That’s a lot of interpretting right there.
Oh, Israel is the woman, all right. “He came”..(born)..”to his own, and his own received him not”.
**Joseph’s dream** has Joseph (not Judah) as the center of attention. Mary was of Judah, and therefore was one of the “twelve stars” of the nation of Israel.
After she died, was Mary in purgatory for 3 1/2 years befored the ‘assumption’? Or am I making a poor assumption?
What a tangled web we weave......
Thanks for replying though!
As you pointed out, Joseph's dream, in similar sun, moon, and star symbols, was about a person, Joseph. The stars were Joseph's brothers, progenitors of the other tribes of Israel. Your reference to his own receiving him not and being the woman is totally out of character with Revelation Twelve. Instead, it fits the one who stood faithfully by the Holy One, in conception, birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension. It is about a real woman, Miriam, the blessed Virgin of Israel, who personifies and incompasses not only Israel, but the holy catholic apostolic church..