A Holy Ghost Insight Into What Jesus Means That Christians Are Not From This World

Apr 20
38 min read

Updated: Apr 23

Foreword:

Christians Want Jesus Not Money and the World Hates Us For It

Scriptural Insight,

1 Peter 4:1-5 Authorized (King James) Version {Paraphrased}

Good Stewards of God’s Grace

1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

²that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

³For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in {fornication}, lusts, {being a big drunk}, {riots, parties}, and abominable idolatries:

⁴wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

⁵{They will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead}.

John 15:18-21 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

The World’s Hatred for Christians

¹⁸{And Jesus said} "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, the world therefore hates you.

²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My words, they will keep yours also. ²¹But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.

John 17:14-17 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

In the Word Or in the World

¹⁴{And Jesus said} I have given them Your word. And the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁵I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

¹⁶They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

¹⁷Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

Intro

This message began when the Lord spoke these words to me:

"Do you understand that the true riches is the anointing? You died in 2020. This is what that alien said that watches you. He said you are from his culture, but not of it".

Scriptural Insight,

The Holy Spirit provides the following Scripture passages to explain, through Scripture, what God means by “true riches,” as referenced above in red.

Luke 16:1-13 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

The Parable of the Dishonest Steward

1 {Jesus} told His disciples: “There was a rich man who had a steward who was accused to the man of wasting his resources.

²So he called him and said, ‘How is it that I hear this about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward.’

³“Then the steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, for my master is taking away the stewardship from me? I cannot dig. I am ashamed to beg.

⁴I know what to do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, others may receive me into their houses.’

⁵“So he called each of his master’s debtors, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

⁶“He said, ‘Eight hundred gallons of oil.’

“He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write four hundred.’

⁷“Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’

“He said, ‘One thousand bushels of wheat.’

“He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eight hundred.’

⁸“The master commended the dishonest steward, because he had acted prudently. For the sons of this world are wiser in their own generation than the sons of light.

⁹I say to you, make friends for yourself by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when you fall short, they may receive you into eternal dwellings.

¹⁰“He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much. And he who is dishonest in the least is dishonest also in much.

¹¹So if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

¹²And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who will give you that which is your own?

¹³“No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

Luke 12:13-34 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³Someone in the crowd said to {Jesus}, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

¹⁴Jesus said to him, “Man, who appointed Me a judge or an arbitrator between you?”

¹⁵Then He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness {greed}. For a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

¹⁶And He told a parable to them, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully.

¹⁷He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have no room to store my crops?’

¹⁸“Then he said, ‘This I will do: I will pull down my barns and build greater ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

¹⁹And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take rest. Eat, drink, and be merry.’

²⁰“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This night your soul will be required of you. Then whose will those things be which you have provided?’

²¹“So is he who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

Care and Anxiety

²²Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor for your body, what you will wear.

²³Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.

²⁴Consider the ravens: They neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouses nor barns. Yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds?

²⁵Who of you by worrying can add one cubit to his height?

²⁶If you then cannot do what is least, why are you anxious about the other things?

²⁷“Consider how the lilies grow. They neither spin nor weave. Yet I say to you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

²⁸If God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?

²⁹And do not seek what you will eat or what you will drink, nor be of an anxious mind.

³⁰For the nations of the world seek all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

³¹But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be given to you.

³²“Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ³³Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves purses that do not grow old, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

³⁴For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

God's Definition of the "world" in Scripture: "Culture"

The prophetic utterance that opened this message about the true riches and aliens, clarifies much of what the Bible teaches on these matters. For example, in John 17:11–14, “the world” refers to the surrounding culture: Christians live in the world, but they do not belong to it. In this sense, “culture” is one biblical meaning of the term “world."

AI Overview

culture

/ˈkəlCHər/

Culture is the shared set of beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a group or society, passed down through generations. It acts as a "programming of the mind" that differentiates groups and dictates how they perceive and interact with the world. It includes intangible elements like language and religion, as well as tangible items like food and clothing.

Key Components and Aspects of Culture

Shared Beliefs & Values: Deep-seated ideas about what is important or true.
Social Norms & Practices: Customs, behaviors, and rituals commonly followed by a group.
Symbolic Elements:
Language, art, clothing, and symbols that represent the culture.
Material Culture: Physical items like tools, food, and clothing.

Usage Examples

Cultural Practices: The Korean hanbok represents traditional dress, while Italian cuisine showcases distinct regional recipes passed down over time.
Social Interaction: A group's culture determines its "customs, courtesies, and manners of interacting".
Subculture/Organization: The specialized practices and beliefs within a company (e.g., "startup culture") or a social group (e.g., "youth culture").

