This question is for any Jewish people reading this.?

Question

I know you Jew's do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. So if Jesus is not the Messiah, then what are you looking for in a Messiah, and if Jesus wasnt the Messiah, how would you know the Messiah when you saw him. Also, what does your religion think of Jesus Christ.

Okay, you say Jesus hasnt fulfilled his duties as a messiah, but what if he's not done yet. The New Testement says that after the anti-christs reign their will be a 1000 years of peace under the rule of Jesus. The temple will be rebuilt and worship restored. What do you think of that.

Answer 1

here's an overview of what we jews expect of the messiah:

1. THE MESSIAH WILL BRING UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE OF G-D.

Jeremiah 31:33 - "And no longer shall one teach his neighbour or his brother, saying: "Know the Lord," for they shall know me from their smallest to their greatest, says the Lord."

Zechariah 8:23 - "And the Lord shall become King over all the earth; on that day shall the Lord be one, and His name one."

2. THE MESSIAH WILL BRING ALL THE JEWS BACK TO ISRAEL.

Isaiah 43:5 - "From the east I will bring your seed, and from the west I will gather you. I will say to the north, "Give," and to the south, "Do not refrain"; bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the end of the earth."

Isaiah 11:12 - "And he shall raise a banner to the nations, and he shall gather the lost of Israel, and the scattered ones of Judah he shall gather from the four corners of the earth."

Isaiah 27:12 - "And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord shall gather from the flood of the river to the stream of Egypt, and you shall be gather one by one, O children of Israel. And it shall come to pass on that day, that a great shofar will be sounded, and those lost in the land of Assyria and those exiled in the land of Egypt shall come and they shall prostrate themselves before the Lord on the holy mount in Jerusalem."

3. THE MESSIAH WILL BRING WORLD PEACE AND ALL WARFARE WILL CEASE.

Isaiah 11:6 - "And wolf shall live with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie with a kid; and a calf and a lion cub and a fatling shall lie together, and a small child shall lead them."

Micah 4:3 - "And he shall judge between many peoples and reprove mighty nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war anymore."

4. ALL WEAPONS WILL BE DESTROYED.

Ezekiel 39:9 - "The inhabitants of the cities of Israel will go forth and make fires and heat up with the weapons, the bucklers, and the encompassing shields, the bows and the arrows and the handstaves and the spears, and they shall burn them as fires for seven years."

5. THE TEMPLE WILL BE REBUILT.

Ezekiel 37:36 - "And I will form a covenant of peace for them, an everlasting covenant shall be with them; and I will establish them and I will multiply them, and I will place My Sanctuary in their midst forever."

Micah 4:1 - "And it shall be at the end of days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised upon the hills, and peoples shall stream upon it."

6. HE WILL CURE ALL THE SICKLY AND DISABLED.

Isaiah 35:5 - "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then the lame shall skip like a hart, and the tongue of the mute shall sing, for water has broken out in the desert and streams in the plain."

7. HE WILL BE PRECEEDED BY THE PROPHET ELIJAH.

Malachi 3:23 (4:4 in KJV) - "Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord."

8. THE NATIONS WILL HELP THE JEWS.

Isaiah 60:5 - "Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall be startled and become enlarged, for the abundance of the west will be turned over to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you."

Isaiah 60:10 - "And foreigners will build your walls, and their kings shall serve you, for in My wrath I struck you and in My grace have I had mercy on you."

9. ETERNAL JOY AND GLADNESS WILL CHARACTERIZE THE JEWISH NATION.

Isaiah 51:11 - "And the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and the will come to Zion with song and with everlasting joy on their heads; gladness and joy shall overtake them; sorrow and sighing shall flee.

10. TREES IN ISRAEL WILL YIELD FRUIT EVERY MONTH.

Ezekiel 47:12 - "But the stream, on its bank from either side, will grow every tree for food; its lead will not wither, neither will its fruit end; month after month its fruits will ripen, for its waters will emanate from the Sanctuary, and its fruit shall be for food and its leaves for a cure."

11. DEATH WILL CEASE.

Isaiah 25:8 - "He has concealed death forever, and the Lord God shall wipe the tears off every face, and the shame of his people he shall remove from upon the earth, for the Lord has spoken."

12. THE DEAD WILL BE RESURRECTED.

Isaiah 26:19 - "May Your dead live, 'My corpses shall rise; awaken and sing, you who dwell in the dust, for a dew of lights is your dew, and to the earth You shall cast the slackers."

Ezekiel 37:13 - "Therefore, prophecy and say unto them, So says the Lord God: Lo! I open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves as My people, and bring you home to the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and lead you up out of your graves as My people. And I will put My spirit into you, and you shall live, and I will set you on your land, and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and have performed it, says the Lord."

13. THE MESSIAH WILL NOT FAIL. HE WILL DO IT THE FIRST TIME AROUND.

Isaiah 42:4 - "Neither shall he weaken, nor shall he be broken."

Answer 2

Our religion doesn't say anything about Jesus Christ. Jesus was a fairly common name 2,000 years ago and there are a few Jesus's mentioned in the Mishnah, the record of Rabinnical debates, laws, stories and opinions of the time. There were many false messiahs', popular preachers, revolutionaries and lunatics. One was noted as having led people astray with witchcraft, etc. etc. Early Christians considered themselves to be Jews and were accepted as just another lunatic fringe sect glorifying their dead Rabbi. (just like the Lubavitch Chasidim of today). It wasn't until Paul started recruiting non-Jews that Christianity became a separate entity.

When the Messiah does come, we'll know..... We'll return to the land, rebuild the temple and live in peace. As that hasn't happened, it looks from here, like we're all still waiting.

Answer 3

I'm not a Jew but I know from some Jew that they think it this way; Jesus is a son of a Roman soldier, not a Messiah but a liar and that's why he was killed. They think that if Jesus would be Messiah he would rule Jews and save them from Romans.

Answer 4

Thanks for asking! Rather than give a long answer here, let me direct you to a few websites that do a nice job of thoroughly explaining what we believe. In a nutshell, Jesus did not fulfill all of the Biblical definitions of what the Messiah will be/will do, and so for us Jesus was clearly not the messiah.

Answer 5

I just love the way you say "you Jew's". That is not a polite way of addressing us. You should say "I know Jewish people....."

What do I think of what you added? Nice try, but that's all. You can keep trying if you want to, but I can tell you now that, at least for me, and I suspect for the other Jews on this site, it won't work. We are happy being who we are and what we are. Aren't you? Then why don't you afford us the same happiness and we all move on.

Answer 6

they expected a POWERFUL political leader who will set them free from the Romans during Jesus' times.

so when they saw Jesus, a carpenter's son, a poor fellow, they least expected Him to be their Messiah.