MYHB - Teaching - Kingdom of heaven

Teaching - Kingdom of heaven

As you read about the Kingdom of heaven there is much confusion. Is it a place in the clouds; an other world-ly place where we go when we die? Is it a Borg-like ship that will descend on Jerusalem?

Without the rules, there is nothing to guide your interpretation, causing endless debates with no standard of truth. The rules say that a symbol must be the same thing everywhere. Notice that this doe not say "every where it is used as a symbol". We have no choice when to read it as a symbol or not.

Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is like leaven. Even here there is a controversy because they allow leaven to be one thing in one place and another thing in another place. Leaven cannot symbolize sin, as some would have us believe.

The Hebrews got rid of leaven before Passover, which is a well-know symbol of the cross. Did they get rid of their sin before the cross? Of course not, or the cross would not have been necessary. They got rid of their old teaching in preparation for the new teaching. Leaven represents teaching.

The word for 'kingdom' is 'mamlakah' ממלכה. See the lamed ל? The kingdom has something to do with teaching. 'The promise of the Father (in heaven and earth x2) מ taught ל by the Son of God כ was not understood ה.' Even as Jesus taught about the Kingdom of Heaven, he was not understood by his hearers.

The kingdom of heaven is like leaven; teaching. Some parables tell how teaching is spread. Some contain the message that God want's taught: Christ and him crucified.

When Jesus said that the Kingdom of heaven was near, he was saying that it is here; his teaching was already here. It is as near as your heart.

We are separated from God by ignorance, joined to him by revelation, marriage is a symbol for doctrine, the bride is a symbol for those who are taught by Christ, and the kingdom is teaching, particularly the teaching of Christ and the cross.

Maybe God is trying to tell us something?