It is not a place of course, but a condition. Kingship might be a better word. "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done," Jesus prayed. The two are in apposition.
Insofar as here and there, and now and then, God's kingly will is being done in various ways among us even at this moment, the kingdom has already come.
Insofar as all the odd ways we do his will at this moment are at best half-baked and halfhearted, the kingdom is still a long way off - a hell of a long way off, to be more precise and theological.
Frederick Buechner - Whishful Thinking
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