‘In that Day’. Over and over, a particular ‘day’ is described in the ancient Jewish manuscripts. Where history, both earthly and spiritual, finds its literal culmination in a kingdom. Jesus constantly made references to it throughout his ministry.  The rumor had even reached Pilate who asked him. Are you a king with a kingdom? Throngs rushed to Jerusalem because their expectations placed its physical inauguration in their time, in their moment. Instead, this kingdom had a private beginning early one morning in a tomb... the boardroom where the exchange was brokered.  There a king paid blood ransom for every hostage locked in another’s realm of dying; their passports being withheld. Even being good and noble will not transfer their citizenship from it. Where they will never get out alive. But there is more.

Jesus said it was his intention to live out all his people’s Hebraic feasts and laws, poems and prophecies…some written 1500 years before his first arrival to the planet. He said that even your day’s news would chronicle the establishment of countries and events foretold in bygone parchment scrolls.

All designed and aligned for THAT day. Just so the Jewish Messiah could finish what he promised.  If pulling back time’s curtain, we can imagine Jesus, if only symbolically, as warrior King ‘discerning the times’ for his cue to enter history’s stage a second time.  For a Kingdom.

Meanwhile, " … let us encourage one another-all the more as you see the Day approaching." Hebrews 10:25

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