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Answer for yourself: In spite of the failure of the Messianic prophecies to be fulfilled Christianity continually teaches that the Messiah has come in the person of Jesus/Yeshua. The Jewish people today do not recognize Yeshua as Messiah because of this failure of the Messianic prophecies to be fulfilled. Who is right?
The following is taken from Faith Strengthened by Isaac Troki, from pp32-38, and are paraphrased by me for the most part. These are signs that signal the coming of Messiah. When these things occur and are visible for all to see then and only then look up for your redemption draws nigh. You be the judge if these things occurred or were accomplished by Jesus during his earthly ministry or has happened since.
There are 10 more events to occur. This is only half of the list. NONE of them have occurred, so the messiah has not yet come in the opinion of the Jews, and let us remember it was to them he was promised. They, of all people, should know what to expect. If Yeshua is the Messiah these events were not accomplished by him or his followers following his recorded resurrection. They yet await fulfillment. Yet you will come to find as you study that there are reasons why these prophecies were not fulfilled in the first century and the fault cannot be laid at the feet of Yeshua/Jesus or any "messiah." The problem is that Israel did not merit the Kingdom nor her King.
To those who say a second coming provides the platform for such fulfillments need look into what prompted the origin of such a teaching of a "second coming." After finding out that the original teaching of a "second coming" applied to the Essenes' Teacher of Righteousness originally, then we are hard pressed to say that such a teaching was a Divine revelation concerning Jesus but was only applied to him later by those who expected their "teacher" to have returned in light of the very bad conditions imposed upon them by Rome that they found unbearable. Any deliverer at that time would do and to bolster hopes of a very oppressed people the people kept alive such hope by postponing the deliverance and positioning it in the future.
But yet not knowing the future only time will tell concerning the revelation of Israel's Messiah, but to say that Yeshua is “the” Messiah, when these Messianic events go lacking, is a belief and decision based more upon emotion than examination of the facts and fulfilled Jewish prophecy. One finds the reason for such a declaration out of emotion only as the facts of history and the Jewish Bible do not lend support to such a belief...at least not at this time. There is a big difference between a religious belief based upon "facts" and "emotion." David Flusser, a very well known Jewish scholar today, says it best when asked if he thinks Jesus is the Messiah: "I will approach him and ask: 'been here before?'" In other words, "are you the Yeshua of history?" Time will tell will it not? It is time to study for yourself what constitutes the salvation promised by God and when you do you will find out that it NEVER contained a belief in the Messiah in order to make it to the world to come. Therefore these false doctrines as written in the New Testament that make salvation based on "this belief" or "that belief" concerning the Messiah, let alone Jesus, are consistently shown to be false when one compares the salvation messages of the whole of the Jewish Bible as given by a God who changes not. Shalom.
