This Twelfth Imam may very well be none other than the Anti-Christ/Anti-Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Scriptures (the Tanakh) and in the Brit Chadasha (New Testament). He was spoken of by the Prophet Daniel, and by Yeshua the Messiah, and by several others like Rav Shaul (the Apostle Paul),and Yochanan the Seer of Patmos (John the Apostle). The Islamic uprising in the Middle East now occurring before our eyes is setting the stage, with the religious and political climate that will be the catalyst; which will usher in the coming Anti-Christ-led Islamic Revolution that will sweep the Middle East and spread to several continents. It will attempt to take Jerusalem and to destroy Israel, and it will again attempt to destroy the Jewish people. But this movement of Pan-Arab Islamist nations will be met with the immediate onslaught of G-d’s wrath, and then will Israel know Who the Messiah is, but His appearance will not take place until they welcome Him to Jerusalem after He has vanquished Israel’s enemies – the Pan Islamist Nations now seething with revolution which will gather to war on Israel, and embroil the world into another world war, but G-d will have the last word on what is to come.
But of great prophetic significance, just at the hour of Israel’s deliverance, Every eye shall see… (Revelation 1:7), a technological reality that did not exist two thousand years ago, but was prophesied; would occur at the coming/return of the Messiah to Jerusalem. And it is at that hour that all of Israel will recognize and know WHO THE MESSIAH IS. The Prophet Zachariah prophesied of this when he said:
“AND I WILL POUR OUT ON THE HOUSE OF DAVID AND ON THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, THE SPIRIT OF GRACE AND SUPPLICATION, SO THAT THEY WILL LOOK UPON ME WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED, AND THEY WILL MOURN FOR HIM, AS ONE MOURNS FOR AN ONLY SON, AND THEY WILL WEEP BITTERLY OVER HIM, LIKE THE BITTTER WEEPING OVER A FIRST-BORN.”
Zechariah 13:10
There is only ONE SON OF ISRAEL WHO WAS PIERCED IN THIS MANNER WHO THE SCRIPTURES TEACH WOULD BE THE MOSCHIACH. And the prophecy begins with the descent of the Ruach Ha Kodesh – the Holy Spirit – on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, but then changes when the Lord G-d uses the First Person Singular in describing that He has been pierced, and that THEY (the inhabitants of Jerusalem) WILL LOOK UPON ME WHOM THEY (the inhabitants of Jerusalem) HAVE PIERCED (crucifixion). And while thousands of Jews were put to death in this manner during the Roman occupation of the Holy Land during the Second Temple Era, ONLY ONE UNIQUE SON OF ISRAEL – YESHUA – WAS CHARGED BY THE ROMAN CIVIL AUTHORITIES WITH THE SUPERSCRIPTION ABOVE THE PLACE OF HIS EXECUTION UNIQUELY AS “KING OF THE JEWS.” While Judah of Galilee and his followers and many others were executed by the Roman authorities, NO OTHER MILITARY OR RELIGIOUS PERSON IN ALL OF JEWISH HISTORY HAS EVER BEEN CHARGED WITH THESE WORDS, AS WELL AS IN THIS MANNER – BY ROMAN CRUCIFIXON. NO ONE. This is significant, for in order for Isaiah’s prophecy concerning the Moschiach to come to pass, the Person about whom it is speaking, must have suffered the death of piercing, and NO OTHER JEWISH RELIGIOUS, CIVIL, OR MILITARY LEADER OR PERSON HAS EVER BEEN EXECUTED IN THIS MANNER WITH THE CHARGE “KING OF THE JEWS” ABOVE HIS HEAD OTHER THAN YESHUA BEN DAVID BEN JOSEPH. Again, this is significant, if one is to consider who in Jewish history has ever filled such a role as this, which according to the prophet Isaiah and King David, and the prophet Zechariah, the Moschiach would fulfill. What’s more, And here the