Hi, Michael!
I think you are making the Scriptures a lot more difficult than necessary. We are to worship the Lord as a little child. (Luke 18:17). When I was a child, and my Daddy told me something was a certain way, I didn’t question it… I just believed him because he SAID that’s the way it was. We are to be the same with Father Yahweh. Unless He says something is a parable or symbolic, take Him at His word. God said:
Let no one deceive you in any way. For unless the apostasy comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one doomed to perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship, so as to seat himself in the temple of God, 4 claiming that he is god— (2 Thessalonians 4:3-4)
and that’s how He meant them.
With work, I don’t have time to argue the point with you, but this is my views on the matter.
Your sister in Yahshua!
Peggy