Why don't Jews believe Jesus is the messiah according to prophecy?

Answer 1

Pride

Answer 2

Is there universal knowledge of one G-d? (Jeremiah 31:33, Zechariah 8:23, 14:9, 14:16,
Isaiah 11:9, Isaiah 40:5, Zephaniah 3:9)
Were all Jews returned to Israel? (Isaiah 43:5-6, Isaiah 11:12, Isaiah 27:12-13)
Did he bring world peace? (Isaiah 11:6, Micah 4:3)
Were all weapons destroyed? (Ezekiel 39:9)
Did all warfare cease? (Isaiah 2:4)
Was the Temple rebuilt in it's place? (Ezekiel 37:24-28 Ezekiel 40-48, Isaiah 33:20, Micah
4:1)
Did he bring physical restoration to all who are sick or disabled in any way? (Isaiah
35:5-6)
Was he preceded by Elijah? (Malachi 3:23-24-- 4:4-5 in KJV)
Did the nations help the Jews materially? (Isaiah 60:5, 60:10-12, 61:6)
Does eternal joy and gladness characterize the Jewish nation? (Isaiah 51:11)
Are Jews sought for spiritual guidance? (Zechariah 8:23)
Is the Egyptian river dry yet? (Isaiah 11:15)
Do trees in Israel yield new fruit every month? (Ezekiel 47:12)
Did each tribe receive it's inheritance? (Ezekiel 47:13-14)
Is the enemy buried? (Ezekiel 39:12)
Did he accomplish these tasks without tiring or failing? (Isaiah 42:4)
Did death cease? (Isaiah 25:8)
Are the dead resurrected? (Isaiah 26:19, Daniel 12:2, Ezekiel 37:12-13)
Nope. So Yeshu was not messiah.

dmd: the question is "why don't Jews believe J*sus is messiah?" not "why do chr*stians believe Jews are wrong?" You cite evidence from the New Testament, which we don't accept as scripture. You could be citing Harry Potter for all the difference. And Isaiah 42:4 "Neither shall he weaken nor shall he be broken, until he establishes justice in the land, and for his instruction, islands shall long."

He has to fulfill all these prophecies before he dies. Otherwise he is a false prophet.

Answer 3

Yshua bar-Ysef failed many things --

- The second temple stood for his entire life, which kept him from building the third, a requirement of HaMosiach.
- HaMosiach would utterly end man's ability to sin, not just wash away the sin but make it so man could not ... I did manythings today that would be considered 'sinful', so this prophecy is unfulfilled.
- HaMosiach would rule over a period of world peace; there has never been such a time period.
- HaMosiach would bring all Jews back to Israel. There are still synagogues within a short drive of me, and I'm in freaking Arkansas.
- HaMosiach would bring all of humanty to the worship of the one true G-D.

The funny thing is, there *IS* someone who supposedly fulfills these key prophecies mentioned in the Bible -- the person identified as the Anti-Christ in the Book of Revelation. Hence my assertion that Jesus was actually of Satan, attempting to mislead people away from the TRUE HaMosiach and set the world up to war against the true Messiah of God.

Answer 4

Why don't the Jewish people believe that Jesus was the Messiah?


I went to the web site, www.aish.com, where Rabbi Shraga Simmons addressed this issue specifically. He listed four main reasons for the Jewish rejection of Jesus Christ as the Messiah.

"Jesus did not fulfill the messianic prophecies."
Several prophecies were listed as unfulfilled under this point. The fact is, they are unfulfilled. They are clearly in reference to the second coming of Christ; they have very clear end-times implications. For example, Ezekiel 37 prophesied the building of the third temple. This prophecy is not to take place until the final days of the Church Age, the end times; it is not pertaining to the birth of the Messiah.


"Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah."
The claims found under this heading are that Jesus was not a prophet, He did not descend from the line of David, and He did not observe the Torah. But, clearly Jesus was a prophet (Matthew 24); He did descend from David (see the genealogy in Matthew 1); and He didn't observe the Torah because He completely fulfilled it!


