Chapter 5: The Divide of the Cross

The kingdom of this world is not this kingdom of God. God had in His heart a world-system - a universe of His creating—which should be headed up in Christ His Son (Col. 1:16, 17). But Satan, working through man’s flesh, has set up instead a rival system known in Scripture as “this world”—a system in which we are involved and which he himself dominates. He has in fact become “the prince of this world” (John 12:31).