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For the Messiah to accomplish such great tasks, he must be a man like King David, who was a man after God’s own heart. Isaiah prophecies that God will bless the Messiah. “The spirit of the Lord shall

The Christ of Christianity made radical claims in regards to his relationship to Judaism. Jesus was no timid Jewish rabbi. He claimed that he was the fulfillment of the entire Jewish Tanakh! Luke quotes the Christ as saying, “all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” (Luke 24:44) Jesus reinterpreted Jewish symbols and re-applied them to himself. (Wilson, 55) The many followers of Jesus today are still offending Jews by claiming that the Jewish religion is incomplete and no longer salvific without the incorporation of the Christ. Modern Jews reject the application of the prophecies

When Jesus first came to Israel, Jesus said publicly, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” a high priest ask him and Jesus replied, 'I am, ' ... And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven" (Mark 14:61-62). This haven’t convinced them that Jesus was the Messiah and condemned him to torture and death for lying.

Traditional Jewish beliefs are missing from their statements. There is only one mention of the Torah in the Jews for Jesus' Statement of Faith. Jewish literature, such as Rashis and Maimonides interpretations, and the Talmud itself, is mentioned in the statement, but only to be rejected by the Jews for Jesus organization. If these Jewish texts are taken to be God's word, the Jews for Jesus could not fully support messianic Judaism. Jewish interpretative texts give no proof that Jesus is the messiah.

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

Everyone in this world is entitled to his or her own opinion. Each individual has a different point of view for something; no one’s opinion is right or is wrong. For me, I find it very interesting to listen to someone else’s opinion that is different than mine. However, there are others who have their own opinion, and they do not believe or even want to take into consideration what other peoples’ opinion is. This is how the religious leaders were in the book of Matthew.

Religion as seen by many is a set of principles which gives you a purpose to live and lead your life. For others it is a force and a law which restricts their freedom and their choice of living their life. Despite how it appears to be and how it may be defined, there are several religions in the world such as Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and more. Each one of them may differ in the set of beliefs and the principles which they lay but all of these world religions preach some universal truths; spreading the message of love, abstaining from crime and doing no harm to the others. Since every religion has a whole new concept of dimensions worth studying, this paper focuses the religion followed by the Jews; Judaism.

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.

Jews had separated themselves from the Christian belief because of their strong belief that there isn’t a messiah on the earth or wasn’t a messiah, yet. The Jews and Christians differ their assumptions. They believe that there is a Messiah that is coming. On the other hand, Christians believe that there was one… Jesus. The jews don’t believe in Jesus (or the old testament), a half of the Bible in which Jesus’s name isn’t. In fact, Jews don’t even have an old testament. They have a Torah, which is a book of laws, made specifically for the Jews, by Moses. Jews don’t believe this “lore” because the Bible says he will: Build the third temple, which is found in Ezekiel 37:26-28. The Bible also says He would gather all of the jews back to the land of Israel, in Isaiah 43:5-6, and usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease, in Isaiah 2:4. Another thing the Bible says he will do is spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one, which is found in Zechariah 14:9. To the jews, if an individual fails to do or make up just one of these things he said he would do, then he definitely can not be the Messiah. To new Jews, Judaism can be very bewildering because of the different laws and decrees. Because of this, the Jews that have been practicing this religion ever since they were little

During this particular time period there were controversies about who Jesus really was and who he was claiming to be. Although in this time period there are many people who are viewed as the powerful one, Jesus claims to be someone powerful. This began to make the Pharisees and Sadducees furious and felt like they were weak. The Pharisees and sadducees saw Jesus as a threat when in other people’s eyes they saw Jesus as the Son of God.

Regarding fulfillment, the New Testament writers have identified Jesus Christ as the Messiah. They believed that the prophecies from the Hebrew Bible have been

The Jewish people were waiting for the Messiah. They waited for years. Jesus was born in a scary time, when Herod the Great was King. Hearing of Jesus birth intimidated the King, so he ordered all male boys under the age of 2 to be killed (Matthew 2:16). Even when Jesus was a baby, people were still trying to kill him, that goes to show even more truth of him being The Truth! The time was right for Jesus to come because everything had already lined up. John the Baptist had already prepared the way for Jesus (Matthew3:1-14).

Judaism teaches that in the future (known by God only) a Messiah would come to save people from the slavery of sin, bringing peace and joy to the human race. This divine person would be a descendant of King David (who, as we know from the Old Testament, is a descendant of Adam, the first man, made by God the Creator). Nowadays the Jewish nation is still waiting for that glorious day to come. They do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as a

In the prophecy of Isaiah, the messiah is shown to be a servant who will suffer and die in obedience. Isaiah also says that the messiah will become a light to the gentiles. Jesus preached his word to both Jewish and Gentile people, fulfilling this prophecy. In the passages from Luke, we can see the establishment and fulfillment of the New Covenant. The New Covenant is the covenant Jesus makes to the all mankind using his body and blood.