So Who Is It?

If I gave you a description of a man and wrote: He is small in stature but is a great warrior. From France, he lead armies into battle and was victorious and is celebrated as one of the most famous military strategists of all time. To keep his hand warm in the chilly French winter, he would hide it inside his jacket. Who is it? Napoleon? Correct.

Now what if I gave you a description of another man: Miraculously born in Bethlehem, of a virgin. He was rejected by his people, his death served as a guilt offering, He was falsely accused, he did not try to defend himself and remained silent.

He would die before the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem which was destroyed. He was resurrected from the grave. Who is it? Jesus? Correct. This website is intended to encourage people to ask the question "Is Jesus The Jewish Messiah?" and that question is not as far fetched as it may seem.

The "Suffering Servant" description of the Messiah is not as well known as that other better known description of the Messiah, that of a reigning king, the one who wages war with the enemies of G-d and establishes his kingdom of peace where "swords are beaten into plowshares" and the "wolf will lay with the lamb."

Ancient rabbis recognizing this paradigm reconciled it by proclaiming that there would be two different Messiahs who would appear on the scene. One they called "Messiah Son of Joseph" the suffering servant (like Joseph who was rejected and disgarded by his brothers). They recognized that Messiah Son of Joseph would die. The other they called "Messiah, Son of David" an ancestor of King David who would usher in His post-apocolyptic reign of peace. Some Rabbis even believed that this Messiah would resurrect the first Messiah who died. Yet these two distinct and contradictory descriptions are of the same person.

Jewish Believers in Jesus understand that Yeshua (or Jesus) fufilled the scriptures prophesied about the Messiah who died as a guilt offering for their sins, and instead of two Messiahs it will be the same Messiah (Jesus) who will return again to wage war against the armies of the enemies of G-d and will ultimately set up His kingdom. It is not two Messiahs that fufill these prophesies but rather one Messiah, Jesus whose second coming is anxiously anticipated by us and Christians all over the world. We encourage civilized debate and expect passionate discussions about this vital and controversal issue - the Messiahship of Jesus.

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