save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun. And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth and in justice. . . . And it shall come to pass, that as you were a curse among the Gentiles, O house of Juda, and house of Israel: so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing." [1]
These and similar prophecies aroused in the Jewish breast an anxious longing for the glorious awakening of Israel. The people looked forward to the long expected Messias as a great leader of the restoration. The Apostles sharer! this expectation of their countrymen. When our Lord told them the Holy Ghost was shortly to come upon them they said: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" Christ did not tell them their expectations were vain; He simply said: "It is not for you to know the times or moments which the Father has put in his own power." [2] He told them, in effect, that the kingdom would be restored to Israel but it was not for them to know the time because the Father had not revealed it.
