I do take the city quite literally......
and I suspect that the literal New Jerusalem will come down perhaps around the year 3030......
but I could be incorrect.....
or perhaps the city comes down but can only be viewed by those of us who are no longer mortal??????
I personally believe that during the Era of Moshiach / The Millennium...... every word from Ezekiel 40 - 48 will be fulfilled literally.........
but also metaphorically........
So I believe in a literal rebuild Jerusalem Third Temple....
and I believe in a literal river of water flowing from the temple
that restores life to the areas where it flows........
but I also believe that each Christian and Messianic Jew is also a type of the Temple and.....
by that time living water will be flowing from each of us.........
This gets so big that the least Christian will be at a higher level of wisdom, understanding, self-control, love, truth and power than John the Baptist......
I suspect that at the time that Messiah Yeshua - Jesus told his disciples that the time was coming when all Christians would be greater than John the Baptist that this would shock his disciples?
Luke 7:28
"For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
Probably at the same time that this verse is fulfilled this other prediction by the Prophet Zechariah will also come to pass:
Zechariah 12:8
In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David
shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them."