Neither was Jesus, if you believe in the virgin birth.
Since Mary descended from King David through Nathan (Lk 3:31), Jesus was the
seed of David;
and since his legal father, Joseph, descended through King Solomon (Mt 1:60), Jesus was legally descended from the
royal line of David.
Neither did anything that Jesus did.
1) He fulfilled the first requirement, from the house of David (Isa 9:6-7; Jn 7:42; Mt 1:6),
2) he fulfilled the second requirement, born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2; Mt 2:4-6),
3)
the Jewish NT writers single out and specifically state these prophecies were fulfilled:
---a)
Isaiah 7:14, 8:14-15, 9:6-7, 28:16, 42:6; 53:12, 61:1-2--virgin birth
; rock of offense and stone of stumbling
; seed of David
; stone in Zion
; a light to the Gentiles
; numbered among the transgressors
; miracles (Mt 1:22-
23; Lk 20:18 & 1 Pe 2:8
; Jn 7:42
; 1 Pe 2:6
; Lk 1:32
, 22:37
, 7:20-23),
---b)
Jeremiah 31:15, 31-34--massacre of infants, new covenant in Jesus (Mt 2:17-18; Heb 8:7-13),
---c)
Hosea 11:1--flight into Egypt (Mt 2:14),
---d)
Zecariah 9:9, 13:7--king riding on a colt; shepherd smitten and sheep scattered (Mt 21:1-5, 26:31-32),
---e)
Psalm 2:1-2, 7,--the Lord's Messiah; Son of God (Ac 4:25-27; Heb 5:5)
---f)
Psalm 22:6-8,18--mocked; cast lots for his clothes (Mt 27:43; Jn 19:24),
---g)
Psalm 34:20--no bones broken (Jn 19:33, 36),
---h)
Psalm 40:6-8--came to do God's will (Heb 10:5-9),
---i)
Psalm 45:6-7, 102:25-27, 110:1--Son of Righteousness; eternal; seated at the right hand of God (Heb 1:8-9, 10-12, 13),
---j)
Psalm 69:9--stung by reproaches (Jn 2:17),
---k)
Psalm 110:4--priest forever (Heb 7:15-17),
---l)
Psalm 118:22--capstone builders rejected (Lk 20:17; Ac 4:10-12; 1 Pe 2:7),
---m)
Deut 21:23 (not a prophecy)--cursed on the tree (Gal 3:13),
---n)
Gen 12:3 (a promise)--all nations blessed through Abraham (Heb 6:13-15; Gal 3:8-9).
You get a glimpse here of what they learned from Jesus after his resurrection, when "he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures," and walked them through the Law of Moses (Pentateuch), the Psalms and the Prophets, "explaining what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself." (Lk 24:4-47, 25-27)
There is not world peace. The majority of all the Jews in the world are not Orthodox and living in Israel. The majority of all non-Jews of this world are not believing Noachides. I can go on, but I'll spare you for now.
There is peace (with God) in the world for
spiritual Israel, who are the
spiritual descendants of
believing Abraham (Gal 3:6-9,16, 22 with Ro 3:9-20, Gal 3:24, 26-29).
The rooster is as logical a focus of Messianic prophecies in Tanach as Jesus was.
So the rooster was from the house of David?
Not if you believe in the virgin birth. That whole "house" business only if you can attach a paternal father to it.
Let me highlight and underline the concept, in case you missed it. The "house" business only counts if a human father to son descendant relationship has been established. You can't be adopted into a tribe.
A person can be loved, cared for, nurtured, and in every way be a part of the family, if they are adopted, under Jewish law. But the one thing that CANNOT be transferred upon adoption is tribal affiliation.
Are you sure you aren't the one who missed the concept?
The Messiah was to come from the tribe of Judah.
Both Joseph and Mary were from the tribe of Judah.
There is no tribal transfer going on here.
It's not about tribe, it's about
lineage from King David
within the tribe of Judah.
Mary descended from King David through David's son, Nathan; and Joseph descended from King David through his son, King Solomon.
There is no tribal transfer involved in Jesus descending from King David of Judah, through his
legal father, Joseph. . .nor through his biological mother, Mary.
All Jesus' mother proved was that Jesus was born Jewish.
You really don't know much about the OT Scriptures regarding the Jewish Messiah, do you?
What both and Mary and Joseph "prove" is that Jesus was the
seed of David, legally from the
royal line of David.
As were lots of Jews. Nothing interesting to see with this one.
So that's where the rooster was born. . .to fulfill the Messianic prophecy of Micah 5:2?
The Jewish writers of the NT believed the prophecies should be reckoned with seriously, and did so in the second response above,
which are only
some of those they singled out and specifically stated were fulfilled by Jesus.
He didn't bring world peace. He didn't get all the Jews living in the world to move to Israel. He didn't ensure that all the Jews of the world followed the Rabbis (he was too busy scorning them himself, you see). The non-Jews of his time were pagans.
When you reckon seriously with the prophecies already presented by Poisonshady313 (in the following link), we can then move on and address your three here.
http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/2290213-post949.html
And then in the second response above, I have presented more for serious reckoning.
He didn't fulfill any Messianic prophecies.
The
Jewish writers of the NT say he did, a few of which I have presented in the second response above.
Rather, the real crap (as you put it) is the insistence of Jesus' fulfillment of them.
The "
insistence of Jesus' fulfillment of them". . .
is from Jesus himself (Mt 26:31-32; Lk 20:17-18, 22:22, 24:25, 44-47), as well as from the
Jewish writers of the NT, above.