1. What did the Jewish people expect the "Kingdom of God" to look like in redeeming Israel? Did these views mirror Jesus? (p. 49-55)
End of control of the material world by Satan. Their individial, social, environmental and other problems would be solved. Isreal would be dominant politically and be the greatest of all nations.
Yes, Jesus ended the control of Satan. It didn't result in Israel's problems being solved on earth. Israel's ideal of the Kingdom was through power. Jesus' idea of entering the Kingdom was following Him. He was not concerned with the powerful, but the weak. That is who he began with to begin the Kingdom of God. He also did it through a cross, a symbol of shame in Hebrew society. Jesus had the same ideal as the Jewish people in the defeat of Satan, but a very different method.
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