prophet Zechariah focuses on only ONE SON OF ISRAEL WHOM THE REST OF ISRAEL WILL LOOK UPON WHOM HE SAYS THEY HAVE PIERCED, AND STRANGELY HERE TOO IN THIS PROPHECY THE ONE WHO IS PIERCED IS ALSO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL. Only One Jewish historical/religious figure has lived in all Jewish history to whom is ascribed the title of Adon, and not just Adon, but He is given the unique place within the godhead of being One and the same God according to the oldest writings of the Christian Faith penned by Jewish Monotheists who understood precisely the ramifications of what they were writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Relative to this, Isaiah the prophet wrote about Moschiach in the following manner:
BEHOLD, MY SERVANT WILL PROSPER, HE WILL BE HIGH AND LIFTED UP, AND GREATLY EXALTED. JUST AS MANY WERE ASTONISHED AT YOU, MY PEOPLE (Israel), SO HIS (Maschiach’s) APPEARANCE WAS MARRED MORE THAN ANY MAN, AND HIS FORM MORE THAN THE SONS OF MEN. THUS HE WILL SPRINKLE MANY NATIONS, KINGS WILL SHUT THEIR MOUTHS ON ACCOUNT OF HIM; FOR WHAT THEY HAD NOT BEEN TOLD THEM THEY WILL SEE, AND WHAT THEY HAD NOT HEARD THEY WILL UNDERSTAND. (The Maschiach will sprinkle many people from many nations and they will understand what Judaism did not teach them, because they were not raised in Judaism, and it will shut all protestations made against the God of Israel on account of this great work He would accomplish for Israel and the nations through His Servant, Maschiach Ben Joseph/David – Yeshua Ben Israel). (Isaiah 52:13-15)
WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR MESSAGE? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED? FOR HE GREW UP BEFORE HIM LIKE A TENDER SHOOT, AND LIKE A ROOT OUT OF PARCHED (dry) GROUND; HE HAS NO STATELY FORM OR MAJESTY THAT WE SHOULD LOOK UPON HIM, NOR APPEARANCE THAT WE SHOULD BE ATTRACTED TO HIM. HE WAS DESPISED AND FORSAKEN OF MEN, AND A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF; AND LIKE ONE FROM WHOM MEN HIDE THEIR FACE. HE WAS DESPISED, AND WE DID NOT ESTEEM HIM. SURELY OUR GRIEFS (literally, sickness) HE HIMSELF BORE, AND OUR SORROWS HE CARRIED; YET WE OURSELVES ESTEEMED HIM STRICKEN, SMITTEN OF GOD AND AFFLICTED. BUT HE WAS PIERCED THROUGH FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS CRUSHED FOR OUR INIQUITIES,; THE CHASTENING FOR OUR WELL BEING FELL UPON HIM, AND BY HIS SCOURGING WE ARE HEALED. ALL OF US LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY, EACH OF US HAS TURNED HIS OWN WAY; BUT THE LORD HAS CAUSED THE INIQUITY OF US ALL TO FALL ON HIM. HE WAS OPPRESSED AND HE WAS AFFLICTED, YET HE DID NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH; LIKE A LAMB THAT IS LED TO THE SLAUGHTER, AND LIKE A SHEEP THAT IS SILENT BEFORE ITS SHEARERS, SO HE DID NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH. BY OPPRESSION AND JUDGMENT HE WAS TAKEN AWAY; AND AS FOR HIS GENERATION, WHO CONSIDERED THAT HE WAS CUT OFF OUT OF THE LAND OF THE LIVING, FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF MY PEOPLE (Israel) TO WHOM THE STROKE WAS DUE? HIS GRAVE WAS ASSIGNED WITH WICKED MEN (criminals), YET HE WAS WITH A RICH MAN IN HIS DEATH (buried by a prominent member of the Great Sanhedrin, Joseph of Arimathea’s family grave, hewn out of solid stone on the side of a hill, near the place of execution), BECAUSE HE HAD DONE NO VIOLENCE (did not break any law, was not a revolutionary bent on overthrowing the government), NOR WAS THERE ANY DECIET IN HIS MOUTH. BUT THE LORD WAS PLEASED TO CRUSH HIM, PUTTING HIM TO GRIEF; IF HE WOULD RENDER HIMSELF AS A GUILT OFFERING, HE WILL SEE HIS OFFSPRING (Those who are His children through