The best way of viewing rev 12...the church did not give birth to a male child that will rule with an iron skeptor..
Psalm 2:9 (New International Version)
9 You will rule them with an iron scepter [a] ;
you will dash them to pieces like pottery."
In Psalm 2, David clearly says in the same prophecy
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry
and you be destroyed in your way,
for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
