What if the Messiah already came and you missed it?

Question

The Bible says that the Messiah has already come. Should you believe what the Bible has to say?

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Daniel 9: 25 And you should know and have the insight [that] from the going forth of [the] word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Mes·si´ah [the] Leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks. She will return and be actually rebuilt, with a public square and moat, but in the straits of the times.

26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Mes·si´ah will be cut off, with nothing for himself.

“And the city and the holy place the people of a leader that is coming will bring to their ruin. And the end of it will be by the flood. And until [the] end there will be war; what is decided upon is desolations.

27 “And he must keep [the] covenant in force for the many for one week; and at the half of the week he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to cease.

“And upon the wing of disgusting things there will be the one causing desolation; and until an extermination, the very thing decided upon will go pouring out also upon the one lying desolate.”

Daniel 9:25 describes the circumstances of the coming of Messiah, and does not promise world peace as a condition.

Persian King Artaxerxes gave “the word” to restore and rebuild Jerusalem in the 20th year of his reign. His reign began in 474 B.C.E., so his 20th year would be 455 B.C.E. (Nehemiah 2:1-8) Thus, a period of 69 (7 plus 62) prophetic weeks would separate the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem and the appearance of the Messiah. Sixty-nine literal weeks, of course, equal only 483 days, or less than two years. But when the stated prophetic rule of “a day for a year” is applied, it reveals that the Messiah would appear 483 years later, in 29 C.E.—Ezekiel 4:6.*

Answer 1

The Bible says that the Messiah has not come.

Answer 2

i've got faith that's needed make sparkling some differences between theological perspectives while it involves Christianity and Judaism. Judaism isn't a faith that perfectly revolves around the messianic concept, in assessment to Christianity. instead, Judaism specializes interior the life one presently leads. Christianity places plenty extra emphasis on the messianic concept, because of fact that's an substantial base for that faith. Messianic prophecies are in basic terms an exceedingly small element of Judaism. With that stated: ----------------------------------- one million. What if he already got here? ----------------------------------- The Messiah has no longer are available accordance to Jewish concept. There at the instant are not any what ifs approximately it. the standards might desire to be fulfilled in the process the Messiah's lifetime. the 2nd coming is Christian theology. In Judaism he might desire to: ------------------------- - Rebuild the 0.33 Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28): Do you notice the 0.33 Temple outfitted? No. - carry mutually all Jews decrease back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 40 3:5-6): Are all of the Jews residing in Israel? No. - herald an era of international peace, end all hatred, oppression, suffering and ailment (Isaiah 2:4): Are we residing in an era of international peace, with out hatred, suffering and ailment? No. No standards fulfilled = No messiah. that's that easy. --------------------------------------... 2. What if somebody else claims to be the messiah, will you think him. Why or Why no longer? --------------------------------------... in case you look at this from a historic attitude, you will locate that many those with the exception of Jesus, have made the messianic declare. in the event that they do no longer fulfill the prophecies throughout their life: they are not the messiah. till they're fulfilled, i does no longer "have faith them." If somebody makes a declare that flying snakes exist, are you going to easily have faith it? maximum possibly, you should work out the info for your self in the previous coming to a end. comparable element applies right here. --------------------------------------... 3. What evidence do you have that he's or that he's no longer? --------------------------------------... is that this in connection with Jesus, or between the various different claimed messiahs? the rest is interior the hyperlinks provided under

Answer 3

Daniel is more a tribulation era description of the second
coming.
try Isaiah for the first coming which I believe all of us living now unfortunately missed and yes you should believe what the bible says. (the real bible not one that has been added to or subtracted from.

Answer 4

The Messiaha for Jews came about 2000 years ago.He successfully accomplished his mission and went to the next world but another prophesized almost in all religions was destined to come 1400 years after Prophet Muhammad as his subordinate also came and proclaimed his advent in 1889, set up an active movement to unite the entire mankind under one faith i.e. Islam in 300 years.Due to his many similiarities with Jesus, he has been termed as Promised Messiaha in holy books.

Answer 5

uh.........

there are very specific things that have to be in place in order to say that the messiah came

first and foremost being world peace

then there is the little matter of ALL Jews being taken to Israel

oh...and there is that little matter of the Temple being rebuilt

and the world living a Torah life

and ALL JEWS who had died before the coming of the messiah being resurrected and returned to Israel too


has ANY of those things happened?

has even ONE of those things happened?

no?

oh.....
then the messiah hasn't come

you can't be a religion that claims to believe in the messiah of the Torah and then not use the definitions set forth in that self-same torah!

The messiah of the Jews has not arrived

anyone that claims that he did is bearing false witness
and anyone claiming to be that person is a false messiah

now....if you want to say that the christian messiah came...fine and dandy

but get rid of the ot from your holy book cuz you ain't using it anyway

Answer 6

The Bible is facts and not fiction - If the messiah have already come I would have been caught-up in the Rapture and not be answering this question.

Answer 7

The Messiah was born to a human mother, he grew up and preached the gospel and he died on a cross and was raised again and is now in heaven. He promised to return we are now waiting for His return.

Answer 8

Not to be disrespectful, don't we have to deal with the Anti-Christ first? And how come there are so many people left here when the Rapture should have already occurred? What are you still doing here?

Answer 9

if we read the bible clearly we can descoverd that the persone who talke the dust and make a new eye for the born blind person and the perone who orders the wind to stop and rise the death and he beat the death him self .....is that a normal peson or a normal prophite he creat the eye of the born blind person in the same way that god creat adam so he is the creator he is god he is the messia he is juesses christ

Answer 10

The messiah is Jesus and yes he has already come and this era was not born nor was we here. The bible says we are to look for him again cause he coming again soon.