Psalms 69: 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. 21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined…. So, how is it that the overwhelming majority of Jews in Christ’s day, came to the conclusion that Messiah would reign as a temporal king in Jerusalem, when He came?
It has to do with the spiritual and secular modes of thought being at odds. And let no one think that just because a person is a sincere Christian, loaded with The Holy Ghost, that secular perspectives cannot imperceptibly taint your understanding, invade your modes of thought, and even your interpretation of end time prophecy. Every single one of the disciples, who were baptized and who followed Jesus in spirit and in truth, were tainted by those secular views and perspectives.
These view were cultivated over many years, and held blindly by even some of the most sincere and devout persons in the city of Jerusalem. And even after Christ was risen again, in His glorified form, they still clung to the same secular view, that He would reign as king in Jerusalem. We are not too worried about Judas who continuously put forth the same secular perspective, because he had his own nefarious agenda.
Daniel 9: 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!