The New Jerusalem is NOT the Church, is it?
We both know, it is not.
That point is invalid. :)
I believe the point is valid. The Church has its foundation the apostles. We could get into a preterist/ non-preterist debate here, but suffice it to say that the scholarship I have read points to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD as the issue discussed in Revelations, with its replacement by the new Jerusalem, i.e. the Catholic Church.