and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate_!" Among the crowd now growing frantic, people began to cry: "A sign! A sign!" Others shouted: "Lead us!" "Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the Heaven of the Lord!" "Lead us!" they still shouted.
They were hungry; they had been abstinent; they had surrendered their riches and their comforts.

It was not independence but necessities that they wanted now.

The primal wants were at the surface.
"Come up and be filled!" she cried.

"Ask and it shall be given unto you! Eat of the grapes and the honey; drink of wine and warm milk; sleep as kings; be housed in mansions; be rulers; command potentates! Let kings bow at your footstools! Be replenished; be great! Suffering hath been your portion since the earth was; but the end is come.

Draw nigh and have your recompense.