A WORLD OF WICKEDNESS

“And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.”

(1 Jn. 5:19)

When the Bible uses the word “world” its definition is not all-inclusive, but has various meanings. The word can mean: earth, 2 Pet. 2:5; sin, 2 Pet. 2:20; people, Jn. 3:16; unbelievers, 1 Jn.3:1,13; possessions, 1 Jn. 3:17; the after-life, Lk. 18:30; and its system, Col. 2:8,20. It is important that saints be clear on its state and condition. The main goal of the present world is to make us dissatisfied with the Spiritual, and to find all our pleasure in the things of this world. Thus, “Love not the world.” That is, do not set your affections on it. ( 1 Jn. 2:15 cp. Col. 3:2)

Someone has said, “The world is an insane asylum run by the inmates.” This present world is not one of righteousness but wickedness, and it's worldwide in its scope. Its god is Satan and its philosophy anti-Christ. As the pre-Adamic world was corrupt before God and full of evil and violence before He destroyed it, so it was with the one that followed. Mankind carried its sinful infection over onto the one in which we now dwell. The first perished in water; the latter will be with fire. Complete renovation awaits the earth we inhabit now.

Neither Jesus nor the writers of the New Testament had anything good to say of the present world’s system. Its rudimental teachings on God and life is rotten to the core! Once you’re contaminated with its virus, it spreads rapidly and is very contagious to those close by. I read once that if a seagull has just a spot of oil on its wing, it can no longer fly into the heavens. James tells us, “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this...to keep himself unspotted from the world.” Ja. 1:27. We're like ice that has been loosened in a tray, it's in the tray but no longer of the tray.