I see how you are using the spiritual meaning of numbers such as 10 and 12 to confirm the meaning of 144,000. I think the number 144,000 is in all likely hood is not meant literally; Revelation 7:9 say no man can number them. So I think the point your making is that man can’t literally number those who are saved but man can spiritually number them.
The body of Christ being the temple that is measured in Revelation 11:1 is certainly a reasonable assumption and you put forth multiple reasons for that.
A specific issue with this is that the body of Christ is struck twice, once in Revelation 11 and again in Revelation 21. I don’t know how this can be; do you think John and the angel in Revelation 21 are one and the same so the measuring only happens once? Would you say that the rod Moses used to strike the rock is not representative of the rod in Revelation 11?
I wish I could shorten this post but it's such an important subject.
The rod in Revelation 11:1-2 is symbolizing the fact that the time has come for the church
to come under great tribulation (please read this entire post before you reject this statement) because of spiritual harlotry, which is going to separate the faithful from the unfaithful:
Revelation 7
13 And one of the elders answered, saying to me, Who are these who are arrayed in white robes, and from where do they come?
14 And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me,
These are the ones who came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes, and have whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night
in His temple. And He sitting on the throne will dwell among them.
16 They will not hunger any more, nor thirst any more, nor will the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will feed them and will lead them to the fountains of living waters. And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.
There are many other verses and scriptures which speak about this time (Revelation 13:7 among them, with Revelation 13 telling us about the entities that will be bringing all Christians under great tribulation).
The rod signifies the fact that the time has come for the church to be chastened and cleansed, and purged of the unfaithful, i.e the harlots, those who are part of
that part of the church which is a harlot (the way Judah was when Babylon invaded and destroyed Jerusalem and the temple (that being a biblical type of what is coming).
The following warning to
the church at Thyatira should have been enough of a warning to all Christians, especially the last-days church (aside from hundreds of other examples in scripture), but it shall be proved that most Christians did not listen:
Revelation 2
21 And I gave her (Jezebel) time that she might repent
of her fornication, and she did not repent.
22 Behold, I am throwing her into a bed, and
those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.
23 And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches will know that I am He who searches the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works.
"Great Tribulation"
The words "great tribulation" are a translation of the Greek words megas thlipsis. Great tribulation (megas thlipsis) is mentioned in Revelation 7:14; Revelation 2:21-23; and Matthew 24:21 - and that mention of great tribulation in the Olivet Discourse which Jesus gave, together with the other two mentioned above by Jesus, are the only three times
Jesus mentioned
great tribulation (megas thlipsis):
All except two of the verses in the New Testament talking about tribulation, affliction, trouble etc, are talking about the tribulation of the saints, and
only three of them place the adjective
megas (great) in front of it (each time Jesus Himself was speaking).
Here (click) is a list I complied a while back of all the New Testament verses talking about tribulation, affliction, trouble etc that I came across in the New Testament.
Judgment and wrath vs tribulation
1. Wrath: God's wrath has come upon a nation or nations at various times.
2. Judgment: God's judgment has come upon a nation or nations at various times.
3. Final Judgment. There are only two final judgments mentioned in the Bible, the days of Noah being the first one.
4. Tribulation: A word which describes
the experience of humans. The word
is not necessarily linked to God's judgment.
5. Intense (great) tribulation.
WRATH
God's wrath has been poured out upon people and nations over the course of human history, but it has not necessarily been poured out upon the whole world in each case (for example: Exodus 15:3-7).
JUDGMENT
God's wrath being poured out upon a people is always a judgement, since it is always produced by God’s burning anger (thymós in the Greek; chârôn in the Hebrew), but it’s not always a final judgement:
A final judgement came upon Babylon (Jeremiah 50:13) when the wrath of God came upon the city, but
a final judgement did not come upon Jerusalem
when the wrath of God came upon the city in the day Jerusalem was destroyed by the the armies of Babylon.
FINAL JUDGMENT
The first time in the Bible that we read about humanity being finally judged is in the account of the flood in Genesis, when only the elect (Noah and his family) were saved.
The last time we read about humanity being finally judged is in the Revelation, where we read about fire coming down from heaven and destroying the armies of the rebellious nations who had surrounded the camp of the saints (Revelation 20:9).
TRIBULATION
(i) Tribulation is merely a word which describes the experience of humans, whether they be Jews or Gentiles, believers or unbelievers; and in the experience of God's people across time, there is no such thing as a "once-off" experience of tribulation.
(ii) A period of tribulation being experienced by any people may or
may not be what they are experiencing as a result of God's wrath, (for example, the tribulation that Christians experienced under the hand of Nero was not as a result of God's wrath coming upon them, nor was the tribulation Israel experienced under the hand of Pharaoh in Egypt),
but
the plagues were being experienced by the Egyptians
as a result of God's judgment, in much the same way as the seven last plagues will be experienced by those "who had the mark of the beast, and on those who worshiped his image" (Revelation 16:2).
Luke 21:23 describes Jesus’ prophecy regarding
the tribulation that was to come upon the people of Jerusalem, and mentions this period of tribulation
as coming about as a result of God’s wrath:
"But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be great distress (ἀνάγκη anánkē) in the land and wrath (ὀργή orgḗ) on this people." (Compare Mat 24:9-15, 21-22, 29-31 with Luke 21:23).
TRIBULATION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
With the exception of Romans 2:9 and 2 Thessalonians 1:6, every single reference to tribulation in the New Testament is talking about tribulation as the experience of the saints, i.e of those who believe in Christ (unless Matthew 24:21, which talks about great tribulation, is also an exception to the rule, i.e IF Matthew 24:21 is speaking about the tribulation which was faced by the Jews in A.D 70 and is the same tribulation spoken of in Luke 21:23).