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One only has to be familiar with the Old Testament in order to understand what the Jews were told by God to expect in Messianic times. The selected passages are representative of the very many which are in the Bible. Of course, the Messiah has the function of presiding over the Messianic world, and his role as ruler is alone the reason for his being God's anointed! Therefore, the Messiah cannot be contemplated apart from the Messianic Era and the Old Testament Scriptures which define both him and what he is to both do and accomplish.
First, let's explain the word "Messiah." The Hebrew word "moshiach" is simply a word meaning "anointed one." Messiah or Moshiach is a title of honor which was given to ancient Hebrew kings. The Hebrew Messiah is to be a divinely appointed human being, with an earthly mission from God for the Chosen People and, through them, all mankind.
It is of interest to learn that the Bible does not always tell of a personality being the Messiah. Sometimes only Messianic occurrences are described, with God being the redeemer who brings about His people's rescue. At other times, the collective house of David, the whole people of Israel, is meant when expressing Messianic powers. It should be grasped that the Messiah is not described as the redeemer, but as the head of the redeemed people. God is the Redeemer of His people. The Lord's spirit and strength will be upon His anointed, yet, there is no merging of identity indicated. In other words, "the Messiah is not God"!
When the Messiah is mentioned as a person, however, he is certainly of lofty spiritual stature. He has wisdom, discernment and righteousness. He obeys God. He administers justice and judgment successfully as a perfect leader in the kingdom of God on earth, a kingdom which will exist eternally.
The Chosen People will reside in God's kingdom in Zion forever. Israel's enemies will be destroyed. The Hebrew people will have material abundance and spiritual excellence! There will be full joy, fruitfulness, tranquility, safety, and well-being. The Torah will be perfectly followed in a new, profound way. God's laws will be written on the hearts of the people so they cannot be broken or neglected. The people will be spiritually perfect, free from transgression, and sin will be overcome. God's spirit will be in the midst of the people and the Temple will be rebuilt permanently.
Moreover, all nations will look to Israel's spirituality, praise it, submit to it, and through Israel's light be guided to God and religious excellence! Idol worship will end. Peace will cover the earth, with oppression, suffering, and war at an end. What a glorious vision of earthly bliss and spiritual perfection for the Hebrews and Gentiles in Judaism's Messianics! It would be too mild to call it the supreme golden age of mankind, but that is, in essence, the vision.
It is plain that the promises of the Messianic times did not flower when a portion of the Hebrew people returned from exile in Babylon to Jerusalem. The Second Temple was not the Messianic Temple. No Messiah had built it. It was missing the Ark of the Covenant and essential holiness. Moreover, it was destroyed, which cannot be the fate of the Messianic Temple. Nothing which occurred during the time of the Second Temple approximates the Messianic expectations. Indeed, the consequences of captivity continued even in the return from Babylon. God promised all tribes would be returned and gathered, but they were not. And so, the Messiah is awaited and still awaited.
The people of Israel have been brought into great misery, almost total destruction, due to sinfulness through disobedience to God's Torah. But, God wants to bring His people back to righteousness, not to punish them only. Therefore, although harshly treated by God, the remnant will repent and return to God, be given His help, and receive great blessing in the latter days. This blessing is the redemption. At the time of the redemption the Jewish people will all be gathered from exile throughout the earth into the Promised Land. With Israel's enemies destroyed, the Chosen People will build the land to which they have returned and prosper there for eternity. As a light to the Gentiles, Israel will bring all the world to worship God and have spiritual perfection, all this while material abundance is the Jew's happy lot.
As a Christian Pastor for over 15 years I noticed that in the contemporary Christian Church that there is a profound ignorance of the Old Testament. That being so there is a profound ignorance as well as what the real Messianic promises made to Jewish people really are. When accustomed to reading the New Testament almost exclusively one is continually reinforced with prophecies being fulfilled on almost every page by Jesus. After many years of investigative research into manuscript evidence I came to the conclusion that there was just one major problem that the normative Christian was not aware. Namely, the many presented "fulfilled prophecies" in the New Testament suffered from several problems that the Christian would never be aware of; that being that these "fulfilled" prophecies as applied to Jesus thereby making him to be "the" Messiah were fraudulent when compared with the Jewish Bible from which they were supposedly translated!
Since the above has occurred on the pages of your New Testaments, and you are not aware, and coupled with that the lack of in-depth understanding of the Old Testament and the true "Messianic prophecies" I think it is well past time that the followers of Yeshua, as well as those who call themselves "Christians" become familiar with what the real Messianic prophecies are which were given to the Jewish people throughout their history by the Prophets.
Leviticus 26:15-17,31,38,44, "And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:. . . I will. . . appoint over you terror. . . and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you: and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation,. . . And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands;. . . (If they confess). . . I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for Jam the Lord their God."
