What We Hope and Wait For Is the Second Coming of Jesus! “The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Christ .”( Luke 3:15 , NIV) [“Because the people were eagerly looking forward to the coming of the Messiah , everyone was wondering inwardly whether John might be the one.” — The Korean Living Bible ] Let us meditate on this verse and receive the lesson it gives us: (1) When I meditated on this passage, I realized that the One whom “the people were hoping and waiting for” was the Messiah (Luke 3:15, Korean Living Bible). It struck me that they were so eagerly longing for the Messiah that they even wondered in their hearts whether John the Baptist might be the Messiah himself. (a) As I reflected on this, I remembered what I had learned from Professor Seyoon Kim at Fuller Theological Seminary about the three aspects of Jewish Messianic expectation : Political freedom , Economic prosperity , and Socia...