The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven

The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven according to the Bible
The kingdom of heaven must be distinguished from the Kingdom of God, but not always.

The Kingdom of Heaven It is inherent exclusively in Matthew and means the Messianic earthly reign of the Lord.
It means the earthly 1000th Kingdom when Heaven will rule the earth. See Mat 6:10
The Kingdom of God Within a person there is the constant presence of the Holy Spirit in a believer.

However, this phrase is used in the other sense of the words of Jesus Christ, addressed to the Pharisees. See Luke 17:20-21. I Give Lopukhin's Interpretation:
“To the question of the Pharisees, when, in the opinion of Christ, the kingdom of God will come, i.e., what Christ can say about the signs and the conditions of the coming of this Kingdom, the Lord answers that it will not come.”Significantly", i.e., so that its coming can be determined by the conspicuous signs. This is what God means Spiritual Character The Kingdom founded by Him, whose coming is therefore not amenable to human observation and, therefore, cannot be attributed to a certain point. “And they will not say” that is, it is impossible to prove the coming of this Kingdom in individual phenomena. “There is inside you” – that is, between you, in your circle it already exists, “you” – mentally adds his Lord and do not notice. When He said this, the Lord could have meant the miracles he performed, and especially the expulsion of demons, which testified, As he has said before, that The kingdom of God has already reached the Jews (see. The X II, 28). Some interpreters (from the ancients - I. Zlatoust and Theophylact) gave this saying a different meaning. It is, in their opinion, Christ spoke here that the Kingdom of God is “in your souls.” But against this interpretation, the fact that Christ's speech addressed the PhariseesIn whose souls the Lord was least able to find signs of the onset and results of the action of this new order of life, which He designated by the name “Kingdom of God.”

Since the Kingdom of Heaven is the earthly sphere of the Universal Kingdom of God, they have a lot in common. That is why many parables and teachings say about one or another. However, there is a difference in the fact that by using the word of the HEAVEN, we often identify it with the presence after our death with God. We associate this not only with the Birth of again, being on the ground, but also with the place that God promised us to prepare us.
The word of the King is used more as the earthly concept of greatness of God. For the life of God, the word is not used by God, but only God, the Head of the Church and others. Read about it at 1 Cor15:24,25:
And then the end, when He betrays the kingdom to God and the Father, when he abolishes all authority and power. For He must reign, until he cast all enemies under His feet.

Lopukhin’s interpretation: “And then the end.” The apostle thus assumes some extent between the second coming of Christ, of which he spoke in the preceding verse, and the end. At the end, the end of the present order of the house-building of God about the salvation of the people should be understood. People will reach such a state that it will be possible to pronounce them the final court (cf.1 Peter IV:7). This end will come when Christ betrays the kingdom to God and Father. As can be seen from the 25-th and 28 verses, Christ will bring under the authority of the Father a new kingdom, in which a new order of life will be established. - God is called God and the Father in order to show and the voluntary subordination of Christ to Him as God and the unity of Christ with God in essence as his Father. - Between the second coming and end, the abolition of all superiority, power and power will be accomplished (instead: when he abolishes ... to translate it more correctly: after he abolishes. He'll be annulded first, and then betrayed.

Also interesting is the interpretation of Lopukhin to the verses: Matt. 6:10 and 3:2 "May thy kingdom come down; let your will be as in heaven and on earth." In Greek, only words are placed differently, but the meaning is the same. The words: “both in heaven and on earth” can refer to all three first petitions. There are many reasoning in the exegets about the words: “Let your kingdom come.” What kind of kingdom? Some attribute this expression to the end of the world and understand exclusively in the so-called eschatological sense; that is, they think that Christ here taught us to pray that a terrible judgment would rather be made and the Kingdom of God came in the “resurrection of the righteous”, with the destruction of evil people and all evil in general. Others dispute this opinion and argue that the second and third petition have a close connection between them - the will of God is fulfilled when the Kingdom of God comes; and, conversely, the coming of the Kingdom of God is a necessary condition for the fulfillment of the will of God. But to the third petition is added: as in heaven, and on earth. Here is the realm of the earth, in contrast to the heavenly. Obviously, celestial relations serve here just in an experival relationship and at the same time. That’s at least the best explanation. Christ hardly spoke here about the distant future, in the eschatological sense. The onset of the Kingdom of God in the land is a slow process, implying the constant improvement of man as a moral being in moral life. The moment when a person was conscious of himself as a moral being was already in itself the offensive of the Kingdom of God.
Further, the Jews to whom Christ spoke knew the continuation and development of the Kingdom of God from their previous history, with constant failures and obstacles on the part of evil. The kingdom of God is the dominion of God, when the laws given to Him receive more and more strength, meaning and respect among men. This ideal will be realized in this life, and for its realization, Christ taught us to pray. “May thy kingdom come; your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Maт 6:10
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“In those days John the Baptist comes and preaches in the wilderness of Judah and says, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is nearer.” Mat 3:2 Under the kingdom of heaven, John understands the dominion of God as the King, as opposed to the earthly dominion of the worldly kings. The worldly kingdoms still existed, but Among them appeared a new kingdom (with people Christ)which had nothing in common with them, because it was not the earthly, but the celestial origin. Mat 3:2.


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