Waiting is one of the most difficult things to do. Israel had to wait 900 years—through two captivities and under the domination of five successive world powers—for God to make good on His promise to David; that from his offspring the Messiah would one day come. And at just the right time, says the apostle Paul in Galatians 4:4-5, when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman. It was the right time religiously, it was the right time culturally, it was the right time politically, and it was the right time demographically.