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We have spent considerable time looking at the expected Messianic revelation as seen through the eyes of the Scriptures as well as the religious leaders of Jesus’ day. We saw that the three major movements of the Essenes, the Sadducees, and the Pharisees attempted in their own ways to promote strict adherence to the Commandments of God as the sole way of adverting a further judgment by God let alone merit the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven and the revelation of Messiah King. In this way all three of these religious movements without First Century Judaism agreed that the only way to merit and be worthy of the prophecies being fulfilled was for the nation of Israel to rise up spiritually and be worthy of her calling as a Holy Nation and a Royal Priesthood. Remember this, that before the Priest could bring sacrifices in behalf of the people, he had to deal with his own sin first! The only hope for the peoples of the world was for Israel to be worthy of the Priesthood to which see was called.
Isa 2:3
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Zech 8:23
23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
Understand that the above scenarios would never happen unless Israel merited her calling as the Priest of YHVH and function like said Priest by being a bridge between the people and God!
We have seen when reading the Bible how God continually sent His ambassadors with the message of repentance to Israel. We also saw that such a lineage of “holy ones” with such messages of "repentance and renewed obedience to the Commandments of God" included not only Moses, the Judges, and the Prophets, but that it culminated with Jesus of Nazareth. We saw how not only Jesus, but John the Immerser as well as Peter began their ministries with the same first word: “Repent...for the Kingdom of God is nigh.” Again this was the first step in the arrival of the Kingdom of God for the world.
We saw how Jesus continually taught repentance in hopes of elevating Israel in that most auspicious time to merit and be worthy of her calling to be a Holy Nation and a Royal Priesthood. We saw as well that in judging the fruit Jesus ultimately saw that the fruits unto repentance was missing. We then saw the inevitable as understood by Jesus that he was to die. Now let us examine this in detail as we close.
Matt 3:2
2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matt 4:17
17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Mark 1:15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Answer for yourself: Did you notice that in every scripture above that "repentance" is irreversibly connected with the coming and manifestation of the Kingdom of God and her King?
Answer for yourself: Did you also notice that the admonition of “believe the Gospel” referred to repentance and not Paul’s version of his own gospel which was to believe in his understanding of Jesus? The “good news” for Jesus was not for one to believe that he was God or that he was to die for their sins; rather, it was that God forgives the sins of the repentant for such actions by Israel will bring her Messiah.
Mark 6:12
12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
Answer for yourself: Did you notice in the above passages that “repentance” was preached as the prerequisite to the manifestation of the Kingdom of God and not Paul’s Christology or the deity of Jesus. Nothing could be further from their minds.
Luke 13:3
3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Matt 3:8
8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Mark 2:17
17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke 3:8
8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Acts 5:31
31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
Answer for yourself: How could just one man like Jesus accomplish such a great task as reaching and preparing a whole nation for his Priestly calling? To accomplish this Jesus first called and sent twelve disciples to Israel with this message.
Matt 10:1
1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Matt 10:7
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. As you have previously seen such preaching of the Kingdom of God’s nearness included the admonition “to repent.”
Luke 9:1-2
1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
Notice that Jesus and his disciples and apostles were seeking a Israel worthy of their Messiah and worthy of leading the world as God’s Holy Nation and Royal Priesthood. It was through the preaching of the "word" of Yeshua that Israel, or those who had ears to hear, would repent and turn their hearts back to the fathers of the faith.
Mal 4:5-6
Matt 10:8
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
What is important to notice is that healings of physical sicknesses went with the preaching of repentance. God's love heals us often when we are not worthy. This will be very important when we later come to the report of the "seventy" when they returned from the mission on which they were sent by Jesus.
Matt 10:11
11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
Matt 10:13
13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Matt 10:38
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Matt 22:8
8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Luke 3:8
8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Luke 15:19
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Sadly, Luke 15:19 would certainly be fulfilled in Israel in 70 C.E.!
