Subj : Is Jesus the Messiah?
To   : George Pope
From : Newborn
Date : Thu Oct 13 2005 21:42:00

The surest proof that Jesus is the Messiah is the propecies of the Jewish
Bible concernning the Messiah.  The following texts have been recognized as
Messianic prophecy by the rabbis and sages of old.

Genesis 49:10  "The sceptre shall not depart form Judah, nor a lawgiver from
                between his feet, until he comes to Shiloh; and unto him
                shall the gathering of the people be."

The Messiah was to come from the tribe of Judah - Jesus Did (Heb 7:14)

Isaiah 9:6,7   "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no
                end, upon the throne of David, and upon the kingdom. to order
                it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from
                henceforth even for ever.  The zeal of the Lord of hosts will
                perform this.  The Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it hath
                lighted upon Israel,"

The Messiah was to be a descendant of David - Jesus was! (Luke 1:32,33)

Isaiah 7:14     "Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: behold,
                 the young woman shall conceive, and bear a SON, and shall
                 call his name Emmanual."

The Messiah was to be born of a virgin. (The Hebrew word for "young woman"
is 'alam'.  In each of its seven uses in the Tenach, it means 'virgin'.)
- Jesus was! (Matt. 1:14-25)

Micah 5:1       "But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, though thou be little among
                 the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall one come forth
                 unto me that is to be ruler in Isreal; whose going forth are
                 from everlasting."

The Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem Ephrathah - Jesus was! (Matt 2:1-6)

Psalm 2:7       "I will tell of the decree; The Lord said unto me: 'Thou
                 art MY SON, This say have I begotten thee."

The Messiah is to be the SON of God - Jesus is! (John 3:16-18)

Daniel 9:25.26  "Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of
                 the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto one
                 anointed, a prince, shall be seven weeks; and for threescore
                 and two weeks, it shall be built again, with broad place and
                 moat, but in troublous times.  And after the threescore and
                 two weeks shall an anointed one be cut off, and be no more;
                 and the people of a prince that shall come shall destroy 
                 the city and the sanctuary; but his end shall be with a
                 flood; and unto the end of the war desolations are
                 determined."

The Messiah was to cone and be "cut-off" (die a violent death) in
approximately 32 C.E. (The date has been computed by taking the time of
Artaxerxes decree in 444 B.C.E. which gave the Jews permission to rebuild
Jerusalem (Neh. 2:7,8). and adding the 476 years noted in Daniel) - Jesus
did! (Luke 2,3:33)

Isaiah 53.8     "He was taken away from rule and from judgment; and his
                 life who shall recount?  For he was cut off of the land
                 of the living; though the trangressions of my people was 
                 he stricken."

The Messiah would die for OUR sins - Jesus did! (II Cor. 5:21)

Psalm 22:14-17  "They open wide their mouth against me.  As a ravening 
                 and roaring lion.  I am poured out like water, and all
                 my bones are out of joint;  My heart is become like wax;
                 It is melted in mine inmust parts.  My strength is dried
                 up like a potshed; And my tongue cleaveth to my throat;
                 And Thou layest me in the dust of death.  For dogs have
                 encompassed me; A company of evil-doers have inclosed me;
                 Like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet."

The Messiah would die by Crucifixion (This form of execution was not known 
to David writing 800 YEARS EARLIER) - Jesus did! (Luke 23:33)

Psalm 16:10    "For Thou wilt not abandon my soul to the nether-world;
                Neither will Thou suffer Thy Godly one to see the pit."

The Messiah would be resurrected - Jesus was! (I Cor. 15:4)


JESUS IS THE MESSIAH!!!!!!

Newborn

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