Why wasn't Jesus an earthly king who caused world peace? Aren't these requirements for the Jewish Messiah?

Question

Are you religious people reading what you're saying? You believe Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, yet admit he didn't fit the description?

Answer 1

Jesus did not bring about peace because he was not the Messiah.
These are the requirements for the Jewish Messiah:
* The Sanhedrin will be re-established (Isaiah 1:26)
* Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance. (Isaiah 2:4)
* The whole world will worship the One God of Israel (Isaiah 2:17)
* He will be descended from King David (Isaiah 11:1) via King Solomon (1 Chron. 22:8-10)
* The Moshiach will be a man of this world, an observant Jew with "fear of God" (Isaiah 11:2)
* Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his leadership (Isaiah 11:4)
* Knowledge of God will fill the world (Isaiah 11:9)
* He will include and attract people from all cultures and nations (Isaiah 11:10)
* All Israelites will be returned to their homeland (Isaiah 11:12)
* Death will be swallowed up forever (Isaiah 25:8)
* There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will cease (Isaiah 25:8)
* All of the dead will rise again (Isaiah 26:19)
* The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11)
* He will be a messenger of peace (Isaiah 52:7)
* Nations will end up recognizing the wrongs they did to Israel (Isaiah 52:13-53:5)
* The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23)
* The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55)
* Weapons of war will be destroyed (Ezekiel 39:9)
* The Temple will be rebuilt (Ezekiel 40) resuming many of the suspended mitzvot
* He will then perfect the entire world to serve God together (Zephaniah 3:9)
* Jews will know the Torah without Study (Jeremiah 31:33)
* He will give you all the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4)
* He will take the barren land and make it abundant and fruitful (Isaiah 51:3, Amos 9:13-15, Ezekiel 36:29-30, Isaiah 11:6-9)

Answer 2

If you ask a Jew, then yeah, Jesus was not the Messiah because he didn't fulfill those requirements, but since you are asking me, a Christian, I will share what I learned from studying this subject extensively.

The Jews imagined a political earthly king who was to bring about world peace based on their interpretations of various prophecies. Isaiah 1:26 reads "I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors after the beginning," which could be interpreted as the Sanhedrin being re-established, but if you look to the time when Jesus came, the Sanhedrin were already established, hadn't been dissolved, and thus could not have been re-established by Christ's coming to earth. However, I agree that many of the verses Inat mentions are connected to Christ the Messiah and are fulfilled by him. For example, David as his ancestor (see geneology in Luke 3:23-38, tracing the important members of Jesus's ancestry all the way back to Adam and God) and there are Christians all over the world in every country that I know of (fulfilling Isaiah 11:10) and I could go on.

Anyways, some of the prophecies about Jesus were interpreted one way, and Jesus fulfilled them in another. The Messiah was supposed to have been born in Bethlehem, but since Jesus grew up in Nazareth the Sanhedrin were convinced he was born there and could not be the Messiah. Some of the prophecies have not been fulfilled yet, some have, and I believe some are in the process of fulfillment as I write. Feel free to contact me if you'd like to continue this discussion, and should you choose to contact me, know that I will do my absolute best to provoke your thoughts and not your anger, and believe that the only way these delicate issues can be talked about is through civil discussion.

Answer 3

ok, wish i can try this without sounding , ummm, stupid for starters, smug for yet another, ignorant et...... all of it boils all the way down to attractiveness..... If Jesus could have been frequently used by skill of the Jewish, the international could now be in the *Kingdom* or suited state...... The bible makes it clean the entire u . s . had to settle for, no longer purely the few...... So, we Gentiles have been *grafted* in and given the same possibility to settle for Jesus..... yet, we weren't promised that the *Kingdom* in the international could be fulfilled.... Our concept, faith , believe, brings us to man or woman salvation...... separately...... The Messiah promised a various some thing to the Jewish u . s ........ Revelation speaks of the Jewish u . s ., the *chosen*.... people who inherited the *earthly* promise...... God will deal as quickly as returned with the Jewish u . s . as an entire..... Then and easily then will Christ Jesus rule as an *earthly* and a Heaven King....... *sigh*, ultimate i can do....... ; )

Answer 4

Here is why we don't believe that Jesus was the messiah in simple terms:
1) The dead were not resurrected
2) The Jews did not beome priests to the other nations
3) There is no world peace
4) The temple is not standing
5) There is no temple service
6) There is no parah adumah or its ashes to render us tahor
7) The messiah is from the House of David. your house/tribe is inherited from your father. Your father is your BIOLOGICAL father- there is no adoption in Judaisim to another father- if God is the father of Jesus- then Jesus cannot be from the House of David as God is not frm the House of David.
8) Human sacrifice is completely forbidden in Judaism- remeber God stopping the sacrifice of Isaac? The idea of a human being sacrificed is the opposite of anything from Judaism!
9) You have to atone for yourself! An essential part of the atonement process is being repentant. Someone cannot be repentant for you- you have to do it for yourself. ONly communal sins can be forgiven communally- not individual, private sins!

And no- the messiah does NOT proclaim himself- he will be recognised by his deeds- not by his claims- in other words, through doing the above he will be recognised as the messiah. On top of that- mashiach is a HUMAN being, with HUMAN parents- the idea of an anthropomorphised God going around and impregnating young woman is completely alien to Judaism- though it fits very nicely into the pagan religions of the time which had their heroes being fathered by gods (ala Hercules and his daddy Zeus)

Answer 5

As G-d goes... He sees the end just as clearly as the beginning. Just because you are trapped in time does not mean He is! Jesus has already Conquered!

As far as G-ds Kingdom, it has come! It Simply hasn't yet been completed. Have you missed it?

If you see a Church being built on the Water all supported by the Word of G-d, then you already know that The Kingdom of G-d is within you.

You can walk in and of the Spirit (on water), yet be in the world.

Just as surely as you can walk in and of the world with snakes.

Just as the Son came through the vine of the Father, So did Christianity come from the Jewish faith. G-d will raise up his chosen people yet, who he used to introduce the world's Savior!

Believe the Truth, and G-d Bless you!

Answer 6

Jews don't believe Jesus was the messiah.

Answer 7

Jews are still waiting for their Messiah. It was always Gods plan to give His son as a sacrifice for our sins. They were looking for an earthly King to fight Roman rule but missed the purpose of having a heavenly King that intercedes for them from Gods' throne in heaven.

Answer 8

Those who accept Him have the Peace that surpases all understanding... No the Jews believed that is what God meant when He said He will establish His kingdom, Jesus told His disciples it wasn't a earthly kingdom...

Answer 9

Jesus said that he did not come to judge the world. He came for the lost sheep of Israel. Jehovah God allows Satan to rule for now (Lu. 4:3-7) One day soon, Jesus will destroy the Devil and all evil. He is the spirit king; not king of flesh. After Jesus cleanses the earth; he will then hand the kingship back over to his Father, Jehovah (1cor. 15:24-28). Please visit your local Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Answer 10

Actually the Jews believe that the Mossiah would litterally be a physical king who would come to liberate them. Which is probabably why they reject Jesus.