Enos, Ron
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Having experienced the Egyptian, Babylonian, and Assyrian captivities, once again Israel in the first century was under a foreign occupation: Rome. Ro
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me’s boot stood firmly on Israel’s neck! How could God allow this to happen once again? So, when Jesus appeared on the scene and claimed to be their long-awaited Messiah, many of the Jewish people believed he would destroy Rome and establish the Davidic kingdom to its proper place – and rule among the nations. Consider the profound shock the Jews would have felt when he shattered their hopes by predicting yet another judgement that was to come upon them, and that he would be the one to initiate that catastrophic event!
Thousands of years of waiting and praying, and then the one you’ve been waiting for tells you that your temple is going to be destroyed and “not one stone will be left upon another!”, Matthew 24:2.
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