Isaiah 64:7,10-11, Isaiah 65:8-9, 19, ". . . for thou host hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste for my servants' sakes. . . I may not destroy them all. And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her. . ."
Jeremiah 30:7-11,17, "Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will. . . burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. Therefore fear thou not, 0 my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; neither be dismayed, 0 Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, . . . and none shall make him afraid.
though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: . . . For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. . ."
Jeremiah 32:42, "For thus saith the Lord; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them."
Hosea 3:4-5, "For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king. . . and without a sacrifice. . . Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days."
Amos 8:10, Amos 9:8,14-15, "And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation;. . . and I will make it
as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord. And I will bring again the captivity (gathering) of my people of Israel (to Zion), and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof, they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God."
Nahum 1:12, "Thus saith the Lord;. . . Though I have afflicted I thee, I will afflict thee no more."
Zephaniah 3:19, "Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth . . ."
Deuteronomy 30:3, 5, ". . . the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. And. . . bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it. . ."
Isaiah 11:12, "And he shall. . . assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."
Jeremiah 12:15, ". . . after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land."
Ezekiel 34:13, "And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country."
Zechariah 8:7-8, ". . . I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: . . ."
Deuteronomy 28:11, "And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, (cattle), (ground), in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee."
Isaiah 65:21, "And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them."
Jeremiah 23:3, "And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to
their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase."
Joel 2:24, 26, "And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied. . ."
Zechariah 8:12, "For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things."
Isaiah 25:8, ". . . and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away. ."
Isaiah 35:10, "And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
Isaiah 55:12, "For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace . ."
Isaiah 61:3, "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness . ."
Jeremiah 31:4,13, ". . . (Thou) shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. . . . Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow."
Deuteronomy 7:15, "And the Lord will take from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee. ."
Job 5:26, "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of corn cometh in his season."
Isaiah 29:18, Isaiah 33:24, "And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick . ."
Isaiah 65:20, "There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old. . ."
Zechariah 8:4, ". . . There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age."
Isaiah 54:13-14,17, ". . . great shall be the peace of thy children. Thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper. ."
Jeremiah 46:27, "But fear not thou, 0 my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, 0 Israel:. . . Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid."
Ezekiel 38:8,11, ". . . and they shall dwell safely all of them. And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,"
Zephaniah 3:13,15, ". . . for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. . . . thou shalt not see evil any more."
Zechariah 14:11, "And men shall dwell in it, . . . Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited."
Psalm 72:7, "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth."
Isaiah 32:18, "And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;"
Ezekiel 39:9, "And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears. . ."
Hosea 2:18, ". . . and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down softly,"
Micah 4:3-4 (Isaiah 2:4), ". . . and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid. . ."
Isaiah 11:6,9, "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;. . . They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain. ."
Isaiah 65:25, "The wolf and the lamb shall fred together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord."
Ezekiel 34:25, "And I will. . . cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell softly in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods."
Hosea 2:18, "And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground:. . . and will make them to lie down safely."
Isaiah 14:2, Isaiah 41:11, ". . . and the house of Israel. . . shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish."
Jeremiah 30:16, "Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey."
Daniel 2:44, "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms. . ."
Joel 3:19-20, "Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. But Judah shall dwell for ever. . ."
Micah 5:9, "Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off"
Psalm 2:8, "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."
Isaiah 60:5-6,10,12,14, ". . . the Gentiles shall come unto thee. they shall bring gold and incense;. . . And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee:. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish;. The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy fret; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah 61:5-6, "And strangers shall stand and fred your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. . . . ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves."
Zephaniah 2:9, ". . . the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them."
Zechariah 14:14, "And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance."
Job 19:25, "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth;"
Psalm 19:14, "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, 0 Lord, my strength, and my redeemer."
Isaiah 48:20, ". . . The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob."
Isaiah 49:7, "Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel. .
Isaiah 49:26, ". . . and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.?
Genesis 12:2-3, "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Genesis 18:18, "Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.."
Isaiah 61:6,9, Isaiah 62:12, "But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: . . . And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, . . . all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken."
Malachi 3:12, "And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts."
Zephaniah 3:19-20, ". . . I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. . . for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth. . ."
Isaiah 60:21, "Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, . . . that I may be glorified."
Jeremiah 3:17, Jeremiah 50:20, ". . . neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve."
Ezekiel 3 7:23, "Neither shall they defile themselves anymore with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God."
Zephaniah 3:13, "The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth
Zechariah 8:16-17, "These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath. ."
Isaiah 2:18, "And the idols he shall utterly abolish."
