When the Risen Jesus appears to the apostles, they have a vital question for him: â??Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?â? Given the thrust of the gospels as we have them, that seems a bizarre emphasis: could his followers really have got Jesusâ??s message so totally wrong? But the events of the next few decades make clear that many Jews in this era were deeply committed to see the kingdom restored, even at the cost of a full scale armed revolution. The means might be military or miraculous, but the goal was the same: the kingdom.
But which kingdom?
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