Redemptionsong
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please don't quote the talmud if you don;t understand what you are quoting. This section of Sanhedrin has a lot of opinions about a lot of things. Choosing one and trying to tie it two what you think it should mean does you no service. Pay attention to the final position in this section:
(R. Shmuel bar Nachmani): Tifach (inflate, i.e. afflictions should come upon) people who calculate the time of Mashi'ach
Thanks for your advice, but I believe I do know what I'm quoting. It may only be an opinion, but it may also be a correct opinion. We happen to be looking back on this event, not looking forward!
Which is why there will be no Messiah born on earth again.
What Tanna debe Eliyyahu gives is not an exact calculation of the time of the coming, but a response to what God has revealed in his word. 'For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.' [Ps.90:4] Based on the week of Genesis his analysis is very helpful and revealing.
Deuteronomy 29:29, 'The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.'
God has revealed in his Law, his Prophets, and his Writings, all that we need to know to identify the Messiah. Based on the evidence of the Tanakh it is possible to agree with the Jewish Christians of the first century that the man they recognized as the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, was the true Messiah.