1 Nephi 10:4

4  Yea, even ^asix hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem, a ^bprophet would the Lord God raise up among the ^cJews—even a ^dMessiah, or, in other words, a Savior of the world.

            -HERE is the great difference between the expectations and faith of the family of Israel in the new world and the family of Israel (mostly from Judah or the “Jews”) in the old world!  Israel of the America’s began with a solid doctrinal understanding that within a very specific time frame the Messiah would come to earth.  Their was no ambiguity in the expectation.  The “prophet” who would be raised up among the Jews would be the Savior!  The Jews did not have such a specific, time delimited expectation.  They had plenty of prophecies which would point clearly to the Messiah –where he would be born, that a prophet would prepare the way, etc., but when Jesus was born most of them clearly missed the mark.