As I continue to make known, from Revelation 1 thru the end of chapter 3 only the word Ekklesia/church is used within those chapters. From Revelation 4 onward, beginning at 5:8, the word hagios/saints is used and you never see Ekklesia/church again.
And what does that mean??
The entire subject matter in Bible is about a new creation who have been set aside (hagios) as the elect body (Ekklesia ) the spiritual house of God, the church.. Because you do not find a certain words set up by certain denominations it does not mean the matter is not about the New Jerusalem, as the bride of Christ, the church .
The book of Ruth does not have the name God but it does not mean he is not part of. I see no need for dispensations. God works through His faith in every generation.
God puts no difference between a Jew and a gentile purifying the hearts of all men by a work of His faith that works in us to both will and do his good pleasure.
Regarding what you said above, the fact remains that Revelation 7 introduces two separate groups made up of different numbers and different people, Israel and Gentiles. Your error is not believing what scripture says. The 144,000 is not representing the church, but a literal group consisting of 144,000 who are of Israel just as the scripture states.
Two groups to represent one body, the chaste virgin bride of Christ.
It’s all one bride ( Revelation 21) We are commanded to not know any man after the flesh. No division of the flesh in the spiritual body, Christs wife.
Different groups to signify different things, gates and walls. Not different numbers, the number to represent that not seen, the faith principle is 144,000 .
I would ask, how would a fortress as a city of refuge protect us from the enemy is it had no gates and no walls ?
Revelation 21 introduces two group that together make up the one Bride of Christ, the Church .It’s a number that no man can count .God forbids the counting , it work make the faith of Christ without effect .
All that are sealed represent the chaste virgin bride of Christ, using tribes to represent the old testament saints (hagios) and apostles (hagios as sent ones) to represent the remnant chosen from the foundation of the earth .
The hundred and forty and four thousand represent His chaste virgin bride the church, they are clothed in white (the righteousness of Christ.)
The above is implied by you and is pure conjecture, subjective.
I would say subjective to the meaning of the parable.
These two groups are exactly who they are, 144,000 out of Israel and an a great multitude from every nation, tribe, people and language, making them Gentiles. Neither group is referred to as the church.
I don't think Christ our husband is represented as bigamist ,two wife's. He divorced unfaithful Israel that went out chasing after and fornicating with other gods .She cannot be the chaste virgin bride presented as the body of Christ the church
Not all Israel is Israel, Just as all Christian the new name he named his bride the church, are not Christians. A man must be born again.
Both together as living stones make up the spiritual House of God the church. Both the gates ...to represent tribes as born again Jews and the twelve foundations, as stone walls as names of the twelve apostle as born again. Together as one describe the wife of Christ, His chaste virgin bride.
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for
her husband. Rev 21:3
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither
, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Rev 21:9
1Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the
house of God, which is
the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
1Peter 2:5 Ye also, as
lively stones, are built up
a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.