This one is to finish addressing questions from popo. Actually throughout the old testament the prophecy was for someone who would reconcile us to God, as far as messiah was concerned, and that in the end times (described most thoroughly in the book of Daniel) the Lord would come and rule the nations after certain things took place, but these have always been two seperate events. The book of Isaiah, and psalms are full of prophecy about the coming redeemer. It was the Israelites themselves that set the requirement that the messiah would come and throw off the rule of the Romans, and Jesus even dealt with that issue while he was in his ministry. He basically said that his kingdom was not of this world.
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