Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and those who return to her, with righteousness" Isaiah Such a Sanhedrin would also be able to formally recognize the Messiah as the king of Israel.
He will restore the sacrificial system as well as the practices of the Sabbatical Year Shmitah and the Jubilee Year Yovel. Therefore, as Maimonides states, "If there arises a ruler from the family of David, immersed in the Torah and its commandments like David his ancestor, following both the Written and Oral Torah, who leads Israel back to the Torah, strengthening the observance of its laws and fighting God's battles, then we may assume that he is the Messiah.
If he is further successful in rebuilding the Temple on its original site and gathering the dispersed of Israel, then his identity as Messiah is a certainty. As the Messiah's powers develop, so will his fame. The world will begin to recognize his profound wisdom and come to seek his advice. He will then teach all mankind to live in peace and follow God's teachings. The prophets thus foretold, "It shall come to pass in the end of days, that the mountain of God's house shall be set over all other mountains and lifted high above the hills; and all nations shall come streaming to it.
Many people shall come and say, 'Come, let us go up to God's mountain, to the house of Israel's God. He the Messiah will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths.
And he the Messiah will judge between nations and decide between peoples. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither will they practice war anymore. In the Messianic Era, many non-Jews will feel compelled to convert to Judaism as the prophet foretold, "I will then give all peoples a pure tongue, that they may call in the Name of God, and all serve Him in one manner" Zephaniah Once the Messiah has revealed himself, however, converts will no longer be accepted.
Still, Jerusalem will become the center of worship and instruction for all mankind. This will begin the period when the teachings of God will be supreme over all mankind, as it is written, "For the Lord of Hosts will be King in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem.
All peoples will then come to Jerusalem to seek God. The prophet Zechariah describes this graphically when he says, "Many people and mighty nations will come and seek the God of Hosts in Jerusalem… In those days, ten people out of all the nations will take hold of the corner of the garment of every Jew and say, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you'" Zechariah In Jerusalem, the Jewish people will thus be established as the spiritual and moral teachers of all mankind.
At that time, Jerusalem will become the spiritual capital of the world. In the Messianic Era, jealousy and competition will cease to exist, for all good things will be most plentiful and all sorts of delicacies will be as common as dust.
Men will no longer wage or prepare for war, as the prophet foretold, "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither will they practice war any more" Isaiah In the Messianic Era, all nations will live peacefully together. Similarly, people of all dispositions will live together in harmony. The prophet spoke of this allegorically when he said, "The wolf will dwell with the lamb; the leopard will lie down with the kid; the calf, the young lion, and the fatling together, will be led by a young child.
The cow will graze with the bear; their young will lie down together; the lion will eat straw like the ox" Isaiah Although the Messiah will influence and teach all mankind, his main mission will be to bring the Jewish people back to God. The prophet thus said, "For the children of Israel will remain for many days with no king and no prince… Afterward, the children of Israel will return and seek God their Lord and David their king; they will come in awe to God and His goodness, in the end of days" Hosea Similarly, "My servant David will be king over them; they will all have one shepherd; they will also follow My ordinances and observe My laws" Ezekiel As society reaches toward perfection and the world becomes increasingly Godly, humanity's main occupation will only be to know God.
The truth will be revealed and the entire world will acknowledge that the Torah is God's true teaching. This is what the prophet meant when he foretold, "The earth will be full of the knowledge of God, as the waters cover the sea" Isaiah Similarly, all mankind will attain the highest levels of Divine Inspiration without any difficulty whatsoever.
God thus promised through His prophet, "It shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy" Joel Although man will still have free will in the Messianic Age, he will have every inducement to do good and follow God's teachings.
It will be as if the power of evil were totally annihilated. This is what the prophet predicted, "I will place My Torah inside of them, and inscribe it upon their hearts… A person will no longer teach his friend and his brother saying, 'Know God!
According to one legend, he sits among the lepers at the gates of Rome—today we would be likely to find him in an AIDS hospice—tending to their wounds. Only when redemption is about to be completed will messiah be allowed to arrive. Rather than messiah redeeming us, we redeem messiah. Jewish History. In Jewish sources, the ideal Jewish society will be situated in Israel and ushered in by catastrophic events. We use cookies to improve your experience on our site and bring you ads that might interest you.
Join Our Newsletter Empower your Jewish discovery, daily. According to the Torah , the Messiah will be:. Some Jews believe that God has already decided when the Messiah will appear on Earth but that the exact date is unknown to humans. Others agree that the Messiah will come to Earth but only when humans have proved themselves to be worthy of him by improving their actions and behaviour.
Although the Scripture spoke both of the sufferings and of the victories of the messiah, the victorious aspect had become uppermost in the minds of the common people because of Roman domination. This "lopsided" view of the Messiah has stuck with many Jewish people, and the politicization of the messianic hope has continued to this day. This is not to say that all Jewish people rejected the claims of Jesus. On the contrary, all the first followers of Jesus were Jews.
In fact, the rabbis of that time and afterwards were well aware of the many messianic prophecies which Christians claimed were fulfilled in Jesus. So, for instance, although the Talmudic rabbis concurred that Isaiah 53 was a prediction of the Messiah , by medieval times the pressure from those who applied this prophecy to Jesus was so great that Rashi, one of the greatest medieval Biblical scholars, reinterpreted the chapter and said it referred to the nation of Israel.
This interpretation is maintained today by many Jewish scholars, though it only dates back to the Middle Ages. There have been false messiahs throughout Jewish history. Among the most prominent were Bar Kokhba who led a revolt against Rom AD and Shabbetai Zevi, a self proclaimed messiah of the seventeenth century. Shabbetai Zevi, on the other hand, was a self-proclaimed messiah.
Flourishing in seventeenth-century Europe, the Shabbatean movement spread among both the common people and the rabbis. But when Shabbetai Zevi was arrested in by the Sultan of Turkey, he converted to Islam rather than face death. We have been tragically wrong before, so it is not surprising that hard evidence should be sought for believing in Jesus.
Jesus' life stands in sharp contrast to those of the false messiahs, and it is a positive demonstration of what we would expect the Messiah to do. Jesus worked many miracles of healing, bringing wholeness into people's lives, forgiving sin and restoring relationships.
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