if this verse is meant for Jesus why d`ont the Jews believe in Him?

Question

Isaiah 7:14
"Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign, behold a young woman (almah) will conceive and bear a child and shall call his name Immanuel

Answer 1

If you will read that verse in Hebrew, you will find that "the woman" is already pregnant with the child. What kind of a prophet has to wait several hundred years for his prophesy to materialize????

Please read your verse as if it came from some other book and then try to understand what it says. Nothing at all about the distant future!

The sole purpose of the (human) messiah is to bring peace and harmony an EARTH for all humanity. No peace, no messiah! Why do you make prophesy so difficult?

Despite the above claims, Jesus left no written record. None of the books of the New Testament were written until several decades after the death of Jesus. His teachings were not written because everyone believed the end times were upon them, but after several decades, they decided to reconsider...
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Answer 2

considering that verse was a prophecy to Ahaz who lived hundreds of years before Jesus I cannot see why anyone who has not read the verse in context would say its talking about Jesus.

for those that can not look it up. here is the verse in context

12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask; I will not put the LORD to the test."

13 Then Isaiah said, "Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you [c] a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and [d] will call him Immanuel. [e] 15 He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. 16 But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste. 17 The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria."

Now please tell me how this has anything to do with Jesus.

Answer 3

They believe that the Messiah has yet to come...boy, they messed something up, though. I don't see though, how they can look at Paul. Originally, he was Saul, he was a well educated Jew who when he heard about Christ claiming to be the Messiah, was outraged along with a lot of other Jews. It was heresy back then, so Saul made it his mission to kill all the Christians he could, it was against Jewish Law back then to do what they did, and to believe in Jesus. But this man, Saul was a die-hard anti-Christ Jew, like many others of the time...yet he underwent this -RADICAL- transformation, and he became a Christian himself. How can someone explain this?! -SOMETHING- phenomenal must have happened, that kind of transformation doesn't just come and go. So he changed his name to Paul. That to me is evidence of Christ's awesome power.

Answer 4

Some of the Jews did. They were the first Christians.

The Jews were looking for the human Messiah to rule on earth and free them from their enemies and did not understand that God was speaking of a spiritual Messiah even though the OT prophets told them about it. It was all about political power at that time.

They did not see or understand that the Messiah's Kingdom was not of this earth. Thus, they rejected him. The Gentiles who were pagan and did not know the one true God, heard of Jesus and saw his miracles and believed on him. That is how we got grafted into the Olive tree (Israel) and will partake of the promises that he gave to Israel.

God wants all to be saved and come unto repentance.

Answer 5

Religions are what makes people kill other people. Holocaust, 9/11, Iran/Iraq, Palestine/Isreal and the list goes on and on. Religion downright scares me and is one of the most evil forces known to man, made by man.

Answer 6

Isaiah 53: 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
He was rejected by his people the prophesies said 800 years before his coming. The purpose of his coming was to atone for sin it was foretold by all teh prophet that he would be rejected it is the reason for his death on the cross. If he was accepted would he have been crucified? God's plan was the atonement.

What was the reason of the coming Messiah? Isaiah says to be a Savior and atone for sin.
Jesus agreed with IsaiahJesus himself interprets this passage as referring to him. Jesus said: "For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was reckoned with transgressors’; for what is written about me has its fulfilment" (Luke 22:37, RSV). The quoted verse is Isaiah 53:12.
Jesus agreed with the prohesies of Isaiah 53 which predates him and we have written record of it from 250 BC..Jesus was in agreement with the prophets before him and did fufill the prohesies of Isaiah which foretold of him as Savior who would atone for sin with his life.
Isaiah 800 years before Christ made prophesies of the coming Messiah that he would be a Savior and atone for the sins of his people with his blood. Christ did teach from Isaiah and referenced Isaiah 53 as the prophesy he must fufill.

Answer 7

because he didn't do any of the other stuff, like rebuild the temple, bring world peace, universal recognition of God... ect.

oh yeah, and he died.

what christianity believes jesus did, and who he was, does not describe the messiah of Judaism.