God’s assembly of called ones from Jews and Gentiles (Eph. 1:2), in which the Holy Ghost dwells Christ announced His intention of building it in Matt. 16 which He fulfilled on the day of Pentecost by sending the Spirit down to baptize believers into one body (1 Cor. 12), which is the Church (Eph. 1:23). (See BODY.) It may be viewed in three aspects, locally comprising all professing Christians in any one place (1 Cor. 1:2), generally taking in all professing Christians on earth (1 Tim. 3:15), and universally composed of all true Christians from Pentecost to the coming of the Lord (Eph. 1:22; Col. 1:18). The word is also used generally as descriptive of any “assembly,” as of a mob at Ephesus (Acts 19:39, 41), or of the Israelites in the wilderness (Acts 7:38).