Kingdom of God and Kingdom of Heaven
There is a Kingdom which is Eternal. Then there is another aspect which is a created kingdom that is “under the whole heavens”.
and the kingdom, and the dominion, even the greatness of the kingdom (of Heaven) under the whole heavens, is given to the people—the saints of the Most High, His (God's) kingdom (of God) is a kingdom age-during, and all dominions do serve and obey Him. (Dan 7:27 YLT) (Parenthesis mine.)
In the beginning God created the heavens (that includes everything inside it). God remains eternal. However, everything created, the heavens, has a start time, therefore it is non-eternal.
The Creator is Eternal, Hence, His kingdom: “The Kingdom of God”, the Uncreated Kingdom, which is outside of creation.
There exists the created Kingdom, everything “UNDER the whole heavens” (Dan 7:27).
The Creation is temporal in that it had a beginning (Gen 1:1). All of creation fits into the heaven (with the earth as its focus), hence “The Kingdom of Heaven”. Why isn't it called the Kingdom of Earth? Because the second heaven is involved in ruling the earth, in the ancient past, in the present day, and by the Church from “heavenly places”. This is the Kingdom that is under the Creator, the created heavens and everything in it.
Simple, once you see it. It only took me 50 years to see it. So I can't be impatient with anyone.
You cannot reconcile the Kingdom of Heaven parables with the Kingdom of God teachings. You must not get Church-Age doctrine from Kingdom of Heaven parables. You must see the difference. Why? So I can be “right”? So I can win at Bible Trivia? No! It's so we do not get our Church Age theology from Kingdom of Heaven parables.
I do not want my brothers and sisters to be mistakenly laboring under the principles of the Kingdom of Heaven when it is not in force during the Church Age. I want to see them enjoying the security and eternality of the Kingdom of God now, in Heaven later, in whatever place they may have in the Millennial reign of Christ in the future, and in the New Heaven and New Earth someday.
If we understand ourselves to be in the Kingdom of Heaven instead of the Kingdom of God, we would have no security, no eternity, and ironically, no hope of Heaven, But do not worry. There is no Christian that is in the Kingdom of Heaven today. If our situation is only that of definitions, there is no danger. The problem is this:
Much of Theology today is from Jesus' Kingdom of Heaven parables in the Gospel of Matthew. If we get our understanding of Christian doctrine from such parables we will be very unsuited to live in the Church Age. Today is the Age of the Kingdom of God, the (mostly) Gentile Church, and the period of time before God's final dealings with national Israel. He promised them an earthly Kingdom and He will not fail to fulfill His Word to David (2 Sam 7:16). This is ultimately through Jesus as
the Kingdom of Heaven merges with
The Kingdom of God to become
The Kingdom of Christ, which He eventually hands over to God and it becomes
The Kingdom of the Father (Matt 6:9-10).
Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.” (Rev 11:15 NASB)
Jan 22, 2026