Gospel of the King and the Kingdom (Somebody has to say it!)I. Kingdom in Volume 3, the 14 Letters of the Apostle Paul.Just sitting out there at Rosamond, in the middle of the Mojave Desert and close to flight test engineering work at Edwards, in the Comfort Travel trailer with a typewriter, and the desire to condense the Bible better in 7 volumes than Carroll did in 17, and In the original writing of the believe and be baptized volume 3 of the LCBCs, in no way was it intended to be a dissertation on the ?kingdom?, the Bible research and writing was intended to be on the 14 letters of the Apostle Paul, and indeed it was, but as always in the commentaries of SunGrist, good hermeneutics demanded in context, and even the teachings of Jesus got in the act; of course, which was in turn demanded by the collection of all the New Testament on the word kingdom. Later, while becoming so frustrated with both the Scofield mites with their futile efforts to distinguish between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven, and books about the subject, it was stumbling efforts much like the many discoveries were made in Physics, to find in previous volumes of the Learn Christ Bible Commentaries, so much on the kingdom. In volume 3 alone, as running the find search on ?kingdom? it showed up 311 times. Here at the beginning of the King and the Kingdom is an effort to briefly summarize those 311 in volume 3. First in 5-7: Gospel of the King and the Kingdom, page 101.Later we must get into the Bible on ?Gospel? which is also found 274 times in the NT, which should be no surprise as Jesus came ?preaching the Gospel of the kingdom?, unlike most preachers today who shudder to join the words in a phrase for fear of the Scofield mites or that they might identify with that crowd since 1909 (publication by Oxford Press of the Scofield Reference Bible with a contract to Scofield to promote the Zealots, something Jesus refused to do). Scofield was under contract to make a lot of money from Oxford Press to promote the Jews in the establishment of a new modern kingdom (country) in Palestine, and a very shrewd and subtle person this former lawyer was, he realized that his attacks on the real meaning of the Bible had to be focused on THE KINGDOM. What many of us Southern Baptist, even those not of the Pre-Trib persuasion have failed to both realize and admit publicly until the recent collapse and demise of the SBC is this attack inspired by Satan, Darby, two gays profs of Greek at Oxford University, and the Oxford Press was also an attack on THE GOSPEL itself! Well, shocking yes, but stop to think if Jesus preached the ?gospel of the kingdom?, and Scofield followers after Scofield modified, really distorted, the Bible on the kingdom half of the gospel of the kingdom, then of necessity they were slaughtering almost silently with the Scofield notes the very nature, message, and salvation of the Gospel. In 1909 and following it was earth shattering almost as great as and simultaneous with Commager?s ?Watershed of American Thought? beginning in the 1890s.