"Biblical verses 'referring' to Jesus are mistranslations."
Under this point, the writer claims that the prophecies relating to the virgin birth, the crucifixion and the suffering servant are all incorrectly translated from the original Hebrew text. I would ask, then, what about the rest of the Old Testament? It is a little too convenient that only the verses pertaining to the coming Messiah were mistranslated.

"Jewish belief is based solely on national revelation."
Judaism relies on God revealing himself or His truth to the entire nation, not just to select individuals. I would argue that is exactly what He did by prophesying for centuries about the coming Messiah, perfectly fulfilling every prophecy, and then recording it in His Holy Word, giving every person access to it. (See the answer to the FAQ, "How many prophecies did Jesus fulfill?")

Answer 5

Because the messiah is supposed to fulfill EVERY messianic prophecy, and Jesus did not do that! He only fulfilled a few of them! What's the point in believing someone to be a messiah if they need a second return to fulfill what they could've fulfilled in the first place!?
And for them to believe Jesus is God is blashpemous...because (well, read what Sawyer said).

Answer 6

And I quote, "There shall be no G-d before me or after me, I am your G-d for all time" No mention of a Son. So either his future son skipped his mind or he made a mistake about no G-ds after him. We are all children of G-d and if Jesus did exist then he too would be a child of his. As for your prophecy's they are just that...yours. There is no prophecy in the Torah of a son of g-d ever comming. It's all about interpretation and what you chose to read into it. For Christians the old testiment is littered with passages of a potential Jesus comming. But for the more ardent Jew no such reference is stated, not even once. Our bible is a book of life not a guide to an afterlife.

Answer 7

There are Many Jews who do believe that Jesus is the messiah some have found out the truth. I guess many other Jews opinions may vary.

Answer 8

The Jews that don't believe Jesus are only, as Paul says, Jews according to the flesh. They are physically descended from Abraham, but their apostasy caused them to turn from the Lord so they failed to recognize the Messiah when he was in their midst. Thus they are circumcised of the flesh, but their hearts are hardened. They worship the wisdom of men, the Talmud, and forsake the Torah of the Lord.

Their conversion, their return to the Lord from their self-imposed spiritual exile, on the last day will be the sign that the Kingdom has finally fully arrived.

Answer 9

Jesus didn't even believe it, why should the Jews?

Messiah in Aramaic משיחא) meant any person who was anointed to a certain position among the ancient Israelites, usually it meant a high priest.

It had nothing to do with the way it is used in current christian terminology.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 10

The Jews know that the prophecies did not call for a Man-God.., because as the scriptures say.., "God is not a man" that he should be capable of lying.

When the Jews realize that these trinitarians are mixed up, and that Jesus never claimed to be God.., that Jesus was more than simply a prophet.., that he was and is the Son of God.., then they will believe.

All the Jews hear are the claims that Jesus is God, his own father.., or that Jesus is part of some Roman Catholic embraced invented trinity..., and these are contrary to scripture.

The New Testament record has Jesus saying, "I and the Father are one" which is taken completely out of context as Jesus saying he is the Father.., absolute lunacy! Jesus was simply saying.., He and The Father are in Union! United! As one! One in that context. He did not ever say, "I am your God". He identified himself as the one who appeared in the fire - and as Stephen retold the history of Israel just before he was stoned to death, he mentioned an Angel who appeared in or as the burning bush.

Jesus was with the Father in the beginning as "The Angel of the Lord" and was acting then as he did when born as human, and now.., as Representative of God. The Gospel of John plainly records that Jesus said - The Father told him EXACTLY what to say and do. Re-read those scriptures yourself., the words Jesus spoke. So he, Jesus, spoke as he did as The Angel of the Lord did in the Old Testament accounts.., spoke as God, not because he was God, but because he was God's direct expressed representative - a mirror of God if you will. The Jews will see this in their proper time.