- cosmos -
κόσμος - order
Thayer:
an apt and harmonious arrangement or
constitution, order, government
Strong's:
orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration; by
implication, the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including
its inhabitants,
literally or figuratively (morally)
John 1:10
LITV 10 He was in the
world, and the world came into being through Him, yet the world did
not know Him.
God specifically chose to make
a nation with more moral order than the rest of His creations. He
obviously loved the whole world of nations, because after
delivering the Jews from their 'missing it' and giving them the
Holy Spirit, he did the same for all the nations. He dispersed the
Hebrews into the whole world and they introduced His better moral
order to the other nations to prepare them for the gospel. The king
of Babylon even recognized the human image in his Jewish citizens.
They were better than the animal he was. The king eventually turned
and worshipped the Hebrew God over his god. The Hebrew God offered
him the best world.
God's cosmos is not
just cosmetic.
1 Peter 3:3-4
ECB 3 whose
cosmos is not outward - of braiding the hair and of wrapping around
of gold or of enduing garments: 4 but
that secret human of the heart in what is incorruptible - of a meek
and quiet spirit which is vastly precious in the sight of
Elohim.
The word translated 'human' in
the above verse is 'anthropos', which refers to God's covenant
people. The new covenant human is incorruptible.
Ephesians 4:22-24 (put off old covenant and put on new
covenant)
CLV 22 to put
off from you, as regards your former behavior, the old humanity
which is corrupted in accord with its seductive
desires, 23 yet to be
rejuvenated in the spirit of your mind, 24 and to
put on the new humanity which, in accord with God, is being created
in righteousness and benignity of the truth."
John 15:18 (The old covenant order was hating the new covenant
order before they got the Roman order involved)
CLV 18 If the world
is hating you, know that it has hated Me first before
you."
God so loved the Jewish
cosmos that He gave them His only begotten Son so they could live
forever in the new cosmos (world,
order).
Revelation 3:9 (written to the true Jews)
CLV 9 Lo! I have
granted to those of the synagogue of Satan, (who are saying that
they themselves are Jews, and are not, but are lying) - Lo! I shall
be making them that they will be arriving and worshiping, before
your feet, and they may know that I love
you."
The verse above was written to
a first century church when Satan was the elohim of Rome, but God
still loves His cosmos. It is where people are raised into His
image. That is why His Son was born into the Jewish cosmos. His
most orderly arrangement is still His Jewish born
church.