THE PARANTHETIC ECCLESIA

PARENTHESISM (greek) A word or passage INSERTED in a sentence which is grammatically complete itself, without the sentence.
PARA, ( beside) EN ( in) THESIS, (a placing)
ECCLESIA (greek) literally OUT-CALLED. A called out company, such as the council in the wilderness Acts 7:38 called out of the nation of Israel and those called out of all nations to be the body of Christ. Eph 1.22

The Parenthatic Ecclesia is a called out body of people from all nations. Specifically called out by God, inserted in His programme, with His first called-out-ones, Israel.
As "Church" has lost its true significance, and "Assembly" fails to convey the idea of an OUT-CALLING, we transliterate the Greek; for the adjective, ecclesiastical, which is already recognised in English. The nearest in English would be the Invisible Church.

THE ORIGIN OF THE ECCLESIA

The Ecclesia had its origin in the mind of the Omniscient God "before the disruption of the world. Ephesians 1 3,4. It did not exist on earth until after Jesus' death and resurrection from among the dead, and His ascension; and was manifest through the apostle Paul - Acts 13:2 and Romans 1: 1-7

The writer to the Hebrews states that "By faith we are apprehending the ages to have been READJUSTING to a declaration of God, so that what is observed has not come out of what is apparent." Hebrews 11: 3. This reveals to us the change in God's administration of the ages as a result of Israel's national refusal of the Kings proclamation of the Kingdom. God has come in afresh, and through the revelations given to Paul, has readjusted the ages to suit the conditions of this present dispensation of grace, brought about by the apostacy of Israel.

What the Ecclesia is not.

It is not a denomination, or a material building, neither is it a continuation of the Jewish Dispensation under another name.
God has not finished with His beloved people, the nation of Israel, the scriptures show abundant proof of this. Paul says "For I am not willing for you to be ignorant of this secret that Israel , in part, has become calloused UNTIL the complement of the nations may be entering, and all Israel shall be saved, according as it is written , 'the rescuer shall be arriving out of Zion,' He will be turning irreverance from Jacob, and this is My covenant WITH THEM whenever I shall be eliminating their sin." Romans 11. The Messiah said that "the law and the prophets are as far as John" Luke 16:16

If the scriptures put Moses and the law in one dispensation and Christ and grace in another, let us respect the Divine order and not mix together what God has put asunder.
It is because some religious bodies believe that the so called christian church is but another phase of what they call the Jewish Church, that they insist on 'ceremonial rituals',retaining a priesthood and the commandments and sabbaths etc, claiming that all the so called Old testament promises of riches and glory on this earth have been transferred to the christian church.This is definitely unscriptual and leads to wrong teaching.

It is not the kingdom.

John the Baptist came proclaiming "Repent for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near" Matthew 3:1-3 The Messiah, also proclaimed the same, commissioning the apostles to continue His message, but to whom?

He said " you should not go off into the road of the nations, and into a city of the Samaritans, you should not be entering. Yet rather be going to the lost sheep of the House of Israel". Matthew 10: 5-7.

As Israel rejected the promised Messiah according to the scripture "Into His own He came, and those who are His own accepted Him not" John 1:11. Their kingdom of the heavens, promised through the prophets was postponed. There cannot be any kingdom until the "Nobleman" who has gone into a "far country" to receive the kingdom, returns. Luke 19: 11-27.

The Ecclesia, the invisible church of today is never associated with the Kingdom of the Heavens in the scriptures. It is compared to "God's House" 1 Tim 3; 15. To a "temple" 1 Cor. 3: 16,17, and to a "Body" 1 Cor 12: 27-31 but never a kingdom.

Christ, that is the risen Lord, is the Head of the Ecclesia " and gives Him the headship over all to the Ecclesia, which Is His body, the complement which is completing the entire universe".Eph. 1:22 . He is never spoken of as its King. Its relation to Christ is to be that of a "Bride". Ephesians 5:23-32.