I hope I don't offend anyone, but my Christian education was that the Jews were waiting for a Messiah who would lead them to salvation.
Since I believe that Jesus was that Messiah, then I interpret the Old Testament scriptures in light of what Jesus said. But if one rejects Jesus as the promised Messiah, then I suppose you might have many different expectations of what the Messiah will do when he comes.
Perhaps one of you can tell me whether Jews today actually are waiting for a Messiah and what they think he will do when he arrives.
Perhaps the answer that I will give is too shallow or not intellectually sophisticated enough to be acceptable due to its simplicity.
Nevertheless, I believe in their present condition of still having the vail that God placed over their understanding because they could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses after he had been in the presence of God receiving the Law, which was to lead them to the Truth, which is Christ.
The fundamentalist Jew of today is expecting the same the Jews in Jesus' day were expecting, and when Jesus refused to be made King they crucified Him
They are believing the Messiah yet to come will accept the kingship and will restore the glory of the kingdom that once was as in the days of David and Solomon through the physical overthrow and driving out their oppressors from Jewery thereby restoring Israel to its former greatness.