In this sense, and in this sense only, there is a solid Jewish background for the Christian doctrine of the second coming of Jesus.11 Of course, there could be nothing stronger because pre-Christian Judaism, including the disciples during Jesus’s lifetime, never envisaged the death of the Messiah. That is why they never thought of his resurrection, let alone an interim period between such events and the final consummation, during which he would be installed as the world’s true Lord while still waiting for that sovereign rule to take full effect.
