How come God didn't tell the Jews that "Jesus by name" is coming to save them and everybody else?
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because he was not the Messiah\n\ndo you think that 99.9% of Jews rejected him without reason?\n\nan for those who say that Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of the messiah email me your best five and I will blow them out of the water.
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Not an antagonist but a betrayer. He had hoped that Jesus would be an earthly deliverer who would be this great hero and save the Jews from the Romans (like so many others thought). But when He realized that He was not what he had expected he turned Jesus in.
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Hi  It goes back all way to Abraham. Both came from him. Abraham had promise from God for his decendents. Jews are the people of promise and someday the world will see this. But Jews have darker nights ahead before they see promise come to past.
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Because Jesus was a false prophet and failed to fulfill the messianic prophecy.\n\nIf he did anything at all, he was of the Adversary, not G-d.\n\nAnd considering I don't believe in Judiasm either, any discussion of HaMasiach is quite moot.
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Jews were the chosen people by God.  Thats why He sent His son down to be born into a Jewish culture.  However, when Jesus started preaching, His own people, the Jews, didn't believe He was the Messiah, God's son.  Eventually, Jesus left them and preached to the non-jews, the Gentiles.  The Gentiles that followed Him later became known as Christians, as is any person who follows in Christ's footsteps.  Now Gods chosen people is whoever decides to follow Him, they will get to Heaven, not just Jews.
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Man, I understand where your coming from.  I've studied other religions and looked into this Jesus and I've asked the same question and many more.  Jesus is special for a number of reasons.  Yes, there were many people who crucified as saviors before and after Jesus.  We still get people popping up claiming divinity.  The real question isn't so much as is Jesus the savior because he got a few books written about him, its why were there books written about him in the first place.  The most basic point anyone can show you is this...its not that Jesus died, its that he rose after his death.  And there is more evidence that he did actually rise 3 days later and not just Biblical evidence.  First off, the fact that the Roman leaders and armies wanted him gone, because it was the time of Pass Over which is the celebration of Jews getting out of Egypt, and at this time of year, the Jewish community gets a little out of hand, for the are now under the Roman rule.  So when Jesus comes in, and he's claiming to be their savior...the crowd thinks he's going to be a king and run the Romans out.  So, if Jesus didn't rise again, why did the Romans say nothing?  Why did the Jewish Pharaseas (please excuse my spelling) who pushed to have him killed, not stand up and say..."he's still dead!"?  What was it that gave Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John the confedance to step out of their hidding, for fear they were going to be crucified, and boldly speak of a living God, Jesus...and welcome their death?  These questions may seem weak, but if you really think about them and look at the history and try to get in the minds of all these people...only one thing makes since...Jesus is not dead...he rose, becoming a savior that no one expected, but a savior from ourselves.  Thats why Jesus is special, the others were saviors...they were fanatics.  There are a lot of other reasons why Jesus is special, but I honestly have the feeling that if this thought doesn't at least make you rethink the history, then anything else I say, will truly be pointless.
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Luke 23:35\nThe people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One."\n(About Jesus, they are referring to the promises the promises don't say chosen one, unless the ones in Jeremiah are...)\n\nKing David was referred to as the chosen one.
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Jesus was a Jew.  He never asked anybody to start a new religion.
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Jesus clearly said that he was going to be HANDED OVER, not that he himself would do it.\n\nFor example, in Mark 9:31  he tells his disciples, "The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise."\n\nLater he talks about the one who would betray him, e.g., Mark 14:21  For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!  It would have been better for that man if he had not been born." \n\nIn fact, he announces that it is one of the Twelve eating the Passover meal with him, that would betray him.  (The amount, FWIW is 30 pieces of silver It is Joseph who  was sold for 20 pieces [Genesis 37], so some get them confused; and 40 is a common 'round number' in Scripture.)\n\nIn many of Jesus' announcements he DOES explain that this was all according to what had been prophesied, and that is was the means by which God fufilled his plans.  But he does NOT say that those who acted against him were in any way 'agreeing to help him.'  No, "they meant it for evil"  Compare Acs 2:23 where Peter declares "this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men."\n\n(Other Scriptures include this same idea -- for example, it is by God's plan that the Assyrians attack Israel.  They are 'carrying out God's judgment'.  Only that is not what motivates THEM, and God declares that he will in turn judge these who had attacked Israel for their own ends --see Isaiah 10:5-16, especially vv.6-7 -"Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy....")\n\n---------------------------\n\nHow the "Gospel of Judas" differs:\n\n1) Judas is portrayed as being the ONE disciple who 'really gets it' and to him Jesus reveals a special knowledge hidden from all the others.  (This clearly contradicts the New Testament teaching).\n\n2) Judas hands Jesus over to die so that he can escape his human body, since the body and all the physical world is considered to be evil (a basic Gnostic teaching).  In the Bible --both the Old and New Testaments -- the material world is NOT evil.  Rather it was created good (Genesis 1) and the hope is that it will be fully restored at the resurrection.   In keeping with this the NT Gospels Jesus announces (see above) that he will die and RISE AGAIN.