a spiritual new birth from above), HE WILL PROLONG HIS DAYS, (After dying horribly as a Guilt Offering, taking on Himself the guilt of His people, He rises to live forever) AND THE GOOD PLEASURE OF THE LORD WILL PROSPER IN HIS HAND. AS A RESULT OF THE ANGUISH OF HIS SOUL, HE WILL SEE IT AND BE SATISFIED; BY HIS KNOWLEDGE THE RIGHTEOUS ONE, MY SERVANT (Moschiach), WILL JUSTIFY MANY, AS HE WILL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES. THEREFORE, I WILL A LOT HIM A PORTION WITH THE GREAT, AND HE WILL DIVIDE THE BOOTY WITH THE STRONG; BECAUSE HE POURED HIMSELF TO DEATH, AND WAS NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS; YET HE HIMSELF BORE THE SIN OF MANY, AND INTERCEDED FOR THE TRANSGRESSORS. (Isaiah 53:1-12)
Today, and since the advent of Christianity in its many forms (Roman Catholicism, Coptic Catholics, Maronite Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Assyrian Orthodox, the various denominations following the Protestant Reformation; Lutheran, Reform, Presbyterian, Anabaptist, Baptist, Anglican, Evangelical, Pentecostal, etc.), official Judaism, in the process of denying any “Christian” interpretation” of the Hebrew Scriptures, has sought to ascribe to Israel and the Jewish people almost every prophetic Scripture that PRE-RABBINIC JUDAISM ascribed exclusively to the Messiah, even the prophecy of Isaiah above which describes painstakingly the sufferings of G-d’s Servant and Holy One – the Moschiach. But, this is at variance with the Hebrew Scriptures, which says of Israel the following, ‘ISRAEL WAS HOLY TO THE LORD, THE FRUIT OF HIS HARVEST; ALL WHO ATE OF IT BECAME GUILTY; EVIL CAME UPON THEM,’ DECLARES THE LORD.” (Jeremiah 2:3); a Scripture indicating that anyone who caused Israel to suffer would themselves be guilty, whereas in contrast to this, the Prophet Isaiah prophesies about, whom he calls the Servant of the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, the Moschiach’s death would have the complete opposite affect:
SURELY OUR GRIEFS (literally, sickness) HE HIMSELF BORE, AND OUR SORROWS HE CARRIED (Isaiah 53:4), BUT HE WAS PIERCED THROUGH FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS CRUSHED FOR OUR INIQUITIES; THE CHASTENING FOR OUR WELL BEING FELL UPON HIM, AND BY HIS SCOURGING WE ARE HEALED (Isaiah 53:5), BUT THE LORD HAS CAUSED THE INIQUITY OF US ALL TO FALL ON HIM (Isaiah 53:6b), BY OPPRESSION AND JUDGMENT HE WAS TAKEN AWAY; AND AS FOR HIS GENERATION, WHO CONSIDERED THAT HE WAS CUT OFF OUT OF THE LAND OF THE LIVING, FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF MY PEOPLE (Isaiah’s people, the nation of Israel) TO WHOM THE STROKE WAS DUE? (Isaiah 53:8), BUT THE LORD WAS PLEASED TO CRUSH HIM, PUTTING HIM TO GRIEF; IF HE WOULD RENDER HIMSELF AS A GUILT OFFERING (Isaiah 53:10a), AS A RESULT OF THE ANGUISH OF HIS SOUL, HE WILL SEE IT AND BE SATISFIED; BY HIS KNOWLEDGE THE RIGHTEOUS ONE, MY SERVANT (Moschiach), WILL JUSTIFY MANY, AS HE WILL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES. (Isaiah 53:11) BECAUSE HE POURED HIMSELF TO DEATH, AND WAS NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS; YET HE HIMSELF BORE THE SIN OF MANY, AND INTERCEDED FOR THE TRANSGRESSORS (Isaiah 53:12b).
We see then, that anyone who causes Israel to suffer will bear their guilt for it, whereas the Moschiach’s suffering would be for our well-being, and reconciliation with G-d, since He will bear our guilt, and carry the illness of the evil inclination from us, and by Whose stripes we are healed. Therefore conclusively, Isaiah prophesies of the Moschiach in the passage above, as ancient Judaism properly and correctly taught centuries before the advent of Christianity.
