Revelation 12:16
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
The verse belongs to a prophecy that begins with the dragon seeking to destroy Christ at His birth. In that prophecy the dragon represents Satan and, secondarily, pagan Rome, the chief earthly power Satan used to make war on Christ and His people during the first centuries of the Christian era. The earth helping the woman means providing a refuge for the oppressed, identified with the opening of the New World to people fleeing religious persecution. The opening of America as such a refuge helped break the power of persecution during the 1260 prophetic years from 538 to 1798, so that active persecution was shortened, with the Reformation and the New World contributing to its decline.
The verse is part of the prophecies of Revelation 12 to 18 that are being fulfilled now while the last message of warning goes to all before the final destruction of the beast, the false prophet, and the dragon and the triumph and reign of Christ. It belongs to the last great conflict between the obedient and the disobedient, in which there are only two parties on earth, those who stand under the bloodstained banner of Jesus Christ and those who stand under the black banner of rebellion, and those who stand under Christ bear the sign of obedience.