Messiah Research Paper

Most Jews in the days of Jesus missed his coming. Their preconceived notion of who their “savior king” should be lead many of them astray. Jesus, however, turned these notions upside down. He was

Jewish tradition passed down the oral and written story of Messianic prophecies for generations. To provide the correlation between the anticipated Messiah and the fulfillment through Jesus, Matthew affirmed prophecies throughout the birth story with two significant fulfillments—Abraham’s promised seed [offspring] and the virgin birth.

At the beginning of time, God created mankind, creatures made in his own image, with whom He could have relationship with. Unfortunately, the original humans, Adam and Eve, shattered this relationship by turning away from God and sinning, putting themselves before Him. All of the descendants of Adam and Eve, mankind itself, have and continue to suffer from the repercussions of this Original Sin. Ever since that time, thousands of years ago, God has been working through human history in order to repair His relationship with Humanity, redeeming them from the effects of sin. His plan of salvation began with a covenant He made with a nomad named Abraham, whose descendants became the nation of Israel. This covenant established the Lord's intentions to bring about redemption for humanity through the nation of Israel. Sadly though, the ancient Israelites time and again were unfaithful to their covenant with God, and would worship the false idols of the nations around them. Because of their sin of apostasy, the nation of Israel eventually split in two, and was then wiped out by foreign invaders, sending in the Hebrew people into exile. It was during this exile that the Prophets, men who would speak on behalf of God, began to predict the coming of the Messiah, an 'anointed one' of

In addition to the writings of Jeremiah, other Old Testament works written in the centuries prior to the birth Christ pointed to the coming of a messiah to save the Jewish people from their continuing history of enslavement, persecution, and dislocation. Some Jews waited for a David-like king to rescue them. Others felt that Jesus Christ--who had suffered for the sins of his people, the one who had endured and conquered death--was the true messiah. Whether the messiah had come or the messiah was still yet to come was the key issue between the Jews who remained Jews during the first and succeeding centuries versus those who

Jesus of Nazareth was seen as threat to the Roman Empire. They believed he would cause uproar since he proclaimed he was the son of God. With this title, Jesus would of had more power than the Roman Empire itself. Proclaiming this also made him a threat to the Jewish community in Jerusalem. The Jews believed that a Messiah would be sent to rescue them and deliver peace in harmony in Israel. Unfortunately, they did not believe Jesus was it. With both groups, they mistreated and ridicule Jesus and crucified him.

After a week of barnstorming Richard and Don decided to go into a small town and look around for a while. About halfway through the day they went back to their airplanes, which were still in the field that they had left them in. Next Richard determined that he wanted to perform more miracles.

Jesus is most definitely a symbol of hope, however, we need a foundation for our faith. Having evidence about Jesus' life, teaching, and resurrection provides a firm foundation for our faith. The "Jesus Seminar" states that the Jesus of faith is merely just a symbol of hope that provides people with a good feeling and a sense of security, but it's not the real Jesus of history. Contrary to this statement, the Jesus of faith is the opposite and much more than the views of those from the "Jesus Seminar. "

John nine verses one through seven is the being of the grace giving and truth telling of Jesus in this section. When Jesus spoke with the man that was blind I believe he ministered to him and gave him a brief explanation of who he was. The disciples asked him if this man sinned from birth or did his parents sin? Jesus used the truth telling when he answered the disciples by saying this man didn't sin at birth and neither has his parents sinned. It also gives truth-telling by letting the disciples know that it was to give God the glory. Now for the grace-giving part of Jesus, is him giving the Blind man back his sight. The reason why this was grace-giving was because this man had been blind his whole life, but when he came in contact with Jesus, he showed him grace by healing him.

see a stage play depicting the killing of the babies that were murdered in conjunction with his birth. You will not see merchants depicting in their stores windows the end of man’s ruler ship on earth, and the pending judgment of our creator ‘wrath” these are not marketable elements of our messiah’s birth, but adding lies to his birth story sales, and keeps the message and his mission hidden for the sake of the world season of profits.

Although some Jewish people did believe in the Messiah most did not.

A messiah is a rather ambiguous term. It mainly means an anointed one; usually a messiah is considered to be a son of David and would reestablish Israel to what it once was. Because messiahs are anointed ones they would typically be Jewish priests, prophets and kings. However, a Messiah can also be a warrior, or a man of peace. (CITE) A messiah was to reestablish unity among the Jewish people and navigate through the hardships and oppression that they went through during early Judaism and bring a sense of freedom and relief. An array of messianic claimants came forth during the two peaks of Jewish rebellion, the death of King Herod the Great and the first Jewish war against the Romans.

I was first introduced to Jesus Christ through several Korean missionaries from America, who came to my orphanage in Russia one day. A bright green church, which is my favorite color to this day, was implanted right behind my orphanage and the people of the church went around inviting and encouraging people to join them on Sunday mornings. We were told there would be donuts and other food. Of course that would lure any orphan right off the bat. I among other children, joined the church on Sunday mornings. Maybe it was simply the donuts, but I felt accepted right away. Although I was very fond of the things we were told and taught, they appeared to be only stories to me. The stories did not become an entity or reached my heart until after I got adopted into a Christian family three years later.

Today we want to look at the causality that took place in the Garden Tomb during the 6 day war.

Mary delivered the child, wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger. Mary, joseph, and baby Jesus were visited by shepherds from nearby fields, called on by angels. Once they reached the stable, the shepherds and their flock knelt down before the manger, in respect for this newborn king. When they did this, the child’s parents were amazed that these shepherds were so reverent to and amazed by their own child! The Holy Family’s travel back to Nazareth was a long and dangerous one. It was so dangerous because of King Herod. Herod heard that Jesus was to be the new king, and Herod did not like this at all! His solution to this was to find baby Jesus and destroy him. Luckily, Joseph was visited in a dream by an angel, who said,” Rise and take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you” (Mt. 2:13). The Blessed family stayed in Egypt until the death of Herod. By doing so, Jesus fulfilled yet another prophecy, “When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son” (Hos. 11:1). Before that, Herod realized he had been tricked, he became enraged. He ordered the boys of Bethlehem, and its vicinity, that were at the two and younger to be massacred. It was then that what the prophet Jeremiah had said had been fulfilled: “A voice was heard in Raman, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and since she would not be consoled, since they were gone no more.” The

It shall be like a tree chopped down to a stump a new branch will grow the Messiah. He would be greater than the original tree and bear much fruit the Messiah is the fulfillment of God’s promise that a descendant of David would rule forever.