Why do you think though that Jews today feel he(God) was not the Messiah and continue to wait?

Answer 1

Because jesus was not God and did not do what the messiah needed to do. The messiah in Judaism is HUMAN, a PERSON with two HUMAN parents- not a figure out of Greek mythology that is extraordinary because daddy was a god who decided to have some fun with a mortal woman.

For someone to be recognised as messiah he will have to:
1) Be from the line of David (for that you need a HUMAN father since tribal affiliation is only passed down from your biological father, not the person whose house you grow up in.)
2) Bring world peace (theres been a lot of wars in the last 2000 years...)
3) Rebuild the temple (last time I checked there was a mosque built where the temple should be)
4) Re-establish the temple service (Dunno about you, but I think the Muslims qould be upset if the Jews started offering sacrifices in the middle of Al Aqsa Mosque)
5) Re-establish the Sanhedrin sitting in the temple courtyard (Hey, try to establish a rabbinical court in the square in front of Al Aqsa Mosque is more likely to spark a war- in contradiction to point 2, than anything else...)
6) Resurrect the dead. (Met your great,great,great,great granddad yet?)
7) Bring the Jews back to Israel (The majority of Jews live outside of Israel)
8) The Jews will be priests to other nations (You do think we are the Priests to you, right? That you need us to help you with your sacrifices etc. Let me know when you will be bringing your Korban Chagigah to Jerusalem to be sacrificed on Shavuot and I'll personally help you out.)

Answer 2

First of all, suggesting that God was the Messiah shows a poor understanding of the Jewish Scriptures (what you probably call the Old Testament). Second, the early Christians acknowledged that Jesus did not do lots of things that the Messiah was expected to do (and did some things the Messiah was not expected to do). Confronted with this situation, and given the ambiguity of the evidence, what would you honestly have done under those circumstances?

Centuries of Christian mistreatment of Jews has all but settled the matter - Christians have provided most of the evidence against their own beliefs, as it were.

Answer 3

Christans claimed him to be the Messiah because he fulfiiled prophecy.

He did not fulfill the prophecies. Christians today agree he has not fulfilled the prophecy, but say he will come back one day and finish the job.

Specifcially, the OT says that the Messiah will:

Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28).

Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6).

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)

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).

If an individual fails to fulfill even one of these conditions, then he cannot be "The Messiah."

Additonally, even the new testament (which Jews do not observe) is very clear that he would be back quickly, certainly not in 2,000 years.

Answer 4

Most Jews are clueless. But this is part of the great plan. After the temple and law were destroyed and superseded by the law of Christ and grace, the Messianic kingdom would take over and prevail for two millenium, at which point God would graft in the gentiles( "they rejected the building block which became the cornerstone". The Christian church has dominated civilization for 2000 years, and nothing has prevailed against it). Then in the last hours the eyes of the Jews would be opened and all the elect would come together with the Jewish people who were destined to inherit the Kingdom. Quite a drama, stranger than fiction.

Answer 5

Aren't the proofs convincing?

We do not believe that it is prophesied that the Messiah will be crucified. We do not believe that the Messiah will be the son of G-d. We do not believe that he will be raised from the dead any more than anyone else. We do not believe that he will appear twice, in what some Christians call a second coming. We do not believe that the Messiah will be our "savior" in the sense that he will redeem us from our sins.

These are all fascinating claims to make concerning anyone, but they are all irrelevant to the Messiah for whom the Jews have awaited these three thousand years. None of these things are prophesied in the Jewish Bible.

What then is this Messiah for whom we wait? The Messiah will be a mortal man, born of a normal man and woman. He will be of the undisputed scion of David through his father. He will become uncontested ruler in the Land of Israel over all the People of Israel, that is, all Twelve Tribes of Israel. He will have at least one son, who will be king after the Messiah dies a normal death at an advanced age.

He will be as described by the Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 11:2-4): "full of wisdom and understanding, counsel and might, knowledge and the fear of G-d . . . he will smite the tyrant with the rod of his mouth, and slay the wicked with the breath of his lips . . ." (Maimonides explains this last as merely a parable, and not to be taken literally.)

Still, the Messiah will primarily be a prince of peace. As it says (Isaiah 52:7) "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace."

The Messiah will bring an end to all suffering and war. He will rescue the Children of Israel from exile. He will teach the world how to revere truth, and they will all return to G-d (though not necessarily to Judaism). All forms of warfare will be abolished.

The Torah will be strengthened by the teachings and practices of the Messiah. It will not be weakened nor changed in the slightest.

