Just goes to show you how "rich" biblical symbols can be. I don't think there's anything "objectively wrong" with your view, dear hosepipe. Just as I don't think there's anything "objectively wrong" with mine. Both interpretations seem just, though each is viewed from a somewhat different perspective.
Again, biblical symbols can be enormously "rich." Which to my way of thinking is an argument against any attempt to read the Holy Scriptures "literally."
Thank you so much for your insights, dear brother in Christ!
Dear lady of grace.. its so true.. Just as "we" both have tried to explain the "observer problem" to the materialist scientists the same is true of spiritual things.. An spiritual observer can see things quite differently.. Example.. The Vision of Jesus Christ i.e. revelation... Is shown to John.. He sees what he can see.. and wrote what that appeared to be "to him".. To another; other visualizations, may have been prominent.. Because the whole experience was for "him".. You know; a "guy" that had never seen even one episode of Star Trek.. Must have been quite cool to him.. seeing all those "special effects".. directed by the Angel(s).. and probably God..
Spiritual things are indeed observed in the eye of the beholder.. I still love I Cor 2;9.. We probably cannot compute the way things really are.. We just observe what we can observe.. which is not from the same vantage(observation) points/vistas.. people that see similar things group together as clubs.. ugh.. churchs.. It very well could take US ALL to even approach understanding reality.. Presently we gather in clubs, you know, for fellowship and comfort.. Except for the ones that came out of the sheep pens.. they are a flock too, and just another group really.. but with no walls of the sheep pens.. alas just another club.. All clubs have special door knocks and handshakes.. guess we are all "Little Rascals".. i.e. ancient movie shorts..