There is a lot of misunderstanding about these two phrases “T he Kingdom of God ” and “ The Kingdom of Heaven ”, so we must look to scripture to find an answer. The phrase “kingdom of God” occurs 68 times in 10 different New Testament books, while “kingdo m of heaven” occurs only 32 times, and only in the Gospel of Matthew. Since Matthew is part of the synoptic Gospel it must without error fit in with both The Gospel of Luke and The Gospel of Mark. (The rest of the New Testament as well) From this alone we can know that the two phrases are the same. When we look at parallel accounts of the same events in the other two synoptic gospels we see that Mark and Luke uses “ Kingdom of God ” where Matthew used “ Kingdom of Heaven ” Lets allow scripture to make this clear to you. Let’s compare two passages in the gospel of Mark and Luke Mark 4:11 “ And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all th...