The Real Messiah.
Wikipedia had the following:
- Isaiah 1:26: “And I will restore your judges as at first and your counselors as in the beginning; afterwards you shall be called City of Righteousness, Faithful City.” Some Jews[4] interpret this to mean that the Sanhedrin will be re-established.”(Isaiah 1:26)
- Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance. (Isaiah 2:4)
- The whole world will worship the One God of Israel (Isaiah 2:11-17)
- He will be descended from King David (Isaiah 11:1) via Solomon (1 Chronicles 22:8-10, 2 Chronicles 7:18)
- The “spirit of the Lord” will be upon him, and he will have a “fear of God” (Isaiah 11:2)
- Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his leadership (Isaiah 11:4)
- Knowledge of God will fill the world (Isaiah 11:9)
- He will include and attract people from all cultures and nations (Isaiah 11:10)
- All Israelites will be returned to their homeland (Isaiah 11:12)
- Death will be swallowed up forever (Isaiah 25:8)
- There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will cease (Isaiah 25:8)
- All of the dead will rise again (Isaiah 26:19)
- The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11)
- He will be a messenger of peace (Isaiah 52:7)
- Nations will recognize the wrongs they did to Israel (Isaiah 52:13-53:5)
- The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23)
- The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55)
- Weapons of war will be destroyed (Ezekiel 39:9)
- The people of Israel will have direct access to the Torah through their minds and Torah study will become the study of the wisdom of the heart (Jeremiah 31:33)[5]
- He will give you all the worthy desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4)
- He will take the barren land and make it abundant and fruitful (Isaiah 51:3, Amos 9:13-15, Ezekiel 36:29-30, Isaiah 11:6-9)
Jesus did none of these things. That is why a so-called second coming is expected and needed.
Here is my reply line by line…
1. There was already a Sanhedrin when Jesus lived.
2. He was never a king and no other nation looked to him when he lived.
3. There is still idolatry throughout the world.
4. Christians say Jesus was descended from King David but Judaism goes through the father when it comes to tribe… But Jesus’ father was G-d! (chas v’shalom!) Even if one were to say that Joseph was a descendant of David it wouldn’t matter because Joseph wasn’t his father! If you argue that Mary was from David… sorry, that’s a cheat, only the religion goes through the mother, not ancestry. So if Jesus was the son of G-d then he wasn’t the Messiah. if he was the Messiah then he can’t be the son of G-d. Whoops.
5. He had no fear of G-d. In fact, he blatantly went against Torah. Anyhow, how are we supposed to interpret this? He feared himself? It makes no sense.
6. Evil and tyranny existed and thrived during the life of Jesus and continues to thrive. Thus, no Messiah yet.
7. Knowledge of G-d indeed filled part of the world (just not when he lived) but it wasn’t monotheism. It was some strange polytheism made up of a Trinity. That is idol worship.
8. His only followers when he lived were Jews. No gentiles until good ol’ Paul came on the scene and “abrogated” the unchanging Word of G-d to make Christianity tasty for the Goyim.
9. Last I checked, Jesus didn’t return any Jews to Israel. Jews remained in Greece, Rome, Babylonia and elsewhere until today.
10. People still die.
11. There is still hunger, illness and suffering throughout the world.
12. While I’m sure Lazarus’ family was happy, there was no mass resurrection of the dead.
13. I think it’s safe to say that Jews did not have gladness or joy in the past 2000 years. Mostly due to the followers of Jesus, thank you.
14. No peace. Jesus admitted he came “to send the sword,” remember?
15. “Nations will recognize the wrongs they did to Israel.” Um, i think we can safely say… uh, no.
16. The “peoples of the world” have pretty much wanted to kill us for the past two thousand years. It’s hard to give spiritual advice when people are killing you.
17. No cities were rebuilt. In fact, our Temple was destroyed thirty odd years after he died.
18. Still war and weapons of war.
19. “The people of Israel will have direct access to the Torah through their minds and Torah study will become the study of the wisdom of the heart” Trust me, it ain’t happened.
20. “He will give you all the worthy desires of your heart.” Unless our desire was genocide, he didn’t fulfill this.
21. He never made any land bloom or fruitful. In fact, Israel became a barren desert for two thousand years.
Hope that gives you a small taste of the Jewish view of Jesus and the eventual True Messiah.
