Friday, January 10, 2025
Zealot beliefs largely overlapped with common apocalyptic expectations at the time, except for the synergistic means of ushering in the apocalyptic future. Patterned after (and seemingly extrapolated from) the Maccabean revolt, zealotry envisioned a Davidic descendant gathering an army of those zealous for God (Gk. ζηλωτής) in the Judean wilderness. With heavenly approval and miraculous signs, he would liberate Jerusalem from Gentile antichristic tyranny and usher in the glorious age to come (thus the false messianic “signs and omens,” Matt 24:24; Mark 13:22). - John P. Harrigan, Signs of Jewish Zealotry in Luke 17.20-21
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