Understand Messianic Prophecies

If a train bound for the Continents, the Isles and for "Glory" were scheduled, arrived and people started checking their reservations and ticketing for boarding the express, then what happened as people prepared to board the train bound for Glory. Apparently before it could leave the station on a set of switching-tracks, local officials seemed to switch the routing, and headed its engine onto a different way. The local switching yard sought to prohibit the train going forward and not allow the planned way to be the route... So was the "Glory Train" blocked by officials, "cut off" and sent to its destruction on a hill (Calvary/Golgotha) near the station by the powers of the dictatorial government, or was this path part of the prophecies? Now some still wait for the right (expected) train to arrive. Did it already arrive on schedule or will it yet arrive?

Steps

  1. Wait the Coming of Messiah: The Jews waited for the promised Messiah, as a leader and savior who would restore the former glory of Kingdom of Israel. In the Mosaic Covenant (The Old Testament), you see that God kept His promises, and the Jews expected the fulfillment of the messianic prophecy.
    • Who was born in Bethlehem who fulfilled this prophecy:
      "But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." Micah 5:2 (written around 700 B.C.)

      Who is this eternal ruler born in Bethlehem and who is from of old, from everlasting -- Messiah who would step forth from Eternity. So the Messiah said to be one called Yeshua was to be born in Bethlehem, as the promised Messiah fulfills all these predictions!
  2. Know When to Expect Him: Daniel, the prophet of the Biblical book of Daniel, prophesied the exact year of the Messiah's arrival. Daniel said that the Messiah would come 483 years (Jewish lunar 360 day years) which is 476 years on the Graeco-Roman 365 day calendar, "365.25 days for leap year", after the orders would be given to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. So if in fact, 476 years after King Artaxerxes issued the decree to rebuild the temple in 443 B.C. -- and if Jesus actually arrived in 33 A.D. in Jerusalem riding on a donkey -- then was He the Messiah? Daniel said that the Messiah would be "cut off" to pay for your sin and to bring you to right standing before God.
    • "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Israel)! Behold, your King [Messiah] is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, yet He is lowly and riding on a donkey." Zechariah 9:9 (written around 500 BC)
  3. Know What to Expect: The Jewish people had been taught and consequently expected a Messiah to restore the kingdom at Jerusalem. There was no printing press and no mass produced Book for the people to read. There were rabbis, the scribes and many Jewish priests who taught the people that the Messiah would overcome the enemies of Israel (Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks and Romans). Jewish scholars (who had access to scrolls in the synagogues) would know the prophecy pertaining to the Messiah's affliction but made His victories the center of Messianic theology. Most refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah as He did not make war with the sword and conquer the Romans; instead, He conquered our iniquities (sins). Jesus said that His kingdom was not about this earth (and so not for politics), which might not satisfy the theocracy the Jewish people had in mind (a king with Godliness). The original man, Adam, was not under the codified law, but under the original Law of Love and that law was to be instituted by the Messiah (to give right standing with God).
  4. Decide Whether the Messiah Would Be Like Gideon and take a small force with the backing of God and his angels to confound and defeat the Roman oppressors and make Israel the rightful hub of the world -- if that was what was expected to happen according to their understandings and beliefs.
  5. Know Who to Expect: Another ancient prophet named Isaiah goes into great detail, proofs/scriptures for you to investigate. Read the whole chapter of Isaiah 53, but here are verses 3—5, "He was despised and rejected by men... Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed." So did Jesus fulfill the ancient prophecies concerning the Messiah -- yes!
  6. Another Biblical Prophecy concerning the Suffering of the Messiah is Wisdom chapter 2, verses 12 - 21. Here are some of the verses: "Let us, therefore, lie in wait for the Just Man, because He is not of our turn, and He is contrary to our doings, and upbraids us with transgressions to the Law, and divulges us with sins of our life. He boasts that He has Knowledge Of God, and calls Himself the Son of God. He has become a censurer of our thoughts. He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for His Life is not like other men's, and we esteemed Him to be different." Note: Wisdom is a book not in the Hebrew Bible and is a Deuterocanonical book considered canonical by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox ("belonging to the second canon"), but considered non-canonical by most Protestants. [1]
  7. Accept Jesus Christ as the Biblical Messiah: Today, there are many who have accepted Jesus as the Messiah whom they say already came in the flesh and won the victory over sin; they call themselves Christians and Messianic Jews, and there are also Arabic Christians who profess Yasu (Yeshua) as the Messiah. Some more traditional Learn About Orthodox Judaism, such as the Orthodox and Hasidic tradition, actually maintain the beliefs taught by the Jewish priests of Jesus' day and still wait for the Messiah. Some other groups of Judaism have not even accepted the original prophecies and do not believe there is any promised Messiah at all.
  8. Understand this and share it with your friends so they know Christ by the Holy Spirit and get enough Truth to prove God is real for yourself and then you can help bless the whole world with God's Love through His Son. Light the corners, taking the light of God's word to the ends of the earth.
    • Consider whether you believe that Jesus is Messiah, and that eternal life is just a prayer away: "Lord Jesus, beginning today, I ask you to become the Lord of my life. I believe that you died for my sins and rose again from the dead. Lord, I confess that I am a sinner and I repent of my sins. Thank you for forgiving me and cleansing me. Come into my life and guide me to live for you from now on. In Jesus Name Amen. Ba Shem Yeshuah Amen."

