The Jews were impatiently awaiting their promised Saviour and Ruler; the one so many prophets had described and hinted at. They believed he would come and knock off the Romans, and restore Israel to it's former Golden Age that it had enjoyed under David and Solomon. In the past, when the Israelites were being oppressed by their enemies, the prophets preached that they needed to repent of their sins and return to God.
So when all this talk of the Kingdom of Heaven and of God was being thrown about, it's no wonder they got excited, and come by the thousands. They wanted it to be like the old days under David and Solomon; God, I think, may have wanted it to be like the Older Days, when He was their King...
So he came Himself as their Ruler; the King. But this Man's Kingdom was going to look quite different to the Present Order...quite different...
to be continued...
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