“So from your response, that world means Roman empire, God isn’t going to judge the “World”, just the Roman empire.”
No. It means Paul used the word he knew his audience would understand. He wasn’t talking to us. He was talking to Greeks in Athens almost 2,000 years ago.
“Davids time was 200 YEARS BEFORE the Roman empire arrived. So obviously David WASN’T talking of the Roman empire.”
David wasn’t, but again: Paul used the words the readers in the Roman church would understand.
Paul wasn’t writing the New Testament. None of the NT writers were. They were writing to the people and churches in their time. It’s arrogant to presume that everything written in the Bible was meant solely for and specifically about 21st century Christians living in America: this nation didn’t even exist when the Bible was being put together!
So when you interpret the Bible, the first thing you have to do is look at the writer’s audience: to whom was the author writing and for what purpose. Substituting the world as we know it for the world as they knew it leads to all kinds of errors, like the one that sees Matthew 24:14 as pertaining to us. It doesn’t. It never has.
Now, while I’m on the subject of busting some myths here, understand this: Christ’s earthly ministry wasn’t intended for 21st century Americans living in America. He said He had come to save the lost sheep of Israel. In fact, He made it clear why He was sent to the Jews on several occasions.
We - as those branches “grafted into Israel” reap the benefits of the promise, but Christ didn’t raise a lament over New York, Paris, or Moscow: He raised it over Jerusalem because He knew that the Jews’ rejection of Him would lead to its destruction and desolation.
Matthew 24 starts in Matthew 23. Read it in context.