What is the Messiah supposed to accomplish? The Bible says that he will:
A. Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28).
B. Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6).
C. Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4)
D. Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. As it says: "God will be King over all the world -- on that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9).
How was he the messiah? Can anyone explain this?
2007-02-06 06:41:46 · 24 answers · asked by Justsyd 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus failed in fulfilling all the major requirements of the Messiah. (No one yet through history has fulfilled the messianic prophecies).
2007-02-06 13:30:16 · answer #1 · answered by mo mosh 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
According to the 'Messiah' that the Jews were (and still are) looking for, NO, Jesus was not the Messiah. However, for those who 'believe in' him as THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD who DIED ON THE CROSS FOR (all of) OUR SINS, then yes, he was the Messiah. Believe it or not, but there are actually people who are "Jewish" (a racial/national thing that 'includes' the religion of Judaism) who 'believe in Christ' as the 'only begotten ...' but they are also still looking for their 'Jewish' Messiah. All of your 'quotations' come from the OLD Testament, which to most Christians is seen as 'metaphorical history' told to us ONLY because it 'points the way to Jesus Christ' ... and if God was 'all there was' and he CREATED the universe, then he also 'created time' but LIVES OUTSIDE OF TIME and doesn't 'experience it' the same way we do ... thus to GOD everything in our 'future' may already 'exist' ... so how can you, a 'mere human' ever think you can 'learn everything' that the Bible (or any other religious book) says 'will happen' for someone to be called by a name ... because we don't even 'know for a fact' that God even 'uses names' the same way we humans do. Therefore, I can 'accept Jesus as my SAVIOR' and not have to 'worry' about whether he is 'the Messiah' ... in the past (was the Messiah) or in the future (will be the Messiah) ... because I 'know' (although only with much 'faith' and not so much 'fact') that I am going to 'go to Heaven' if I am as 'good a person as I can possibly be' while I'm 'alive and human'...
2007-02-06 15:33:33 · answer #2 · answered by Kris L 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The word "Messiah" means "Anointed One," the name given to the promised Deliverer who would some day come to the people of Israel as their great Savior and Redeemer, "anointed" as Prophet, Priest, and King by God Himself
The group of Jewish believers who became the first founders of Christianity were convinced that Jesus of Nazareth was their promised Messiah. The name "Christ" is the Greek equivalent of "Messiah," so that the name Jesus Christ really means "Jesus the Messiah," or "Jesus the anointed." They preached this truth with such conviction and power that not only many Jews but, later, a still greater host of Gentiles, believed on Jesus, both as the Christ and also as the Lord and Savior of all men.
God Bless You
2007-02-06 14:50:43 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, Jesus is the Messiah.
A. The Temple of God in the eternity is the Godhead itself, not a building.
B. The returning of the tribe of Judah to the land of Judea happened May 15, 1948; that brought in the Generation of the Fig Tree, the final generation.
C. This, along with D, is not until after Christs return, with that rod of iron. Things will get straightened out, and people will be taught the truth along with lots and lots and lots of disipline, which is needed real badly today.
Why based on these things, is it confusing to you that Jesus is Messiah???
2007-02-06 14:50:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are making the same mistake that many Jews made during the time that Jesus lived on the earth. The references you have cited refer to His second coming that we are all waiting for now.
The first time He came, he was here to preach His gospel and then atone for the sins of all mankind. This was a spiritual deliverance. Many Jews in Jesus' time were looking for physical deliverance from Rome but that physical deliverance will occur at His second coming. The Jews back then were disappointed because they did not understand the scriptures.
2007-02-06 14:54:07 · answer #5 · answered by rbarc 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
This word coming to us in the flesh is the Messiah, the Son of God. Praise the Lord!
2007-02-06 14:45:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
yer of course! by the way some of those things have already happened. an dloads a jews are always converting to christianity! by the way sumwhere it says in the bible that the hollocauste was gunna happen. and it did! oh and it also said that the Jews would all go back to the land of israel-wich is happening now. the bible is true. all true. dn tunderestimate it.
He was tthe massiah so that he could spread his fathers words and then die on the cross to forgive mine and your sins - that for sure i know is true!.
2007-02-06 14:50:52 · answer #7 · answered by "B" 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes he is. What you are referring to will occur upon his return, after the "days of the Gentiles" have been fulfilled. That is when he will return and the Jews will accept him as the Messiah and the whole world will know who he is.
2007-02-06 14:47:41 · answer #8 · answered by Mawm 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There were just as many messiah's in the time of Jesus as there are alien abductees today,
No I dont think he was,
He was ridiculed and killed because he claimed to be the son of God.
Would someone be treated any different if they made that claim today?
Maybe not killed but ridiculed and definately not believed.
2007-02-06 14:47:40 · answer #9 · answered by fighterace26 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Of course.
A. Coming in the millienial reign.
B. 1948 onward
C. Coming in the millienial reign.
D. Coming after the millienial reign, after the white throne judgment.
First coming = suffering servant - Isaiah
Second coming = Mighty King - Judge of heaven and earth.
2007-02-06 14:49:17 · answer #10 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