[CS-FSLUG] TH The kingdom of Heaven

[Ed Hurst]

Nigel Ridley wrote:
>>Indeed, the much ingnored "Messianic Expectations". I was a student of

[snip]

> Not 'nonsense' at all. Why did the angel Gabriel lend to that
> expectation when he spoke to Mary?:

You miss the import of my statement for my failure to define the terms. 
In academic theology, "Messianic Expectations" plural refers to a body 
of junk theology that place the Jews as kings of a physical, temporal 
version of "eternity" that was merely an extension of their current reality.

When Jesus faced the Tempter in the Wilderness, He was specifically 
fighting those false ideas what the Messiah would be and do: Messiah 
would turns the desert stones to bread so no Jew would ever go hungry 
again, Messiah would annouce his coming by many flashy miracles to 
include jumping off the 70-foot terrace of the Temple Mount, and would 
be a political ruler, etc.

The Messianic Expectation (singular) was what Jesus fulfilled, as 
promise by all the prophets.

-- 
Ed Hurst
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