Matt 10:15
15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
God's Divine judgment would be forthcoming. Understand this, in the failure of Israel to repent, to return to God with all their heart, to cleave to the commandments of God, and make themselves fit for their calling as YHVH'S Priest to the Gentile Nations, then punishments and the death of the nation would be inevitable. One only needs to read Matt. 10: 16-22 to see that persecutions and possible death was in store for those who preached repentance and preparation for the Kingdom of God from those who rejected the message.
Matt 11:20-24
This was literally a prophecy of the impending doom for Israel in 70 C.E. if she failed to head her last warning to repent.
Jesus continues his teachings and warnings by promising that the only sign Israel would get would be the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matt 12:38-45
Now I am going to ask you to think deeply. Since childhood we have been told that the sign of Jonah was that he was swallowed by a great fish for three days and then spit out and lived. Let me ask you, who saw him in the belly of the great fish? Would not someone need to "see" that for it to be recognized as a "sign?" Jesus said that the current generation would see Jonah's sign and was Jesus to be swallowed by a great fish and be seen by all of that generation? It seems to me that if Jonah's sign was being swallowed by a great fish then Jesus would need to be swallowed by a great fish as well. But what if Jonah's sign was something else and we have not learned it properly? Could that be possible? Yes. How could the people of Jesus' day see him in the belly of a fish? Was this not something that "all" could see in that generation?
Answer for yourself: Ask yourself what was Jonah called to do? He was to preach "repentance" to the generation of Nineveh. Does this sound familiar to what you have been hearing Jesus both say and preach?
The sign of Jonah to which Israel was to witness was nothing more than another Prophet of God (Jesus) sent to them to preach repentance to that generation for the time was short and judgment was at their door if they failed to respond just the way it was for Nineveh. Nineveh repented but Israel did not and would be judged severely by God in 70 C.E.
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. [NOTICE the lack of repentance in Jesus' mind concerning Israel's present generation].
Answer for yourself: Why would the generation of Nineveh rise up and judge Israel? Because they repented and Israel was not to.
Now Jesus says something of an allegorical nature by referring to the Nation of Israel through the picture of a man.
So, being given the opportunity to repent to the next generation which is roughly 40 years, in the failure of such repentance the end result would and judgment upon them would be so much worse had they done so. Also notice Jesus calls this present generation a "wicked generation" because there were not repenting and not rising to their calling of their Priesthood.
Matt 12:46-50
Understand it is to these same people that he would later send the "seventy" with the messages of repentance.
Matt 13:53-58
If you have not noticed I basically have taken the text of the Gospel of Matthew in order and demonstrated to you the story hidden within it. Since the calling of the twelve and equipping them with the message of the Kingdom of God, this message has been rejected repeatedly; and not by strangers, but by those who knew Jesus best and whom watched him grow up amidst them. In the wake of such rejections Jesus promised God response of judgment and destruction. The whole of the mission and message of Jesus was one of repentance and return to the obedience of the Commandments of God which, if heeded, would assure Israel not miss her calling nor her King nor the Kingdom of God which was, according to Daniel 9, imminent.
Matt 10:23
23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. One can see from this the imminent expectation of Jesus that Israel would yet respond and be worthy of her calling.
Matt 16:21
21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
I would have you notice one more important thing. I have, in order, read and cut from the texts of the New Testament the same theme as taught by Jesus; from the calling of the twelve and their commissioning to the self-realization of Jesus that his mission has failed. We say in the mind and life of Jesus that he came to realize that Israel will not repent, that he will not be ushered in as Israel's Messiah, that the Kingdom of God will not materialize, and that the prophecies of the Old Testament will not be fulfilled at this time. Also, he knew that as a failed Messiah he would go the way of all failed "anointed leaders;" he would be killed.
Luke 10:1
1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
Scholars maintain that this account in Luke is nothing more than a "doublet;" a retelling of the same previous account of the sending of the twelve with a few additions. It was customary to believe that there were seventy nations in the world at that time, and it would customary to adapt the "sending of the twelve" to the "sending of the seventy" in order to imply the message was intended to be taken to the whole known world. We must remember that oral traditions from various places, which often differed, were collected and finally put into written forms much later. This made it quite easy for twelve to become seventy.
