Prophecies to Identify the Messiah, Which Jesus
Does Not Fulfill:
1) Matthew 1:23 says that Jesus (the messiah) would be called
Immanuel, which means "God with us." Yet no one, not even his
parents, call him Immanuel at any point in the bible.
2) The Messiah must be a physical descendant of David (Romans 1:3
& Acts 2:30). Yet, how could Jesus meet this requirement
since his genealogies in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 show he descended
from David through Joseph, who was not his natural father because
of the Virgin Birth. Hence, this prophecy could not have been
fulfilled.
3) Isaiah 7:16 seems to say that before Jesus had reached the age
of maturity, both of the Jewish countries would be destroyed.
Yet there is no mention of this prophecy being fulfilled in
the New Testament with the coming of Jesus, hence this is another
Messiah prophecy not fulfilled.
Prophecies Christians Use to Verify Jesus as the
Messiah, Yet Clearly Fail:
4) The gospels (especially Matthew 21:4 and John 12:14-15) claim
that Jesus fulfills the prophecy of Zechariah 9:9. But the
next few verses (Zechariah 9:10-13) show that the person referred
to in this verse is a military king that would rule "from sea to sea". Since Jesus had
neither an army nor a kingdom, he could not have fulfilled this
prophecy.
5) Matthew (Matthew 2:17-18) quotes Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:15),
claiming that it was a prophecy of King Herod’s alleged slaughter
of the children in and around Bethlehem after the birth of Jesus.
But this passage refers to the Babylonian captivity, as is
clear by reading the next two verses (Jeremiah 31:16-17), and,
thus, has nothing to do with Herod’s massacre.
6) John 19:33 says that during Jesus’ crucifixion, the soldiers
didn’t break his legs because he was already dead. Verse John
19:36 claims that this fulfilled a prophecy: "Not a bone of him shall be
broken." But there is no such prophecy. It is
sometimes said that the prophecy appears in Exodus 12:46, Numbers
9:12 & Psalm 34:20. This is not correct. Exodus
12:46 & Numbers 9:12 are not prophecies, they are commandments.
The Israelites are told not to break the bones of the
Passover lamb, and this is all it is about. And Psalm 34:20
seems to refer to righteous people in general (see verse Psalm
34:19, where a plural is used), not to make a prophecy about a
specific person.
7) "When Israel was a child, then I
loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." Hosea 11:1.
Matthew (Matthew 2:15) claims that the flight of Jesus’
family to Egypt is a fulfillment of this verse. But Hosea
11:1 is not a prophecy at all. It is a reference to the
Hebrew exodus from Egypt and has nothing to do with Jesus.
Matthew tries to hide this fact by quoting only the last part of
the verse ("Out of Egypt I have called
my son").
8) "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah,
though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee
shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose
goings forth have been from of old, from
everlasting." Micah 5:2 The gospel of Matthew
(Matthew 2:5-6) claims that Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem fulfils this
prophecy. But this is unlikely for two reasons.
A) "Bethlehem Ephratah" in Micah 5:2 refers not
to a town, but to a clan: the clan of Bethlehem, who was the son of
Caleb’s second wife, Ephrathah (1 Chronicles 2:18, 2:50-52 &
4:4).
B) The prophecy (if that is what it is) does not
refer to the Messiah, but rather to a military leader, as can be
seen from Micah 5:6. This leader is supposed to defeat the
Assyrians, which, of course, Jesus never did. It should also
be noted that Matthew altered the text of Micah 5:2 by saying: "And
thou Bethlehem, in the land of Judah" rather than "Bethlehem
Ephratah" as is said in Micah 5:2. He did this, intentionally no
doubt, to make this verse appear to refer to the town of Bethlehem
rather than the family clan.
