Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston, West Virginia.

Now, when he was asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God would come.

So we got the Pharisees popping up again.

And so they ask him, when is the kingdom of God going to come?

Now, that may sound like just sort of a question of curiosity.

We know that the Jewish people, particularly the Pharisees, right?

This is their hope, right?

This is their hope for salvation, is that as St. Luke is going to put it later in his gospel, God is going to restore the kingdom to Israel. They're going to have a kingdom. They're going to get rid of the Romans. They're going to have their own kingdom again. They're going to be ruled by a king descended from King David, right? The Messiah. He's going to come and establish God's kingdom on earth. There's going to be justice, right? We're going to get rid of all these Gentiles and everything will be wonderful. And so, especially since, as we've already seen, there are people talking about Jesus being the Messiah, right? You think, oh, that's a logical question then, right the what is the kingdom of god going to come and we also talked about when we were reading the book of daniel daniel had i mean they had done the math daniel had said roughly how many years it was going to be before the messiah came and it puts you sort of smack in the middle of the first century.

This is part of why, as we've said before, there were a whole bunch of people showing up throughout the first century,

claiming to be the Messiah, and who ended up getting executed by the Romans.

It's because they'd done the math, right, on the prophecies.

You know, the whole Hal Lindsay thing, you know, picking, right, and the prophecies. You know, the whole

Hal Lindsay thing, you know, picking a date. That's not new. That started all the way back then.

Try to read the Bible and figure out exactly what. Right. So you say, well, they're just curious,

right? This is a discussion people are having. What is this going to happen? Right? Maybe Jesus is a

teacher. Maybe he's the

Messiah. But it's not quite so innocent when you think about the fact that once again, what they're

expecting the Messiah to do, right? What they're expecting the Messiah to do is come and overthrow

the Romans. He's going to come and he's going to raise an army.

He's going to overthrow the Romans and set himself up as king.

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