The relationship of the church with Christ causes the Holy Spirit to remain in it and communicate the needed light on its position, while waiting for the Lord. Although it is not the subject of prophecy, yet in one respect, while subsisting as owned of God, certain things connected with it are predicted. For instance, its decay and corruption is described as a present moral warning, but this passes into mere apostate wickedness, as a distinct object of judgment.
J. N. Darby, Keys to Prophecy