He came quietly, in humility, born in obscurity, to redeem the lost. He was not the angry revolutionary leader yelling in the streets, to raise up an army to bring phys-ical destruction to the Romans.
In fact, not that long after Jesus completed His mission on this earth, Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman army.
To the surprise of the Jews, Justice was not the bringing of wrath to everyone ex-cept the Jews, but rather to extend the offer of salvation to the whole world, and to bring clear definition to the basis for which all men stood condemned.
Jesus was not a rabble-rouser shouting, "do you want a revolution!?" This was much bigger than an earthly conquest. He defeated death and hell on the cross and established the Kingdom of God. A Kingdom not of this world. |
