“The worm should feed sweetly on him …”
(Job 24:20, NKJV)
It is very important that we remember the following: everyone who fell from before time/another reality, fell to the earth, and based on the state of fallenness this is likened to the realm of the death – this we learnt in Manna Day 1166-1168. But through Jesus Christ as Saviour, God creates a new space of salvation on earth in which those who are saved can live their life in the land of the living – “for in Him we live and move and have our being …” (Acts 17:280)! Indeed: “The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms …” (Deut. 33:27).
But as counter to this we referred to the state on earth as a metaphorical realm of the dead, as we also know that man has been formed from the dust of the earth (Gen. 2:7). In Ps. 141:7 this gruesome, yet beautiful image of man’s mortality is presented by the psalmist: “Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave, as when one plows and breaks up the earth.” In the state of the realm of the dead you cannot remember anything about this other reality, before time. Job. 17:13-16 teaches us much about this state on earth: “If I wait for the grave as my house, if I make my bed in the darkness, if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’ where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it? Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?” The realm of the dead is the place where worms (we’ll later explain that the rimmah-words are the counter of rhema-words) “are my mother and sister”! In contrast with Jesus’s statement in Matt. 12:50: “For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother”, everyone in the realm of the dead becomes family of the worms, those who walk in their antichrist identities. Remember that worms feed off of dead flesh! About the king of Babel in the realm of the dead (= earth) the following is for instance said in Isa. 14:11: “Your pomp is brought down to Sheol … The maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you.”
The very first reference to worms in Scripture is quite insightful: Ex. 16:19-20, when speaking about the manna in the desert: “And Moses said, ‘Let no one leave any of it till morning.’ Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.”
It is noteworthy that the manna, symbol of rhema-words, decays and is consumed by worms if those who receive it try to handle more than just TODAY’S portion. This is a very important key, as the rhema-word works ONLY today.
According to 1Pet. 1:23, the rhema-word identity of the born-again believer is born from Jesus’ Logos Word identity: “having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever”. The word that He has spoken over you, contains its recreation potential from before time/eternity/before the foundations of the earth were laid. But it is maintained as counter through the exact opposite of that word. The words of Christ carry the power and the glory of God. We could say that the glory and the power of satan are obviously then carried by the words of satan. Selah.
We make an enormous mistake when we speak of the kingdom of Evil. No such thing exists, and no single verse in the entire Bible refers to it as such. There are however many mentions of the kingdom of God, and it is also called the kingdom of the Father, the kingdom of the heavens, the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, the kingdom of the Son of His love, and then the overarching term that is used in Eph. 5:5: “the kingdom of Christ and God”. In John 18:36 Jesus answers: “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”
God’s kingdom does not necessarily counter the so-called kingdom of Satan! The kingdom of light is not countered by an imagined kingdom of darkness! What the Scripture does however say in Col. 1:13, is that “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.” The power of the darkness functions in what the Bible presents as “all the kingdoms of the world and their glory” (Matt. 4:8). From 1John 5:19 we know that “the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one”.
This completely changes one’s perspective when you realise that the single distinction to be made is between the kingdom of God (= the spiritual realm) and the kingdoms of this world (= the physical realm = the realm of the dead). God controls His kingdom through His son Jesus, and through His Christ. Rev. 11:15 presents this very important outlook: “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” (Remember: a king who reigns, reigns over a kingdom.) Dan. 7:27 beautifully secures this idea: “Then the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.”
The “kingdom of Christ and of God” is built through the increase of the rhema-words, and through the restoration of the glory and power that is manifested WITHIN them. The kingdoms of the world are established through the increase of the rimmah-words. Now we will begin to see that Evil is manifested through the counter of our rhema words. This is a very important link to make: there is an irrevocable link between this and what Rev. 12:9 calls “the great dragon … called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him”. Read it again! From where were the devils and evil spirits cast? From the kingdom of God, and they took possession of the kingdom of the world, and they are legion, because they are devils (Mark. 5:9; Luke 8:30). It is in the kingdom of the world that every person is born, and it is only through becoming born again that one finds one’s way back to the kingdom of God. The Scripture in John 3:3-7 is so well-known, but it in this argument it is the final keystone: “Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Nicodemus said to Him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?’ Jesus answered, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, you must be born again.’”
- Selah: Explain the concepts ‘the kingdom of God’ and ‘the kingdoms of the world’ to someone.
- Read: 25-30
- Memorise: 25:30
