In Judaism, Rabbis have always debated what seemed like two different Messianic figures being described in the scriptures. One was Messiah son of David (The Warrior Like Messiah) and the other is Messiah son of Joseph (The Gentle Suffering Servant). They were unable to see how this might be one Messiah coming at two different times and so missed their Messiah.

What’s interesting is that they were expecting and waiting for their Warrior Messiah to come and rescue them from the bondage and tribulation they were experiencing and instead got the suffering Messiah coming to make atonement for sin.

Now 2,000 years later it seems that the church is making the same mistake and this time is expecting the gentle Messiah to return, when actually we are going to get the Warrior Messiah coming to judge the world and take His throne in Jerusalem! 

-Johnathon Blaze

Divorcing “the Gospel” from eschatology, particularly the Second Coming and the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel, is all too common but nevertheless shortsighted and problematic. 

We are not just saved from our sins (a typical and yes at one level necessary way of framing the Gospel). 

At a more holistic level, however, we are saved into a very specific type of Kingdom that will manifest at the return of Christ. - Travis M Snow 

His iron-clad commitment to keep His promises spares us the trouble of building His Kingdom without Him. As C.H. Spurgeon once said, it is quite difficult to have a Kingdom without the King present. We are to bear witness of His Kingdom coming, but we’ll never establish it here without Him. The dominion mandate in the Garden was usurped by the one whose head Jesus will crush finally and forever, and “the kingdoms of this world [will] become the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever,” “gloriously.” - Stephanie Quick, Kingdom Come

The moment Gentiles began to dominate the Christian demographic, we began to deliberately divorce ourselves from the Judaic ethos of the faith. This was due in part to the mounting tensions between mainline Judaism and the controversies surrounding this new sect of “the Way,” and in part to the controversy of Jerusalem saddling the Roman Empire that Gentile Christians wanted distance from, and, lastly, in sure part to the general antisemitism and anti Judaism within the Empire that colored, say, Roman Christian interpretation of the foundational texts. By the time Church Fathers gathered to root out heresies and identify core doctrines in our creeds, they had intentionally distanced Christendom from Jerusalem and Judaism. This was done deliberately, and to everyone’s detriment. - Stephanie Quick, Kingdom Come