To understand biblical eschatology, we need to move beyond the categories of modern Christian thought and think in terms of the motifs, symbols, and narratives that informed the eschatological worldview of Jesus himself, as a first-century Jewish man living in the Land of Israel.  

And like many Jewish people in his day, when Jesus was thinking of the end of this age and the establishment of God's kingdom, at the forefront of his mind was the original Passover story.

-Travis M. Snow