Revelation 12:13-17; When the dragon realized he and his group of fallen angels had been hurled from heaven to earth, his anger was immedately directed at “the woman”. We understand this to be a reference to Israel, whom God raised up through Abraham and cared for throughout the scope of the Bible. The “woman” then fled to the wilderness, where Yahweh-God would care and protect them for “time, times and half a time”. This is the second half of the seven-year period of the tribulation, where the serpent’s will expend all his efforts to bring the entire eart under his diabolical control.