Kingdom of God
Heaven's sovereign domain
The Kingdom of God is a central concept in Christian theology referring to God's sovereign rule over creation and humanity.
In the teachings of Jesus, it describes both a present spiritual reality—God reigning in the hearts of believers—and a future hope when God's rule will be fully established on earth.
The Kingdom of God is at hand.
The phrase appears throughout the New Testament, sometimes as Kingdom of Heaven in Matthew's Gospel.
Christians debate whether the kingdom is primarily spiritual, political, or cosmic in scope.
- forgivenessReleasing resentment toward offenders
- mustard seedSmall pungent spice grain
- bread of lifeSpiritual sustenance personified
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
second coming · last days · righteousness · new creation · love · mercy · consummation · eternal life · light · beatitudes · eschatology · salvation · paradise · redemption · Lord's Prayer · good news · justice · judgment day
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- realmsrealm, domain, Heaven, Hades, Nirvana
- Biblical Afterlifeheaven, paradise, Hades, Gehenna, lake of fire
- Christian cosmologyheaven, hell, God, angels, demons
- GospelSermon on the Mount, Beatitudes, Lord's Prayer, Good Samaritan, Great Commission
- GospelsJesus, gospels, Jesus Christ, apostles, Gospel of Mark
Kingdom of GodBabylon
Ancient Mesopotamian capital
Roman Empire · political power · empire · Tower of Babel · tyranny
Kingdom of GodHell
Underworld of torment
hell · Gehenna · lake of fire · perdition · eternal damnation
Kingdom of Godfallen world
Theologically corrupted earthly realm
spiritual death · original sin · corruption · spiritual exile