God's Definition of "Alien": The Angels

Also, regarding the term “alien”: we do not need an explanation to understand that, as used here, “aliens” are angels. What people perceive as aliens in the sky are angels; therefore, this “alien”, that watches me, as the Lord said that it/he does, is an angel. This angel is involved in creating cultures in this world and in shaping the thinking of those within them. In this sense, the “alien” is an angel—a demon.

This sheds light on Ephesians 6:10–18, which describes a hierarchy of demonic powers that influence this world and its cultures.

Ephesians 6:10-18 Modern English Version

The Battle Against Evil

¹⁰Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

¹¹Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. ¹²For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

¹³Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

¹⁴Stand therefore, having your waist girded with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

¹⁵having your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace,

¹⁶and above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you will be able to extinguish all the fiery arrows of the evil one.

¹⁷Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

¹⁸Pray in the Spirit always with all kinds of prayer and supplication. To that end be alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.

Exegesis

However, explaining what the Lord said above about my inner death and resurrection in 2020—when I died in my heart and a deep love for God was raised to life—is not the primary insight the Lord wants to reveal here. God’s insight concerns money.

Those who are alive to God do not desire money; they desire God. Because of this, people from the world who knew us before we were born again may view us as strange or abnormal, as though something is wrong with us, because we do not want money like they do. Yet, as the opening passage indicates, we no longer join in their parties and pursuits. We now belong to another culture—not one defined by sexuality or mental instability, but by the divine reality of the Kingdom of God.

Romans 14:17 Modern English Version

¹⁷For the kingdom of God does not mean eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

A Brief Personal Example

Tonight, as I began my evening, the Lord prompted me to watch Steven Seagal on TV. I browsed the movies in my favorites list and chose On Deadly Ground, a film about Native Americans, their land, and oil interests, set against the backdrop of racism.

Early in the movie, Seagal says to an old acquaintance, “For three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, I’d [expletive] anyone once.” The Lord had already been forming this message within me by asking me if I understood that the true riches is the anointing, and that statement brought it into sharp focus. It underscored what Jesus means when He teaches that Christians are not of this world.

When I heard it, it struck me as deeply strange to desire money in that way rather than to desire God. The world considers me strange because I do not want money as they do; and I, in turn, find it strange that they want money more than God. I once lived that way when I belonged to the world’s culture. But since 2020, I have died with Christ and no longer belong to this earth in the same way. God is what I want.

In 2021, the Lord gave me the message below through an angel and the Holy Spirit.

In 2020, the Lord mortified my human nature through that death. I no longer live as I once did, because I do not desire money the way people shaped by this world’s culture do. I desire the Lord.

The Lord has named me Aziel, and I understand myself as a human angel. The Lord is my portion. I do not depend on money, because God knows what I need before I ask Him. He provides—freely—what money would otherwise purchase. Even before I ask, He grants what I need, and it is placed before me. I lack nothing. God feeds me and supplies me—food, money, medicine, and other provisions that have, at times, appeared directly in my path.

I do not need money because I have the anointing, which is the true riches. The baptism in the Holy Spirit is the anointing: the presence of God within you.

Scriptural Insight,

Acts 1:1-5 Modern English Version

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

²until the day when He was taken up, after He had given commandments through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He had chosen,

³to whom He presented Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, appearing to them for forty days, and speaking concerning the kingdom of God.

⁴Being assembled with them, He commanded them, “Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, of which you have heard from Me.

⁵For John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Acts 2:38-39 Modern English Version

Baptism into the Holy Spirit and Spiritual Rebirth

³⁸Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

³⁹For the promise {of the Holy Spirit} is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far away {in the future and other nations}, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

Your Body Is the Temple of the Holy Spirit

¹⁹What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own?

²⁰You were bought with a price {the Blood of Jesus}. Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

2 Corinthians 6:16 Modern English Version

¹⁶What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will live in them and walk in them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

God Supplies All Our Needs Without Money Through the Anointing

The following passage explains what I mean when I speak of God supplying my needs without money. This is how the Holy Spirit teaches the Church: He leads us through lived experiences with Him, and we then recognize those same truths in Scripture. In this way, the Lord teaches us the meaning of Scripture—such as in the passage below—because we see ourselves in it and understand it through personal experience with Him (2 Peter 1:16–21).

Scriptural Insight,

Philippians 4:10-19 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

Acknowledgment of the Philippians’ Gift

¹⁰I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived your concern for me. Regarding this, you did care, but you lacked opportunity.

¹¹I do not speak because I have need, for I have learned in whatever state I am to be content.

¹²I know both how to face humble circumstances and how to have abundance. Everywhere and in all things I have learned the secret, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

¹³I can do all things because of Christ who strengthens me.

¹⁴Nevertheless you did well having shared in my affliction.

