I still haven't seen any logical, alternative interpretation. Do you have one?
An alternative interpretation for what? For Jesus and his alleged fulfillment of prophecies? Yeah, he didn't fulfill them. He was renegade Pharisee turned sectarian leader with delusions of messianism-- which made him no different than a thousand other guys running around Ancient Israel-- and his apocalyptic, millenialist messianist sect outlived him, and might have come to nothing had they not turned to increasing their numbers by proselytizing non-Jews, and eventually transforming themselves into a completely non-Jewish religion.
But nothing either about Jesus himself or about his followers and what became of the religion they built around him, and what they claimed about him and turned him into, has any relevance to actual Jewish messianism.
It has been shown by the Scriptures that the looked for Messiah has come and the Woman at the Well and many of the people of the area attested to the Fact.(and others besides the Apostles/Disciples which HE taught).
HE came unto HIS own and they received HIM not---as was prophesied.
However, What was it that "our messiah is supposed to do" And What is it that you/"we can to make a world worthy of him".????
Also, Why aren't you "we're not really rocking that agenda right now."???
Wasn't that the prophetic role that was given to Abraham's descendants?? To be a Blessing to the Nations/"light to the Gentiles"??
CMike was quite right. Our messiah is supposed to restore the Davidic monarchy, free Jews from non-Jewish rule, return the Jewish People to the Land of Israel, help resolve conflicts between Jews and aid in all Jews better and more faithfully observing the commandments, rededicate the Temple (or, once it was destroyed, rebuild the Temple), and help inaugurate a worldwide age of peace and spiritual advancement and brotherhood.
Jesus did none of those things. Not a single one. There is no proof he was a descendant of David. He didn't restore the monarchy. He didn't help Jews throw off non-Jewish rule-- indeed, his followers ended up being the non-Jewish rulers who oppressed us. He didn't resolve conflicts between Jews, they deepened, and the Temple was destroyed because of
sinat chinam (baseless hatred amongst us). He didn't rededicate the Temple, it remained under the control of Sadducees and the corrupted pawns of the Herodian puppet-kings until it was destroyed (and his followers didn't get it rebuilt, nor did he come back from death and rebuild it).
More importantly, he didn't aid all Jews to better and more faithfully observe the commandments: he taught heresies, and his followers ended up becoming apostates, and trying to seduce other Jews into apostasy and heresy.
And he didn't inaugurate a worldwide era of peace, brotherhood, and spiritual advancement. The Church mercilessly persecuted anyone it felt was heretical or otherwise undesirable. It fostered oppression, discrimination, pogroms, the Crusades, religious wars across the globe, forced conversions, the Inquisitions, and imperialist conquest of native peoples everywhere Europeans went. The Church kept knowledge even of its own scriptures and interpretations from common people, and plunged the Western World into the Dark Ages. The history of Christianity is the exact inverse of a worldwide era of peace, brotherhood, and spiritual advancement.
As for what we can do to make a world worthy of the messiah coming, we can follow the commandments, we can try to inspire moral acts in non-Jewish peoples, we can rid ourselves of
sinat chinam (baseless hatred) and replace it with
ahavat chinam (unconditional love), and we can try to bring peace, justice, and an end to poverty and oppression to the world-- thus creating the proper conditions for the messiah to emerge and lead us, showing God that we are worthy of a messiah.
And we're not actually doing very well on any of those fronts, if one looks either at the state of the world, or the state of the Jewish People.... We could, and should, be doing much better. We can only hope we will improve, and that our children and their children will do even better than we, and perhaps in the day of their descendants, we will be worthy of the messiah.