Statements Jesus Made Which Are
False:
9) Jesus in John 14:12 & Mark 16:17-18 said: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth
in me, the works that I do shall he also; and greater works than
these shall he do; because I go unto my
Father." This implies that Jesus’ true followers
should be able to routinely perform the following tricks: 1) cast
out devils, 2) speak in tongues, 3) take up serpents, 4) drink
poisons without harm, and 5) cure the sick by touching them and
MANY other of Jesus’ "works". Curiously I have yet to see a
Christian that can do any of the above on demand.
10) In John 14:13-14 Jesus stated: "And whatsoever ye ask in my name I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the son. If ye ask any thing in my
name, I will do it." In reality, millions of people
have made millions of requests in Jesus’ name and failed to receive
satisfaction. This promise or prophecy has failed
completely.
11) Paul says Christianity lives or dies on the Resurrection (1
Corinthian 15:14-17). Yet Jesus said in Matthew 12:40 that he would
be buried three days and three nights as Jonah was in the whale
three days and three nights. Friday afternoon to early Sunday
morning is only one and a half days, so he could not have been the
messiah by his own and Paul’s admission.
12) Jesus’ prophecy in John 13:38 ("The
cock shall not crow, till thou [Peter] hast denied me three times") is false.
Mark 14:66-68 shows the cock crowed after the first denial,
not the third.
13) In Mark 10:19 Jesus said: "Thou
knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, do
not steal, do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy
father and mother." Jesus needs to re-read the Ten
Commandments. There is no Old Testament commandment against
defrauding. The only relevant statement about defrauding is
in Leviticus 19:13 , which says : "Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor."
This is an OT law, but is not listed with the Ten Commandments.
Surely, if Jesus was god incarnate he would know the
commandments.
14) "And no man hath ascended up to
heaven, but he that came down from heaven, but he that came down
from heaven, even the Son of man which is in
heaven" (John 3:13). If Jesus is in heaven, how can he be
down on earth speaking? Moreover, according to 2 Kings 2:11
("and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into
heaven") Jesus was not the only person to ascend into heaven,
nor was he the first. Elijah preceded him and apparently
Enoch did also ("And Enoch walked with
God: and he was not; for God took him"--Genesis 5:24).
15) In Luke 23:43 Jesus said to the thief on the
cross, "Today shalt thou be with me
in paradise." This obviously has to be false, for
Jesus was supposed to lay dead in the tomb for three days following
his crucifixion.
1 6) Jesus says : "Ye have heard
that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate
thine enemy" (Matthew 5:43). This statement does
not exist in the OT either. In fact, Proverbs 24:17
says, "Rejoice not when thine enemy
falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he
stumbleth…"
17) Jesus is reported to say: "The
law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom
of God is preached, and every man presseth into it" (Luke
16:16). Certainly every man is not pressing to enter the
kingdom of God. The very fact that I am an atheist (one third
of the world’s population does not believe in a god) proves this
verse to be false.
18) "Or have ye not read in the
law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane
the Sabbath, and are blameless?" (Matthew 12:5) Nowhere
does the OT state that the priests in the temple profaned the
Sabbath and were considered blameless.
19) "Yea; have ye never read, 'Out
of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected
praise'" (Matthew 21:16). Jesus is quoting Psalm
8:2, which says, "Out of the mouth
of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine
enemies…". "Perfect praise" has little to do
with "ordaining strength because of
thine enemies." Another misquotation!
20) "But I say unto you, That Elias
is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed,
as it is written of him" (Mark 9:13). There are no
prophecies in the OT of things that were to happen to Elijah.
Jesus, in all his "God incarnate" wisdom,
contradicts himself:
21) Jesus consistently contradicts himself concerning his Godly
status. "I and my father are
one." (John 14:28) Also see Philippians 2:5-6
Those verses lead us to believe that he is a part of the
trinity and equal to his father being a manifestation of him. Yet,
Jesus also made many statements that deny he is the perfect men,
much less God incarnate. Take the following for
example: "Why callest thou me good?
