Eyes to See
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This passage isn't even about the Moshiach. Your translation, whichever biased one it is, also puts a capital M on the word 'messiah' - very odd, how do you decide that? There are several people this passage can be speaking about but the main one is Koresh (Cyrus of Persia) as the anointed one who allows the Jews to return to Israel.
The other anointed one is being 'cut off' - not a good thing, ever. Read what it says:
And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one will be cut off, and he will be no more, and the people of the coming monarch will destroy the city and the Sanctuary, and his end will come about by inundation, and until the end of the war, it will be cut off into desolation.
This is not a good thing to happen to anyone. It says 'he will be no more' - not, 'but don't worry he'll be back'!
Messiah, anointed one, chosen one, Christ. They all mean the same thing. And this started after Cyrus was already dead. Cyrus let the Jews return to Jerusalem in 537 B. C. E. The call to rebuild Jerusalem did not occur until 455 B. C. E. during King Artaxerxes reign:
"In the month of Niʹsan, in the 20th year of King Ar·ta·xerxʹes."-Nehemiah 2:1.
The Messiah, Jesus Christ, was put to death, exactly when that prophecy foretold it was to happen. And Jerusalem and it's temple were thusly destroyed.
(Isaiah 6:9, 10) And he replied, “Go, and say to this people: ‘You will hear again and again, But you will not understand; You will see again and again, But you will not get any knowledge.’ 10 Make the heart of this people unreceptive, Make their ears unresponsive, And paste their eyes together, So that they may not see with their eyes And hear with their ears, So that their heart may not understand And they may not turn back and be healed.”
(Mark 4:12) so that, though looking, they may look and still not see, and though hearing, they may hear and still not get the sense of it; nor will they ever turn back and receive forgiveness.”
(Acts 28:26, 27) saying, ‘Go to this people and say: “You will indeed hear but by no means understand, and you will indeed look but by no means see. 27 For the heart of this people has grown unreceptive, and with their ears they have heard without response, and they have shut their eyes, so that they might never see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn back and I heal them.”’