A world within themselves !
This statement concerns the Elect of God Rom 8:33
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
The Word Elect here means I.picked out, chosen ones ! The Elect and the Church of Christ are also the same ones, and they are a World to God in and of themselves.
The word world means also :
any aggregate or general collection of particulars of any sort
The Elect and the Church are a collection of particulars
A Gathering together for assembling is a World by definition !
In Jn 11:52
And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
This assembling, gathering together of the Children of God is a World !
The word Church ekklēsia has that same gathering together concept, it means:
I.a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly
B.the assembly of the Israelites
Remember that, the assembly of the Israelites in the wilderness Acts 7:38
This is he, that was in the church G1577 in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Technically and by definition that was a World in the Wilderness !
We can by definition actually state that the Nation of Israel is a World, and we can say the World minus the Nation of Israel is a World as Paul intimates here Rom 11:15
15 For if the casting away of them[National Israel] be the reconciling of the world,
Any orderly arrangement or collection of individuals is a World,a Harmonious Constitution , again much like the Nation of Israel.
Remember when they came into their physical inheritance of the Land of canaan ? God had orderly arrangement, read in the Book of Joshua !
The Church, the Elect of God are a World in themselves also because, the World was made principally for them and their Head Christ Gen 1:26-27
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Which Pictured Christ and the Church !
1 Cor 3:21-23
21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;
22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;
23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
All things are the Churchs because all things are her Husbands Col 1:16
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:[Christ]
Now how could all things be Created for Christ, and not for His Church, His Eve ?
That would be like saying all things were Created for Adam, but not Eve Gen 1:26-27
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Not only that, The Church is the Most Excellent part of the World Ps 16:3
3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
In whom is all Christ's their Mediator's Delight; for they were His delight before the World beganProv 8:31
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
That's that World of God's Chosen in Him and given to Him Eph 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
And all of those, are a World within themselves !867
This statement concerns the Elect of God Rom 8:33
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
The Word Elect here means I.picked out, chosen ones ! The Elect and the Church of Christ are also the same ones, and they are a World to God in and of themselves.
The word world means also :
any aggregate or general collection of particulars of any sort
The Elect and the Church are a collection of particulars
A Gathering together for assembling is a World by definition !
In Jn 11:52
And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
This assembling, gathering together of the Children of God is a World !
The word Church ekklēsia has that same gathering together concept, it means:
I.a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly
B.the assembly of the Israelites
Remember that, the assembly of the Israelites in the wilderness Acts 7:38
This is he, that was in the church G1577 in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Technically and by definition that was a World in the Wilderness !
We can by definition actually state that the Nation of Israel is a World, and we can say the World minus the Nation of Israel is a World as Paul intimates here Rom 11:15
15 For if the casting away of them[National Israel] be the reconciling of the world,
Any orderly arrangement or collection of individuals is a World,a Harmonious Constitution , again much like the Nation of Israel.
Remember when they came into their physical inheritance of the Land of canaan ? God had orderly arrangement, read in the Book of Joshua !
The Church, the Elect of God are a World in themselves also because, the World was made principally for them and their Head Christ Gen 1:26-27
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Which Pictured Christ and the Church !
1 Cor 3:21-23
21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;
22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;
23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
All things are the Churchs because all things are her Husbands Col 1:16
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:[Christ]
Now how could all things be Created for Christ, and not for His Church, His Eve ?
That would be like saying all things were Created for Adam, but not Eve Gen 1:26-27
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Not only that, The Church is the Most Excellent part of the World Ps 16:3
3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
In whom is all Christ's their Mediator's Delight; for they were His delight before the World beganProv 8:31
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
That's that World of God's Chosen in Him and given to Him Eph 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
And all of those, are a World within themselves !867