Hi Jim,
Joseph was clearly the son of Jacob (Matthew 1:16), so Luke 3:23 could be better understood as saying "Joseph, the son-in-law of Heli", Heli being the father of Mary the virgin. It could also be noted that when it says, "the son of Heli", "son" is not in the original Greek. So, Joseph was Jacob's son by birth, but Heli's son by marriage. Many fail to recognize that Luke is dealing with Mary's genealogy while Matthew is dealing with Joseph's genealogy.

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Paul,

If Israel would have accepted their Messiah when He came preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom (Matthew 4:17, 23), they could have had the Kingdom of David restored unto them (Luke 1:31-33), but they rejected Him and crucified Him according to the Scriptures (Isaiah 53:8, Daniel 9:24-27). Israel will now have to go through the "Time of Jacob's Trouble" (Jeremiah 30:7), and endure that terrible time spoken of by the prophets (Daniel 12:1, Joel 2:1-2, Matthew 24:21).

I agree with all your Messianic Prophecies, and these will yet be fulfilled by Jesus Christ when He returns after the Seventieth Week of Daniel is played out (Daniel 9:24-27). All, that is, except your 3rd point. You will be hard pressed to prove that the Messianic offspring will come through Solomon with those Scriptures you point out, for Solomon's line was cut off (Jeremiah 22:28-30).

Jesus will gather together His people Israel at the end of the Tribulation (Matthew 24:31-33, Isaiah 27:12-13, Deuteronomy 30:1-4, 5-6). At that time, He will bring peace to the world and build the Temple according to Ezekiel 40-48. I think we are more in agreement than you think, however, it is a matter of timing.

Noel,

You really do not get it. Jesus is not the Jewish Messiah. I have shown you the Jewish Messiah prophecies. You did not see that there is no prophecy that states the Jewish Messiah will come a second time to fulfill all the prophesies. That is something that Christians have made up to explain why Jesus did not fulfill all the Jewish Messianic Prophesies. You as a Christian have no say in who is or is not the Jewish Messiah. I know that is hard for you to accept, but it is true. It would be like you saying that Muslims are right about the Christian Bible being corrupted.

No Paul, I do get it.

There were 490 years that God had decreed, that would be determined upon Israel and Jerusalem before the Kingdom would be inaugurated. The prophet Daniel was told from the going forth of the commandment to restore and rebuild the Jerusalem to the Messiah would be 483 years, but after this, the Messiah would be cut off.

It was exactly 483 years to the presentation of the Messiah as the King, but Israel would not have Him to reign over them and He was subsequently cut off, but not for Himself. He died for the sins of the world shedding His blood as of a Lamb without spot and blemish.

Nevertheless, He rose from the dead and ascended back to heaven with the promise to return again. Thus, the Kingdom was postponed, and many of the prophecies you mentioned will not come to pass till He returns at the end of the final "seven" years, "the time of Jacob's Trouble", the "Great Tribulation".

The promised Kingdom was then postponed and a gap came between week 69 and 70. It is in this gap that God is reaching out to the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name (Isaiah 49:5-6).

"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." (Daniel 9:24-27)

Because Israel rejected her Messiah, they were judged by God. The Roman armies destroyed the city and the Temple, and the Jews were scattered to the 4 corners of the world (Luke 21:24). In this gap, Blindness in part has happened unto the Jews until the fulness of the Gentiles come in (Romans 11:25-27). By the end of the Seventieth Week, they shall finally call out to their Saviour and He will return to save them, Only then shall they come under the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34).

And to this agrees all the prophets, "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this." (Amos 9:11-12)

"For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days." (Hosea 3:4-5)

"And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. And there ye shall serve gods, the work of mens hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them." (Deuteronomy 4:27-31)

"1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
4 If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live." (Deuteronomy 30:1-6)

Noel,

I have to disagree with you again. You don't get it. You have no say so who the Jewish Messiah is or is not. I have shown you the Jewish Messanic Prophecies, none of them include a second coming. That is something that Christians invented to say why Jesus did not fulfill all the Jewish Messanic Prophecies. You have yet to give me chapter and verse where is says the Jewish Messiah Will take 2 visits to this earth to fulfill his Prophecies.

Paul,

I am sure you have heard of some of the old Jewish sages who thought there would be two Messiahs? Mashiach ben Yosef and Mashiach ben David. If you have not perhaps you could look it up. They saw in the Scriptures a Messiah wo would suffer and die, while the other would come as a conquering King. The prophecies the sufferings of Messiah and his glory, they could not reconcile into one person so they thought there must be two Messiahs.

We believe that rather than explaining this with two Messiah's, it made more sense to explain it with two comings. Now I know you do not believe the New Covenant mentioned in Jeremiah 31:31-34 has not yet been introduced. However, we see that Jesus Christ has instituted it, however, it has not yet been fulfilled for the nation Israel, nationalistically speaking. The Old Covenant faded away with the destruction of the Temple in AD 70.

Now that we have the New Covenant, we can see with eyes wide open how Jesus did fulfill those Scriptures relating to the sufferings of the Messiah and gave Him glory, raising Him from the dead. His glorious reign, however, is yet future. There is no way that someone could have invented this, or thought up how intricately Jesus fulfilled all those prophecies, and woven them together to make what you call the "Christian New Testament". That is totally ludicrous. And let's face it, if Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, His disciples would have dispersed and went back to their nets, seeing they were duped by another false Messiah. No, there is no way they would have went to the ends of the earth suffering hardships even death. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, according to the Scriptures, there would be no Christianity today.

Even the prophets could not put together the sufferings and the glory which should follow. "Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven" (1 Peter 1:10-12).

Jesus had to rebuke two of His disciples, who were saddened after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, for they trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel. "Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?" (Luke 24:25-26)

He is not coming again to suffer and die for our sins, as a lamb to the slaughter (Isaiah 53:6-8), no, this He did once, and He rose from the dead, conquering death (Hosea 13:14, Psalm 16:10). Now He is sitting at the right hand of God, and when he returns, He is coming as the lion of the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:9-10), to judge the nations (Psalm 110:1-4, 5-6), to save Israel (Jeremiah 30:7-9, 11, 22-24) and to sit upon the throne of His glory. (Matthew 25:31-33)

I only ask you to think on these things and pray to the God of heaven who can reveal these secrets unto you (Daniel 2:28).

Noel,

You crack me up. No sage ever talked about seeing anything about a suffering Messiah. Again you are misinterpreting Jewish scripture. There are plenty of Christians who will believe you and not check it out. You are talking about Isaiah 53 that talks about a suffering servant. But according to Isaiah 41:8-9, Isaiah 44: 1-2, Isaiah 45:4, Isaiah 48:20, Isaiah 49:3, Isaiah 42:16-20 and Isaiah 43:10. Again you are misinterpreting Jewish Scripture to fit your story about Jesus.

My eyes are wide open, I have done my homework. You are the one who is blinded and can not see what is right and wrong with your thinking. I now see why Muslims think the Christian Bible has been corrupted. Especially since part of the Christian Bible was written by an admitted liar. Yes Paul admits to telling lies.

I do hope one day you will see the light and accept the fact that you have no say so in the real interpretation of Jewish scripture.