Revelation 21:14—Evidence against LDS Ecclesiology?

 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Rev 21:14)

Latter-day Saint ecclesiology (theology of the Church) holds to the view that the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is an on-going structure, and is not something that ceased in the first century; indeed, LDS often cite this as evidence of the Church being the Restored Church of Christ.

In their book, Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Mormons (Eugene, Oreg.: Harvest House Publishers, 1995), Ron Rhodes and Marian Bodine attempt to refute LDS claims to authority by an appeal to this verse. Here are a series of questions they suggest their Evangelical reader to ask a Latter-day Saint:

Did you know that the biblical apostles’ names (twelve in all) will be engraved in the New Jerusalem, God’s eternal city (Revelation 21:14)?

Why aren’t the Mormon apostles’ names engraved - or anywhere to be found in the New Jerusalem?

In view of the Bible’s clear teaching on apostles, is it right to claim that the Mormon Church has living apostles who are on a par with the biblical apostles? (Rhodes and Bodine, p. 75)

There are a number of problems with the above reasoning, not the least under their reasoning, not only would Paul, Barnabas and Matthias not be apostles, Judas Iscariot would be a foundation to the celestial city, which I don't think anyone holds to!

Furthermore, many Bible scholars worth their weight in salt recognise that Revelation 21:14 is not about the total number of apostles to ever grace the earth, but instead is tied into the symbolism of the Book of Revelation, as can be seen in the following quote from three of the best New Testament scholars in the modern age:

The twelve apostles of the Lamb. This remarks looks back on the time of the apostles and would not have been written by one of the disciples of Jesus. The mention of the twelve tribes and the twelve apostles suggests that the city symbolizes a people; but there is no simple equation of the New Jerusalem and the people of God. Rather, the city represents a transcendent and future reality: God dwelling with a people, face to face.

(Source for the above quote: The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, ed. Raymond E. Brown Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and Roland E. Murphy [2d ed.; London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1990], 1015)