Today’s Topic: The Global Kingdom: Understanding the Word “World”
Scripture: 1 John 2:15-17; John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Psalms 24:1
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Now one thing we must understand and this will lead to the big revelation of the composition of the Global Kingdom is what the word world means in the various scriptures. Now, the first time I read these scriptures when I was a babe in Christ, I thought there was a contradiction in the Bible. But now as I have grown, I have allowed the spirit of Understanding to explain this mystery to me. When we look at the word world in the scriptures, it carries two meanings but the way it is being used determines the meaning of the word. Let me give you these three scriptures and then I will explain how there is no contradiction in scripture.
1 John 2:15-17: Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2 Corinthians 4:4: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God should shine unto them.
Now here we have three scriptures using the word world. The word world, in the Greek, is the word kosmos. Now the word kosmos has various meanings. So let me show you this to simplify. I can say “Bianca lives in her own world.” Now we know that the word world is not pertaining to the physical world. Then I can say “Global warming is affecting the whole world”. Now here I am using the word world to describe the geography. Now word kosmos has various meanings so let’s look at each of the scriptures and see how this is relevant and revealing to how the Global Kingdom is composed.
With 1 John 2:15-17 the word world being used here is describing order and systems. When Satan tricked Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden then Satan created a world, or an order and set of systems that will oppose God in the sense to trap man into relying on those systems and not God, Himself. Is this no wonder why God said do not love the world? The world He was talking about was the order and systems set up by Satan to entrap mankind. The word in greek is the Kosmokreator. Satan is the creator of this world. I am going to come back to this but let’s move to 2 Corinthians 4:4
With 2 Corinthians 4:4 now if we look in this scripture we see god lower case and God capitalized. Now this is evidence of two eternal beings. The first god is talking about Satan. How do we know? Satan is the only one that wants to keep you in darkness and prevent you through deception from coming into the light of Christ. Now we see that Satan is the creator of this thing called a world. The question is if he is the creator of this world, is he then the owner of the Earth? No and this is vitally important to point here. God created the Heaven and the Earth (Genesis 1:1) and God created mankind. So Satan cannot take the credit of owning the Earth nor credit of ownership of mankind because he did not create them. But what he can take credit for is the order and systems he has put in place in the Earth to trap man into relying on themselves and not God. This is vitally important to the Global Kingdom.
In John 3:16 we see the wonderful scripture of God showing that He loved the world that He have His only Begotten Son. Now one may say wait, God loved the world but then in 1 John 2 said not to love the world and we are to be like God so should we also love the world? The word world in John 3:16 is referring to humanity. God so loved humanity that He gave His only Begotten Son. So now we have seen the word world used in two different ways, to describe an order or system and humanity.
So now we know that Satan is the kosmokreator of the Global Kingdom. Now if you have not picked this up let me show you this. If Satan did not create the Earth then the 10 kings that will be ruling cannot be ruling geographical areas. It is Satan’s world but it is not Satan’s Earth! The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof (Psalm 24:1). So this Global Kingdom is not a kingdom to rule geographies or physical land. It is a kingdom of systems that Satan has developed to prey on man’s soul and his fear for survival.
In the next message we will look at the actual composition of the world of Satan called the Global Kingdom.
At the Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun Jr.
