Who is THE WORLD in John 3:16 that God LOVES?
By Tuese Ahkiong
Wrote this in response to a friend who brought up cosmos as the definition of world in john 3:16. The definition is inconsistent with how the world that is loved by YHWH is used in the context of the overall Bible story and trajectory of YHWH saving His beloved!
At the end of the Bible story we see ONLY THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL REDEEMED/ SAVED!
Thus EXCLUDING anyone else (Samoans Mexicans Filipinos…)!!
It doesn’t get any simpler than that! It’s like a geometry problem where we are given certain facts, then we solve using what is given. We are given ONLY ISRAEL REDEEMED at the end of the story, thus the world that YHWH loves and saved is the covenant world of Israel.
The Bible is NOT our story!
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Does world (cosmos) as used in John 3:16 always and only means and refers to the whole entire world with people and things?
NOPE!
Same writer John writes in a different chapter about the whole world.
John 12:19
So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how THE WHOLE WORLD has gone after him!”
World (cosmos) doesn’t always mean the whole world, though kind of funny how the Pharisees use the phrase “the whole world” lol. This passage wouldn’t include the Pharisees who are part of “the whole world” going after Yeshua to learn because they hated Him! The only way they would go after Him was to kill Him! The whole world is limited to those in the land of Judah, 1st century.
Indians, Australians, Chinese weren’t going after Christ. This grammatical tool is called hyperbole or an exaggeration!
It’s like saying “The Super Bowl was so big that the whole world was there!” See!?
John 15:18-19
18 “If THE WORLD hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19If you belonged to THE WORLD, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to THE WORLD, but I have chosen you out of THE WORLD. That is why THE WORLD hates you.
World in this passage doesn’t mean every single individual hates on Yeshua because His followers love Him and they are in the physical world. The world here can be defined and be limited as the world system of Christ haters.
1 John 2:15-17
15 Do not love the THE WORLD or anything in THE WORLD. If anyone loves THE WORLD, love for the Father is not in them.
16 For everything in THE WORLD—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from THE WORLD.
17 THE WORLD and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
Is this the same world cosmos loved by God in john 3:16?
Why does John instruct the recipients of his letter NOT TO LOVE THE WORLD!?
John’s second use of THE WORLD, he instructs NOT TO LOVE ANYTHING IN THE WORLD. Does this include NOT LOVING: FAMILY? fellow Christians? fellow man? God…!?
Third use, John says if one loves THE WORLD, love for the Father is not in that person?
Is John speaking of the physical world cosmos of earth and people, or of an evil world system, or something else?
In v16, john elaborates on THE WORLD and describes it as a system of sin: lust, flesh and pride, and NOT a physical kosmos world.
V17 John describes THE WORLD as passing away! What world was that?
The Old Covenant WORLD UNDER LAW was passing away. The sting of death was sin! The power of sin was THE LAW that was passing away.
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that THE TIME IS SHORT. FROM NOW ON those who have wives should live as if they do not; 30 those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; 31 those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For THIS WORLD in its present form is passing away.
***Paul mentions the time is short but for what?
He says this world in its present form is passing away?
Did the world that Paul was speaking of in its present form pass away?
What world was that?
OLD COVENANT WORLD OF ISRAEL UNDER LAW
Galatians 4:4-5 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
**Were we ever under the law? No
**Who was under the law? Israel
**Why don’t some of you understand Israel being adopted in as sons? Because studying the OT backstory is NOT important to you! You prefer to be in the cult of churchianity, rather than study the Bible!
Psalm 147:19-20 HE DECLARES HIS WORD TO JACOB, HIS STATUTES AND RULES TO ISRAEL.20 HE HAS NOT DEALT THUS WITH ANY OTHER NATION; THEY DO NOT KNOW HIS RULES. Praise the Lord!
**Who ONLY had God’s RULES aka LAW aka COVENANT?
Israel!
Hebrews 9:15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
**Were we ever under the first covenant? No
**Who was under the first covenant? Israel
**Funny thing is you’re NOT under the new covenant either but you think you are because of your brainwashing! Lol. If you think I’m wrong, show me the book, chapter and verse!? Here I will help you!
Who does The Bible say GOD MADE THE NEW COVENANT WITH!!????
ONLY ISRAEL
https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-new-covenant-who-was-is-it-for-by.html?m=1
Romans 9:4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
**To whom did the adoption, COVENANTS, LAW and PROMISES belong? Israel
SO WHO IS THE WORLD???
Matthew 15:24 But He (Yeshua) answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Do you believe Christ was sent ONLY to the lost sheep of the house of Israel?
The lost sheep of the house of Israel consisted of the 12 tribes of Israel, the only ones redeemed at the end of the story.
Revelation 7:4
And I heard the number of those that were sealed: and there were sealed a 144,000 of all the tribes of the sons of Israel.
***The 144,000 sealed are from all the tribes of the Sons of ISRAEL.
Revelation 14:1
¶ And I saw and, behold, the Lamb stood upon Mount Sion and with him 144,000, having the name of his Father written in their foreheads.
***The 144,000 who are the sons of Israel, had the name of the Lamb’s Father in their foreheads.
Revelation 14:3
and they sang as it were a new song before the throne and before the four animals and the elders; and no one could learn that song but the 144,000, who were redeemed from the earth.
***The 144,000 were REDEEMED from the earth or SAVED, JUSTIFIED, RECONCILED, and BROUGHT BACK INTO RELATIONSHIP with YHWH because sinning under The Law brought alienation and separation. Covenant Israel was the only people YHWH had a relationship with.
Do you disagree with Scripture that ONLY ISRAEL gets redeemed and ONLY ISRAEL can sing the NEW SONG?
Revelation 21:12
And it had a wall great and high, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel:
****Whose names were written on the gates? The 12 tribes of the Sons of ISRAEL.
Since the 12 tribes of the sons of Israel are the only ones who got redeemed aka saved, only ones who had the lamb’s Father’s name in their foreheads, only ones who could sing the new song, had their names on the gates, does it stand to reason that they are THE WORLD in JOHN 3:16?
HELL YES!
It most certainly does!!!
YHWH so loved the covenant world of Israel that He says throughout the OT that He loves Israel, His beloved, His portion, and she is the apple of His eye,
That He gave His One and Only Son,
That whosoever of the covenant world (the elect remnant l) believes in Him
Shall not
perish (the penalty for breaking YHWH’s covenant law; eternal death)
But receive eternal life.
This is the story of the Bible that came to its THE END in 70AD.
People have been hijacking the Bible story as their own since!
John 3:16 is the most misunderstood, twisted and taken out of its context verse in the Bible that got BILLIONS believing stuff that ain’t so!!!
https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2023/06/john-316-is-most-misunderstood-twisted.html?m=1
Ephesians 2 is the prodigal son story.
Younger son is Israel scattered in gentile nations.
Old brother is legalistic Judah hating on his little brother.
https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2022/02/ephesians-2-is-parable-of-prodigal-son.html
How scattered ISRAEL became GENTILES (this confusing word just means NATIONs or PEOPLEs)
https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2023/06/how-israel-became-gentiles-this.html?m=1
Romans 1:18-32 is NOT about GENERAL REVELATION but Israel's WICKEDNESS
“world” kosmos is specifically the covenant world of Israel because they were the only ones YHWH made Himself known to!!
Another example of how kosmos does NOT refer to every single individual on our flat earth, but is limited to the covenant world of Israel, the only people God made Himself known to!
v20-21
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 FOR ALTHOUGH THEY KNEW GOD, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2018/07/romans-118-32-is-not-about-general.html?m=1
