The children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of her who has the husband (Galatians 4:26–31)

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4 min readJun 4, 2024

The Heavenly Woman is the Great Sarah, for a long time, barren and childless woman (Regarding Genesis 3:15). According to the apostle Paul, it represents “Jerusalem above”: “ But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written: “Be glad, you barren woman who does not give birth; break into joyful shouting, you woman who does not have birth pains; for the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of her who has the husband.” Now you, brothers, are children of the promise the same as Isaac was. But just as then the one born through natural descent began persecuting the one born through spirit, so also now. Nevertheless, what does the scripture say? “Drive out the servant girl and her son, for the son of the servant girl will by no means be an heir with the son of the free woman.” So, brothers, we are children, not of a servant girl, but of the free woman” (Galatians 4:26–31).

The apostle Paul also designated it by another synonymous expression, the “Heavenly Jerusalem”: “But you have approached a Mount Zion and a city of [the] living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and myriads of angels, in general assembly, and the congregation of the firstborn who have been enrolled in the heavens, and God the Judge of all, and the spiritual lives of righteous ones who have been made perfect” (Hebrews 12:22,23).

By comparing the two biblical quotations in Hebrews 12: 22.23 and Galatians 4: 26,27: there is no difference. The two biblical expressions, Heavenly Jerusalem and Jerusalem Above, represent God with Christ and those who are brought to reign with him together with the angelic people of God in heaven. The “Jerusalem from above” or the “heavenly Jerusalem” represents the “woman” of Genesis 3:15: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will strike him in the heel” (Genesis 3:15).

The “Jerusalem from above” or the “heavenly Jerusalem” represents the “woman” who gives birth to a “child” in Revelation 12: “Then a great sign was seen in heaven: A woman was arrayed with the sun, and the moon was beneath her feet, and on her head was a crown of 12 stars, 2 and she was pregnant. And she was crying out in her pains and in her agony to give birth. (…) And she gave birth to a son, a male, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod. And her child was snatched away to God and to his throne” (Revelation 12: 1–6). This child represents both Jesus Christ as enthroned heavenly King, but also the Kingdom of God, associated with the 144,000 mentioned in Revelation 7:3–8 and 14:1–5. Given all of this biblical information, we understand that the “Jerusalem above” or the “heavenly Jerusalem” represents the heavenly family of God, associated with Him as His bride (Isaiah 54:1).

Obviously, it is different from the “New Jerusalem”, which represents the bride of the Lamb, that is to say, of King Jesus Christ: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more. I also saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away” Revelation 21:1–5).

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