Why Jewish People Do Not Accept Jesus As Messiah - Part 2

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KBond

KBond

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(This is the 2nd blog about being Jewish.)


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With over 300 prophecies about the coming Messiah pointing to Jesus, it may be hard to understand why Jewish people do not accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah. Well, some Jewish people do accept Jesus as their Messiah and Savior. Jewish people practicing Jewish traditions that have accepted Jesus are called Messianic Jews.

Yet there are many more Jewish people who do not accept Jesus as their Messiah. Here are two major reasons why:

1. The first reason is CONTEXT. Jewish people think Christians take Messianic prophecies out of context. Christians argue the Bible passages that contain prophecy have a dual meaning.

2. The second reason is the JEWISH BIBLE. The Jewish translation of the Bible renders certain passages differently. For instance, Christian Bible state Immanuel will be born to a virgin in Isaiah 7:14. In the Jewish Bible, it simply says Immanuel will be born to a young woman.

I hope this blog has helped unravel the mystery of why Jewish people are still waiting for their Messiah while the rest of us are waiting for His return!
 
You are trying to put a huge subject into a few words, and it can't be done.

In the first place, the word Jew wasn't used until Hebrews were exiled from Judah to Babylon, then the people from Judah were called Jews. They blended in very well with the natives, so the idea of them having a separate religion wasn't part of the name Jew at first. The Jews really started a new religion then, for it had been temple based and the temple was gone. Ezra and Nehemiah went to Jerusalem and brought back the Hebrew ways of God.

They base their rejection of Christ on the bible. For an example, scripture says the government will be on His shoulders. They misread that as saying that Christ would lead a secular government. They have misread several scriptures and say Christ did not fulfill them so the Messiah is still to come. In Romans it tells us that, just as God always used the Jews for our sakes, God has blinded them for our sakes.

This is a very involved study that needs to be done by all Christians, we need to understand how God us using the Jewish people, and who Israel is, both the people born into that race, and those grafted in.
 
Thanks for your comment, RedTent. I agree it is a huge subject that can only be introduced by a short blog. Readers should consider these blogs as appetizers. If interested, launch a full-scale study on the subject.
 
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