Luke 10:9
9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you (implies repentance).
Luke 10:10-18
Again, we have the admonitions as we did with the twelve along with the same instructions.
Now the New Testament does not record the reporting back of the twelve to Jesus following their missionary journey. But it does contain the report of the seventy.
Now notice something rather puzzling in this report:
17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils ("devils" and "demons" was understood in the first century as the expression for the healings of diseases) are subject unto us through thy name.
Now again notice something rather puzzling:
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Answer for yourself: What is wrong with this picture? Do you see it?
Answer for yourself: Don't you find it rather puzzling that as I have shown you that Jesus continually and continually preached "repentance" as a necessity for the "emergence of the Kingdom of God" but yet the "praise reports" from the seventy, whom he sent out to preach the Kingdom and repentance, upon their return their comments and testimonies are completely devoid of any mention of any repentance from their ministry efforts? Not one mention of a contrite heart or tears. Not one mention of brokenness and crying over sin. Not one mention of sin at all. Not one report of turning back to Moses and the Commandments of God. Not one report of heightened obedience to the Commandments of God. Finally, not one report of anyone in Israel rising to their high calling to be a Holy Nation or a Royal Priesthood to the Gentile Nations of the world.
In fact these "missionaries" sound so familiar to what we hear today on our radios and televisions. It is never difficult to gather a crowd when one preaches "how to get rich," or "God's prosperity," or "God wants you healed" messages. People will flock to such gatherings. Everything is a success; or at least it seems that way. But when was the last time you went to hear a preacher preach on "sin" and "repentance?" When was the last time you turned out to hear how we have broken God's Commandments? Do you care to know how you do everyday because of the wrong gospel that has been preached to you in Jesus' name no less? Probably few of our readers can relate to this in this Christian climate of "we are OK, you are OK" messages. I can just hear Benny Hinn, Paul Crouch, or Rod Parsley say, if they had been there to hear the reports of the seventy: "Praise God, we need more satellites, more antennas, we need a bigger auditorium next time, we need to rent Madison Square Garden, we need prime time, we need to sell handkerchiefs, we need more cassettes to see, more books, we need to send out 700 next time."
Something was missing from their report and Jesus knew it! They did not. Do you?
As long as the gospel we preach today is not the one Jesus believed and preached then we only postpone the coming of the Kingdom of God and her King. then and as long as we preach As long as our churches fail to hear the words of Jesus and prefer the words of Paul then the coming of the Messiah is pushed further off into the distance. Conspicuously absent in the Gospel preached by Jesus is any mention that belief in his Messiahship is necessary for one's salvation. Conspicuously absent in the Gospel preached by Jesus is any mention that belief in his blood and death is required by God as an atonement for one's sin. Conspicuously absent in the Gospel preached by Jesus is any mention that the Law and the Commandments of God have passed away or will be modified by his soon coming death.
Repentance seems to always be for someone else; not for those who go to churches and hear perversions of the gospel that Jesus taught. The gospel writers had to cover up the fact that Jesus' response to this tragic report from the seventy was that he was to die! God forbid that you read the New Testament and understand the Gospel Jesus taught; you are supposed to hear and believe in the Gospel of Paul instead. God forbid you get the idea in your head that the Law has not passed away and that you begin to examine Biblical Atonement for yourself. If that were to happen you might see Biblical Judaism as the religion of Jesus and as a non-Jew find your place within it as a Godfearer. Rome could not have that.
So the account is passed off as a joyous expression of healings. Now don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong in being healed. Such is God love. But what of our love for God as demonstrated in repentance and a return to living according to His Commandments?
If you just casually read the New Testament you might be led to think that Jesus had considered it a success as well. But you would not what comes next which I will show you.