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Your common sense is letting you down,Jim. It developed a flat tire.\n\nJesus did ask God to forgive them - for they do not know what they do (in crucifying our Lord). HOWEVER this forgiveness for killing our Lord did not stop the Jews (those vicious ones, does not include all) from continuing to do wrong and God was displeased with them yes.\n\nDo you really think when Jesus asked God to not lay the act of Crucifying him (gentiles were as guilt and the prayer was for them as well) that this covered everything they did, and thus made those particular Jews behave Godly? NO! There is the free will thing going.\n\nIf I forgive you for hitting me, and you go hit other people, am I supposed to be approving of this? Certainly not.\n\nUnless I am missing what you're getting at - your eyes are blinded or you're just deliberately yanking chains. I love ya man, but you're not using one shred of that intelligence you brag on, here.
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No Christians Don't think they're going to hell. On the contrary, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was jewish. (His mother Mary was a jew).  The jews are the chosen people of God and still are to this day.  God has blinded them to the truth of who Jesus is for now until all of us non-jews are saved.  The truth is our Christian heritage stems from the jews and if we bless the jews, God will bless us.
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http://WhatJewsBelieve.org\n\nNone of the Real Prophecies concerning the messiah have been fulfilled by Jesus.\n\nThe basic beliefs of Christianity about Jesus are against what the Bible says, and so Real Jews cannot believe in Jesus at all.\n\nThe Christian understanding is that the Messiah, Jesus, died for the sins of the people. The messiah is supposed to be a human sacrifice that is the blood sacrifice necessary for the forgiveness of sin.\n\nBut we are taught in our Torah that no one can die for the sins of another. In Deuteronomy 24:16 it specifically says this:\n\nDeuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not \nbe put to death for the children, neither \nshall the children be put to death for\nthe fathers: \nevery man shall be put to death for his \nown sin (eesh b’chet-o yumatu).\n\nIn Exodus 32:30-35, Moses tries to offer himself to atone for the sins of the people. To be written out of Gd's book, means to be written out of the Book of Life, which means Moses was asking to die for the sins of the People. Gd's response is No, it does not work that way, each man dies for his own sin:\n\nExodus 32:30-35 And it came to pass on the \nmorrow, that Moses said unto the people, \nYe have sinned a great sin: and now I will \ngo up unto the Etrnl; perhaps I shall make \nan atonement for your sin. And Moses \nreturned unto the Etrnl, and said, Oh, \nthis people have sinned a great sin, and \nhave made them gods of gold. Yet now, if \nthou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, \nblot me, I pray thee, out of thy book \nwhich thou hast written. And the Etrnl \nsaid unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned \nagainst me, him will I blot out of my \nbook. \n\nThe whole of chapter 18 of the book of Ezekiel is about this idea, that no one can die for someone else's sin. Further, this chapter of Ezekiel teaches us that all we have to do for Gd's forgiveness is to stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd will forgive us:::\n\nEzekiel 18:1-4; 20-24; 26-27 .....Behold, all \nsouls are mine; as the soul of the father, so \nalso the soul of the son is mine: the soul \nthat sinneth, it shall die. Eze 18:20 The soul \nthat sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not \nbear the iniquity of the father, neither shall \nthe father bear the iniquity of the son: the \nrighteousness of the righteous shall be upon \nhim, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be \nupon him. But if the wicked will turn from all \nhis sins that he hath committed, and keep all \nmy statutes, and do that which is lawful and \nright, he shall surely live, he shall not die. \nAll his transgressions that he hath committed, \nthey shall not be mentioned unto him: in his \nrighteousness that he hath done he shall live. \nHave I any pleasure at all that the wicked \nshould die? saith the Etrnl Gd: and not that \nhe should return from his ways, and live?.... \nEze 18:26 When a righteous man turneth away \nfrom his righteousness, and committeth \niniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity \nthat he hath done shall he die. Again, when \nthe wicked man turneth away from his \nwickedness that he hath committed, and doeth \nthat which is lawful and right, he shall save \nhis soul alive. \n\nSo, the Bible is clear, no one can die for the sins of another, and this means that Jesus cannot die for anyone else's sins.