"Let your kingdom come"
The
Notes
1. This is the second
document of a four document series on the Lord's
prayer. The fourth document is not available, yet.
2. The following is an
updated version of "Let your kingdom
come." At the end of this document is the original version.
"Adveniat," Let your kingdom come
The messianic kingdom
There have been, and will
be, many interpretations about what Kingdom
of God in the gospels is. In reality, we don't know. Jesus talked in
parables about the
At Jesus' time, Jews were
well aware of what he meant, that the Messiah would
soon appear and that his kingdom would commence. The Messiah would be a
powerful, temporary king, who would destroy the enemies and would install again
the
That was the idea in the
mind of the Jewish people listening to Jesus had; the apostles were not the
exception; they too were expecting that temporary savior; perhaps even Jesus
was too. But what they expected didn't happen, and then, the idea of the
messianic kingdom was changed for an early eschatology kingdom.
The early eschatology kingdom
Once the expectations of a
messianic king evanesced, a new hope arose in the mind of the apostles: that in
a very near future would be the end of times and then the
When they had come together, they asked him (Jesus) saying,
Lord, will you at this time restore the
This is the idea of the
early eschatology kingdom, which lasted until the facts proved that there would
not be any such "end of times" soon.
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