The church is not a parenthesis, what a strange thing to say, going against all scripture which tell us that the church was the mystery kept hidden in past ages but now made known.

Ephesians ch.1.vs. 9-10

For He has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of His will according to His purpose which He sat forth in Christ as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite in Him all things whether things in heaven or things on earth.

When is this fulness of time, we are always taught [and not without good reason] that Christ's coming was in the fulness of time and yet we do not yet see all things, whether things in heaven or on earth united in Him.

J. N. Darby looked at scriptures in Isaiah which promised times of great earthly blessing and rightly concluded that these cannot refer to the church but must refer to a future restored nation of Isreal and this more than a hundred years before Isreal became a nation once more. So he concluded that the church must therefore be an interuption of God's plan, a parenthesis, this is far from correct.

Micah ch.. 4. vs. 1-4.

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains and shall be raised up above the hills and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come and say "come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob that He may teach us His ways and we may walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law [no wonder Satan hates Isreal] and the word of the Lord fro Jerusalem.

He shall judge between many peoples and shall decide for strong nations afar off.

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up their swords against nation, neither shall they learn war any more but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree [is this what YOU long for?] and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

This is the fulness of time Epesians spoke about, this IS the kingdom of God which Jesus said was nigh but which the Jews rejected, inasmuch as they rejected Him who is the King.

This is the milennial age, the age of righteousness, prosperity and peace which is prophesied by the prophets but which has not yet been fulfilled. This IS the good news the church should be announcing.

The millennial age is a world age, a gospel age still but an age when the gospel will be in triumph and not hidden as it now is [though not hidden to believers] Satan will be bound for a thousand years and all causes of sin taken out of the kingdom.

This age comes after the great rebellion, the great persecution and after the appearing and destruction of Antichrist, the saints of all the ages will have been raptured, they shall reign with their Lord from heaven.

The church is not the parenthesis, [bracketed, sectioned off, set aside] but Isreal now is.