Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.

and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.

(This requires a mind that has wisdom.) The seven heads are seven mountains the woman sits on. They are also seven kings:

‘I know where you live – where Satan’s throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.

But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of – away from the presence of the serpent – for a time, times, and half a time.

These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from humanity as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb,

And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are too, and they will be tormented there day and night forever and ever.