The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of God (Biblia.com)

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The Kingdom of God has been a major concern of New Testament scholars for many years. What did it mean to Jesus? What does it mean for Christian belief and practice today? “To understand what was meant by the Kingdom of God,” writes Margaret Barker, “it is necessary to recover what remains of that hidden tradition of the holy of holies and the high priesthood… Recovering the original Kingdom …...

life, a place of purity and light. This was the state of the Kingdom. There was no separate temple in that heavenly city; the whole world was one great temple, and there, said John, the servants of the LORD would reign for ever. This was the Kingdom come to earth (Rev. 21:22–22:5). The golden city seems far removed from Jesus’ parables of the Kingdom: the sower, the grain of mustard seed, the measure of yeast, the pearl of great price, the great net of fishes—and yet the Gospels themselves hint that

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