This world is not less real than the one to come. The framework of the bible is that the world is fallen due to human sin and cursed as a result. The hope of the resurrection is a renewed creation.

There is also a strong theme in the new testament of being set free, breaking the bonds/chains of sin, overcoming the world and being victors over death.

The church is a target of the state to be used as a tool to control the masses. It is often overcome, just as shitcoin communities are VC captured, but when faithful to it's teachings it's quite subversive.