i agree with most of that but how did you arrive at the married wife being heavenly Jerusalem?
She is the the bride in respect to the many living stones that make up the spiritual house of God.(Revelation 21:1-2
Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
(Christ)
She is seen as the mother of us all.
Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
She the church is seen in many parables that hide the spiritual meaning from the lost. .
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold,
the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and
thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?Genesis 37:10
There we can see Josef making the twelve stars,
the sun and the moon and the eleven stars typified as one of the segregate mothers . His father misinterpreted the parable.
Rev 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the
sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of
twelve stars:
Because as new creatures we are not to consider ourselves as male or female Jew or gentile.But the bride of Christ pictured in Revelation 12 she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
The same kind of birth pains Paul went through holding out the gospel as God formed Christ in Timothy.
Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Timothy is reckoned as one of the chaste virgins that make up the spiritual house of God, the bride coming down on the last day.
2Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to
one husband, that I may present you as a
chaste virgin to Christ. (the husband)
He would be considered one of the 144,000 as a number no man could count (its a metaphor) for the whole body of Christ His wife. His first fruits.
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women; for
they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were
redeemed from among men, being the
firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.Rev 14:3
There are others, I am continuing to work on the doctrine of mothers used to represent the whole church His bride under the authority of Christ ,our bloody husband, in that way.