Isaiah 2:20, "In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;"
Ezekiel 36:25, "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you."
Micah 5:13, "Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands."
Zechariah 13:2, ". . . in that day, saith the Lord of hosts,. . . I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered. .
Deuteronomy 30:6, "And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live."
Jeremiah 31:31,33-34, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: But this shall be the covenant. . . I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; . . . they shall teach no more every man his neighbor (brother), saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me. . ."
Jeremiah 32:40, "And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me."
Ezekiel 36:26, "And a new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh."
Zephaniah 3:9, "For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent."
Deuteronomy 4:6, "Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."
Deuteronomy 29:29, ". . . those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."
Isaiah 2:3 (Micah 4:2), Isaiah 52:1, "And many people shall... go up to the mountain of the Lord, . . . and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. . . . 0 Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come unto thee the uncircumcised and the unclean."
Isaiah 59:21, ". . . My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed. . . from henceforth and for ever."
Ezekiel 36:2 7, "And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them."
Isaiah 42:1,6, "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, . . . and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;"
Isaiah 49:3,6, "And (He) said to me, Thou art my servant, 0 Israel, in whom I will be glorified. . . . I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth."
Isaiah 55:5, ". . . nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for He hath glorified thee."
Isaiah 60:3-4, "And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. . . . thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side."
Habakkuk 2:14, "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."
Psalm 22:27, "All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee."
Psalm 102:15,22, "So the heathen shall frar the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord."
Isaiah 2:2, ". . . the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established. . . and all nations shall flow unto it."
Isaiah 14:1, ". . . and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob."
Isaiah 19:21, ". . . and the Egyptians. . . shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it."
Isaiah 45:23, ". . . unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear (to God)."
Isaiah 54:5, "For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called."
Isaiah 56:6-7, "Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people."
Isaiah 66:18,20,23, ". . . it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations. . . to my holy mountain Jerusalem,. . . from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord."
Jeremiah 3:17, "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. . ."
Jeremiah 16:19, "0 Lord. . . the Gentiles shall come unto thee
from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit."
Zephaniah 2:11, "The Lord. . . will famish all the Gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen."
Zechariah 2:11, "And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people. .
Zechariah 8:22, "Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord."
Zechariah 8:23, "Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you."
Zechariah 14:9, "And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one."
Zechariah 14:16, "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the frost of tabernacles."
Isaiah 2:11, "The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, . . . and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day."
Isaiah 17:7, "At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah 40:5, "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."
Isaiah 49:3, "And (the Lord) said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified."
Ezekiel 28:25, "Thus saith the Lord God; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob."
Isaiah 45:17, "But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end."
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."
Ezekiel 43:7, ". . . the place of my throne. . . where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. . ."
Joel 3:20-21, "But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion."
Micah 4:7, ". . . and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever."
Isaiah 44:3, ". . . I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:"
Ezekiel 39:29, "Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God."
Joel 2:27-28, "And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:"
Zephaniah 3:15,17, ". . . the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy. . ."
Zechariah 2:10-11, "Sing and rejoice, 0 daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee. . ."
Ezekiel 3 7:26-28, ". . . and (I) will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them. . . And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore."
Hosea 3:4-5, "For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without terephim: Afterward shall the children of Israel return"
Amos 9:11, "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof, and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:"
Zechariah 1:16, "Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it. . ."
Zechariah 6:12, "Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord:"
Deuteronomy 30:9-10, ". . . for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good,. . . If thou shalt harken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes. . . and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul."
Isaiah 55:7, "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
Jeremiah 3:12, Jeremiah 36:3, ". . . Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord;. . . for Jam merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. . . . that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin."
Ezekiel 33:11,19, ". . . I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live:. . . But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby."
Hosea 14:1-2,4, "0 Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou host fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him."
Malachi 4:5-6, "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers. . ."
Isaiah 11:15, "And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea;. . . and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod."
Ezekiel 47:12, "And by the river upon the bank thereof, . . . shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months . . ."
Joel 3:18, "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord. . ."
Zechariah 14:4, ". . . and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south."
Zechariah 14:8, "And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea.
Joel 2:1,10,32, "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh,. . . The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call."
Joel 3:14,16, ". . . for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion. . . and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel."
Isaiah 13:9, Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, . . . to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain."
Zechariah 14:1-3, "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle."
Ezekiel 38:18-23, "And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face. . . . Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel:. . . and the mountains shall be thrown down. . . And I will call for a sword against him throughout my mountains,. . . And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood;. . . Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that lam the Lord."
Ezekiel 39:4,6,11,13, "Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands. . . And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: . . . And. . . I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, . . . and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God."
Deuteronomy 4:30, ". . . even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God. . ."
