Daily Bible Question: Is there any 'Messianic' prophecy in the Old Testament

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Blooper

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I think it's pretty obvious that if he had existed he would have carefully studied them and done as much as possible to make it look like they referred to him. For example, he would have ridden a donkey into Jerusalem on a religious holiday and arranged for accomplices to throw flowers.
 
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Aravah

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answer: all of them (and the Jewish Messiah will NOT have a 2nd coming nor will he be worshiped)

The actual prophecies about the Jewish Messiah
* The Sanhedrin will be re-established (Isaiah 1:26)
* Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance. (Isaiah 2:4)
* The whole world will worship the One God of Israel (Isaiah 2:17)
* He will be descended from King David (Isaiah 11:1) via King Solomon (1 Chron. 22:8-10)
* The Moshiach will be a man of this world, an observant Jew with "fear of God" (Isaiah 11:2)
*****In other words - this must all be accomplished in a human lifetime*****
* Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his leadership (Isaiah 11:4)
* Knowledge of God will fill the world (Isaiah 11:9)
* He will include and attract people from all cultures and nations (Isaiah 11:10)
* All Israelites will be returned to their homeland (Isaiah 11:12)
* Death will be swallowed up forever (Isaiah 25:8)
* There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will cease (Isaiah 25:8)
* All of the dead will rise again (Isaiah 26:19)
* The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11)
* He will be a messenger of peace (Isaiah 52:7)
* Nations will end up recognizing the wrongs they did to Israel (Isaiah 52:13-53:5)
* The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23)
* The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55)
* Weapons of war will be destroyed (Ezekiel 39:9)
* The Temple will be rebuilt (Ezekiel 40) resuming many of the suspended mitzvot
* He will then perfect the entire world to serve God together (Zephaniah 3:9)
* Jews will know the Torah without Study (Jeremiah 31:33)
* He will give you all the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4)
* He will take the barren land and make it abundant and fruitful (Isaiah 51:3, Amos 9:13-15, Ezekiel 36:29-30, Isaiah 11:6-9).
Thanks to Mark S, myself (Aravah) and Plushy Bear
 
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MessengerofGod

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After the Resurrection of Christ there was a gathering before the Sanhedrin about whether or not Jesus was the Messiah. Of course the chief delegate against Jesus being the Messiah was Caiaphas. The other group which purposed that Jesus was the Messiah was St. Nicodemus and St. Joseph of Arimathea. Of course the Sanhedrin dismissed that Jesus was the Messiah, but you have to also realize that Caiaphas had covered up the Resurrection of Christ by making the claim that His disciples taken His body from the Tomb during the night which was instructed for him to say by Pontius Pilot (Romans). Than of course all you need to do is discredit any prophesies that were made which could prove that Jesus was the Messiah. You have to remember that in Judaism there is both the written (Tanakh) and the "oral" teachings (Talmud). You see the Jews believe that the Messiah would be an earthly king with an earthly kingdom, Christians understand that the kingdom which God promised the Jews was never any earthly kingdom. So it's a difference in perspective, but Christ did build His Kingdom on the earth as His Church.
 
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lainiebsky

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Yes, quite a few.

According to the Bible, the Messiah would build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28), gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6), usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation" neither shall man learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4), and spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. "God will being over all the world -- on that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9). The Messiah will lead the Jewish people to full Torah observance. The Torah states that all mitzvot remain binding forever, and anyone coming to change the Torah is immediately identified as a false prophet. (Deut. 13:1-4) Nothing in the Hebrew scriptures says that the messiah would be divine, or already existed in heaven.

Jesus did none of that, and there is nothing in the prophecies to allow for a "second coming' thousands of years later to finish the job.

If you read the supposed prophecies that Christians talk about in context, you'd find that none of them were Messianic prophecies. Most Christians never bother to check the context, or they simply let a pastor tell them what the passage means.
 
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JamesM

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The thing that matters is that Jesus taught people to read the Torah and the Prophets (Matthew 5:17), listen to those who teach the Torah (Matthew 23:3), and worship God alone (Matthew 4:10).

This is the very spirit of the Messiah.
 
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xAwesomexDudex

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All the salvation ones have been fulfilled. But th End Times ones haven't quite happened but expect them to soon. The guy that stated a whole bunch of prophecies those are either fulfilled or end times one and this Blooper dude is just so anti-Christ that he is telling Himself Yeshua (Jesus) planned out everything.
 
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Neil5624

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If one studies how the NT was developed over the centuries, it becomes obvious that it is most likely that prophesies were fulfilled by Postdiction - writing a fulfillment of a prophesy to make it appear that it was actually done.

Rev. Neil
 
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