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Every time G-d says to Israel, “I will not hide My face from them any longer,” and “On that day they will know that I am the Lord,” and “On that day they will know I am the Lord the God,” and “I will hide My face from them no longer,” the prophecy refers to that day of Israel’s full restoration, where Yeshua will hide His face no longer from His brethren, the sons of Israel, for His face has been hidden from them, and He is not known or recognized by His people, the Jewish people; and that will be the day they will know that He is the Lord, and know that the Lord is G-d, and Yeshua is Adon.
“AND THE NATIONS WILL KNOW THAT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WENT INTO EXILE BECAUSE THEY ACTED TREACHEROUSLY AGAINST ME, AND I HID MY FACE FROM THEM; SO THAT I GAVE THEM INTO THE HAND OF THEIR ADVERSARIES, AND ALL OF THEM FELL BY THE SWORD. ACCORDING TO THEIR UNCLEANNESS AND ACCORDING TO THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS I DEALT WITH THEM, AND HID MY FACE FROM THEM.”
Ezekiel 39:23-24
And many of you will ask, “And why does it speak of Yeshua here?” Because it is preceded by this prophecy, “AND THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THEIR GOD ON THAT DAY,” at this time, most of Israel does not know that Yeshua is King Moschiach, Ha Adon (the Lord), in other words, that Jesus is Lord, as He is properly called in 1Corinthians 12:3. But the prophecy promises that ON THAT DAY THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WILL KNOW THAT YESHUA IS LORD, for it says, “AND THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THEIR GOD FROM THAT DAY ONWARD. THEREFORE, THUS SAYS THE LORD,’NOW I SHALL RESTORE THE FORTUNES OF JACOB, AND HAVE MERCY ON THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; AND I SHALL BE JEALOUS FOR MY HOLY NAME. AND THEY SHALL BEAR THEIR DISGRACE AND ALL THEIR TREACHERY WHICH THEY PERPETRATED AGAINST ME, WHEN THEY LIVE SECURELY ON THEIR OWN LAND WITH NO ONE TO MAKE THEM AFRAID. WHEN I BRING THEM BACK FROM THE PEOPLES AND GATHER THEM FROM THE LANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES, THEN I (the Moschiach) SHALL BE SANCTIFIED THROUGH THEM IN THE SIGHT OF THE MANY NATIONS.”
And how is it that this prophecy speaks of Yeshua/Jesus here? Because it is preceded by the following prophecy, “AND THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THEIR GOD ON THAT DAY.” For the last two thousand years Israel has known that the Lord is G-d, and that there is no god but the Lord G-d of Israel, so why would the prophecy declare that “ON THAT DAY THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THEIR GOD,” ? Because at this time, and until “THAT DAY,” though Israel knows and has known for two millennia that the Lord is G-d, and there is no G-d but the Lord, it has not known and does not presently recognize who the Messiah is, nor do they recognize Yeshua as the Messiah, even less as Lord.
But the prophecy promises that ON THAT DAY THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WILL KNOW YESHUA IS LORD, for it says, “AND THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THEIR GOD FROM THAT DAY ONWARD. THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD, ‘NOW I SHALL RESTORE THE FORTUNES OF JACOB, AND HAVE MERCY ON THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; AND I SHALL BE JEALOUS FOR MY HOLY NAME. AND THEY SHALL BEAR THEIR DISGRACE AND ALL THEIR TREACHERY WHICH THEY PERPETRATED AGAINST ME, WHEN THEY LIVE SECURELY ON THEIR OWN LAND WITH NO ONE TO MAKE THEM AFRAID. WHEN I BRING THEM BACK FROM THE PEOPLES AND GATHER THEM FROM THE LANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES, THEN I (Yeshua) SHALL BE SANCTIFIED THROUGH THEM IN THE SIGHT OF MANY NATIONS.”
For centuries the Jewish people have known that the Lord is G-d while exiled from their land, yet Jesus has been hidden from them, for the Scripture says, But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the Old Covenant (Torah/Haftorahs) the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Moschiach. But whenever Moses is read (the Law), a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. (2Corinthians 3:14-16) What Rav Shaul, also known as Saul-Paulus of Tarsus, a first century Tanna and Pharisee, rabbinic student of the great Jewish sage, Rabban Gamaliel I, is saying here is that when that veil is lifted, Israel will see the Lord, and recognize Him, and ON THAT DAY ONWARDS, THEY WILL KNOW THAT THE LORD IS THEIR GOD; that is to say, Yeshua is Lord and Moschiach. How will they know this? By two very important events which had not occurred when the Prophet Ezekiel and the Prophet Zechariah prophesied what we read above, and these are:
1.) G-d will not hide His face from them any longer.
