PruePhillip
Well-Known Member
Who would recognize a Jewish messiah better than a Jew?
And the Jews didn't recognize him as a Jewish messiah ─ why should they? He wasn't.
And why would God sent the Jews a messiah ─
a) whom [his] chosen people wouldn't recognize and
b) who was going to found a cult that has murderously and rapaciously practiced antisemitism for 2000 years?
Yes, as Isaiah wrote, 'Who has believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed'?
It's something profoundly mysterious to Jews why the nation that destroys the temple and Jerusalem
could also kill the Messiah.
Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build
Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street
be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the
prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood,
and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel of the Babylonian captivity was told that Jerusalem will be rebuilt. Troubled times included the
effort of the Samaritans to stop this reconstruction (Ezra and Nehemia)
And then the Messiah will come.
But he will be 'cut off' or destroyed, but 'not for himself', meaning he will die for others. The people of
the prince is Rome - the prince is Titus, his father is emperor. Rome and her auxillaries flooded the
land. And 'desolations are determined', meaning the suffering of the Jews is planned by God.