Tips

  • Accept whether He "fulfills the prophecy concerning His payment for your sins or not". Decide why people asking whether that Jesus Christ is or is not the Messiah" is an important question for you. And do you, personally, think that Jesus is the Messiah (Savior of Israel and of all mankind). He has by evidence fulfilled ancient prophecies pertaining to the location, time and circumstances of His birth, life, death and resurrection. Now will you decide?
  • Jewish shabua or shabu’im = 7 years, similar to the number sabbath = 7, so multiples of 7 of "the Sabbath year" is used in Daniel 9:24-27.

Mathematics of Daniel 9:24-27

  • King Artaxerxes I of Persia issued the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem and specifically included its wall (see Nehemiah 2:2-9... the book of Nehemiah records this account of rebuilding the city and its wall.)
  • From the "days" of the orders to rebuild Jerusalem and its walls, until the coming of Messiah would that be in years: "The seventy weeks are divided into seven == 49 years; sixty-two = 434 years; one = 7 years (verses 25-27)." In "seven weeks" (49 years), Jerusalem was to be rebuilt plus in "sixty-two weeks" (434 years) Messiah/Christ was to come (Dan 9:25).
    • Find Jewish Lunar Years:[2] to unravel this prophecy -- first convert this prophecy from 69 weeks of years * 7 in a week * 360 = Jewish year; here's how in detail:

      1. Add 7 + 62 weeks of years = 69

      2. Multiply 69 (weeks of years) x 7 (years in a week) = 483 years

      3. Multiply 483 years x 360 (the total number of days) = 173,880 actual days (from the day of the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem and its walls, until the coming Messiah would be 173,880 days)!
      • Convert to solar years: to make the 173,880 days found in this prophecy into 365.25 day solar years (the .25 adjusts for leap years). So, dividing 173,880 days ÷ 365.25 days in a year = 376 years.
  • Use "day-year/year-day principle" the method of interpretation of Bible prophecy in which the word "day" in prophecy is the symbol for a year of actual time. "This view was recognized by the Jews as seen in Daniel 9:24-27, and as seen in Jesus' use of the day-year principle in Luke 13 verses 31-33", and so in the Christian church.[3]

Warnings

  • Right after the "Triumphal Entry," Jesus (Yeshua) wept over Jerusalem, warning that the people of Israel would ignore all the prophecies of the Messiah which were so specific!
  • Jesus warns Israel why it would happen "Now as He [Jesus-Yeshua] drew near, He saw the city (Jerusalem) and wept over it, saying, ‘If you had known, even you [Israel], especially in this your day, [that Daniel prophesied about] the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you [the Temple] one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.’ "(Luke 19:41-44)
  • The warning is fulfilled, within a generation, in 70 A.D., 38 years after Jesus-Yeshua was crucified, Jerusalem was besieged and totally destroyed when Titus Vespasian, with the Fifth, Tenth, Twelfth, and Fifteenth Roman Legions built a Roman siege wall around the city, starving and killing over a million Jews, and then tore down the Temple, stone by stone, to retrieve the gold that had melted when Roman soldiers set the Temple on fire, thus leaving not one stone upon the other--exactly as Jesus had prophesied. Afterwards, the Romans scattered and dispersed the Jews, and later changed the name of Judea (Israel) to Palestine.[2]

References

  1. ↑ wikipedia: Book of Wisdom
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 www.alphanewsdaily.com/mathprophecy1.html
  3. ↑ Wikipedia:Year-day principle -- " as seen in Daniel 9:24-27, and as seen in Jesus' use of the day-year principle in Luke 13 verses 31-33"

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