2.) He will pour out His Spirit on all Israel (Ezekiel39:29), for no one can say “Yeshua is Adon – Jesus is Lord” except by the Ruach Ha Kodesh – by the Holy Spirit. (1Corinthians 12:3), and whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. (2Corinthians 3:16)
It is not by chance that the prophet Isaiah made the following prophetic observation:
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. And I will wait for the Lord who is hiding HIs face from the house of Jacob, I will even look eagerly for Him. (Isaiah 8:16-17)
Every observant Jew knows that there is only One G-d, and they know Him as the Lord G-d of Israel – the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel). Because the Name of G-d is so holy, they use the phrase “Ha Shem” (the Name) to denote the Lord G-d; thus out of reverence they use the term Ha Shem when invoking His glorious name. But the identity and name of Moschiach has been hidden from them. He is unrecognizable to His own people – the Jewish people – and at the time of this writing, G-d’s Ruach Ha Kodesh (His Holy Spirit) has not yet descended on all of His people Israel, however He is descending on Jews around the world who have come to recognize that Yeshua – Jesus – is the Holy One of Israel, and have accepted Him into their lives and faith as the Promised Messiah, which He rightfully, Scripturally, and prophetically is.
Now note that the prophecy indicates that Israel will return to the land, yet it is only AFTER they have ALL returned to the land of Israel from the lands of their exile (Ezekiel 39:28) that the above prophecy in Ezekiel will have come to pass – for the prophecy states that THE LORD WILL NOT LEAVE NONE OF THEM – that is, ALL OF ISRAEL – All of the Jewish people – there in the lands where they were exiled to. This entails a mass exodus from the nations to Israel that will dwarf the first, and has been occurring since Israel became a nation on May of 1948. Then when all Israel is restored, Ha Shem will pour out His Spirit on them. (Ezekiel 39:28-29), and “THEY WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THEIR GOD ,” that is, they will recognize the Moschiach – Who He is – and know that He is Lord – something they will know when His Spirit has been poured down upon them, a future event. They will know and recognize Yeshua the Messiah ON THAT DAY.
This is significant. Why? Because of the following prophecy. When Yeshua/Jesus walked the earth and was in the midst of His people Israel, He made the following prophetic lamentation over Jerusalem as He approached it for the last time, knowing what awaited Him in the city:
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! 35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!’”
Luke 13:34-35
29 When He approached Bethpage and Bethany, near the [n]mount that is called Olivet, He sent two of the disciples, 30 saying, “Go into the village ahead of you; there, as you enter, you will find a colt tied on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of it.’” 32 So those who were sent went away and found it just as He had told them. 33 As they were untying the colt, its [o]owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 34 They said, “The Lord has need of it.” 35 They brought it to Jesus, and they threw their coats on the colt and put Jesus on it. 36 As He was going, they were spreading their coats on the road. 37 As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God [p]joyfully with a loud voice for all the [q]miracles which they had seen, 38 shouting:
“BLESSED IS THE KING WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD;
Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 Some of the Pharisees [r]in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.” 40 But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”
41 When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you [s]when your enemies will throw up a [t]barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side, 44 and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
Luke 19:29-44
As Jesus faced the fateful city of Jerusalem, He wept bitterly over His beloved city, and He spoke as it were to its civil and religious leadership, and made the prophetic statements that the city of Jerusalem would be overrun and would be leveled to the ground; which occurred precisely as He prophesied on the Hebrew month of Av, on the 9th day, in the year 70 of our common era; and even more telling - that the leaders of Judaism would not see the Moschiach until they learn to welcome Him back into the city.
