The World Vs. God's Kingdom

Frank Allnutt

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Part One
Most nonbelievers and some Half-Hearted Christians believe they are “the master of my own ship,” and that they are the supreme ruler in their kingdom of self. But that is a fantasy, for the Bible speaks of only two spiritual monarchies: Satan’s domain of darkness, which includes the world, and God’s kingdom of light. There is no third realm, no middle ground, no kingdom of self. Positionally, a person is either in Satan’s domain of darkness or God’s kingdom of light.
    Satan’s domain of darkness came into existence when he was banished from heaven, and it will end with God’s final judgment against him and his evil realm. God’s kingdom is eternal; it had no beginning, and it will have no end.

Biblical perspectives of the world
The Bible gives us several perspectives of the world. It begins by describing God’s creation of a perfect world (see Genesis 1). “World” in this sense refers to the planet earth. After God created Adam and Eve, He appointed them stewards of the world—the earth and everything God placed on it. But when Adam and Eve listened to Satan and sinned, rather than obeying God, they forfeited their authority over the world to Satan.
   “Earth” and “world” thereafter took on distinctly different meanings. “Earth” (Greek, gē) is the created ground or natural world which came under Satan’s authority at the time he deceived Adam and Eve (see Revelation 12:12). “World” (Greek, kosmos) now means “world system,” “ordered world,” or “world order.” It refers to all unsaved people and the evil, ordered system in which they live and which is in rebellion against God and His people. Scriptures identify Satan as the present ruler of this world order (John 14:30) who holds the people of the world in his grasp (1 John 5:19). This evil world (John 7:7) is more than the temporal world in which we live; it is part of Satan’s domain of darkness (Ephesians 6:12), which includes his evil spiritual realm.
    Satan’s world order is opposed to God’s wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:21), to the life of faith (John 15:18, 19), and to Christ’s kingdom (John 18:36). Believers will some day participate in judgment of the world (1 Corinthians 6:2). The world is therefore temporary (1 Peter 1:24) and will be replaced by a new heaven and a new earth (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21).

The world is an ordered monarchy
As Figure 1 illustrates, the world is a hierarchal system. Ephesians 6:12 describes this hierarchy as “the rulers...powers...world forces of this darkness.” Satan and his demons lost their ancient rebellion against God in heaven, but continue to carry out their vengeance against God by waging spiritual warfare against His beloved creation, man (believers as well as nonbelievers). Jesus said that everything Satan’s world order stands for and produces (it’s “works”) are evil (John 7:7).

Figure 1
Organizational chart of Satan’s world order

Satan, with the help of demons, rules the world, and will do so until the return of Christ. All Adamic people are citizen/slaves of Satan’s world order. We Christians are “in” the world but are not “of” the world because we have been taken out of the world positionally and placed into God’s kingdom. However, believers can become functionally enslaved to the world by walking in its ways.
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History’s evil empires
Satan’s world order follows an ill-fated course that has seen the rise and fall of six evil empires, and will culminate in a future, seventh empire that will dominate the world in the end-time.
Everyone who belongs to Satan’s world order lives in its ways. Paul writes, “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:1, 2). To better understand the depth of his statement, we must familiarize ourselves with the course of the world order from the time of its inception to the present, as well as in the future, as revealed to us through Bible history and prophecies.
The six former empires of the world were used by Satan in his scheme of ongoing rebellion against God, against His law, and against His children. But each of those empires was short-lived, as God toppled them all in judgment. The book of Daniel and certain other prophetic books of the Bible collectively give us this list of empires by name: Egypt (1600 B.C.-1200 B.C.), Assyria (900 B.C.-607 B.C.), Babylon (606 B.C.-536 B.C.), Media-Persia (536 B.C.-330 B.C.), Greece (330 B.C.-146 B.C.), and Rome (146 B.C.-476 A.D.).

Babylon: The epitome of the fallen world
The ancient empire of Babylon (or Babylonia) stands out as the most perverse and rebellious against God. Its pagan Chaldean religion and Tower of Babel (Genesis 11) made it the epitome of Satan’s world order up to that point in history. God put down the Babylonian rebellion by dispersing its people to various locations around the earth and causing them to speak in different languages.
End-time nonbelievers (I think of them as Neo-Babylonians) will move toward reunification under the leadership of the Antichrist. Modern transportation and communications technology have been closing the distance gap which has historically separated them. The barriers of language differences are being overcome through the emergence of English as the most popular second language of once non-English-speaking peoples.
The world order will experience the rise of its last empire an undisclosed number of years before the return of Christ. The Bible gives it the loathsome title, “Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth” (Revelation 17:5). This “Mother of Harlots” is not actually a woman but is the spirit of antichrist (apostasy, lawlessness, and rebelliousness against God) that has characterized all the world’s empires. It is “the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2b).

The road to Mystery Babylon
Paralleling Bible prophecies of Mystery Babylon is today’s emerging globalist movement that already surpasses the might of ancient empires. For more than two centuries it has been touted a “New World Order” by European Freemasons (who brought it to America in the 18th Century), President Woodrow Wilson and his League of Nations, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and more recently by Henry Kissinger in the 1970s and President George H. W. Bush at the inception of the United States-led coalition against Iraq in 1990 (Figure 2).

Figure 2: The pyramid symbol of a New World Order originated in European Freemasonry more than two centuries ago. The rock pyramid appealed to the stone masons’ sense of pride in their trade, and the all-seeing eye was appealing to those mostly religious masons because it was said to represent God. Little did the common mason know that the symbol was designed by a would-be elite of European Egyptian occultists who conspired to establish a New World Order based upon a one-world, occultic religion, government, and economic system. The pyramid was touted to be symbolic of man’s aspirations to establish a perfect world order with the help of God—God being symbolized by the omniscient or all-seeing eye. Such a concept runs counter to God’s will. The fall of all the ancient empires of the world attest to that fact. Furthermore, the Bible clearly names Satan, not God, as the “god of this world.” The whole notion of man realizing a perfect world order with God’s help is no more than a deception of Satan. And the deception continues to this day.

The Freemasons’ occultic pyramid symbol has long been depicted in the Great Seal of the United States of America. It has appeared on the U.S. dollar bill since the 1930’s, when new-worlders convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to proclaim that its slogan, “novus ordo seclorum,” represented his “New Deal.” However, it wasn’t until President George W. Bush’s inaugural speech on January 20, 2005, that the true meaning and scope of that slogan was defined in his mission statement for a New World Order to mean “New Order of the Ages.”

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