It is
interesting to notice that many persons today, even Christians, fancy the
Kingdom of God as something " outward ", quite as Pharisees did: the
Messiah - King of Jews will come and will establish for ever His Kingdom in the
midst of God's people, and all other people will bow down before this Kingdom.
We only have now to know when Jesus says that this kind of His advent will take
place (see verses 23 and 24), but it will not be the establishment of the
Kingdom.
According
to Jesus’ interpretations, the Kingdom of God is not a device of the society,
it is the relationship between man and God, it is neither a social reality, but
rather spiritual (that's why it is mostly called the kingdom of Heaven, and sky
is the symbol of the spiritual world). Such is the state of things when a person
recognizes God as his King, makes his internal personal decision to carry out exactly
God's will. Certainly, such a Kingdom is invisible, it comes true in secret in
the spiritual life of man, it is " inside us ", but on the other
hand, this Kingdom manifests itself to people, because a perfect coincidence
between man's will and God's will is accomplished in Jesus, and He is the
Kingdom of God in flesh - " amidst us ".