Reply To: If this is what we've been waiting 2000 years for…

Yes, it was, because we have reached such a depth of depravity in this world, that Hashem SURELY has to bring us the Geulah, because the world cannot stand like this for much longer. And because of the sickness of this world, perhaps b’Chasdei Hashem we will be the ones who are zochim to live to see Yemos haMoshiach, and not just his ikvisah.