¹⁵Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you alone. ¹⁶Even in Thessalonica, you sent aid once and again for my necessity,

¹⁷not because I desired a gift, but I desire fruit that accumulates to your account.

¹⁸But I have everything and abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, like a sweet fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

¹⁹But my God shall supply your every need according to His riches in glory {through the anointing} by Christ Jesus.

In Conclusion,

Covetousness Means Greed and Idol-Worship

Luke 12:15 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

¹⁵Then {Jesus} said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness {greed}. For a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Luke 12:15 Living Bible {Paraphrased}

¹⁵Beware! Don’t always be wishing for what you don’t have {greed}. For real life and real living are not related to how rich we are.”

Greed Will Take Your Life

Luke 20:9-18 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

The Parable of the Vineyard and the Vinedressers

⁹{Jesus} began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to vinedressers, and went to a distant country for a long time.

¹⁰At harvest time he sent a servant to the vinedressers so they might give him some fruit of the vineyard. But the vinedressers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

¹¹Again, he sent another servant. But they beat him also, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.

¹²Once again, he sent a third. And they wounded him also and drove him out.

¹³“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son {John 3:16}. Perhaps they will respect him when they see him.’

¹⁴“But when the vinedressers saw him, they debated among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’

¹⁵So they drove him out of the vineyard and killed him.

“What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

¹⁶He will come and kill these vinedressers and will give the vineyard to others.”

When they heard this, they said, “May it not be so!”

¹⁷He looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written:

‘The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone'? {Psalm 118:22}

¹⁸Whoever falls on that stone will be broken. But he on whom it falls will be crushed to powder.” {Isaiah 8:14, 15}

Proverbs 1:10-19 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

¹⁰My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

¹¹If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

¹²let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit;

¹³we will find all kinds of precious possessions; we will fill our houses with spoil;

¹⁴cast in your lot among us, let us all have one purse”—

¹⁵my son, do not walk in the way with them, keep your foot from their path;

¹⁶for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood.

¹⁷Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

¹⁸They lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

¹⁹So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain, {it} takes away the life of its owners.

Canonical Focus

People shaped by this world’s culture put money first. They idolize money for what it can buy. God, however, gives these things to His people freely. If they knew God, they would ask Him and receive; but because they do not know Him, they fight and even kill for what they want (James 4:1–10).

The ways of the world are also the ways of false prophets within the church. False prophets are of the world, not of God’s Spirit. They lack love and are harsh. Like the world, they pursue money, fame, and violence (John 15:19). They cannot understand what I write because they are not from God. To understand, the Holy Spirit must be within you (1 Corinthians 2).

In this sense, the world is like the mindset expressed in Steven Seagal’s On Deadly Ground. I was once like that as well, having been formed by the world’s schools and churches. But since 2020, I no longer depend on money, and this marks me as no longer of this world. I need God, not money, because through the anointing He provides freely what others pursue through wealth. The anointing is the true riches.

If I were offered $350,000, I would not want it. If I accepted it, it would only be as an expression of God supplying my needs through the anointing. I have no desire for money, because I know the Lord. I do not become excited about financial wealth, because I understand that I already have what I need: I am rich in the anointing—baptized in the Holy Spirit—rich toward God in the true riches. Even if I had no money, I would not be anxious, because God cares for me and supplies me before I ask.

I was not always this way. Over the years, God has changed me little by little. My natural family knew the former, natural version of me; like them, I was focused on making money to survive—taught by the devil to pursue wealth instead of producing souls for God.

What Is Idolatry?

In the Old Testament, God describes idols as lifeless. In the same way, money—gold and silver—is lifeless. It is simply metal, paper, or stone that people assign value to, which can lead to greed and to placing it above the Lord. The devil uses this to push our culture toward worshiping what is material rather than God. The devil has us worshipping stones and paper. This is idolatry.

Scriptural Insight,

Psalm 115:4-8 Modern English Version

⁴Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

⁵They have mouths, but they cannot speak; eyes, but they cannot see;

⁶they have ears, but they cannot hear; noses, but they cannot smell;

⁷they have hands, but they cannot feel; feet, but they cannot walk; neither can they speak with their throat.

⁸Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.

Closing Wisdom and Clarity

The same power that supplies my needs supernaturally is the power that prompted me to watch a Steven Seagal movie—and the movie I chose was the very film the Lord wanted me to see. He used it to give me an insight about money that completed this message. That power is the anointing: the true riches that make a person rich toward God—the presence of the Holy Spirit within the body.

God will make you rich with whatever He can trust you with. He first kills your desire for it to change you to become more godly. Then gives it to you because you don't want it. You want Him instead, because He has changed you to be more godly; to love Him more than money, this world with its culture, and more than life. Only God can make you worthy to be trusted by Him like this.

