Go into any synogogue anywhere, and it isn't Jesus they're praying to --
2007-11-10 16:05:29 · 20 answers · asked by Saint Nearly 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-11-10 16:07:45 · update #1
He wanted it to be hard to believe in him so he could enjoy seeing us Heathens burning in Hell, I suppose. lolol
At least I'm enjoying the ride. ;-)
2007-11-10 16:19:43 · answer #1 · answered by Yinzer from Sixburgh 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He knew that some would buy it and some would not...and that it would result in a split between believers and non-believers in Jesus. ...all part of the plan to save the world through his chosen people.
...they may not think they are praying to Jesus, but they are praying to the same God I'm praying to...the main difference is that I mention the name of Jesus as he instructed us to do. But if Jesus is God, then they are talking to him even if they won't acknowledge him.
2007-11-10 16:15:30 · answer #2 · answered by KAL 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
LOL....Have you not read what the prophecies had said? Or the New Testament speaking of those prophecies of how He was going to be given up for death by the people, the thorns, the nails, the peircing, the gambling for His clothes, etc?
In answer to your question...yes, He knew, and so did Jesus, whom was WITH God in the Beginning.....
2007-11-10 16:17:40 · answer #3 · answered by ForeverSet 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's because He didn't send the messiah. Some people started following a guy who could do some parlor tricks. Their bad.
2007-11-10 16:14:33 · answer #4 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes He did- but He had promised King David that the Messiah would come through his descendants. He had also promised Abraham, who was considered God's friend, that the Messiah would come through his seed. God kept His promise to these men, even though the Jewish folks chose not to believe. Jesus said that they weren't all children of Abraham, even though they were blood-related. The real children of Abraham were those who shared his faith in God's Messiah who was to come.
2007-11-10 16:13:42 · answer #5 · answered by Dawn C 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
He even told them in their own scriptures that they would not believe. God is a genius. More than anyone else I have ever known.
The Apostle Paul showed this, using the Old testament as a source.
Romans 9
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
"Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
28 For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality."
And Paul goes on. He knows why they as a nation will not accept the Messiah, Jesus Christ. God said it way before Paul ever lived:
Deuteronomy 32:21
They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
And He even gives a promise to the northern Kingdom of Israel, who was split from the southern Kingdom of Judah:
Hosea 2
23 I will plant her for myself in the land;
I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one. '
I will say to those called 'Not my people, ' 'You are my people';
and they will say, 'You are my God.' "
But to the Jews He said:
Zechariah 12
10 "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son."
Finally, expressed in Zechariah 14, they come to know Jesus:
Zechariah 14
5 You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
Then they will know him, the cornerstone who the builders rejected:
Isaiah 28
16 So this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
"See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation;
the one who trusts will never be dismayed.
2007-11-10 16:27:27 · answer #6 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, He did. As another poster mentioned, it was even prophesied. The Jews rejected Jesus according to God's plan so that the 'fullness of the gentiles" might come in--- in other words, to give the goyim a chance to accept Jesus.
2007-11-10 16:10:57 · answer #7 · answered by KL 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Of course He knew it. If you read the Bible, you will see that. There are prophecies written about it that came true. Some believed, some didn't. Some do now, and some still don't. God bless
2007-11-10 16:17:42 · answer #8 · answered by byHisgrace 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He knew it, and there are even prophesies about Christ in the Old Testament saying that he would be rejected.
However, Jesus came anyway, because whether the Jews accepted him or not, someone had to die for our sins.
Also, some Jews did accept him.
2007-11-10 16:09:15 · answer #9 · answered by superninfreak777 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Some of them did believe Jesus.
2007-11-10 16:18:06 · answer #10 · answered by Marie F 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course he knew--he knows everything past, present and future doesn't he? And by the way, there are a great many Messianic Jews who do in fact pray to Jesus. I guess it's never to late to accept him--until it's too late.
2007-11-10 16:09:26 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