{"content":[{"text":"The Parable of the Sower","bbox":{"left":0.364314,"top":0.045446,"width":0.2712509999999999,"height":0.021365999999999996}},{"text":"What is the Difference in the Kingdom of Heaven & the Kingdom of God?","bbox":{"left":0.111559,"top":0.088173,"width":0.776888,"height":0.021365999999999996}},{"text":"Lets look at the very same parable in all three of the Synoptic Gospels cf:","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.130901,"width":0.789862,"height":0.021365999999999996}},{"text":"Matthew 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to \n know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.173628,"width":0.862872,"height":0.04272899999999999}},{"text":"Mark 4: 11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the \n kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all [these] things are done in \n parables:","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.237719,"width":0.872097,"height":0.06409299999999996}},{"text":"Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom \n of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they \n might not understand.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.323173,"width":0.880211,"height":0.06409300000000001}},{"text":"So there is absolutely no difference in the terms, Mark and Luke refer to it as the \n Kingdom of God and Matthew refers to it as the Kingdom of Heaven.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.408628,"width":0.869352,"height":0.04272900000000002}},{"text":"The Hebrew’s were children of nature and children of the land.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.472719,"width":0.671431,"height":0.021365999999999996}},{"text":"To fully appreciate the Old Testament nature literature you must understand their \n point of view.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.515446,"width":0.87929,"height":0.042730000000000046}},{"text":"With them secondary causes did not exist; only the primary cause; various \n manifestations of nature were personifications of God.","bbox":{"left":0.058814,"top":0.579537,"width":0.7998299999999999,"height":0.042730000000000046}},{"text":"The sun, moon and stars were His witnesses. \n The thunder and storms were His voice. \n The winds were His Messengers and the earthquakes were sounds of His \n footsteps. \n He clothed Himself in the garments of light and rode upon the clouds as His \n chariot. The whole earth was filled with His glory and immediate presence.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.643628,"width":0.832401,"height":0.12833499999999998}},{"text":"By the time of Jesus the Jews had lost their former interest and love of nature.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.793325,"width":0.848882,"height":0.021365999999999996}},{"text":"The interest of the Scribes, Pharisees and doctors of the Law had begun to rest in \n trivial traditions, superficial forms of temple rituals and purity.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.836052,"width":0.8801370000000001,"height":0.042729999999999935}},{"text":"Today in our modern day city life the display and works of men so hem us in that \n we can hardly see beyond the street in which we live.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.900143,"width":0.864977,"height":0.04272900000000002}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}