An angel clarified what the anointing is. He said,

“The anointing is your relationship with God.”

Does that make this message clear, together with the Scriptures about wealth, money, and the anointing? Your relationship with God is the baptism in the Holy Spirit—God living within your body. This is what is called the anointing.

To have the anointing, which comes through faith in Christ, means you are rich when you know God. The value this world assigns to gold and silver is ultimately empty; gold and silver are only stones, and money is only paper. They have no value before God in the way this culture does.

Therefore, you desire God, not rocks or paper, as your source of life. True value is the Spirit of God within you. When you have the Holy Spirit, you are rich, because God owns everything this world prizes—yet it prizes these things because it does not know Him. Your relationship with God is the anointing. From your relationship with God, you will get everything without money that money can buy.

Back in 2005, the angel Ariel once told me this about money,

"When you relate to God about money, He will make people and conditions channels for your supply".

The emphasis in this statement is about relating to God, or your relationship with God; the anointing.

I used not wanting money because I've been born again as an insight into what it means to not be of this world. But it's not just the love of money that God sanctifies us from. But everything. People, life and possessions. God makes us love Him more than it all.

Scriptural Insight,

Exodus 20:3-4 Modern English Version

³You shall have no other gods before Me.

⁴You shall not make for yourself any graven idol, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water below the earth.

Deuteronomy 6:4-6 Modern English Version

⁴Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God. The Lord is one!

⁵And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

⁶These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be in your heart.

Luke 14:25-35 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

The Cost of Discipleship

²⁵Large crowds went with {Jesus}. And He turned and said to them,

²⁶“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

²⁷And whoever does not bear his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.

²⁸“For who among you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost to see whether he has resources to complete it?

²⁹Otherwise, perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to complete it, all who see it will begin to mock him,

³⁰saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to complete it.’

³¹“Or what king, going to wage war against another king, does not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³²Otherwise, while the other is yet at a distance, he sends a delegation and requests conditions of peace.

³³So likewise, any of you who does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

Tasteless Salt

³⁴“Salt is good. But if the salt has lost its saltiness, how shall it be made salty?

³⁵It is fit neither for the land nor for the manure pile. So men throw it out.

“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Matthew 6:25-33 Living Bible

²⁵{And Jesus said} "So my counsel is: Don’t worry about things—food, drink, and clothes. For you already have life and a body—and they are far more important than what to eat and wear.

²⁶Look at the birds! They don’t worry about what to eat—they don’t need to sow or reap or store up food—for your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than they are.

²⁷Will all your worries add a single moment to your life?

²⁸“And why worry about your clothes? Look at the field lilies! They don’t worry about theirs. ²⁹Yet King Solomon in all his glory was not clothed as beautifully as they.

³⁰And if God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow, won’t he more surely care for you, O men of little faith?

^31-32“So don’t worry at all about having enough food and clothing. Why be like the heathen? For they take pride in all these things and are deeply concerned about them. But your heavenly Father already knows perfectly well that you need them,

³³and he will give them to you if you give him first place in your life and live as he wants you to.

Romans 5:3-5 Living Bible

³We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us—they help us learn to be patient.

⁴And patience develops strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady.

⁵Then, when that happens, we are able to hold our heads high no matter what happens and know that all is well, for we know how dearly God loves us, and we feel this warm love everywhere within us because God has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

John 14:15, 21 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

¹⁵{And Jesus said} "If you love Me, keep My commandments.

²¹He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father. And I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

John 15:10 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

¹⁰{And Jesus said} If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

The Alien Satan - Non-Human Entity

Fallen Angel (Isaiah 14:12)

The Devil - That Ancient Sea Dragon (Genesis 3:1/ Revelation 12:9; 20:2)

Scripture teaches that Satan is “the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4), that he is the prince of this world (John 12:31), and that “the whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19). For that reason, the surrounding culture often elevates money and self-preservation above everything else, promoting the mindset of “look out for number one.” This is the spirit of a world system opposed to God—one that neither loves Him nor places Him first. Yet this dominion is temporary, and it will not endure (Revelation 20:10).

Ephesians 2:1-2 Authorized (King James) Version {Paraphrased}

1 And you hath {God the Father made born again through resurrection and spiritual regeneration}, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

²wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Jesus Destroyed Satan Spiritually

But he's Still in Control of the World Until Jesus Returns

Some people claim that this world belongs to God and that Satan is not in control of our culture. That view reflects a lack of understanding of Scripture and, perhaps, a lack of truly knowing the Lord. You may believe in God, yet still not be born again or baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Do you have a personal testimony of encountering God—an experience you cannot stop speaking about? Have you known the empowering of the Holy Spirit that brings spiritual gifts such as healing, miracles, prophecy, and other manifestations described in 1 Corinthians 12:1–11?