One has to wonder if Jesus saw it that way; especially in light of what he teaches next. Let us put on the shelf for now Jesus' response that he "beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven" which was inserted into the traditions about Jesus in order to protect him again from being the leader of a failed Messianic Movement. But again I stress the problem was not him; but the lack of righteousness and the failure of Israel to repent and return to God with all their heart and soul; for such was demanded of God's Royal Priests.
Jesus continues to teach following his declaration that he was going to die because Israel will not measure up and merit the Kingdom of God in that generation. In chapter 19, Jesus continues to teach about the Kingdom of God and its benefits.
Matt 19:16-17
16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Matt 19:17
One thing is certain. When the eschatalogical Kingdom of God appears death will cease. Eternal Life will be a realization. So, in veiled words, the man above asked Jesus a very deep question that has many different levels. He was asking first of all about what he must DO and NOT BELIEVE to have Eternal Life. Notice that Eternal Life is something that comes in response to our actions and not to just mental ascent to a fact or tradition.
Interestingly Jesus directs him to the Commandments of God as the answer to how to obtain Eternal Life. This is completely opposite to the Gentile Christian message today which teaches obtaining Eternal Life by ascribing to Paul's vision of Jesus. Repentance and obedience to the Commandments of God is how the Kingdom of God was to be brought, is to be brought, and will always be brought.
Matt 20:1
1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his
Again we read the teachings of Jesus in succession. I will not quote the whole of the parable as it is too long for this article, but understand Jesus mentions that in the vineyard of God those given oversight to bring forth fruit stand idle. He says it three times. Little was being done to bring forth the harvest and the Kingdom of God by Israel.
Now Jesus says something startling!
Matt 20:17-19
Now please listen to this.
Matt 20:16
16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
In the vineyard of God all of Israel was called to repent and prepare to be a Holy Nation and a Royal Priesthood. After all the preaching by Moses, the Judges, Samuel, the Prophets, and finally Jesus, the fruit of such preaching was not to be found in the vineyard of God nor on the Olive Tree of Israel. All of Israel was called to be a Holy Nation; too few responded. This is verified in the response of the seventy which failed to utter one word about repentance and a return to God and His Commandments by the people of Galilee where Jesus had ministered for almost 3 years. Israel had failed its calling and its purpose being sanctified out by God at Sinai.
Jesus realized that he had not see the fruit of repentance he had hoped to see and which was so desperately needed if his ministry and message was to succeed. In the failure to see such works of repentance he acknowledged: "many were called to be a Holy Nation and a Royal Priesthood….too few responded."
Right after the above realization and acknowledgment on the part of Jesus…..he immediately says:
Matt 20:17-19
Jesus was resided to the fact that he had lost Israel, or should I say Israel had lost herself and her calling. She had missed the days of her visitation.
If we keep reading in succession on the way to Jerusalem Jesus sees a fig tree (again a symbol for Israel). One needs to know that a fig tree bears its fruit before its leaves which is somewhat unusual. This means that if the tree had leaves one would expect normally to find fruit as well. Jesus saw leaves but no fruit. Again this was not the normal course of affairs expected. The analogy is that with all the preparation given to God's vineyard to prepare it for its calling as a Priest to the Nations from Moses on down through Jesus one would expect Israel to be ready to bring the Kingdom and her King and be heir of the fulfilled prophecies of the Old Testament.
Matt 21:17-19
Again I would direct your attention to this very long parable which is taken in succession again. We find that the vineyard of God was handed over to the "tenant farmers" called "husbandmen." These "custodians" of the vineyard of God were sent God servants to increase the fruit (repentance and obedience unto God) of the vineyard. These messengers from God were stones, beaten, and killed (just read the Old Testament) [Matt. 21:35-36]. Next was sent the vineyard owner's son and he was killed (Matt. 21:37-39).
Jesus knew this was what he was facing.
The final result of such a gross failure of a Nation to rise to its holy calling was obliteration:
Matt 21:40-41
The inevitable was fast approaching and Jesus unfortunately knew it because he was right in the middle of it.
