matt 11, -12 " And from the days of john the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force.
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Perhaps Luke says the same thing as Matthew with a better clarity.
Luke 16:16. The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
The kingdom of Heaven becoming those hearing, believing and obeying the good news of Jesus Christ and being baptized into Christ. Which is known from knowing other words of God.
***Matthew uses words that compares the kingdom of heaven being so desirable that man is wanting to lay hold on it as though an army taking a city by storm or violence, with great strength and thrust. It is the force of those hearts desiring it that take it.***
***Some thoughts are from Matthew Henry's Commentaries put in Ollie's words.
Luke says the kingdom of God is preached and men press into it. Which of course is Christ and His body the church or ecclessia.
I would say the violence is not in Heaven, but a term used to describe how men were pressing into the kingdom and taking it.
Ollie