My purpose in this post is to point you to the Scriptures that show Jesus defeated Satan through His death on the cross, while also showing that Satan continues to influence the world system and its cultures until Jesus returns. When Christ returns, He will take dominion from the devil and cast him into his eternal judgment—the lake of fire—God’s righteous sentence upon the evil one for his rebellion against the holy and righteous God.

The earth belongs to God by virtue as the Creator.

Psalm 24:1 Modern English Version

¹The earth belongs to the Lord, and its fullness, the world, and those who dwell in it.

This passage also affirms that the world belongs to God. Later, I will support this with Scripture about God’s sovereignty. In other words, although the devil has exercised control over the world since humanity’s fall in Genesis 3, the world still belongs to God because He created it and remains supreme over all creation.

But the world-system; the cultures of society, are in control by the devil, for a short time.

Revelation 12:10-12 Living Bible {Paraphrased}

¹⁰Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens, “It has happened at last! God’s salvation and the power and the rule, and the authority of his Christ are finally here; for the Accuser of {the Christian brotherhood - the devil} has been thrown down from heaven onto earth—he accused them day and night before our God {because people can only break God's laws not attain justification before God with it - Romans 3:9-20. Thus, the devil used the Ten Commandments to accuse people of sin before God, day and night!}

¹¹They defeated him by the blood of the Lamb {Jesus died for our sins and shut the devil up!} and by their testimony; for they did not love their lives but laid them down for him.

¹²Rejoice, O heavens! You citizens of heaven, rejoice! Be glad! But woe to you people of the world, for the devil has come down to you in great anger, knowing that he has little time.”

1 John 5:19 Living Bible

¹⁹We know that we are children of God and that all the rest of the world around us is under Satan’s power and control.

Ephesians 6:12 Living Bible

¹²For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against persons without bodies—the evil rulers of the unseen world, those mighty satanic beings and great evil princes of darkness who rule this world; and against huge numbers of wicked spirits in the spirit world.

2 Corinthians 4:4 Living Bible

⁴Satan, who is the god of this evil world, has made him blind, unable to see the glorious light of the Gospel that is shining upon him or to understand the amazing message we preach about the glory of Christ, who is God.

John 12:31 Living Bible

³¹The time of judgment for the world has come—and the time when Satan, the prince of this world, shall be cast out.

Jesus Defeated Satan Spiritually Through His Death on the Cross

Colossians 2:13-15 Living Bible {Paraphrased}

¹³You were dead in sins, and your sinful desires were not yet cut away. Then {God} gave you a share in the very life of Christ, for he forgave all your sins,

¹⁴and blotted out the charges proved against you, the list of his commandments which you had not obeyed {The Old Testament Torah of God's law, including the Ten Commandments. His laws serve only to make us see that we are sinners - Romans 3:20}. He took this list of sins and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ’s cross.

¹⁵In this way God took away Satan’s power to accuse you of sin {Satan's power to accuse man of sin day and night, is God's design for the Torah of Law - to make man see that he is a sinner}, and God openly displayed to the whole world Christ’s triumph at the cross where your sins were all taken away {Now that we are forgiven, the devil can't accuse us of sin no more. He is defeated by the Blood of God's Son, Jesus}.

Hebrews 2:14-15 Living Bible {Paraphrased}

¹⁴Since we, God’s children, are human beings—made of flesh and blood—{Jesus} became flesh and blood too by being born in human form; for only as a human being could he die and in dying break the power of the devil who had the power of death.

¹⁵Only in that way could he deliver those who through fear of death have been living all their lives as slaves to constant dread.

1 John 3:8 Living Bible

⁸But if you keep on sinning, it shows that you belong to Satan, who since he first began to sin has kept steadily at it. But the Son of God came to destroy these works of the devil.

Today, through the Holy Spirit, we share in God’s authority over Satan. The Holy Spirit is God, and through faith in Jesus He lives within believers. Therefore, when you face the devil, it is God inside you that's fighting the devil, and you have authority over the enemy. Jesus gave us power over the enemy even before He died for our sins.

Luke 10:17-20 Modern English Version

The Return of the Seventy

¹⁷The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us through Your name.”

¹⁸He said to them, “I saw Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

¹⁹Look, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt you.

²⁰Nevertheless do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Today, Christians who are anointed have spiritual authority over Satan and the spiritual forces that influence this world (Ephesians 6:12). Those who have been baptized in the Holy Spirit—the Lord’s anointed (Psalm 105:15)—have the power to command Satan to leave. If a person believes in Christ but has not been baptized in the Holy Spirit or anointed by God, that person does not have the spiritual power to command the devil to leave.