\n\nChristians also believe that one needs a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin, that one who does not have such a blood sacrifice will die in their sins, and go to hell, except for the sacrifice of Jesus.\n\nThis, too, is UnBiblical. The Bible describes blood sacrifices for the forgiveness of sin in the Book of Leviticus. But it is in Leviticus itself, in the middle of the discussion of the sin sacrifices, that we are taught that we do not need a blood sacrifice to be forgiven for our sins. Offering a blood sacrifice was an expensive thing to do for the family offering the animal. Was forgiveness then, to be only for the rich? No, because if one cou
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Because they can't read, or just plain dumb. \n\nHow does the Bible prophecy of Christ’s return, fit in with the Jewish belief? \n\n\n Before I, answer this question, I want to show you something that happened on Christmas day 1914, when all the armies of the world laid down their weapons and it was a time of peace. Actually, here’s a picture of the British and German soldiers who were fraternizing at that time and actually saying “Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men.” One day of peace in 1914.  that’s what’s going to happen when the Lord comes back, we’ll have peace. \n\n\n\nIt’s going to last more than a day. The Bible teaches, and she asked about the Jewish belief that Messiah would come. Messiah is our Christ, Psalm 2 verse 6, Yahweh God says, “I will set my King upon the Holy Hill of Jerusalem, and Zechariah 14:4 pictures it when His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives just in front of Jerusalem. And then, of course, in Zechariah 14:16, they come up to Jerusalem year by year to worship the King – the Lord of Hosts and that’s our Lord Jesus Christ. You can also find this in Malachi chapter 4 verses 1-5 in Psalms chapter 2:45,47, and 72, and unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given. The Child born is Christmas time, the Son given is when He returns and the governments on his shoulder and of the increase of His government and of peace there shall be no end. And when this Prince of Peace comes, Isaiah 9:6, they beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and learn war no more. Come quickly,Lord Jesus. and guess what....This will be real quick for some..just not quick enough for others. :)\n\nLord Jesus. \n\n\nHave a nice week.
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In Matthew 27:15-26 it states that the Jewish leaders among the crowd persuaded the crowd to call for Jesus's crucifixion instead of Barabas's.\n\nAn interesting theory that I've read is that some believed that Barabas was the messiah that the Jews had been watching for to deliver them from the rule of the Romans. I've not read anything to give that concrete validity, but it's an interesting theory.
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Well, God has a plan. They asked to be put into the herd of swine. Jesus allowed it. See the point? The demons couldn't even make a move without His very approval. The question misses the overall view. They could do nothing apart from His power. And they knew it. Jesus was demonstrating His power over the very forces of Hell. They will "get theirs" in due time, so to speak.
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this makes no sense as others were also Jewish, including Jesus.
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John 5:43 I am come in my Father’s name; and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. \n\nHe came in his father name Yahweh or Yah for short and we recieve him not. But if someone came in there own name Jesus him we would recieve. \n\n  The Messiah was a Hebrew Israelite from the Tribe of Judah, He lived as a Hebrew with a Hebrew Name given to him from Yah the father.  The name Jesus is English, there is no J or J equivalent in the Hebrew language.  Jesus is not the English translation of the Messiah's Hebrew name. Jesus is a name created by men not by the Most High.  The Hebrew Messiah name is Yahshuah, which means Yah's Salvation or Salvation of Yah, his name tells you whom he is and what his mission is.