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Who is the "US"? If the "US" is the "church, which is the body of Christ", then who is the "mother of US all"?
Is the "mother" and "us" the same?
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The answers to both are in the very verses. "Us" is believers under the covenant of grace.
Earthly Jerusalem is the bondmaid, Jerusalem which is above is the freewoman.
An allegory is just a representative picture. The bondmaid represents flesh and the bondage of law, the freewoman represents Spirit and freedom and faith.
And you can call John what you wish, he was clearly speaking to churches in Revelations 3.
Revelations 1:4
John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Revelations 3:6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
unto the churches.