Now imagine that waiting going on for hundreds of years, through the memory and imagination of a small, embattled nation. Put yourself in their shoes. Things have gone from bad to worse. Powerful foreigners have trampled all over us. The world seems upside down, with the rich and arrogant always coming out on top. But we’ve been promised that one day a new world will be born in which everything will be turned the right way up at last and we will be rescued. And the one who has promised us all this