So when is your Messiah coming back? Did he say he'll be back when the JEWS have built their Temples?

Answer 1

Well the jews say that he has not come back yet. The Christians say he has. When I saw the passion of the Christ I told the jewish guys I work with. Hes coming back and he is going to be pissed.. Well to rebuild the temple we have to destroy the Dome of the Rock. Tell me would Iran really bomb the Dome of the Rock if they had a nuke? The second most sacred shrine in the muslim world. But the way I read revelations is that first we have world anarchy (Bush) then someone comes and brings world peace (Pelosi nah don't think so) then they rebuild the temple, then the jews declare him the savior and he says whoopsie daisy I don't think so. Then I remember some horses and fire and stuff and then the world ends and we have a thousand years of peace and then I am not sure what happens. I don't remember anything about him coming back after the temples are built. However I do remember not to long ago they had a red heifer or some damn thing that was born and they were all excited because you need this to sacrifice to the gods. But the bottom line is all hell breaks loose, the horses come and then everyone eats the jello pudding.

Answer 2

According to us JEWS, it is the Messiah himself who will cause the 3rd Temple to be built.

In fact according to our prophecies, nobody EXCEPT the Messiah will be able to bring that about.

I think Christians have some sort of thing about an "antichrist" building it and fooling everyone into believing in him because of this. This is irrelevant to Judaism, which holds the original and still true prophecies, that only the true Messiah can build it, and no one else.

Source: Torah, Judaism


Some Christians (especially Baptists) believe that the Messiah won't come back until ALL the Jews believe in Jesus - which is why they've spent over 1 BILLION dollars in the past decade on programs targeted specifically at us to try to get us to convert. So there's that.

EDIT: TO JF: The red calf is not to be a sacrifice to the gods, or to God either for that matter, sorry. The rest of your story was pretty entertaining though LOL

Answer 3

Hi. 1. The line of David certainly still exists. Jews maintain our lineage as needed. For example, I descend from Aaron, Moses' brother. And this is important. There are some Mitzvot that are specific to me and to my descendants. There are some weird conspiracy theories I have heard from Christians about this e.g., "those Jews kept all their family histories at the library of alexandria and when it burned, they lost everything..." We still have it. And we don't make "political leaders" out of those descendants. But, we do sometimes joke around that in the messianic age, they will be in their old roles. As an heir to Aaron, the high priest, if the messiah should come today, I would go back to working in the Temple as a Kohen. And sometimes some people may joke around with me..."put in a good word when you go to work in the Temple..." But, it is a joke. 2. There are 613 Mitzvot in the Bible. Not a single one requires anyone to recognize the Messiah. Nil. Imagine that. We are supposed to avoid blasphemy. We are supposed to let fruit trees lie fallow for a few years. But, recognizing the messiah. meh. When the messiah comes, there will be world peace. All of it. No one will sin. No one will fight about religion. It will be obvious to everyone.

Answer 4

This problem gave one really old Jewish scholar a lot of trouble. He had just married a very young and beautiful wife who became very restless.

The scholar would study late into the night and his wife kept asking, "When are you coming to bed?". He always answered, "Just another page, dear."

After a few weeks of marriage, she finally asked him, "What are you studying that keeps you up so late?"

He replied, "I am trying to find out when the Messiah is coming."
"Really!", she said. "And what have you found so far?".
"Well", he replied, "all we know is that the Messiah will return either when the World is completely Good or when it is completely Evil".

She thought about that answer as she fell asleep. The following day, the scholar thought he should pay more attention to his young wife, so he cut his prayers short and returned home earlier than usual. To his dismay, upon entering the bedroom, he found his wife entertaing the young janitor.

"What are you doing?", he screamed.
Calmly, she replied, "I am doing my part to bring back the Messiah!"

Answer 5

After the rapture the temple will be built.

Answer 6

He could come back any moment. The temple in Jerusalem does not take that long to build. It must be built when Anti-christ enters it and claims to be god.

Answer 7

If you believe that the Lord God Jesus Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords, and that the Lord God Jesus Christ is everything that is good and true, you can be in the New Jerusalem.

Answer 8

next Tuesday

Answer 9

The knowledge thereof is only with God; but most men do not know.

