Hmmmm … actually, Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is Within you. - Luke 17:21
And again in the Gospel of Thomas (30 AD)
Jesus says, "If those who lead you say to you, 'look, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds will get there first. If they say 'it's in the ocean,' then the fish will get there first. But the Kingdom of God is within you and outside of you. Once you come to know yourselves, you will become known.
Heaven is here and now for those who can see it.
In the earliest Gospel of Thomas (30 AD) when asked when and where is the Kingdom of God Jesus says…
It is here on the Earth and many fail to see it.
His disciples said to him: On what day will the kingdom come? <Jesus said:> It will not come while people watch for it; they will not say: Look, here it is, or: Look, there it is; but the kingdom of the father is spread out over the earth, and men do not see it. - GT 113
ok, so is the book of revelation apocryphal or simply metaphorical ?
I would say it is metaphorical and delete the word "simply" ;)
Book of Revelation is Metaphor and symbols. ... The Gospel of Thomas is the very 1st record of what Jesus actually said ... Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Letter of Paul, were written after the Gospel of Thomas. The Early Church Fathers say it is "Gnostic" but they are written in Coptic and Aramaic and predate all other Gospels.