To The Jews – Accept Your Messiah, Jesus Christ
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Jews, Your Tanakh Predicted Your Messiah
Jews, your Hebrew Bible predicted your Messiah, and yet you still reject Him.
I will go over the verses of your Tanakh that prove Jesus is the Messiah, so that you believe.
Tanakh AKA Hebrew Bible AKA Old Testament On The Messiah
Genesis 1:26
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:26
Genesis 3:22
And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.
Genesis 3:22
Even in Genesis, God made it clear that there was more than One Person that made up the Godhead by using “us” and “our”.
And before you counter with “Aha! Scripture says there is only One God!” read my article on how the Holy Trinity is consistent with there being only One god.
Deuteronomy 18:15-19
The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear: As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the assembly was gathered together, and saidst: Let me not hear any more the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see any more this exceeding great fire, lest I die. And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well. I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my name, I will be the revenger.
Deuteronomy 18:15-19
Thus, Moses knew of the Prophet and Messiah, Jesus Christ, and told you of Him when he gave you the Law.
Psalms 22:2-19
O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me. But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel. In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them. They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people. All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head. He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him. For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother. I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother’s womb thou art my God,
Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me. Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me. They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring. I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.
For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet. They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me. They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.
Psalms 21:2-19
Your King David wrote of Christ’s crucifixion centuries before it happened. See Matthew 27:46.
Psalms 110:1-7
The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool. The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies. With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee. The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech. The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his wrath.
He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of the many. He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Psalms 109:1-7
This Psalm, like Genesis 1:26 and 3:22, affirms that your God, the Father, is speaking to His Son, your Messiah.
And like Melchisedech, in Genesis 14:18, used bread and wine, Jesus consecrates bread and wine as His Body and Blood.
See Matthew 26:26-28, Mark 14:22-24, Luke 22:19-20, and John 6:35-64.
Wisdom 2:12-20
You removed this book from your canon, but it was there in the First Century, and your fathers knew it then.
This passage predicts how you Jews would reject Jesus, torture and crucify Him, in order to test God:
Let us therefore lie in wait for the just, because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with transgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way of life. He boasteth that he hath the knowledge of God, and calleth himself the son of God. He is become a censurer of our thoughts. He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, and his ways are very different. We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.
Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be. For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies. Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness and try his patience. Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be respect had unto him by his words.
Wisdom 2:12-20
No wonder your fathers took it out of your canon!
It specifically predicts how you would treat your Messiah!
See the Passion accounts in Matthew 26:30-27:66, Mark 14:26-15:47, Luke 22:39-23:56, John 18:1-19:42.
Of course, you may interpret this as Jesus not being who He said He is because of His crucifixion.
However, if He came to die for our sins and then rose again from the dead, for you to believe, did He not accomplish what His Father wanted Him to?
2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16
But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying: Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord:
And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son…
And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.
2 Kings (2 Samuel) 7:4-16
Thus, your prophet, Nathan, was told by God to tell King David of the Messiah, the Son of God, centuries before His Incarnation!
See Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38.
Your prophet, Isaiah, made the most prophecies regarding the Messiah. The following are but a few.
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel.
Isaias (Isaiah) 7:14
Firstly, you interpret “virgin” as being “young woman”, but a young woman conceiving a child is not a miracle (aka sign from God).
Secondly, Emmanuel means “God with us.”
This isn’t saying that the child would literally be named “Emmanuel” but rather that He will be God with us.
Thus, the sign from God, as your prophet predicted, would be that a virgin would conceive of God with us, flesh incarnate.
This prophecy was fulfilled in Luke 1:26-35.
Isaiah 9:6
For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.
Isaias (Isaiah) 9:6
Again, your prophet tells you of a child that will be born, who is God, flesh incarnate.
Isaiah 11:1-4
And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root. And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness. And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears. But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
Isaias (Isaiah) 11:1-4
Again, Jesus is a descendent of Jesse, and will judge the world. See Matthew 16:27.
Isaiah 50:5-7
The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back. I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me. The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded.
Isaias (Isaiah) 50:5-7
This is another prophecy for the Passion of Christ.
Isaiah 53:1-12
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him: Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth. He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him. And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for his death: because he hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in his mouth. And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a long-lived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand.
Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the transgressors.