Acts 19:11-16 Modern English Version

The Sons of Sceva

¹¹God worked powerful miracles by the hands of Paul.

¹²So handkerchiefs or aprons he had touched were brought to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

¹³Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists invoked the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We command you to come out in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

¹⁴There were seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva doing this.

¹⁵The evil spirit answered, “I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but who are you?”

¹⁶Then the man in whom the evil spirit was jumped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled from that house naked and wounded.

When Jesus returns, He will reclaim the natural world-system from the devil and the evil powers of darkness that rule it with him. Until Christ returns, the world-system—not the earth itself—belongs to the devil.

1 Corinthians 15:24-26 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

²⁴Then comes the end when {Jesus} will deliver up the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power {this refers to the present spiritual princes and powers of darkness in control of the world-system and its cultures}.

²⁵For He will reign until He has put all enemies under His feet.

²⁶The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.

Revelation 20:1-3 Modern English Version

The Thousand Years

1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

²He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

³He cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be set free for a little while.

Revelation 19:11-21 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

Jesus - The Rider on the White Horse

¹¹I saw heaven opened. And there was a white horse. He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.

¹²His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns. He has a name written, that no one knows but He Himself.

¹³He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood. His name is called The Word of God {John 1:1-3}.

¹⁴The armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. ¹⁵Out of His mouth proceeds a sharp sword, with which He may strike the nations. “He shall rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury and wrath of God the Almighty.

¹⁶On His robe and on His thigh He has a name written:

KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

¹⁷And I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice to all the birds flying in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather for the supper of the great God,

¹⁸to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of strong men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great!”

¹⁹Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to wage war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.

²⁰But the beast was captured and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.

²¹The remnant were slain with the sword which proceeded out of the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds gorged themselves with their flesh.

2 Peter 3:8-15 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

⁸But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

⁹The Lord is not slow concerning His promise {to return}, as some count slowness. But He is patient with us, because He does not want any to perish {on the day that He returns}, but all to come to repentance {before He returns}.

¹⁰But the day of the Lord {the return of Jesus} will come like a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat. The earth also and the works that are in it will be burned up.

¹¹Seeing then that all these things are to be destroyed, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

¹²while you are waiting for and desiring the coming of the day of God {the return of Jesus}, in which the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will be consumed by intense heat?

¹³But, according to His promise {to return for His church}, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells {which come after He returns}.

¹⁴Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless {when He returns}.

¹⁵Keep in mind that the patience of our Lord means salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul has also written to you according to the wisdom given to him.

Revelation 20:10 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

¹⁰The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet were. They will be {tortured} day and night forever and ever.

The Blood of Jesus

Years ago, the Lord personally taught me about the Blood of Jesus. I recorded what He said on a digital recorder and later wrote it down here on my website.

When God speaks to you in private, He speaks to your mind, and you can write down what you receive or record it. Because writing everything out takes a great deal of time, I record it.

To receive and share this kind of message, a person needs the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the anointing, expressed through spiritual gifts. These gifts include tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecy, discernment, the word of wisdom, and the word of knowledge (See 1 Corinthians chapters 12–14 for teaching on spiritual gifts, especially 1 Corinthians 12:1–11).

This took place in the summer of 2021. The conversation lasted through the night—about six hours. The message you are about to read took six hours to dictate and several days to write out, in sessions of about ten hours each.

Yes—when you transcribe a recorded message, it’s common for some words to be unclear at first. This can happen because of low volume, background noise, speaking quickly, or words running together. In those spots, you usually have to replay the same section a few times (sometimes slowing it down) until the wording is clear enough to write accurately.

Romans 3:25, Revelation 12:10–11 and Colossians 2:14–15 teach that the Blood of Jesus atones for all sin—past, present, and future. Because of His Blood, the devil has no lasting accusation against those who belong to Christ, and God is able to forgive. Through the Blood of Jesus, you are justified once and for all.

Hebrews 10:5-10 Living Bible {Paraphrased}

⁵That is why Christ said as he came into the world, “O God, the blood of bulls and goats cannot satisfy you, so you have made ready this body of mine for me to lay as a sacrifice upon your altar. ⁶You were not satisfied with the animal sacrifices, slain and burnt before you as offerings for sin. ⁷Then I said, ‘See, I have come to do your will, to lay down my life, just as the Scriptures said that I would.’” {Psalm 40:6-8}

⁸After Christ said this about not being satisfied with the various sacrifices and offerings required under the old system,

⁹he then added, “Here I am. I have come to give my life.” {Psalm 40:8}

He cancels the first system in favor of a far better one.

¹⁰Under this new plan we have been forgiven and made clean by Christ’s dying for us {the Blood of Jesus} once and for all.

