The form outside is the pulpit as we know it today, but this is merely a head of it, so to speak (but as sure as rods turn to serpents, this is not out of order), it is a woman, just as this is the picture of that place in the process internally (as a soul in the way Jesus referenced, as kept being a bad thing) is as a woman with 5 husbands, which make the one she has now not her own, a land not their own, a kingdom not found to be in them nor when found as something they enter into (in the OT the gates are spoken from the view as something you keep, the kingdom of God suffered violence, the violent take it by force ... but the time has always to God been now is or can not be.
The pattern is every time God speaks, their is a falling to the ground, for the purpose of it not being alone, its not good for man to be alone ... but that's what started the process, where in simltude was a seed, or image no less then Israel was a seed to Egypt.
If God did not speak, nothing would have happened. This is quite literally, how we live, but even He got hungry ...