Revelation 12:1 (TS2009) And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman clad with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

I believe this woman symbolizes God's people. The sun symbolizes the shield of God (Psalms 84:11) or the throne of God's Son (Psalms 89:36). The sun is the physical light of the world, but the Son of God is the spiritual light (John 8:12, John 12:35). The moon symbolizes everlastingness (Psalms 89:36-37). The crown signifies rulership. The number twelve points to the twelve tribes of Israel. In prophecy stars also symbolize messengers of God (Revelation 1:20). These are perhaps the 12 messengers which are found at the gates of the wall around the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven (Revelation 21:12).

Revelation 12:2 (TS2009) And being pregnant, she cried out in labour and in pain to give birth.

God's people will yearn more and more for the coming of the Son of God to bring an end to Satan's reign on earth. In Revelation 6 God's chosen ones who are already in heaven in the beginning of the time of the end ask God how long until He will avenge their blood, but they were told to be a little more patient until both the number of their fellow servants and their brothers, who would be killed as they were, was completed (Revelation 6:10-11). This confirms that there still is a remainder of God's chosen ones on earth in the beginning of the time of the end and that God's government of 144,000 in heaven is not complete yet at that time. In Matthew 24 the Messiah talks about the beginning of birth pains in the beginning of the time of the end which coincides with the Four Horsemen that will kill a fourth of the earth's population.

Revelation 12:3 (TS2009) And another sign was seen in the heaven: and see, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads.

Satan is called dragon and serpent (Revelation 20:2) and the ruler of this world (John 12:31, 2 Corinthians 4:4). In Revelation 13 a beast is mentioned with seven heads and ten horns with crowns symbolizing Satan's final global empire after the horns are given rulership. Revelation 17 mentions a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns which symbolizes all empires on earth that affected God's chosen ones throughout history. The dragon in heaven symbolizes Satan and it shows that he spiritually ruled the earthly empires throughout history that affected God's people. Its seventh head symbolizes his final global empire which completes all his earthly empires and it implies that this vision takes place in the time of the end.

Revelation 12:4 (TS2009) And his tail draws a third of the stars of the heaven and throws them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, to devour her child as soon as it was born.

Satan deceived a third of God's messengers in heaven who also rebelled with Satan against God (Luke 11:15). They are the fallen messengers or demons. Satan will kill God's chosen ones. Revelation 6 mentions that the stars of the heaven fell to the earth halfway through the time of the end, after the Four Horsemen, but before God's wrath (Revelation 6:12-13).

Revelation 12:5 (TS2009) And she bore a male child who was to shepherd all nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught away to Elohim and to His throne.

The male child represents the remainder of God's chosen ones on earth in the time of the end. After they are killed by Satan they complete the government of God's Kingdom. The rod of iron is used in reference to the Messiah (Psalms 2:9) and to God's chosen ones who will rule together with His Son in God's Kingdom (Revelation 2:26-27).

Revelation 12:6 (TS2009) And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by Elohim, to be nourished there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

The wilderness is a place of trial for Godly people (Mark 1:12, 1 Corinthians 10:5). Here the wilderness symbolizes the ungodly world in the time of the end. But God has a place prepared for His faithful people on earth, the mountain of God. The nourishment may be like the bread of life (John 6:47-51). 1,260 days equals 3.5 years which is a time period mentioned several times in Daniel and Revelation related to the time of the end. So God's chosen ones will be killed during the first half of the time of the end, they are taken up into heaven to complete the government of God's Kingdom, and then God's faithful people who remain on the earth will be protected for the second half of the time of the end which lasts 3.5 years.

Revelation 12:7-9 (TS2009) And there came to be fighting in the heaven: Mikael and his messengers fought against the dragon. And the dragon and his messengers fought, but they were not strong enough, nor was a place found for them in the heaven any longer. And the great dragon was thrown out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who leads all the world astray. He was thrown to the earth, and his messengers were thrown out with him.

Michael is the chief messenger (Daniel 10:13, 12:1) who will lead God's army of messengers against Satan and his army of fallen messengers or demons. Satan and his demons are then banned from heaven and thrown to the earth.

Revelation 12:10 (TS2009) And I heard a loud voice saying in the heaven, “Now have come the deliverance and the power and the reign of our Elohim and the authority of His Messiah, for the accuser of our brothers, who accused them before our Elohim day and night, has been thrown down.

With the expulsion of Satan from heaven God's Kingdom can be set up.

Revelation 12:11-12 (TS2009) And they overcame him because of the Blood of the Lamb, and because of the Word of their witness, and they did not love their lives to the death.

God's chosen ones will overcome Satan because of the sacrifice of the Messiah. Shortly before His death on earth the Messiah said: Now is the judgement of this world, now the ruler of this world shall be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, shall draw all men unto Myself (John 12:31-32). The sacrifice of the Messiah on earth also sealed the fate of Satan.

Revelation 12:12-13 (TS2009) Because of this rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has little time. And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.

Satan will persecute God's people.

Revelation 12:14 (TS2009) And the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, to fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

The wings of a great eagle symbolize God's power to protect His people (Exodus 19:4, Isaiah 40:31). The period time and times and half a time equals 3.5 years as is also mentioned in other prophecies in Daniel and Revelation. God will protect His people from Satan.

Revelation 12:15 (TS2009) And out of his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river after the woman, to cause her to be swept away by the river.

Water symbolizes the unstable nations on earth under Satan's power (Psalms 144:7, Psalms 65:7, Isaiah 57:20, James 1:6). Babylon the Great is seated on many waters and these waters symbolize peoples, and crowds, and nations, and tongues (Revelation 17:15). Satan uses his power to try to destroy God's plan and achieve his own goals. He used the Jewish authorities to influence the Jews and the Romans to kill the Messiah and His disciples. In the time of the end he will use his people to persecute God's people.

Revelation 12:16 (TS2009) And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

Earth as opposed to sea symbolizes stability (1 Chronicles 16:30-32). The earth is often used to symbolize the place where God's people dwell (Habakkuk 2:14, Isaiah 66:1, Psalms 103:11). God's people will receive help.

Revelation 12:17 (TS2009) And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those guarding the commands of Elohim and possessing the witness of YHWSO Messiah.

This confirms that the "male child" or "her seed" are God's chosen ones. Likely this means that after Satan sees that God's people are protected on earth he will fight God's chosen ones who are in heaven, a spiritual war. God's chosen ones will likely nourish God's people on earth with spiritual food. The witness of YHWSO Messiah likely means that God's chosen ones are literally with the Son of God in heaven.