God's Message to Me in 2021 After I Came Back to God from Backsliding

You Can't Miss the Rapture, You Can't Go to Hell,

And You Can't Lose Your Salvation. Your Works Can't Condemn You No More

This Message Is to Me First

And Also, To You

"Tell them about heaven. Heaven is a state of being. Not a place you go to. You're going up in the sky {in the Rapture} because you're already in the sky with Me. I picked you up and took you to My Throne, and that's where you're on your knees thanking Me for not leaving you in the Rapture. That's why you're going to make the Rapture, because I called you home. You have a few years left while I sanctify and mortify your flesh".

"Your spirit doesn't have to be in your body to live because you have Me. Once you get anointed and baptized in the Holy Spirit, you have My Spirit's Presence in your flesh. Now you can live and walk back and forth between heaven and earth. Between My Throne and your room".

"To be baptized in the Holy Spirit means you have God's Presence in you forever. That's your home. Not the New Jerusalem. Like I said, that's where I place My feet. It's My footstool. It's not the Home. When you say 'home', you don't mention 'footstool'. 'Footstool' is a place where you rest. That's not My home for you. That's My Throne room. Your home is in My Spirit".

"So, I'm making a place for you to dwell. Not to live in. My tent that I pitched with Moses, is the home that I showed to be for the Rapture. Your body's being raptured but not your spirit. Your spirit is already in heaven. You're spiritual beings".

"See? These people need to understand the Rapture. They think I'm talking about taking them home in a second when the sky clears of something. But what I'm telling them is that you could only come to Me, or, Home, in the Rapture, when you have My Presence, because when you have My Presence, that means your spirit is no longer with your flesh. It's part of My essence and who I am. So, now I am the one speaking in the Christian".

"So, you know now that you can't be put to death in the resurrection {the rapture - we can't miss the rapture} once you come before Me asking for My help {salvation}. You need to know this because you've been writing things that aren't true. People have been seeing that you're stuck in a guilt conscience saying that 'I might lose my salvation if I don't do this'. But

I already said in My word long ago that everything you've done from childhood to the day of your death, is covered under My blood once you receive Me {Rom. 3:25}".

"So, there's nothing that you can do, except for the blasphemy of the Spirit, that's going to take you from Me. That's the only one that makes Me release My hand and let you go back to death and hades {John 10:27-30}. That's where you belong when you insult the Spirit of Grace because He's done nothing wrong to you. He's done no wrong to you!"

"Listen, you're under the Blood. Whatever you do is going to be reconciled {to God - Rom. 5:10}. People outside of My Presence don't have that opportunity. Whatever they do is condemning them to eternal death".

"When you accepted My Son, I put you under My Son's Blood. Which means everything you do from here to eternity is under the Blood. That means you have no sin before Me. Even if it's the worst that you can do. To Me, it's never been done".

"So, you can't go to hell once you receive My Son as your savior. That's what Romans 10 is telling you. Once you confess Jesus as Savior and Lord, He becomes your Dad and He doesn't allow you to be hurt by the sting of death, or, Satan's tongue. That's what that means in the original Hebrew. Satan's tongue is what kills man".

"In simplest terms, it means that you'll come back to life from God's Spirit once you are anointed or touched by His Blood. The Blood of the New Covenant/ Testament is what I'm referring to. Not the Old. The Old was a house built to represent the Tabernacle God made with man to live in Him. Not in a tent made with hands".

For more insights from me about the Blood of Jesus, please read my 2024 message at the link below, titled “The Blood of Jesus.”

"The Blood Of Jesus"

Click Me to read, "The Blood Of Jesus" (By Darrin Pegram - 2024)

The Sovereignty of God

God Is Sovereign and the Devil Does What God Wants

Ole Slewfoot

(This name means that Satan can't defeat God. Whenever he tries to shoot him, he always ends up shooting himself in the foot because God can control him, but he can't kill God - Acts 26:14)

As I said earlier, I want to share Scriptures about God’s sovereignty. Psalm 24:1, quoted above, points to this in my message about who the world belongs to. Ephesians 6:12 says the devil is in control of the world. In the introduction to this message, the Lord says the devil is in control of the cultures of this world. Yet Psalm 24:1 says the world belongs to God. This can seem like a contradiction.

Psalm 24:1 means the Lord owns the world because He created it. The devil has opposed God and gained control of the world because, in Genesis 3, he brought sin and death to Adam and Eve and took the world from them.

As I explained earlier, the Lord Jesus—the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45–47)—will take the world-system back from the devil when He returns. But until Jesus returns, the devil controls the world and its cultures (1 John 5:19).

