She’s Zion, and she’s going to give birth to the Messiah—bring deliverance for herself and all the world, through a virgin birth. She’s an “Imperious Whore” according to Ezekiel, and perhaps it means that she steals the LORD’s glory, but is saved regardless. That’s how far she’s fallen, and she’s backslidden, and a sinner. She usurps God’s divine authority, and places herself on top, and compasses her master.
It might actually be related to the Catholic Church’s fetishization of Mary, too. But, it talks of a specific person.
According to the prophecies, she’s a murderer, sexually perverse—reveal Jerusalem’s abominations to her—and places herself in divine authority and the place of God, but she’s forgiven nonetheless. She might not even be aware she’s doing it, as Satan’s gotten good at controlling people unwillfully, so perhaps her conscience is good, but her subconscious sins. Like everyone’s on Earth.
She’s of a sect who Satan should have never been able to have this power over her—of an Anabaptist tradition—but they do. It’s Satan’s coercion, that people cannot be righteous anymore due to the corruptive influence of sin, so she’ll have to bring deliverance into the world.
But, she is the Woman in Revelation, and will be saved. She’s Zion. There’s a male component of Zion, too, as the poetry is quite nuanced.
That’s also why Almah can be interpreted as “Virgin” or “Maiden” is that it has that duel fulfillment.
But, with regard to Galatians 3:28 women have equal place in the Kingdom of Heaven as men, but due to the curse, they’re placed in a subordinate role here on Earth.
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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