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"Truly I tell you, this
generation will not pass away until all these things have taken
place."
Matthew 24:34 (NRS)
There are a few kinks in Christian theology that the common
Christian will encounter and ignore to avoid the discomfort that
comes from confronting them. The following is a brief study of some
of these issues.
Messiah comes from the Hebrew word for "anointed one," which is
pronounced "Moshiach." Kings, prophets, and priests were all
anointed. Hence, all were messiahs. In the Bible, you can break
prophecy into two groups, immediate prophecies and long-term
prophecies. Immediate prophecies are prophecies that take place not
long after they are given. Long-term prophecies are another
category altogether. These prophecies can all be construed as
messianic, since they refer to the Messianic Era. These prophecies
that refer to a future king are the ones that refer to the Messiah
himself. We call him the Messiah by convention because all kings
were messiahs, since they were all anointed. The following is a
list of prophecies that show the theme of the Messianic Era.
World Peace
Isaiah 2:4 And he shall judge among the
nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more. (KJV)
11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the
young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead
them. (KJV)
This is not the sort of thing that passes people by.
Universal Knowledge and Recognition of G-d
Isaiah 11:9 They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge
of the LORD, as the waters cover the
sea. (KJV)
Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more
every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know
the LORD: for they shall
all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of
them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their
iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (KJV)
The last time I checked, those who didn’t "know the Lord"
represented one-third of this planet.
The Resurrection of the Dead
Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead [men] shall
live, [together with] my dead body shall they
arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as]
the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
(KJV)
Ezekiel 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord G-D; Behold, O my
people, I will open your
graves, and cause you to come up out of your
graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
[13] And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have opened
your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
[14] And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall
place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have
spoken [it], and performed [it], saith the LORD. (KJV)
The Ingathering of the Jewish Exiles
Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in
that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second
time to recover the remnant
of his people, which shall be
left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea. [12] And he shall set up an ensign for the
nations, and shall assemble
the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the
earth. (KJV)
Isaiah 43:5 Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I
will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
[6] I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not
back: bring my sons from
far, and my daughters from the ends of the
earth; (KJV)
Jeremiah 23:8 But, The LORD liveth, which
brought up and which led
the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from
all countries whither I had driven them; and
they shall dwell in their own land. (KJV)
This is the one prophecy that occurs most often in all of the
Jewish Bible. While this prophecy has apparently begun to come
true, we cannot say that is has completely.
The Building of the Third Temple
Ezekiel 37:26 Moreover I will make a
covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant
with them: and I will place them, and multiply
them, and will set My
sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
[27] My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their
G-d, and they shall be my people. [28] And the heathen shall know
that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in the midst of
them for evermore. (KJV)
The third holiest place in all of Islam is in the way of this
occurring.
When all of these things take place, and a king descended from
David sits on the throne, we will know who the Messiah is. Until
these things happen, we shall wait. We have no way of knowing who
that future king is until these things take place. The standard
Christian argument is to thus claim that Jesus will accomplish
these things in his "Second Coming." This brings us to our next
portion.
The convenient explanation of how Jesus can be the Messiah
without fulfilling the prophecies is "he will when he returns."
Realistically, this is a contrived solution. Let us go over why
this is not a viable solution:
1) There isn’t a single prophecy in scripture that tells us the
Messiah would come, die, be resurrected, and then return thousands
of years later to BEGIN his mission. Jesus didn’t do anything that
the Messiah is to do.
2) You don’t know a man is the Messiah until all the messianic
prophecies have been fulfilled. Jesus didn’t fulfill any of them,
and as such, there’s no reason to believe he was the promised one,
nor is there any reason to believe he’d return at some later date
to fulfill them.
3) The Second Coming theory completely discredits his first
coming. Anyone could have followers, and upon his death, those
followers could claim that he had been resurrected, and would one
day return. I could even do that.
The New Testament says repeatedly that Jesus’ return was
imminent.
Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the
tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon
shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and
the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: [30] And then shall
appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the
tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming
in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. [31] And he
shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they
shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end
of heaven to the other. [32] Now learn a parable of the fig tree;
When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know
that summer [is] nigh: [33] So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these
things, know that it is near, [even] at the
doors. [34]Verily I say unto you, This generation shall
not pass, till all these things be
fulfilled.(KJV)
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the
sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress
of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26]
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming
in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] And when these things
begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for
your redemption draweth nigh. [29] And he spake to them a parable;
Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; [30] When they now shoot
forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh
at hand. [31] So likewise
ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom
of G-d is nigh at
hand. [32] Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not
pass away, till all be fulfilled. (KJV)
Paul wrote that the time until Jesus’ return was so
short that people should change the way they lived their
lives.
