NOTES for Luk 17:20-21

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 ".