Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation. But what are we waiting for? When do we expect it to come? Before the birth of Jesus, the Jews were waiting anxiously for a deliverer on par with Moses who would lead them from the bondage of Roman rule back to their glory days. In their minds, they knew exactly what they were expecting in a Messiah. Scott Suskovic reminds us that the Jewish world did not get what they expected. People were looking so hard for their hero in shining armor who would sound the war cry against Rome, that they missed the small cries of a baby in a Bethlehem barn.
