Add to that the idea that Jesus would be physically sitting on a throne in Jerusalem.
It's easy enough for someone to reject a spiritual kingdom, or rebel against a spiritual god, but what of the rebellion at the end of the millennium?
It's often difficult for some to believe in God, mostly because they can't see Him. How many would refuse to believe, or cease believing, if He was physically right there?
When the woman at the well stated that earthly Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship, Jesus corrected her in the passage below.
Joh 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Joh 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Joh 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
Joh 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Below we see the wicked hiding from the Lamb.
Rev 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
(Many of these same characters are found in chapter 19.)
Rev 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Rev 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
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