The Jews will no longer be subjugated nor oppressed by other nations. (In fact, there will be no oppression or subjugation anywhere in the world, by anyone against anyone.) The Jews will be free in the Land of Israel. We will have the Holy Temple once again. We will have the full body of the Law restored by the full Sanhedrin and all lesser courts. And the Messiah will do all this on his first try. Indeed, this is how we will know he is the Messiah.

It will be through these signs that he will be recognized. It will not be through miracles, nor through resurrection of the dead, nor through any new creation. It will be through the total Redemption we will undergo (as described in brief above) that we will know the Messiah. And in truth, it is not for the Messiah that we eagerly wait, but for the Redemption itself. The Messiah is merely G-d's messenger and vehicle for that Redemption.

The man the Christians worship may have been a good person, and he may have taught many good things. (Although I hasten to point out that there are many teachings in the Christian Bible that are completely unacceptable to Orthodox Jews, and incompatible to the teachings of the Torah.) But he was not the Messiah for whom we await and have long awaited. He may have been crucified, and that's a horrible thing. But that merely proves to us that he was not the Messiah.

He was not the son of G-d any more than we all are; precisely no more or less. The very thought is repugnant to a Jewish person. G-d having a son in that manner? We shudder at the suggestion.

Nor do we believe he was resurrected. But even if he was, that would not make him the Messiah.

All this that is claimed about Jesus is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the Messiah. There will indeed be a resurrection, but not at the time of the Messiah's coming. That will be later. Much later.

The Jewish faith has no place for most of the Christian Messiah beliefs. Nor is there any way to reconcile Jesus with the Jewish concept of the Messiah. The two concepts have very little in common.

We still await the Messiah, and our faith is still strong.

One more thing: There is a common misconception that Jews supposedly hate Jesus. The truth is that we have no feelings about him at all for good or bad. It does not occupy our minds, because it is completely irrelevant to us and to our religion. We simply don't care at all. Jesus is about as relevant to us as Mithras, or Zeus, or Apollo, Osiris, Attis, Odin, Ishtar, Tammuz, Enlil, or any of the many other ancient gods of other civilizations. We don't hate them either. We simply don't care, and we never think about any of them too much either. Those of us who know a little more about the subject might on occasion wonder if Jesus really existed, but in any case we don't really attribute the creation of the christian religion to Jesus, but to Paul, about whom we don't much think about either. Our only emotion is invested against those who try to get Jews to believe in christian beliefs. Other than that, we really couldn't care less. We don't hate jesus -- we don't see the point.

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Answer 6

Many Jews at the time believed Jesus was the Messiah-The Twelve Apostles and Jesus were Jewish.
But that's the way the world turns round
Of course this means someone is wrong!

Answer 7

The Jews were (and are) looking for a Messiah to take the throne of David and deliver them from national oppression and occupation. At the time of Jesus, the Jews were looking for relief from Roman occupation of their country.

The one to take David's throne will be seen as their deliverer.
Interesting these days is that fact that Jews in Israel are preparing for Messiah's immanent arrival.

Between Jesus' first and second coming, will be anti-christ who deceives many.

Answer 8

Jesus was the boy next door. Nothing good can come out of Nazareth where Christ is from. They are still waiting for the Messiah to come.

Answer 9

Because of a blindness. When one denies Yeshua Messiah, a blindness happens. He Is the Corner stone the builders (Israel) rejected.

When the fulness of the Church comes in, and all born of God, redeemed by His blood, from all nations will stand up for Israel. This, I believe is the moment, the blinders will truly come off. Because this is Yeshua Messiah who will come in and restore their land, all of it. As is written in His Word.

I have prayed for Israel and their land restored. God will restor all their land. From the Egyptian River to the Euphraties River. And expand from there. And also to the whole continent, and to our continent. The whole earth is the LORDS and the fulness thereof. Did you know that because Israel rejected the Messiah, that Salvation is spread throughout the world for all of us. And because of that, the destroyer will be done away with. Yeshua Messiah is the One who will save Israel completely, at His next return, and us redeemed by His blood, also.

Israel need only repent of not believing in Jesus and acknowledge their part in the crucifixion. And declare, "Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD!".

This was a word from God to me when I had prayed to God for the restoration of Israel back in 2006. So, thanks for reminding me of this. I was forgetting some of it.

Answer 10

jews are NOT waiting. jews have a relationship with god that is not defined by a need to reconcile sins through messiah, it is through a more direct discourse with god.