[marbren]

I think it's hard *not* to see Mary, Christ and the Body of Christ in this description.

I agree that this is the standard Amill interpretation.

[D-fendr]

this is the standard Amill interpretation

If that is so and this is the obvious correct interpretation - as I believe it is - then whatever further conclusions necessarily result from it, well, are the result of the most correct interpretation.

[1000 silverlings]

I think it's hard *not* to see Mary, Christ and the Body of Christ in this description.

I agree that this is the standard Amill interpretation

Spiritual Israel, not secular Israel, and there were always two, like there is today, and not Mary,--- it is the church in the wilderness, Acts 7:38