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| MarkStaneart | Sep 15 2012, 04:41 AM Post #1 |
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The term “Christos” is found 572 times in the Christian New Testament. It occurs 60 times in the four Gospels. It is used 17 times in the book of Matthew alone. In all of the Jewish Tanakh, the Hebrew Text of Sacred Writ upon which the writer of Matthew establishes his own credibility, the equivalent Hebrew term is only used comparably in one passage. In Daniel 9:25-26, the Messenger of the Holy One encourages Daniel that the current era of persecution of the Jewish people will come to an end. He describes for us the coming of “the Messiah”, who will be “cut off”, then will “confirm the Covenant”, and “cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.” While the term, itself, is only found in this Daniel passage, the idea of an Individual who will reconcile all things is the overriding theme throughout all of the Jewish Texts . The Messiah, who will come to set things aright, is the hope of Judaism, beginning with the promise of the “Seed of Eve” in Genesis 3:15, concluding with “the Messenger of the Covenant” in Malachi 3:1. The struggle of power between righteousness and the evil inclination, the war between Spirit and flesh, is decided in the person of the coming Messiah. The book of Matthew is offered as testimony that vital steps described in Daniel 9:25 have been achieved and the fulfillment of the Divine resolution is well underway. The greatest difficulty for the Jewish audience to accept the Jesus who is most often taught by Christian scholars is the assertion that Jesus has “fulfilled all things” (a reference to Matthew 5:18). If this is the claim that the New Testament makes concerning the Subject of the New Testament writings, then He doesn’t stand up to the scrutiny of biblical prophecy . He did not build the 3rd Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28). He did not call the diaspora (Jews spread out all over the world) back to the land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6). He certainly did not establish a system of world peace and establish His Kingdom as the world standard to which all nations would adhere (Isaiah 2:4). And, unquestionably, the Jesus of Christianity did not establish the Jewish Tanakh (the Old Testament) as the standard the world would see as the rule of righteousness (Zechariah 14:9). The Christian answer to this is readily, … but, He’s coming back!” Such a rebuttal is nonsensical… not, if He’s already fulfilled all things, and, particularly since many of His words are used to justify objectives contrary to these stated missions. The Jesus that is taught in the Christian Church of today categorically denies the Messiah promised in the Hebrew Texts. The Messiah of the Church is a gentile, Christian Messiah: a religion completely independent from the authority of the Texts that the Jewish people of the 1st Century, and later, would have recognized and accepted. Fortunately, this is not the Messiah described for us in the Book of Matthew. |
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