-wicked:.In
the original, Greek for 'wicked'
and for 'evil' is 'painful persuasions of hard
toil and effort'. The word in those references, connotes
to the effects of being ungodly, which ungodliness brings hard toil and
effort in the things of life, and lack of understanding in spiritual matters:.Daniel
12:10. But, what is
ungodliness?
In other places, the word 'wicked' presents differing
meanings:.Matthew
21:41; Acts 2:23; 2Thessalonians 2:8 and 2Peter 2:7. The devil is called
the "wicked one".
In the OT the word means 'ungodly' or those not
trusting in the Lord (Psalms 32:10)
and has other meanings in some places.
-world:.In
the New Testament part of the Bible there are 3 words translated from the
Greek into the one English word 'world'.
They are 'aion', oikoumene',
'kosmos'.
'aion' means 'age'.
This is the original Greek word used allegorically
when the Bible refers to coming
out of the world. It means the age in which we are contemporary;
the
time of each generation of human beings living in their
ego realm on the Earth. It refers to the community, the people, and
their out of touch with spirituality thinking; instead thinking mostly
from the ego level like this.
The 'world' are the unbelievers:.John
17:8,9 "For I have given unto them.(verses
6,7).the
words which you gave me, and they have received them, and have known surely
that I came out from you, and they have believed that you did send me.
I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them which you have
given me, for they are yours." John 17:20
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which believe on me
through their word.".Another
time is for the remainder of
mankind.
Well then, what
does it mean?
'oikoumene' means the
same as 'tebel' in the Old Testament.
'kosmos' means 'the
orderly arrangement of things in habitable society', albeit, with all its
rights and wrongs, the devil
a pumping up every wrong turn we decide to take:.Revelation
12:9,11.
In the Old Testament there
is at least four words – 'tebel', meaning
the habitable part of the world, 'olam' meaning 'perpetual, age
lasting', 'cheled' meaning 'age', 'erets' meaning 'land,
earth, ground'.
These comprise many of the
occurrences of the word world. I didn't check for more in the Old Testament.
God controls all. We may think
He doesn't, but He does, even
to the desires He had us born with.