Christians are told to be the light of the world and salt of the earth, but if we don’t know what the earth and the world truly are, how can we follow Jesus’ instruction properly? So, then is there a difference between the earth and the world? If so, what’s the difference between the earth and the world? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find the answer to these questions in her video, What’s The Difference Between The Earth and The World?
Psalms 90:2
Jeremiah 51:15
1 Corinthians 15:46
Genesis 1:1
1 Samuel 2:8
John 4:24
John 1:14
1 Corinthians 15:23
John 20:26-29
Acts 1:9-11
Genesis 5:24
2 Kings 2:11-12
John 15:19
Genesis 9:14-15
Joshua 1:2
1 Samuel 2:8
Job 34:13
Psalms 24:1
Revelation 20:1-6
Revelation 21:1-4
John 3:16-17
John 1:29
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
John 15:19
What’s The Difference Between The Earth and The World?
The Explanation of the Earth and the World
The Earth
The earth is the physical body, if you will, because it often represents the physical bodies of mankind.
57 Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
Genesis 41:57
27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
Psalms 22:27
It’s the physical ground that our physical bodies came from.
5 When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Genesis 2:5-7
47a The first man was from the earth, a man of dust;
1 Corinthians 15:47a
The earth is the physical ground that our physical bodies walk and live on.
26 Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:26-28
19 I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!
Psalms 119:19
The World
The world is the spiritual, if you will, because it often represents the souls of mankind.
7 But the Lord sits enthroned forever; He has established His throne for justice, 8 and He judges the world with righteousness; He judges the peoples with uprightness.
Psalms 9:7-8
15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.”
Mark 16:15-16
The world also represents the spiritual realm where our souls dwell.
23 He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.“
John 8:23
4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than He who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:4-6
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