All of Jerusalem?

Thursday, January 10^th, Matthew 2: After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem ² and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” ³ When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.  I have been intrigued by that third verse.  On the one hand, the idea of Herod being disturbed is understandable.  What he was facing was his own worst nightmare, a potential threat to this throne, at least in his mind.  For Herod, even the slightest threat to his throne and power were met with force and death.  He even had two of his children killed because he thought they might want to take over from the old man someday. But the part that intrigues me is that all of Jerusalem was disturbed with him.  Systems were in place and the status quo was established and the haves and the have not’s knew who they were and what rules were to be played by.  Oh, how we hate to have the preverbal apple cart overturned.   In our nation we have been on a thirty to forty year run on trickle-down economics, everyone knows how it works and everyone knows that as more and more floats to the top, fewer and fewer crumbs fall to the rest of the world.  Not much different than under Herod.  But it is the way it works and most are happy with the security of knowing what tomorrow might bring even if what it brings is more bad news.  Into this comes the Prince of Peace, the Light of the World, the Messiah who commands even loyalty from those far outside the language, culture and religion of Jerusalem, the Magi from the east.  How does this Christ, this Messiah coming into the world threaten our status quo?  In what ways are we too, right along with Herod and all of Jerusalem, threatened by this one who would call us to love one another?