JESUS
PROPHESIED: 500 TIMES 0 = 0
Hugh
Fogelman
A
common theme of the many claims that Christian missionaries make to their unsuspecting
targets is that the New Testament (Christian Bible) proves Jesus fulfilled
hundreds of prophecies found in the "Old Testament" (Hebrew Bible).
To the
undereducated person who might be looking for some spiritual nourishment, this
could be a rather convincing story. However, all a person has to do is read the
Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh. Nowhere in the entire Tanakh is the name Jesus
mentioned. Christian missionaries might smirk as they say; “yes we know that,
but the Tanakh mentions the messiah over and over again.” Wait a minute, we are now speaking of two different people!
The
Christian missionary will smirkingly say, “No, Jesus and the Messiah are one in
the same person.” What? Nowhere in the Jewish Tanakh is the word messiah
capitalized. As a matter fact as anyone can verify, the phrase THE MESSIAH, or
HaMoshiach is not mentioned at all,
except in the one verse telling of Aaron, the High Priest.
One
the other hand, Yes, the word messiah, or moshiach is indeed mentioned, but it
is not used for a person or as a title, but instead, as a description. The
Hebrew word for messiah is moshiach and all it means is “anointed,” the
anointed one as in all judges and kings were anointed. If anyone would go back to
the time of the Jesus era and ask to see the messiah, the people would ask;
“Which one?”
Christian
missionaries will then, with the smirk gone, say all we have to do is to see
all the prophesies that the New Testament writers
claim is in the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh. They would go on to say, even though each
one is indeed weak, but by putting them all together you get the picture of
Jesus as the Messiah.
Really?
Let us see what God told His prophets about the Messianic Era, when HaMoshiach
will appear:
CRITERIA
OF HAMOSHIACH (THE Messiah) ACCORDING TO
HEBREW SCRIPUTURE
1.
Must be a member of the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10
2.
Must be a direct descendent of both King David and King Solomon (l Chronicles
3.
Must gather the Jewish people from exile and return them to
4.
Must rebuild the Jewish Temple (the 3rd
5.
Must bring in “world peace” (Isaiah 2:4; 11:6 & Micah 4:3)
6.
Must influence the entire world to acknowledge and serve the One God of
All of these criteria for
the Messiah are best stated in the book of Ezekiel, Chapter 37:24-28. If an individual fails to fulfill even ONE of
these conditions, he cannot be the Jewish Messiah! God told His Prophets His criteria of HaMoshiach
during the Messianic era. Why would God change His mind? God did not change!
Now,
if you want to set up another set of rules, OK, but that will NOT be according
to Hebrew Scriptures, which Christianity needs so badly to verify their
existence.
According
to Christianity, Jesus had no human father. The discussion of him being the
Messiah stops here. Nowhere in Hebrew Scriptures does the Royal Blood Line
continue by adoption. The Jewish
Scriptures clearly state that a person’s genealogy
and tribal membership is transmitted exclusively through one’s PHYSICAL
father (Numbers
Nowhere
in Hebrew Scripture does it ever say that during the Messianic era, HaMoshiach
will come back a second time to fulfill the events in which he failed during
his time on Earth.
And
nowhere in Hebrew Scriptures does it say that HaMoshiach would be a deity.
Judaism understands the Messiah to be a human being with no connotation of
deity or divinity.
Jewish
Scripture just proved God’s requirements. Now it is up the Christian missionary
to prove that God was wrong.
Let
the Christian missionary list all God’s prophecies they said applied to Jesus,
or THE MESSIAH. Then compare them to what God told His prophets (as outlined
above). As I said in the beginning―500
times 0 still equals zero.
During the End of Days, the Messianic Era, the
prophets told that the Gentiles would realize: "O Lord, Who are my power and my strength and my refuge in the day of
trouble, to You nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, "Only lies have our fathers handed down to us, emptiness in
which there is nothing of any avail!" (Jeremiah 16.19)
"In
those days it will happen that ten men, of all the different languages of the
nations, will take hold, they will take hold of the corner of the garment of a
Jewish man, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is
with you!'" (Zechariah 8:23)
Let the Christian take what Jesus said―Jews will always take what God said!!!