There is none good but one, that is God" (Matthew
19:17). "My father if greater then
I." (John 14:28) Also see Matthew 24:26
Clearly, Jesus is denouncing the possibility of him being the
Messiah in those three verses.
22) Jesus said, "whosoever shall
say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire" (Matthew
5:22). Yet, he himself did so repeatedly, as Matthew 23:17-19
and Luke 11:40 & 12:20 show. Clearly Jesus should be in
danger of hell too?
23) Does Jesus support peace, or war? Matthew 5:39
"Resist not evil, but whoever
shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other
also." Also note Matthew 6:38-42 & 26:52 where
Jesus teaches non-resistance, Non-violence. Now read (Luke
22:36-37) Where Jesus commands people to take arms for a coming
conflict. (John 2:15) Jesus uses a whip to physically
drive people out of the temple.
24) Matthew 15:24 Jesus said, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
house of lsrael,". This would of course mean that he is
here only to save the Jews. The scriptures repeatedly back up
this notion that Christ is savior to the Jews and not the gentiles
(see Romans 16:17, Revelations 14:3-4 & John 10). The
contradiction lies in what Jesus later tells his
followers: "Go ye therefore, and
teach all nations" (Matthew 28:19).
25) Can we hate our kindred? Luke 14:26 Jesus
says "If any man come unto me, and
hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and
brother, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he can not be my
disciple." John 3:15 "Whosoever hateth his brother is a
murderer." Also see Ephesians 6:22, 5:25, &
Matthew 15:4
26) Even many of the staunchest defenders of Jesus admit that his
comment in Matthew 10:34 ("I came not to
send peace but a sword") contradicts verses such as Matthew
26:52 ("Put up again thy sword into his
place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the
sword").
27) Deuteronomy 24:1 & 21:10-14 all say that divorce is allowed
for the simple reason if a "man no
longer delighteth in his wife". Yet Jesus comes along
and breaks his father’s law by saying in Matthew 5:32 that adultery
is the only way one can be divorced.
28) In Mark 8:35 Jesus said: "...but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake
and the gospel’s the same shall save it." How could
Jesus have said this when there was no gospel when he lived?
The gospel did not appear until after his death.
29) Matthew 6:13 Jesus recites a revised prayer and
states, "Don’t bring us into
temptation." God is the cause of everything, even
Satan. God has been leading people into temptation since the
Garden of Eden. Otherwise, the trees of life and knowledge
would have never been there.
30) Matthew 12:1-8 Jesus thinks it’s okay to break his father’s
laws, by breaking the Sabbath day. He states that he is
basically exempt for such fiascoes and that he is Master of the
Sabbath.
31) John 3:17 Jesus contradicts himself when he
says, "God didn’t send his son into
the world to condemn it, but to save it." Jesus seems to
forget his own stories.
32) James 4:3 If your prayers are not answered, it’s your own
damned fault. This is in direct contradiction to where Jesus
says "seek and ye shall find, ask
and it shall be known to you".
33) "If Jesus bears witness of
himself his witness is true" John 8:14, "If I bear witness of myself it is not
true." John 5:31
34) "I am with you always, even
unto the end of the world" (Matthew 28:20),
versus "For ye have the poor always
with you; but me ye have not always" (Matthew 26:11 ,
Mark 14:7, John 12:8) and "Ye shall
seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am thither ye cannot
come" (John 7:34). Is this the kind of friend one
can rely on?
35) "And he saith unto them,
Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth
adultery against her" (Mark 10:11 & Luke 6:18),
versus "And I say unto you,
Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication,
and shall marry another, committeth adultery" (Matthew
19:9). In the book of Matthew, Jesus said a man could put
away his wife if one factor-- fornication--is involved. In
Mark and Luke he allowed no exceptions.
36) Jesus is quoted: "Judge not,
and ye shall be not judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be
condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven" (Luke 6:37
& Matthew 7:1), versus "Judge
not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment" (John 7:24). Jesus stated men are not to
judge but, then, allowed it under certain conditions. As in
the case of divorce, he can’t seem to formulate a consistent
policy.