As much as Israel has desired to see the coming of the Messiah for two thousand years, He will not make His appearance until this momentous event takes place. Those within Judaism who eagerly await Moschiach and pray for the day of His revealing, WILL NOT SEE IT COME TO PASS UNTIL THE VEIL IS LIFTED BY THE UNBINDING OF THE LAW OF THIS TESTIMONY – WHAT TESTIMONY? THE TESTIMONY, AND THE UNSEALING OF ISAIAH’S PROPHECY ABOUT MOSCHIACH (ISAIAH 53), AND THE ENTIRE NATION OF ISRAEL IS GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECY AND ITS FULFILLMENT IN YESHUA/JESUS, AND RECOGNIZES AND SEES HIM WHO WAS PIERCED THROUGH FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, AND CRUSHED FOR OUR INIQUITIES, ON WHOM THE CHASTENING FOR OUR WELLBEING FELL, ON WHOM THE LORD WAS PLEASED TO CRUSH, RENDERING HIM AS OUR GUILT OFFERING, AS HE WOULD BEAR OUR INIQUITIES, BY WHOSE KNOWLEDGE OF THIS, HE, THE HOLY ONE, BLESSED BE HE; WOULD BEAR OUR INIQUITIES, POURING HIMSELF OUT AS AN OFFERING FOR OUR SINS,BEARING THE SINS OF MANY, ON WHOM THE STROKE OF G-D’S WRATH FELL FOR OUR SINS; YES, WE WHO DEALT TREACHEROUSLY WITH THE HOLY ONE WITH OUR SINS, BUT ON THE DAY OF ISRAEL’S REDEMPTION, AFTER THEY HAVE RETURNED TO THE LAND FROM ALL OF THE NATIONS WHERE THEY WERE SCATTERED, THEY WILL MOURN FOR HIM AS ONE MOURNS FOR AN ONLY SON, THEIR SON, THE SON OF ISRAEL – SON OF MAN; OF WHOM DANIEL THE PROPHET PROPHESIED THAT MOSCHIACH WOULD DIE AND WOULD BE CUT OFF FROM JUDAISM BEFORE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, DURING THE SECOND TEMPLE ERA, AND THE ARMY OF THE ROMANS WOULD COME INTO THE CITY LIKE A FLOOD, JUST AS JOSEPHUS THE HISTORIAN DESCRIBED IT WHEN HE SAW IT FOR HIMSELF AND RECORDED IT IN HIS WARS OF THE JEWS (JUST AS IT HAS HAPPENED), BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF, RATHER FOR THE NATION OF ISRAEL AND ITS PEOPLE – THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD; FOR ALL WHO WOULD COME TO HIM NEAR AND AFAR; FROM WHOSE FACE HE HAD HIDDEN FOR SO LONG, BUT WOULD NOW REVEAL IT ON THAT DAY.
But in order for this to take place, the civil and religious leaders of Israel – of Judaism – must first recognize Him and know for certain that He is who He and many others for two millennia have claimed Him to be – the Holy One of Israel, Melech Moschiach Ben David ha Or; King Messiah, Son of David, the Light. In order for this to occur, THE LORD WHO IS HIDING HIS FACE FROM THE HOUSE OF JACOB MUST LIFT THE VEIL SO THAT HE CAN BE RECOGNIZED BY HIS PEOPLE. This is because it is by revelation that men come to know the Lord, and it is by G-d’s design and choosing that they come to Jesus and are saved (John 17:2), Jesus Himself has said this, when He spoke about it in this manner:
“All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.”
John 6:37
“No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:44
“For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me, unless it has been granted him from the Father.”
John 6:65b
“If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’”
John 8:54b
We see the living G-d bears witness of the Messiah also through His word, because when Jesus was pleading with those who struggled whether or not to believe in Him, He told them:
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness of Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me, that you may have life. Do not think that I accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
John 5:39-40, 45-47
And for those who had believed, but had lost all hope following Jesus’ death and burial; heard Jesus Himself tell them once He was resurrected from the dead that the entire Hebrew Bible bears witness of His coming, because Luke tells us that He said the following to two of His disciples as they walked on the road and were discussing the events of the previous week:
“And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”
Luke 24:25-26
Further on, we read the following:
Now He said to them (His disciples and all His followers), “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets (Torah Haftorahs) and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and He said to them, “Thus it is written that the Messiah should suffer and rise again from the dead the third day.; and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.”
Luke 24:44-48
So that He has made it clear and has left no doubt that indeed the witness of G-d and His Word confirms Messiah’s coming and reveals Him to all whom G-d has in His foreknowledge chosen and predestined to know Him through faith in His Son, just as the Scriptures say.
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