Many people have thought differently for a long, long time...The best way to tell they are not the same is because they are spelled differently...
The Kingdom of God as you have noted is the spiritual kingdom which all born again Christians are a part of...I have to be specific there since it appears that all Christians are not born again...The Kingdom of God is invisible...It is within us...We are now living in the Kingdom of God...
Luk 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Luk 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
The Pharisees as well were confused but it's clear that they were looking for a physical kingdom...Jesus cleared them up on what the Kingdom of God was...
The Kingdom of Heaven is a physical kingdom...It is land...Land with a city and a throne and a King...
Joh 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Jesus is talking about a physical kingdom with himself as the King...The Kingdom of Heaven...But at the present time THAT kingdom is not from here...
Zec 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Jesus came to Jerusalem just as Zechariah prophesied but was rejected by Israel...He came as a King...A King on a throne to rule over his chosen people...They killed him instead...
After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples and he was asked:
Act 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
That should be clear to anyone that the disciples were talking of a physical kingdom...A kingdom with land, a city, a throne and a King...
They rejected Jesus again...The Kingdom of Heaven is put on hold until Jesus shows up the next time...He then WILL reign from a physical throne in the city of Jerusalem...
The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven can and do overlap in the scriptures...One has to rightly divide the word of truth and sort them out...
>>>Many people have thought differently for a long, long time...The best way to tell they are not the same is because they are spelled differently...<<<
What about all the verses I posted where the same subject refers to both kingdom of God and kingdom of heaven? What about the verse in Matthew where both are used in the very same verse regarding the rich man?
>>>The Kingdom of Heaven is a physical kingdom...It is land...Land with a city and a throne and a King..<<<
There is no evidence of that in the scripture. I believe that was made-up by a man named Darby in the 1800’s, and promoted by a man name Scofield. But there is no scriptural support, whatsoever. To the contrary. The kingdom of heaven existed at least as far back as the days of John the Baptist, as is written.
Did you read my post?
Philip
>>>The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven can and do overlap in the scriptures...One has to rightly divide the word of truth and sort them out...<<<
That sounds like Scofield 101, alright. His book would have been more accurately titled, “Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth.” That con-man has fooled a lot of people, and my heart goes out to them. You do know he was a convicted felon—a con-artist—don’t you? He saw a way to make money, and he jumped on it.
Philip