I 'm not trying to answer you wrong, but there are differing views on things like this. For instance, I believe Reform Judaism doesn't believe in the coming of Moshiach. Just so you know, I tend to often find myself agreeing with Chabadniks on a lot of things, but it's not that everyone else does. As with all things, differences of opinion arise.
I have heard that if you ask 10 Jews a question, you will get 10 answers and they will all be right.
Can we trust a system like that to get things right?
It doesn't mean they will be worthy as in they will suddenly become perfect; it means they will be in such a state of sin and despair they need such a person.
And you think they weren't in the first century?
The words of Jesus in lamentation of the rejection he received from his own people is interesting.....
Matthew 23:37-39..
." O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I would have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not! 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you shall not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord." He was quoting Psalm 118:26.
It was prophesied that only a remnant would return to Jehovah, and in the first century, only a remnant of natural Israel responded to Jesus' teachings. On his triumphal entry into Jerusalem as prophesied in Zechariah 9:9......
"They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their garments on them, and He sat on them. 8 A very large crowd spread their garments on the road. Others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 The crowds that went before Him and that followed Him cried out:
“Hosanna (save we pray) to the Son of David!
‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ (YHWH, Jehovah)
Hosanna in the highest!”
So here were the Jewish people acknowledging the Lord Jesus as the son of David, who came in his Father's name, fulfilling the prophetic Psalm....and yet a week later they were clambering for his execution. Why? Because the Jewish leaders had convinced the people that Jesus was a phony....a fake Messiah...a false prophet.
If you ask the Jews even today, you will find that they still believe this.....but no one in all of history has fulfilled Messianic prophesy more than Jesus did.
It had more to do with the false expectations of the Jewish leaders because they saw themselves being glorified in some way by the messiah and rewarded in his incoming kingdom; liberated from the yoke of Rome and proudly being able to revel in his victory......Jesus was not going to do any of that. The liberation he brought to the "lost sheep of the house of Israel" was from the shackles of their oral traditions rigid adherence to the letter of the law.....and more reliance on scripture. It was a spiritual liberation. No wonder the Pharisees hated him! He exposed them for what they were.....religious hypocrites deserving only of "gehenna".
That is what my research has revealed.
