman bathing in the sun’s rays, standing on the moon, and wearing a celestial crown. [Turker's Comment: A big woman is in the sky, wearing various astral bodies, for some reason.]

Revelation 12:2 - She was pregnant, and struggling to deliver the baby.

Revelation 12:3 - In the sky appeared a second wonderous creature, a large red dragon that had seven heads with seven crowns upon each head. [Turker's Comment: A vision of a dragon with seven heads.]

Revelation 12:4 - And with his tail he grabbed a third of the stars in the sky, and threw them down to earth: and the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so it could eat her child as soon as it was born. [Turker's Comment: The dragon threw stars down to earth and stood waiting to kill the child when it was born.]

Revelation 12:5 - She had a boy baby who was destined to rule the world with a strong hand but her child went to be with God, his father, and sit on a heavenly throne. [Turker's Comment: She knew that her baby would grow up to be a great man, but didn't know God's plan was to bring his son to Heaven and take the throne there.]

Revelation 12:6 - The woman ran into the forrest to a place she made for God, so that they would feed her for one thousand, two hundred and twenty-one days.

Revelation 12:7 - A war began in heaven: Michael and the angels with him made war against the dragon, and the dragon fought with his own angels. [Turker's Comment: This is describing a celestial conflict.]

Revelation 12:8 - Their place was no more in heaven, they did not command. [Turker's Comment: They no longer commanded, and they were no longer in heaven.]

Revelation 12:9 - The devil was done in, and all his minions with him. [Turker's Comment: This passage describes victory over the devil.]

Revelation 12:10 - And I heard a loud voice proclaiming in the heavens, Salvation is here, and strength, and our God’s kingdom, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brothers, who accused them continually before our God, is humiliated. [Turker's Comment: Last part of this passage is unclear -- that is, who is accusing day and night, and why would the accuser accuse the brothers before God?;]

Revelation 12:11-17

Revelation 12:11 - And they made him tumble before them powered by the blood of the lamb and the powerful words of the testimony, with enough strength to prove that they have not loved their lives onto their death. [Turker's Comment: They defeated the demon using the power of god;]

Revelation 12:12 - Be happy that you are not on the earth, because that is where Satan is. His rage is exacerbated by the brevity of his time on earth. [Turker's Comment: The devil is coming, run!;]

Revelation 12:13 - When the dragon realized that the had been thrown to Eaarth, he chased and copulated with a woman who became pregnant with a baby boy. [Turker's Comment: A biblical fable of a dragon mating with a women who conceives a special child.]

Revelation 12:14 - And the woman had two wings that looked like those of a huge eagle, that she used to fly to her place in the wilderness, where she given nourishment for three and a half years, away from the snake. [Turker's Comment: The people are symbolized as a woman, who is protected by hiding in the wilderness.]

Revelation 12:15 - And the serpent spit out a flood of water towards the woman in hopes she’d be carried away. [Turker's Comment: The sentence means the serpent wanted the woman away from him.]

Revelation 12:16 - Earth assisted the woman by opening its mouth wide and swallowing the water the dragon spewed from his mouth.

Revelation 12:17 - The dragon was angry at the woman and made plans to destroy her children, who are Christians. [Turker's Comment: The fight between good and evil;]