Woman clothed with the sun.

layers of meaning all literal in that she represents something literal.

Come Out of Her My People vol. 1 showed me something I had missed. Glory to God for His
servants who some have one insight and some another and together provide the big picture,
as St. Paul said that in the body there are eyes, hands, feet, etc. and all work together to
make the body work.
The woman is identified with The Theotokos (Virgin Mary, Mother of God since Jesus Who
came out of her was always God before His Incarnation, He did not become God later, or
aquire the Christ spirit later, she did not provide His divinity only His humanity, but what
came forth from her womb was and is God The Word of John chapter 1).
This makes sense because the woman is the mother of the male child Who is caught up to
heaven (the Ascension of Christ after His Resurrection). But the Virgin Mary was not subject
to such harassment as depicted, if indeed any other than some minor social harassment
perhaps and the horror of watching her son Crucified, but that was not an attack directly on
her like is depicted in Revelation and she didn't run hide from it in the wilderness, she spent
her life in the city.
So while it must be the Virgin Mary it must ALSO be something more.
The twelve stars would point to Israel's 12 tribes, and the 12 Apostles the foundation stones
of the new Israel. So the woman is a collective woman also, Israel, one of whose individual
women gave birth to the Messiah, Who came from Israel.
But there is another point. The devil pursues her and fails, and then turns his attention to the
rest of her seed who keep the testimony of Christ.
So it is likely this persecution refers both to the troubles that have pursued the Jews, and to
the persecutions that have pursued the Christians. At first these two populations were
identical, and still are as Paul shows in Romans 11. This picture in Revelation then may refer
both to the flight from Jerusalem and general diaspora of the Jews around and after AD 70,
and to the persecutions against the Christians, which generally did not target Jews.
The Jews had a long standing agreement with Rome, part of the deal they had when they
sought to Rome to rescue them from the Greeks/anatolians which Maccabbees tells of, that
they were exempt from the requirement that all worship Roman false gods. But it became
noted that Christians, though claiming this exemption, did not keep Torah, so were not Jewish
enough to qualify for this exemption.
So two persecutions are at issue, that against the Jews especially the Holocaust, and that
against Christians past present and future.