Claim. DP’s Kingdom of Heaven on Earth is not a return to primitive simplicity but a society in which perfected human beings have advanced science, mastered the natural world, and built a richly developed material and cultural environment. The ideal is techno-developmental, not pastoral or anti-modern.
Elaboration. Per 1.1. The Completion of God’s Purpose of Creation: “Regardless of the purity of the people of this society, if they were living in primitive circumstances like cavemen, this could not be considered the Kingdom of Heaven which both God and human beings desire.” The third of the three great blessings — dominion over creation — entails that perfected humans “should advance science, harness the natural world, and create an extremely pleasant social and living environment.”
This commits DP to a positive valuation of science and technology as constitutive of the eschatological ideal, not merely instrumental to it. The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth is what an unfallen, scientifically mature humanity would have built. After perfection of the earthly Kingdom, “when they shed their physical bodies and pass into the spirit world, they will form the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.”
This shape distinguishes DP from Anabaptist primitivism, monastic withdrawal, and apocalyptic catastrophism — and from any reading that treats fallen modernity’s technical achievements as merely worldly. The advances themselves belong to the providence of restoration (see dp-third-blessing-being-restored-via-internal-and-external-dominion).
See also. dp-three-great-blessings-as-purpose-of-creation, dp-kingdom-on-earth-precedes-kingdom-in-heaven