Is Jesus from this world or another much different from our own? Is His promised New Heaven and Earth like this one or His home in the Father's house?

John 3:16

16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. NASB

John 8:21-30

21 He said therefore again to them, "I go away, and you shall seek Me, and shall die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come."  22 Therefore the Jews were saying, "Surely He will not kill Himself, will He, since He says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?"  23 And He was saying to them, "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. 24 "I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins."  25 And so they were saying to Him, "Who are You?" Jesus said to them, "What have I been saying to you from the beginning? 26 "I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world."  27 They did not realize that He had been speaking to them about the Father. 28 Jesus therefore said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me. 29 "And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him."  30 As He spoke these things, many came to believe in Him. NASB

     As Jesus testified during His ministry about His purpose, He clearly established He was not from the same world as His listeners. The term “world” is “kosmos.” Like many words it has different shades of meaning and uses. (See discussion of use of "world" in reference to mankind in question "When did physical death begin in the creation? Did creation decay prior to man's sin? Did creation decay prior to man's sin to the benefit of needful growth by God's command?") Basically it means according Thayer's Greek Lexicon  “an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order.” It refers to the orderly creation of Jesus as separated in darkness from the Father in both a broad and narrow sense of use– the universe of all created or the inhabitants of that universe respectively. Thus the word can infer the universe or just mankind as the central part of that universe. Which use is determined by context.

    When used in Scriptures “Kosmos” is more a term of distinction or location rather than purity or quality.  The term does not imply Jesus was saying I am from the clean and you are from the dirty even though as a feature one location contains evil and the other does not. While many attributes of this “kosmos” are shared in Scripture it infers a setting or position relative to the overall Kingdom of Heaven rather than excellence or inferiority. Jesus made it clear in His teachings He was not “of this world” or from mankind.  He was sent “from above” (a different location) from the presence of the Father from a location that was not of this creation of the two heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1.

     As told in John 3:16 it was the Father’s love for “the world"  (kosmos) that influenced Him to give His only Son by sending Him as Savior. From the picture of Scripture Jesus was not so much sent to redeem mankind (greek anthropos), but mankind was created so Jesus as the Son of God could come as a man to redeem the “kosmos” location that had been separated from the Father by the sin of Satan. As a blessing for providing through flesh a Redeemer, those among mankind who believe in this gift would not perish as everything in this order and arrangement does. By faith in God’s sin offering in Jesus they would have eternal life as adopted children in the presence of the Father above in a New Heaven, New Earth, and New Jerusalem. God would make a Kingdom created from the complete reorganization of the material of this universe as taken back from the “god of this world.”

    Somehow we often miss this point of contrasting worlds and present rulers between the Father, Satan and the “kosmos”. When thinking about what the Father wishes to accomplish in sending His Son we often give the idea He just wants to fix and patch up this universe improving on it’s present order and arrangement. Many teach God will run Satan off and vanquish all evil making this kosmos like the Genesis Eden lost^[1]. For example, we occasionally hear the term “Christian world view” in association with moral values and Biblical principles. The promotion of the philosophies attached at times gives the idea God eventually wants to cogently create a heaven on earth by Christian action and activity. That is not to say God’s children should not be “the salt of the earth” and “light of the world” influencing by demonstration of God’s values in an evil world. However nowhere does the Bible ever say Christians will purify this world into heaven. This world and the heaven of our Father are very different.

    In sending Jesus the Father’s goal was not to forcefully improve on this world eventually fixing it up like His own in Heaven. Jesus made this clear in testimony to Pilate recorded in John 18:36-37 “36 Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm." NASB This order in which we live will never be heaven on earth as Eden restored no matter how active or forceful the servants of Christ. Jesus said in John 7:7-8, “7 "The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.” NASB This universe in which we live is separated from a Holy and Pure Father because of its evil deeds and will perish by fire and judgment as its destiny.  The present “god of this dark world” who offered all of it one time to Jesus in temptation will one day be cast in the Lake of Eternal Fire.