Houses, Cities, Mothers, Daughters

If you read "The Division of the Kingdom", then you know how the Kingdom of God was split into two houses: house of David (tribe of Judah) and house of Joseph (the other 10 tribes of Israel). Each house had control over a city: Judah controlled Jerusalem, Israel controlled Samaria. Each city had a King ruling over them, but the true King of Israel reigned in Jerusalem.

If you read "The Parable of the Two Sisters", then you will know that God had married only one wife - Israel, but because of her sin and unfaithfulness, she divided and gave birth to two daughters - Jerusalem and Samaria.

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 'Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother; and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth; there were their bosoms pressed, and there their virgin breasts were bruised. And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; and they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. (Eze 23:1-4 JPS)

Samaria and her daughters (the other cities in northern Israel) were beseiged by the Assyrians and her citizens were taken away captive to the land of Assyria. The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon to live in her cities. The king of Babylon eventually took control of Samaria and her cities (daughters).

As for Jerusalem, first, the king of Egypt came up against her and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and of the king's house. Then the king of Assyria besieged her. Finally, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took her captive, along with her daughters. So, citizens of both Jerusalem and Samaria wound up captives under the control of the king of Babylon.

During the rule of Persia, these captives were then allowed to return to Jerusalem to rebuild it and its Temple. This became the Jerusalem that Jesus came to, where He was crucified.

And their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. (Rev 11:8 MKJV)

You see, this Jerusalem was also called Sodom and Egypt in a spiritual sense. I believe this is a clue that John has given to us so that we can go back to the words of the prophets and discover the answers to the end times prophecies for Jerusalem. We need to know why she is called by these names.

"Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.' You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it. Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous. "I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst, that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them. As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state. Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride, before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you. You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD. "For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you. I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD, that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD." (Eze 16:44-63 ESV)

Sodom was a city during the time of Abraham. Sodom was compared to Egypt.

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) (Gen 13:10 ESV)

Because of her blatant sins, she was destroyed by fire. Earthly Jerusalem, the city that is spiritually called Sodom, is the daughter of Egypt.

And Sarai, Abram's wife, did not bear to him; and to her belonged a female slave, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar. (Gen 16:1 LITV)

For it has been written, Abraham had two sons, one out of the slave woman and one out of the free woman. But, indeed, he of the slave woman has been born according to flesh, and he out of the free woman through the promise, which things are being allegorized, for these are two covenants, one, indeed, from Mount Sinai bringing forth to slavery (which is Hagar, for Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and she slaves with her children), but the Jerusalem from above is free, who is the mother of us all; for it has been written, "Be glad, barren one not bearing; break forth and shout, the one not travailing; for more are the children of the desolate rather than she having the husband." Isa. 54:1 But, brothers, we are children of promise according to Isaac. But then, even as he born according to flesh persecuted the one according to Spirit, so it is also now. But what says the Scripture? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for in no way shall the son of the slave woman inherit with the son of the free woman." Gen. 21:10 Then, brothers, we are not children of a slave woman but of the free woman.
(Gal 4:22-31 LITV)

So here is how I see the daughters and mothers match up:
Jerusalem and Samaria - daughters of Israel
Heavenly (or spiritual) Jerusalem - daughter (or daughters) of Zion or Judah, daughters of my city
Earthly Jerusalem (or Sodom) - daughter of Egypt or "daughter of my people"

Babylon is the "mother of all harlots" (Rev. 17:5), so the daughters of Israel, Samaria, Zion, and Egypt who reject King Jesus will be joined to the daughter of Babylon and her king - the king of Babyon who is the great deceiver, Satan.

If you read "The Sword and the Captivity", you will know that King Jesus is coming to judge the daughters who are joined to the king of Babylon. It is time for the daughters of Zion to flee from the king of Babylon and escape from their captivity!

Ho, O Zion! Escape, you who live with the daughter of Babylon. (Zec 2:7 LITV)

For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, So that none of the remnant of Judah who has gone into the land of Egypt to live there shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah to which they have a desire to return to live there. For none shall return except those who escape. (Jer 44:13-14 MKJV)

It is time for the daughters to repent and return to the city of King Jesus!