[Jan_Sobieski]

2000 years ago, religious leaders of Israel knew that the Messiah had to come to Israel before Israel lost its scepter (right of self rule). This was based on Jacob's prophecy in Genesis 49 of the Torah:

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

When Jesus did revel himself to them, they rejected his message and the Word of G-d that prophesied of his coming. As a result, they missed his first coming as a suffering servant (lamb) to take away their sins. Today, as their fathers before them, the Jewish religious establishment are rejecting the Tanakh and unless G-d opens their eyes and their hearts, will miss his 2nd coming in the clouds as prophesied by the Jewish Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus). However, this event may lead to one of the greatest Jewish revivals ever with thousands / possibly millions of Jews looking to their Messiah (Zechariah 12, Revelation 7)

[BenLurkin]

Have never heard the term “Parousia” to describer the return of our Lord, and hopefully we’ll never hear of it again.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

They knew....the timeline of the end of Daniel’s 70 “sevens” was exactly around the time of Christ’s ministry.

http://www.gotquestions.org/seventy-sevens.html

[Bryanw92]

From the author: “Please keep in mind that I write as a Zionist, not from religion; history, not faith.”

Christian SECURITY comes from faith.

[wattsgnu]

I’m a 52 yr old catholic and I never heard of Parousia, I didn’t know Jesus was late, I didn’t know I was insecure about it and I thought he would come like a thief in the night. A lot I don’t know I guess.

[Uri’el-2012]

The author is very confused.

He fails to recognize that Yah'shua was/is/will always be a Jew.

He did not come to start "Christianly".

He came for the Jew first then the Gentile.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach