I love this cop-out, if the text negates the fact that something can't work if it is material just shift it to the spiritual
The whole piont is that the people of Israel never realised that the kingdom the Messiah would bring was a spiritual one. They expected a material king.
of course they wouldn't expect a spiritual king, its not scriptual, they expected a military leader, which they didn't get in the form of jesus
Instead they get a spiritual king who wants to free them of their biggest enemy, sin, but they fail to figure it out
they already have ways to free them of sin, its detailed in the torah
Jesus is a God of love.
could have fooled me
He came quietly into this world by taking a human form and took the leadership in order for the world to have forgiveness. The true salvation of a nation is spiritual and not material.
he failed it since he never took up the king-ship of david.
just the same moving of the meanings,"well it didn't show up here so it must be somewhere else"