ra32 the problem faced by Mat & Luke is that there


IS
SIMPLY NO
SINGLE, COHESIVE PROPHETIC
NARRATIVE CONCERNING THE MESSIAH IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES:
the passage from the gospel of John quoted earlier more often is a perfect example
of the general confusion that existed among the Jews when it came to their messianic prophecies;
for even as the scribes & teachers of the law confidently proclaim that Yesh could nòt bé the messiah
because he is nòt, as those prophecies demand, from Bethlehem, others in the crowd argue
that the Nazarean could not be the messiah because
the prophecies say according to Yoh 7:27
"WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES,
NO ONE WILL KNOW
FROM WHERE
HE IS!"

The truth is
that the prophecies say BOTH things!

In fact, were one to take the advice given to the festival crowd by the skeptical Pharisee & "look into it,"
one would discover a host of contradictory prophecies about the messiah, collected over hundreds of years
by dozens of different hands?! A great many of these prophecies are not even actually prophecies. Prophets such as
Micah, Amos, and Yir-meyahu, who appear to be predicting the coming of a future salvific character from the line of King David
that would one day restore Israel to its former glory, are in fact making veiled criticisms of their CURRENT KING AND
THE PRESENT ORDER, which the prophets imply have fallen short of that Davidic IDEAL! (There is, however,
one thing about which all these prophecies seem to agree: the real messiah is human being, nòt divine!

Belief in a divine messiah would have been anathema to everything Judaism represents, which is why,
without exception, every text in the Hebrew Bible dealing with the messiah presents hìm
as performing his messianic functions on earth, nòt in heaven!) So then, if you wish to
fit yóur preferred messianic candidate into thìs jumbled prophetic tradition,
you must first decide which of these many texts, oral traditions,
popular stories, and folktales yóu wànt to consider?!!

How yóu ànswer thàt question
depends largely on what
it is that yóu
want to sáy
about yóur
messiah!?
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