With worldly wisdom and worldly goals, the world is wise. There's a selfishness and loveless, godless thinking required for this worldly wisdom to be wise. And it IS wise if there is no God, eternity, etc.. BUT you add God to it and BAM, the things God commands are foolishness in the ways of the goals of men in the world, but it's the wisdom of God, and wisdom to those who are saved, cause we have a very different goal, purpose, desire...
It's beautiful how God chose foolish things to be His ways, that way no man can boast. "Haha I'm wiser than you, I chose God." But God chose us for His glory. When everyone realizes that what they thought was wisdom will be gone forever, they will realize they were the fools all along.
If God's wisdom, was also worldly wisdom, then we could learn all the formulas and hwo to do it, and then we'd stop relyign on Him. It's for our good, that we don't know too much, or we'd naturally, use it for evil, or at least try to be our own god, and have power we call our own, which totally neglects the whole reason we were saved in the first place.
I hope that's what you were talking about, SC. They will rule with worldly power, but this will melt away in the presence of God. The power is real physically, but it will be gone, and int he end it's an illusion, addiction, and trap to those who take advantage of it.