37) "My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?" Matthew 27:46, (also note the time
before crucification where Jesus prays for the"cup to passeth over me")
versus "Now is my soul troubled.
And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour?’
No, for this purpose I have come to this
hour" (John 12:27 RSV). Jesus can’t seem to decide
whether or not he wants to die. One moment he is willing; the
next he isn’t.
38) In Luke 23:30 ("Then shall they
begin to say to the mountains, fall on us, and to the hills, cover
us") Jesus quoted Hosea 10:8 ("...and they shall say to the mountains, cover us;
and to the hills, fall on us"). And, like Paul, he often
quoted inaccurately. In this instance, he confused mountains
with hills.
39) "And Jesus answered and said
unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they know
him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed.
Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. Then
the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the
Baptist" (Matthew 17:11-13). John the Baptist was
beheaded, but Jesus was not. And what did John the Baptist
restore? Nothing!
40) We are told salvation is obtained by faith alone (John 3:18
& 36) yet Jesus told a man to follow the Commandments-Matthew
19:16-18 (saving by works)-if he wanted eternal life.
41) In Luke 12:4 Jesus told his followers to "Be not afraid of them that kill the
body." But Matthew 12:14-16, John 7:1, 8:59, 10:39,
11:53-54, & Mark 1:45 show that Jesus consistently feared
death. Jesus went out of his way to hide, run, and attempt
escape from the Roman and Jewish authorities.
42) Matthew 5:28 says to sin in "your heart" is considered a sin in
itself. The messiah is supposed to be God incarnate, not able
to sin, yet in Matthew 4:5 & Luke 4:5-9, Jesus was tempted by
Satan in the desert, which is sinning in his heart. Jesus
also took upon all the sins of the world during his crucifixion, so
how can it be said that "Jesus was
the perfect man without sin"? This would lead one to
believe he was not the Messiah.
43) Jesus told us to "Love your
enemies; bless them that curse you," but ignored his own
advice by repeatedly denouncing his opposition. Matthew 23:17
("Ye fools and blind"), Matthew
12:34 ("0 generation of vipers"),
and Matthew 23:27 (". . . hypocrites . .
. ye are like unto whited sepulchres. . .") are excellent
examples of hypocrisy.
44) Did the people of Jesus’ generation see any signs?
(Matthew 12:38-40) Jesus announced that no signs would
be given to that generation except the Resurrection itself.
(Mark 8:12-13) Jesus announced that no signs would be given
to that generation. (Mark 16:20) They went out
preaching, and the Lord confirmed the word through accompanying
signs. (John 20:30) Jesus provided many wonders and signs.
(Acts 2:22) Jesus provided many wonders and signs.
(Acts 5:12 & 8:13) many signs and wonders were done through the
apostles.
45) Jesus commands the disciples to go into Galilee immediately
after the resurrection. Matthew 28:10 Jesus commands the
disciples to"tarry in
Jerusalem" immediately after the resurrection.
46) Matthew 28:18 & John 3:35 both tell that Jesus said he
could do anything. Yet Mark 6:5 says Jesus was not all
powerful.
47) Jesus says in Luke 2:13-14 that he came to bring peace on
earth. Matthew 10:34 Jesus back peddles and says he did not
come to bring peace on earth.
48) Did Christ receive testimony from man? "Ye sent unto John and he bare witness unto the
truth. But I receive not testimony from
man." John 5:33-34 "And ye shall also bear witness, because ye have
been with me from the beginning." John 15:27
49) Christ laid down his life for his friends. John 15:13
& 10:11 Christ laid down his life for his enemies. Romans
5:10
50) Deuteronomy 23:2 says bastards can not attend church unto the
tenth generation. If Jesus was spawned by Mary and Jehovah
then he is technically a bastard and can't be leader of the
church.