Isaiah 2:2, "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it."
Ezekiel 38:8, "After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land. . ."
Daniel 2:28, "But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king. . . what shall be in the latter days. ."
Hosea 3:5, "Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall frar the Lord and his goodness in the latter days."
I HAVE PRESENTED PASSAGES OF MESSIANIC EXPECTATIONS WHICH ARE CLEARLY UNFULFILLED. THEREFORE, WITH COMPLETE CERTAINTY, JUDAISM KNOWS THE MESSIAH HAS NOT YET COME
Let's list in review all the Messianic expectations which are Biblically prophesied and are awaited in Judaism. These expected happenings must arise at the time of the Messiah. The Scriptures tell us this.
In those days, the Messiah is to preside over the land which has the Messianic expectations happening or fulfilled. We have the material prosperity expectations:-the Promised Land-fruitfulness-happiness-well-being-safety and no fear-peace-animals harmless-enemies destroyed-enemies wealth and service. In addition, we have the spiritual expectations: -We know Israel's Redeemer is the Lord God of Israel-His Chosen People will be made great-Israel will be free from sin-Idol worship will end-A new heart will perfect human righteousness in Jews-The Torah will be everlastingly observed-Israel's righteous conduct will be a spiritual light to the nations-Judaism will be the one worldwide religion-God will be exalted, glorified, and sanctified by His Chosen People-The redemption will be forever-God's spirit will be in the midst of Israel-The Temple will be permanently and perfectly rebuilt-Repentance is the means of returning to God for His forgiveness-Finally, we are to have Elijah the prophet, some strange happenings, the Day of Judgment, the war of Gog and Magog, and the designation of "latter days."
Answer for yourself: Can you find Jesus Christ in any of this or any of this in the Jewish History since the first century A.D.?
The answer is that "no" you cannot.
But the reason for the failure of these "Biblical prophecies" to be fulfilled, either by Jesus or another "anointed" of God, can be easily understood when one become a little more familiar with what was "REQUIRED" by the people in order that they "merit" the Kingdom and her King. Failing their role and calling as a "Holy Nation" and "Royal Priesthood," and after seeing such requirements from the Biblical Text for the manifestation of the Kingdom and her King, and being familiar with the history of the period, both spiritually and morally, one is not hard pressed to understand why these momentous promises of God were not fulfilled through the life of God's anointed. Again I stress the failure was not with the messenger or the message both preached and taught, but the conditions of the hearts of much of the religious leadership of Israel in the first century as well as many of the people of first century Israel. That is why when Yeshua had sent the seventy out and upon the return of his men with their testimonies, upon hearing the conspicuous absence of any mention of "repentance, or sorrow for sin, and the lack of turning from sin" Yeshua made the next gesture which is rather unfitting for such a successful outing....he said basically "I am going to die." It simply would not happen and he knew it.
So in conclusion, the above were the prophecies that the Jewish people had been given by God and told to expect to occur when the "anointed" of the Lord comes. These events did not happen.
There are two points that need to be said in closing.
But if you are like myself, and desire truth over religion, and want the truth about Yeshua and who he truly was, what he was to do, and how God used him, then that requires a ruthless reevaluation not only of redactive Biblical history but a ruthless investigation of the Jewish Bible and how its translation was corrupted whereby ultimately the true Messianic passages above were completely not addressed in the New Testament and "falsified prophecies" used in their place. Simply said there has been a great deception foisted upon millions of people and had it not been for the Jewish people who often failed God, to their credit is the fact that they, unlike our Gentile anti-Semitic Fathers, never changed the revelation of God. Possessing such a revelation to this day, and being familiar with the true Messianic passages, the Jewish people stand unconvinced that Jesus was their Messiah. Knowledge is the key, but of course implied is knowledge of the truth and the real Messianic prophecies.
I believe that one day "the" Messiah will come. Who knows who it will be? What if it just happened to be Jesus? What would you do? What if not? The real issue is that we are to be honest with the Jewish Text and the Messianic prophecies in it, as well as the alterations of it when translated into Greek, as well as the corruption of the Christian Old Testament as taken from the Greek, and by default all of the corrupted quotes thereby used from it in the New Testament, and if we know the truth about the history of the period both before and following the times of Jesus, it is hard to say he is the Messiah. One might lean upon emotion to verify a cherished belief but the facts remain. So for me, knowing what I have uncovered, the jury is out. But salvation with God was never based on "if" you believe so and so is the Messiah. Such is just tradition we find in the Christian Church again lined to bogus passages in the New Testament, especially the Fourth Gospel. So we have no recourse other than to await the coming of God's Messiah and maybe, just maybe when asked "who are you" we just could hear "Yeshua." But then maybe again we will not. Time will tell.
