ORDER OF EVENTS IN THE
MESSIANIC ERA
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. Shalom.
- The
ingathering of the Ten Tribes, and their union with Judah and Benjamin
under the dominion of one king of the house of Judah (see Ezek.
37:16-22)
- The rise
of Gog from Magog [Magog = from Gog], and their incursions into the
territory of Israel (Ezek 38 and 39, also Zech 14:12)...
- The
Mount of Olives shall be rent asunder (see Zech 14:4), "And his
feet shall stand on that day on the mount of Olives, which is before
Jerusalem, and the mount of Olives shall be rent asunder in the midst of
the east and the west, so as to become a very extended valley"
- The
river of Egypt dry up, and the Euphrates divided into 7 wadis, so that
the exiles can cross them dry-shod prior to the gathering of the exiles
of Judah (see Isaiah 11:15,16).
- Ezekiel
47 "...The waters issued out from under the threshold of the house
eastward.... And by the river shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf
shall not fade, nor the fruit thereof be consumed. It shall bring forth
new fruit according to his month. Because their waters they issued out
of the sanctuary, and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf
thereof for medicine." See Zechariah 14:8, "And it shall be in
that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half of them
toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea, in summer
and in winter shall it be." Joel 4:18, "It shall come to pass
in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills
shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters
[many of the rivers of Judah are dry wadis, that flow only on occasion
when there is a lot of rain]; and a fountain shall come forth of the
house of the L-rd, and shall water the valley of Sheetim."
- The
fulfillment of Zech. 8:23 "They will say (to the Jews), we will go
with you, for we have heard that G-d is with you."
- The
annual pilgrimage of the remnant [after the war of Gog] of all nations
to Jerusalem "to bow down to ... the L-rd of Hosts," etc. see
Zech 14:17
- The
celebration of Shabbat, and the new moons by all the Gentiles.
- The
total extinction of idolatry. See Isaiah 2:18, "And the idol he
will consume completely;"
- Unity of
faith shall prevail throughout the world. See Isaiah 45:23. "I have
sworn by myself, a word of righteousness is gone out of my mouth, and
shall not be reversed, That to me every knee shall bow, every tongue
shall swear." Zech 14:9, "And the L-rd shall be a King over
the whole earth; on that day shall the L-rd be one and His name one"
["i.e. the L-rd alone shall be worshipped and shall be invoked by
His true name."--note from JPS Tanakh]
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 resurrection.
They yet await fulfillment. 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 yet not
knowing the future only time will tell, but to say that Yeshua is “the”
Messiah, when these Messianic events go lacking, must find 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. 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?'" Time will tell, will it not?
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