Isaias (Isaiah) 53:1-12
This is also a prophecy about Jesus, Who was born of humble origins, lifted up the sinners, died for all sinners and prayed for those who persecuted Him.
Your Messiah, Jesus Christ, confirms this prophecy is fulfilled in Him in Luke 22:37.
Isaiah 60:6
The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Madian and Epha: all they from Saba shall come, bringing gold and frankincense: and shewing forth praise to the Lord.
Isaias (Isaiah) 60:6
Here your prophet tells you of the three wise men, who were foreigners that came to Bethlehem, bring golf, frankincense and myrrh as presents to Baby Jesus.
See Matthew 2:1-16.
Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.
Isaias (Isaiah) 61:1
This prophecy is of Jesus’s earthly ministry that He confirms Himself in Luke 4:17-21.
Ezekiel 34:11-16
For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself will seek my sheep, and will visit them. As the shepherd visiteth his flock in the day when he shall be in the midst of his sheep that were scattered, so will I visit my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out from the peoples, and will gather them out of the countries, and will bring them to their own land: and I will feed them in the mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the habitations of the land. I will feed them in the most fruitful pastures, and their pastures shall be in the high mountains of Israel: there shall they rest on the green grass, and be fed in fat pastures upon the mountains of Israel. I will feed my sheep: and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.
I will seek that which was lost: and that which was driven away, I will bring again: and I will bind up that which was broken, and I will strengthen that which was weak, and that which was fat and strong I will preserve: and I will feed them in judgment.
Ezechiel (Ezekiel) 34:11-16
Your prophet, Ezekiel, confirms that God Himself will come to seek and save what is lost.
Jesus affirms He is here to do that in Luke 19:10.
Daniel 7:13-14
I beheld therefore in the vision of the night, and lo, one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the Ancient of days: and they presented him before him. And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed.
Daniel 7:13-14
Like Isaiah and Ezekiel, your prophet, Daniel, told you that your Messiah would come from Heaven as God the Son, flesh incarnate, and would be King over even the gentiles, with an eternal Kingdom of Heaven.
See Matthew 25:31-34 and John 3:11-21.
Hosea 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
Osee (Hosea) 6:6
Your Messiah, Jesus Christ, echoes these words in Matthew 9:13 and Matthew 12:7.
Hosea 11:1
As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt.
Osee (Hosea) 11:1
Your prophet, Hosea, was not only talking about how God liberated your people from Egypt, but also how the Son of God will come back to Israel from a brief period in Egypt.
See Matthew 2:14-15 for this fulfillment of prophecy.
Micah 5:2
AND THOU, BETHLEHEM Ephrata, art a little one among the thousands of Juda: out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be the ruler in Israel: and his going forth is from the beginning, from the days of eternity.
Micheas (Micah) 5:2
Likewise, your prophet, Micah, told you that your Messiah shall be born in Bethlehem, and that He was with God the Father from the beginning of Eternity.
This prophecy was fulfilled in Luke 2:4-15.
Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Zacharias (Zechariah) 9:9
And your Messiah, Jesus Christ, fulfilled this prophecy in Mark 11:1-11.
Zechariah 11:12-13
And I said to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my wages: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said to me: Cast it to the statuary, a handsome price, that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord to the statuary.
Zacharias (Zechariah) 11:12-13
Your prophet, Zechariah, prophesizes on the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in Zechariah 11.
The event that causes God to will this in 70 AD was the act of Judas Iscariot selling out your Messiah for His crucifixion for 30 shekels.
See Matthew 27:3-10.
Malachi 3:1
Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.
Malachias (Malachi) 3:1
Moreover, your prophet, Malachi, prophesizes that St. John the Baptist would bring disciples together to prepare for your Messiah.
This was also fulfilled in Matthew 11:10.
Come Back Home, Jews
Thus, it is clear the Jesus Christ is your rightful Messiah, the Son of Man, God among us, as your own prophets told you!
Please fulfill the prophecy of St. Paul in Romans 11 and come back home to your Covenant with God.
Since the First Century, you have had no Temple, no priesthood, no sacrifices, nothing worthy to give back to God!
God has chastised you, and scattered you all over the world because you rejected Him and killed His Only Begotten Son, your Messiah!
Come back home, Jews… Come back to the continuation of Temple Judaism, which is Catholicism.
If you accept your Messiah, and His Holy Catholic Church, you can be with God one day.