The Jews have been called the waiting people ,why?, and for whom ?,well we have a very clear, clue in the book of Micah. It is a verse that Christians have read to them every Christmas,and it is the words of that verse that the religious leaders ,quoited to Herod.[ Matthew 2 v5-6]. In Micah 5 v2, we read,/But thou Bethlehem Ephratah,though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me,that is going to to a ruler in Israel,whose goings have been from old,from everlasting/.This is why the Jews are called the waiting people they are still waiting for this ruler who will come. Now the whom,a ruler,when Herod was told about a king of the Jews being born,he immediately felt threatened,because like the Jews ,he only saw the coming one as a ruler.The religious leaders it seems were thinking in earthly terms,a ruler,who would set his throne up in Jerusalem,and deliver the nation from those who oppressed them.That is why I suppose they rejected Jesus the Messiah,they failed to appreciate,as the world likewise fails to appreciate,that Jesus the Messiah came to free people not from political oppression,but from Satan, Sin, and Hell.
A prayer.
Dear God we ask that in Your mercy You would open the eyes of Jews and gentiles alike, as to Jesus is and the real reason He came. Amen.
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