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Christians say that the Messiah came once allready and He will come again to fulfill the rest of the prophesies. Jews say the Messiah has not come yet and will fulfill all prophesies at once. Christians: Where in the Bible does it reference that the Messiah will come twice? That is, once to be a servant and once(2nd coming) to defeat God's enemys???

2007-09-11 11:53:01 · 4 answers · asked by Jonny 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Please use OT references. Thanks

2007-09-11 12:02:09 · update #1

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Throughout the Gospel and Bible.

Zechariah 14:

1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 ¶ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

2007-09-11 12:01:45 · answer #1 · answered by djmantx 7 · 7 0

Jesus Himself promised, "At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory" (Matthew 24:30). Revelation 19:11-12 proclaims this about the Second Coming, "I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself."

Those who witnessed Christ's ascension into heaven after his death and resurrection heard the angels declare in Acts 1:11, "Men of Galilee…why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." The Second Coming is the literal return of Jesus Christ to earth as King in power and glory to rule for a thousand years (Revelation 20:1-6).

Those who argue that Jesus was not the Messiah because He did not fulfill all the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah, fail to take into account the Second Coming of Christ, in which He will fulfill all the prophecies about the Messiah. Christ's first coming was to stand in our place and receive the penalty exacted for sin. His Second Coming will defeat sin for all eternity.

Edit: to satisfy your additional comments:
(His birth and His Second Coming) as seen in Isaiah Chapters 7 & 9: and Zachariah 14.

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2007-09-11 19:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

In the New Testament.

Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

2007-09-11 19:00:15 · answer #3 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0 0

Jesus originally came as both the Son of man and the Son of God.

After His crucifixion, He returned spiritually in the form of the Christian church.

There are those who believe that He will return again physically. It's a matter of which scripture you select and exactly how you interpret it.

We can never know all that God knows.

2007-09-11 19:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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