John D. Brey
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Jesus presents himself as the prophet Moses prophesied, and Messiah too. Jesus speaks prophetic utterance that Israel must listen to and obey (ala Moses commandment), and he reveals the meaning of the divine decrees given by Moses.
And yet Moses says that the test of this coming prophet, like the test of Messiah, is that he mustn't die. If he dies, his prophesies are lies.
Jesus dies. So apparently his prophesies, and his Messianic claims, die with him. . . . In Moses' parlance, case closed when the casket closes.
. . . Which segues into the meat of this thread. Is death canceled out concerning the falseness of a prophet if he's resurrected out of the grave? In other words, Moses says if the prophet dies, he's not the prophet predicted, nor Messiah. Moses doesn't appear to give the extenuating circumstance that if a prophet is raised from the dead the previous disqualification is disqualified?
Rabbi Hirsch was quoted earlier in the thread (or a parallel thread) saying that anything not found in the Torah is smoke and mirror, lies, and falseness. Which is correct. Which means if there's no provision (in the Torah) for a resurrection rescinding the disqualification of a prophet's qualifications, then Jesus' claims to being the prophet, a prophet, let alone Messiah, go up in smoke. There must be a provision, in the Torah, for resurrection rescinding the disqualifications of a prophet when he dies or else Jesus is disqualified from being Messiah let alone a prophet.
The point is so important it must be emphasized: even if Jesus was resurrected from the dead, his messianic claims, and his right to sit on the throne of David as David's greater son are forfeited by his death unless resurrection is given as a exempting factor in the disqualification of a prophet given by Moses in the Torah. Israel's rejection of Jesus, even if he rose from the dead, is sound, and correct, unless an exception for disqualification of a prophet by death is given in the written Torah.
Should a knowledgeable Jewish person read the foregoing, it might be said that that's what the written Gittin (60b) is get'n at.
John
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