The church or the wife of Christ began with Abel the first apostles, martyr sent with the gospel. The idea of a early church led by apostles is a false oral tradition of faithless mankind in a false hope of that we walk by sight after the temporal things seen as if God was a man as us.
John Darby with help of a lady friend Margret Macdonald who claimed to see visions excused himself from looking into the the "signified" understanding found in parables which without Christ spoke not . . .
"Parables" His personal poetic tongue . Like the book of song of songs God singing prophecy through parables.
Revelation1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he
sent and
signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Not just sent as a
literal understanding .
Rather that rightly dividing prophecy. Mr Darby added a literal understandings to support those who seek after signs before they believe.
No sign was given other than the "last day" a unknown. We walk by faith and do not seek after signs (pagainism)
Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no
sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Luke 11:29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an
evil generation:
they seek a sign; and there shall
no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
The first century reformation began the last days the beginning of the great tribulation when the moon turned blood red the veil was rent the graves of the old testament saints opened and they entered in the new heavenly Jerusalem, not seen with human eye. The first part of the rising (rapture) to new incorruptible bodies that will not age leading to a end
God had turned over the faithless atheist Jews to do whatsoever their own mouth said as oral traditions until the time of reformation Satan could no longer deceive all the nations of the world that God was a Jewish King of kings, as Lord of lord .
It clearly does mean the accuser of the brethren stooped accusing Christians He will be deceiving mankind in that (God is a Jewish man) way until the last day under the sun .The end of temporal time.
The parable reads. . .
Revelation20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should
deceive the
nations no more, till the
thousand years (unknown) should be fulfilled: and after that
he must be loosed a little season.
The preparation of a new temple build with human hands will occur for a short time at the end of the corrupted age .