1 Corinthians 7:29 But this I say,
brethren, the time [is]
short: it remaineth, that both they that have
wives be as though they had none; [30] And they that weep, as
though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they
rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; [31]
And they that use this world, as not abusing [it]: for the fashion
of this world passeth away. (KJV)
1 Thessalonians 4:13 But I would not have you
to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye
sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. [14] For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which
sleep in Jesus will G-d bring with him. [15] For this we say unto
you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and]
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not
prevent them which are asleep. (KJV)
Paul had to continually refine the date of the Second Coming
when it never happened. The fact that it didn’t happen as they
predicted necessitated that they revise the prediction, saying it
would happen at some future date. However, the fact that the
original prediction did not come true places it under the
instructions in the Torah:
Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet, which
shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other
gods, even that prophet shall die. [21] And if thou say in thine
heart, How shall we know
the word which the LORD hath not spoken? [22]
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass,
that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not
spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. (KJV)
It didn’t happen. That means it wasn’t G-d’s
word, and it wasn’t to be believed.
Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send
you Elijah the
prophet before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the LORD: [6] And he shall turn the heart of the
fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their
fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. (KJV)
While this prophecy doesn’t contain a reference to the actual
future king, both Christians and Jews agree that it is messianic in
nature. Before the future king comes, Elijah the Prophet will come
to usher in that new age. So, where was he two thousand years ago?
Christians claim that John the Baptist was Elijah. John himself
seemed to disagree:
John 1:21 And they asked him, What then?
Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that
prophet? And he answered, No. (KJV)
(Note: King James Version calls Elijah
"Elias" in their New Testament translation.)
So, John was Elijah, yet he was unaware of it. In arguing this,
Christians refer to this telling verse from Luke’s Gospel:
Luke 1:17 And he shall go before
him in the spirit and power
of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to
the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to
make ready a people prepared for the Lord. (KJV)
This does not work. Did the prophecy from Malachi say Elijah in
spirit? No, it said Elijah himself. It’s difficult to argue with a
spirit, but even more difficult for Christians to prove. One would
think John himself would be a bit more certain of his own identity
and his place in the scheme of things? After all, he
did deny being Elijah! Once again, we find
Christianity's solution is predicated by the needs of its theology,
and not by the facts.
Did John even play a part that fulfilled the prophecy of Elijah?
Did he turn the hearts of fathers to the children, and hearts of
children to their fathers? No, he did not. Additionally, Jesus
identified John as Elijah. That’s the exact opposite
of how this works. The prophet identifies the king,
not vice versa. See 1 Samuel for an example of this. G-d uses the
prophet to tell the people who the king is.
Additionally, this issue brings up the fact that the New Testament
fabricated evidence yet again to give itself the illusion of
validity.
Mark 9:13 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. (KJV)
Where is it written that Elijah would come and be abused? The
prophecy in Malachi is short, yet concise. How can anyone put faith
in a religion that unjustifiably builds itself off another
religion, and then abuses the privelege? The New Testament does
this more than once, and even once is inexcusable.
If Jesus was the Messiah, where was Elijah?
There is an issue at hand, which few people are considering:
Why has apologetics become such a vital function of
modern Christianity?
Why do Christians so desperately need people like Josh McDowell?
When you go searching for reading material on religions via the
Internet, you could go to Yahoo and explore religions, and
find the Judaism section of Faiths and Practices, and you'll find
nothing entitled "Apologetics." Go to the Christianity section and
you'll find enough of it to be reading until the dawn of the 22nd
century. Why is this necessary? Doesn't the reason for that speak
for itself?
A Cult of Personality
I would be thrilled if I could find someone who could direct me
to the verse in the Jewish scriptures which refer to a "belief" in
the Messiah. All the true messianic prophecies never give any hint
that the Jewish religion itself would change in some dramatic way.
The practices involved would be performed perfectly, but never does
it say that the basic precepts of the religion would be altered in
any way.
Try to find in the Jewish Bible words that echo John 3:36. While
you're looking, try to find the prophet who's quoted in Matthew
2:23. You'll never find either one.
What many Christians fail to realize is that in the Jewish view
of the Messiah, when he comes, the Jews are NOT going to pray to
him!
The revelation of the gentiles' errors is foretold in Jewish
scriptures in places such as Isaiah 53 and the below passage.
Zechariah 8:23 Thus says the LORD of
hosts: In those days ten men from nations of every language shall
take hold of a Jew, grasping his garment and saying, "Let us go
with you, for we have heard that G-d is with you." (NRSV)
Vindication is the Jewish people's birthright. Christian
missionaries will say that when the day comes, the Jews will be
proven wrong.The Jewish Bible says otherwise.