113 The kingdom is spread over the earth

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His disciples said to him:
When will the kingdom come?

Jesus said:
The kingdom does not come by expecting it.
You can’t say, “It’s here,” or “It’s there.”
No, the kingdom is spread over the earth
but they don’t see it.

Jesus is very clear here. Salvation, in whatever form, can be found in the here and now, here on earth. Here you find your destiny as a person, here you share life with your fellow men, this is the place for love.

By raising your eyes to the sky, or looking back to a heavenly past, or by setting your hope for a blissful end time, far beyond the present earthly existence, you become blind to the here and now.

It can be different.

The Jewish and Palestinian mothers in the explanation to Logion 5 saw the kingdom in the other, which they first experienced in their blindness as an enemy.

Mr. Pastor in the explanation to Logion 6 saw the kingdom in himself when he put his inner refusal above the doctrine.

Jorge Semprún and the German guard from the explanation to Logion 51 saw the kingdom in a frosted tree when they both deviated from the path and stopped at a frosted tree. How symbolic is that? In order to see the kingdom, to be healed of your blindness, you must apparently first deviate from the path and stand still.

They are the inhabitants of the kingdom.