oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
One of my favorite references to the Messiah is found in Genesis. Jacob blesses
his sons. He had special words for Judah. From Judah would spring the Messiah.
There would one day be a Hebrew nation with a monarchy. But with the coming
of the Messiah the nation and its law would end. And the Messiah would be
believed upon by the Gentiles.
Job said "I know my Redeemer lives and he shall stand upon the earth in the
latter days." This Redeemer was alive in Job's time, but not upon the earth.
The latter times, as Daniel pointed out, would be before Rome destroyed the
nation of Israel and its temple.
Hmmmm...... The story I see started at the Jordan River.
I know Christians who tell me that Jesus made the World, held back the Red Sea, brought the Israelites out of Egypt..... You've all got various kinds of stories about Jesus, but I see a man who joined up with the Immerser and stayed with him until the Immerser was arrested..... and then tried to pick up that mission and carry it on.
I'm a Deist. Deists don't see Jesus as God, just a tiny part of God like everything else.