Matt 21:43
43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
The Kingdom of God would not come. The King Messiah would not be enthroned and corronated. The prophecies would not be fulfilled. The Messiah would be killed. Israel would miss the day of her visitation. The dead will not be raised. World peace will not occur and no one will beat their swords into plowshares. Disease will not vanish. The Torah will not be taught to all nations as they come up to Zion. The blind will not see, the deaf not hear, the lame will not walk. Death will continue along with man's hatred for his brothers. Racial bigotry will continue along with violation of the Commandments of God.
Religions would increase. We will end up with over 2000 different denominations of Christianity all of which professes it is the "way." Gentile perversions of Judaism will be born and call itself Christianity. Millions will be put to death by the Church-State in the name of Jesus no less. The Sabbath will be changed to sun-worship day. The Biblical Festivals will be changed and cease for the followers of Jesus and be replaced with pagan religious worship to which Jesus' name would be attached. Biblical atonement as given by God will be replaced with a paganized atonement drawn from sun-worship and the mystery religions and taught as it was truth that Jesus and his followers believed. And I could go on!
But you probably don't know that because the New Testament you carry if filled with "might be fulfilled " or "scriptures be fulfilled," or "then was fulfilled what was spoken." At one time in my life I accepted these as it there were inerrant and inspired and infallible. Over the years serious and mature Bible study indicated to me that very few of them were valid fulfillments. One would never know this without many years of intense study that escapes the normal individual. First of all you don't know that the Jewish Scriptures have been horrible translated into the Greek. You don' know, because you never looked nor read the sources that indicate so, that when the Jewish Scriptures were translated by Greek Jews at Alexandria, Egypt (all but the first 5 books which were done by the Rabbis from Jerusalem), many of their Pythagorean and Buddhist religious beliefs were put into this Greek translation at the expense of what the "holy men of old" actually wrote. Concepts such as the Angel-Messiah were infused in the texts that originally taught only the Davidic Messiah. False atonements were written into Isaiah which the original Prophet never wrote. Zechariah was altered to make it look as if God was crucified in the form of another which was at that time a pattern for their crucified sun-gods. Later because Jesus would also die such a death, it would be said of him Zechariah was writing of Jesus when nothing could be further from the truth if one would only read the Hebrew translation instead of the corrupted Zechariah in the Christian Bible. Remember a translation is first taking the Hebrew and relating the very same idea to the Greek and later into the English. Simply said: "A=B=C." They should all read the same. The Hebrew should be conveyed in the Greek the same and the English from the Greek the same. Well…THEY DON'T! And let me say up front this is not just "minor" alterations, but MAJOR THINGS WERE CHANGED INVOLVING DOCTRINES AND DOGMAS.
Please listen up. That means so very often when you read in the New Testament something quoted about Jesus as "fulfilled prophecy" more than likely if you were to investigate the original Hebrew translations then the Old Testament that is quoted from the Hebrew texts does not read anything like the English rendition of it you have in your New Testament. That simply means these Pythagorean and Buddhist ideas concerning the Angel-Messiah have taken the place of what God gave His messengers and you don't know it.
This also means that what you think are fulfilled prophecies in the New Testament are in reality aberrations of the Jewish Prophecies from the Jewish Scriptures which were purposefully taken and misquoted, mistranslated, and taken out of context. All of this again was on purpose to create religious concepts that mirrored those of those doing the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures by these Pythagorean and Buddhist Greek Jews. These Greek Jews and Pythagorean-Buddhists literally added to and took away from the Holy Word of YHVH. If you get a Tanakh and compare with the LXX and compare again with the Old Testaments in your Christian Bibles you can find line upon line and precept upon precept altered. So many of these are easily see that you will be hard pressed to attribute them to human error alone. Literally this was done on purpose and many scholars document this for your inspection. I found out about this and so can you.
