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What did Yeshua mean by “the kingdom of God”?

Part of a series: questions that make more sense when the Tanakh and the New Testament are read together.

Isaiah's herald brings good news to Zion with one line: “Your God reigns” (Isaiah 52:7). Yeshua opens his ministry with almost the same words: “The kingdom of God is at hand” (Mark 1:14–15).

What did his first hearers understand him to be announcing — and is that the same thing most readers assume today?

  • Isaiah 52:7
  • Mark 1:14–15

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