God is sovereign over the devil because He is the Creator and Owner of all things. The devil’s control is temporary, but the world still belongs to God. So, who killed Jesus—the devil, the Jewish high priests, Rome, or God? In different ways, all were involved, yet God directed the outcome. This shows that God is sovereign over both the devil and humanity, and He makes even their actions serve His purposes.

God gave me a Proverb a few years ago about this. It says,

"God Won When He Killed His Son" (Isaiah 52:10)

Scriptural Insights,

The devil began a conflict with God, but in Genesis 3:15 God outwitted him and established His plan in advance to bring humanity back to Himself. Because God is sovereign, He ordained that this would be accomplished through the death of His Seed—His Son, Jesus.

Genesis 3:14-15 Living Bible

¹⁴So the Lord God said to the serpent, “This is your punishment: You are singled out from among all the domestic and wild animals of the whole earth—to be cursed. You shall grovel in the dust as long as you live, crawling along on your belly.

¹⁵From now on you and the woman will be enemies, as will your offspring and hers. You will strike his heel, but he will crush your head.”

Ephesians 1:11 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

¹¹In {Christ} also we have received an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of {God the Father} who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,

Just before God’s Son returns, God will outsmart the devil and his forces again and make them serve His purposes.

Revelation 17:15-17 Living Bible

15 “The oceans, lakes, and rivers that the woman is sitting on represent masses of people of every race and nation.

¹⁶“The scarlet animal and his ten horns—which represent ten kings who will reign with him—all hate the woman, and will attack her and leave her naked and ravaged by fire.

¹⁷For God will put a plan into their minds, a plan that will carry out his purposes: They will mutually agree to give their authority to the scarlet animal so that the words of God will be fulfilled.

Job 5:12-16 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

¹²{God} frustrates the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.

¹³He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the scheme of the shrewd is swiftly stopped.

¹⁴In the daytime they encounter darkness, and at noontime they grope as in the night.

¹⁵But the needy He saves from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁶So the helpless has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Thus, the devil didn't kill Jesus. God did. By doing this, God won the war with the devil.

John 3:16-21 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

God Sacrificed His Son Jesus

¹⁶“For God so loved the world that He {sacrificed} His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁷For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, {but to save the world through him}.

¹⁸He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹This is the verdict, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

²¹But he who does the truth comes to the light, that it may be revealed that his deeds have been done in God.”

Hebrews 10:5-10 Modern English Version {Paraphrased}

⁵Therefore, when {Jesus} came into the world, He said:

“Sacrifices and offerings You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.

⁶In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have had no pleasure.

⁷Then I said, ‘See, I have come to do Your will, O God,’ as it is written of Me in the volume of the book” {Psalm 40:6-8}.

⁸Previously when He said, “You did not desire sacrifices and offerings. You have had no pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin” {Psalm 50:6}, which are offered in accordance with the law,

⁹then He said, “See, I have come to do Your will, O God” {Psalm 40:8}. He takes away the first that He may establish the second.

¹⁰By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Isaiah 52:13-15 & Isaiah 53 Living Bible

¹³See, my Servant shall prosper; he shall be highly exalted.

^14-15Yet many shall be amazed when they see him—yes, even far-off foreign nations and their kings; they shall stand dumbfounded, speechless in his presence. For they shall see and understand what they had not been told before. They shall see my Servant beaten and bloodied, so disfigured one would scarcely know it was a person standing there. So shall he cleanse many nations.

53 But, oh, how few believe it! Who will listen? To whom will God reveal his saving power?

²In God’s eyes he was like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in dry and sterile ground. But in our eyes there was no attractiveness at all, nothing to make us want him.

³We despised him and rejected him—a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we didn’t care.

⁴Yet it was our grief he bore, our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, for his own sins!

⁵But he was wounded and bruised for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace; he was lashed—and we were healed!

⁶We—every one of us—have strayed away like sheep! We, who left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet God laid on him the guilt and sins of every one of us!

⁷He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he never said a word. He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he stood silent before the ones condemning him.

⁸From prison and trial they led him away to his death. But who among the people of that day realized it was their sins that he was dying for—that he was suffering their punishment?

⁹He was buried like a criminal, but in a rich man’s grave; but he had done no wrong and had never spoken an evil word.

¹⁰But it was the Lord’s good plan to bruise him and fill him with grief. However, when his soul has been made an offering for sin, then he shall have a multitude of children, many heirs. He shall live again, and God’s program shall prosper in his hands.

¹¹And when he sees all that is accomplished by the anguish of his soul, he shall be satisfied; and because of what he has experienced, my righteous Servant shall make many to be counted righteous before God, for he shall bear all their sins.

¹²Therefore, I will give him the honors of one who is mighty and great because he has poured out his soul unto death. He was counted as a sinner, and he bore the sins of many, and he pled with God for sinners.