So the quotes in the New Testament are anything but true fulfillments of the Jewish Scriptures in so many places; rather they are fictional creationisms having nothing to do with Jesus at all or never were intended to be applied in that manner to the Messiah. The bottom line is that the Jewish Scriptures and the prophecies expected to be fulfilled at the advent of the Messiah remain unfulfilled. The New Testament have false-fulfillments passed off as "true" fulfillments to the unsuspecting and there are far too many of these types in the world. Having never the Messianic prophecies in the Jewish Tanakh nor the original Hebrew the typical Christian has to fall back upon all that he has any familiarity to; namely, those passages "touted" in the New Testament as Messianic. Again I have found through my research that the Jewish Messianic prophecies remain today unfulfilled and those purported to be so in the New Testament to be anything but Messianic as they never existed in the first place in the Jewish Tanakh or the Jewish Masoretic Text.
Here for you in a nutshell is what was to occur at the coming of Messiah. The Jews who know the uncorrupted Old Testament knew and waited for these things to happen. Only when they began to be fulfilled would they know the Messiah was among them:
The Messiah's arrival will be accompanied by the following...
After Jesus' death and with the failure of Israel to merit him and the Kingdom of God came...
Now….realistically…..can we blame the Jews for not believing in this Christian Jesus? A Jewish Jesus is a totally different matter, but understand, Christianity does not teach a Jewish Jesus. They do not teach the true Jesus!
What the world needs today is not more Jews for Jesus, but more Christians for Moses!
The Jewish prophecies remain unfulfilled and if you read this series of articles with understanding then you know why. It was not the fault of Jesus that they remained unfulfilled in his day nor in our day as well. This whole series of articles had been intended to show you the reader that the prophecies were not fulfilled by no fault of Jesus, but the blame of the whole fiasco could be laid at the feet of those in Israel who failed to repent and turn to God in the highest manner possible thereby manifesting holiness and a humble contrite heart as prerequisites for not only being a Priest before God but the Royal Priesthood. The Kingdom of God did not come then, nor will it now unless we put away the leaven from our lives and turn in repentance to God accepting His Commandments as a guide and corrector for our lives.
The failure of the prophecies to be fulfilled was not the fault of Jesus as Messiah. In the selling of Jesus to the Gentiles by the early apocalyptic believers who were heavily influenced by the Essenes and their Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures called the Septuagint had been so corrupted by these Greek Jews of Alexandria that many read such accounts of the Buddhist Angel-Messiah and attributed them to Jesus after his death. Those who gave us many of the oral traditions of Jesus and molded them in the context of "one greater than Moses is here" were the ones responsible for contributing to this myth. The Jews of Palestine did not accept nor use the Greek Septuagint or the Greek Old Testament because of such errors. Later when such things were taught to the non-Jews as well as the diaspora Jews about this man from Galilee as "fulfillments" of a corrupted Bible the Jews and Rabbis of Palestine were infuriated. Sadly such legends stuck and were eventually blended into the overall picture of Jesus and we have today the written accounts of those influenced by such mixtures in Jewish and Pythagorean-Buddhist beliefs…is is called the New Testament. Within the New Testament is both fact and fable; truths from the Jews concerning one from David to be an anointed leader and much from the pagan's sun-myths with their crucified sun-godmen. You just have not studied it out for yourself yet. Many have. If you do, then you will see that what I say is true. But to discount Jesus as the Messiah of Israel because the prophecies were not fulfilled does him and his memory great harm. This is a message the Jewish people need to hear as well as my Christian brethren. But lastly I must say that I take great offense to the adding to and the taking away of the Jewish Scriptures given by the God who changes not. Such adulteration of the Holy Jewish Scriptures as has been done in the Greek translation and later carried over into the Latin Vulgate and all the following English Bibles, as well as the quotations found in the New Testament, should make you both hurt and angry at what has been done. If you truly love God and His Word then you cannot learn this and be passive. May we love God enough to find the truth before we die and defend His true word against falsity and reclaim Jesus as His Messiah in spite of the prophecies not be fulfilled. But to make up false ones and teach them to multitudes to reinforce false beliefs about Jesus only makes one an idolater. May God for them and us for believing such when some serious study would have delivered us from such sin and ignorance. Shalom.