The issue of Roman occupation was in the minds of many Jews, particularly the Zealots. Wiki:
After Jesus' death and resurrection, he commissioned his disciples to spread the gospel. Acts 1:
Jesus' first coming was not on the physical conquest of territories but the spiritual conquest of people's hearts. He was the Messiah who died for us to keep us in the spiritual Kingdom of God. In fact, God used the Romans to destroy the temple in 70 AD.
Some anticipated a Jewish political messiah from Isa 9:The Zealots were a political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70). Zealotry was the term used by Josephus for a "fourth sect" or "fourth Jewish philosophy" during this period.
When Jesus announced the Kingdom of God, some Jews thought that was it. Jesus would be their political messiah-king to overthrow the Romans. John 6:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Jesus knew better. Jesus knew that he was the Messiah-King of a spiritual Kingdom of God. John 18:15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
i.e., political33 So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King
Jesus was not a geopolitical king.of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?” 35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?” 36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
Jesus came to establish a spiritual kingdom. In his second coming, he will establish a physical kingdom on the new earth.37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
After Jesus' death and resurrection, he commissioned his disciples to spread the gospel. Acts 1:
They were still thinking about a geopolitical kingdom.6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
Why did Jesus not address the issue of the Roman occupation?7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Jesus' first coming was not on the physical conquest of territories but the spiritual conquest of people's hearts. He was the Messiah who died for us to keep us in the spiritual Kingdom of God. In fact, God used the Romans to destroy the temple in 70 AD.
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