The church is not of the world. As to prophecy, it sits in heavenly places where prophecy does not reach. The church will never be established on earth as the Jews were; it is not its calling. The government of God will never settle it there in peace. The church's blessing is to be taken away from the earth to meet the Lord in the air. Those who claim to be part of the church, but are not, may come under the judgments of the Apocalypse, but that does not make the true church the subject of prophecy. The church in heaven will reign with Christ over the earth. But God is not now setting up the church on earth for that purpose. The church suffers with Christ here and reigns with Him hereafter. The church is the display of God's grace; the world, of His government. The church is the full exhibition of God's sovereign grace in redemption, which puts her in heavenly places in Christ, that, in the ages to come, God might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness to her in Christ Jesus.