Answer 10

In Judaism, the Messiah (Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, Standard Mašíaḥ Tiberian Māšîªḥ; Aramaic: משיחא, Məšîḥā; Arabic: المسيح, al-Masīḥ; "the Anointed One") at first meant any person who was anointed with oil on rising to a certain position among the ancient Israelites, at first that of High priest, later that of King and also that of a prophet. In English today, it is used in three main contexts: in a Jewish context, it refers to the anticipated king of the Davidic line prophesied by Isaiah, who will rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age; in a general sense, it means any such saviour or liberator of the world; and among Christians, it refers to Jesus of Nazareth identified as the Christ (Greek: Χριστος, the Anointed One).

In the 1st century, Jews interpreted the prophecies of the Tanakh to refer more specifically to someone appointed by God to lead the Jewish people in the face of their tribulations with the Romans. Christians believe that these prophecies actually referred to a spiritual savior, and consider Jesus to be that messiah. The word Christ (Greek Χριστός, Christos, "the anointed one") is a literal translation of "mashiah" used in the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible, and derived from the Greek verb χριω "rub, anoint with scented unguents or oil, as was done after bathing", "anoint in token of consecration."

In Islam, Jesus (Isa) is also called the Masih.[2]

The Septuagint, an ancient Jewish translation of the Torah into Greek and later other books by anonymous people , translates all thirty-nine instances of the word messiah as Christos. The New Testament records the Greek form Μεσσίας, Messias, only twice, in John 1:41 and 4:25.


Christianity emerged in the 1st century A.D. as a movement among Jews (and their Gentile associates and converts) who believed Jesus of Nazareth to be the Messiah; the very name of 'Christian' refers to the Greek word for 'Messiah' (χριστος Khristos). Although Christians commonly refer to Jesus as the "Christ" instead of "Messiah", in Christian theology the two words are synonymous.

Christianity claims that Jesus is the Messiah that Jews were expecting. John 1:41-42 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, "We have found the Messiah" (that is, the Christ). 42 And he brought him to Jesus. However, the Christian concept of the Christ/Messiah is fundamentally different from the Jewish and Muslim (Shafaat, 2003) concepts because all but a few Christians believe Jesus claimed to be God (cf. John 10:37-38; 14:7-11; 17:5; 17:11 and the following):
John 10:30 (NIV) I and the Father are one.
John 10:33 (NIV) "...you, a mere man, claim to be God..."
John 14:9b (NIV) "Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father."

In Christian theology, the Christ/Messiah serves four main functions:[5]
He suffers and dies to make atonement before God for the sins of all humanity, because God's justice requires that sins be punished, according to Penal substitution theology. See, e.g., Isaiah 52:13-53:12 and Psalm 22, which Christianity interprets as referring to Jesus.
He serves as a living example of how God expects people to act.
He will establish peace and rule the world for a long time. See Nicene Creeds of 325 and 381 A.D.; Revelation 20:4-6: (NIV) "… They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 6 … they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years." (see Millennialism).
He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and he came to earth as a human. John 1:1-2,14a: 1. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 2. He was with God in the beginning. 14a The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

In the New Testament, Jesus often referred to himself as 'Son of Man' (Mark 14:61b-62; Luke 22:66-70), which Christianity interprets as a reference to Daniel 7:13-14 (NIV):
In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. 14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshipped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

Because Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah, and that he claimed to be the Son of Man referred to by Daniel, Christianity interprets Daniel 7:13-14 as a statement of the Messiah's authority and that the Messiah will have an everlasting kingdom. Jesus' use of this title is seen as a direct claim to be the Messiah.

Some identified Jesus as the Messiah (Mark 8:29) his opponents accused him of such a claim (Luke 23:2), and he is recorded at least twice as asserting it himself directly (Mark 14:60-62, John 4:25-26).

Christianity interprets a wide range of biblical passages in the Old Testament (Hebrew scripture) as predicting the coming of the Messiah (see Christianity and Biblical prophecy for examples), and believes that they are following Jesus' own explicit teaching:
He said to them..."Did not the Christ/Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself." (Luke 24: 25-27, NIV)
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. (Luke 24:45-47, NIV).
The book of Matthew repeatedly says, "This was to fulfill the prophecy…."

Christianity believes many of the Messianic prophecies were fulfilled in the mission, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and seeks to spread throughout the world its interpretation that the Messiah is the only Saviour, and that Jesus will return to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy.

Section references: Ankerberg & Weldon, 1997; McDowell, 1999