It was Jacob, ca 2000 BC who said there will be a nation of the Jews but it was
last only till the coming of the Messiah. Jacob was one of many who proclaimed
this - Daniel stated that the temple will stand until the Messiah is cut off for his
people. And Isaiah said the Jews would come back a "second time" when in fact
they hadn't been exiled the first time. Jesus said the Jews would not know the
day of their visitation and the Gentiles would trample Jerusalem until the Gentile's
time was fulfilled.
These Jews had nearly 2,000 of exile, slavery, pogroms and holocaust, to study
their bibles. And for the most part the simple message of the Old Testament was
that blessing and cursing was symbolized by land and freedom. And the Jews
were denied this.
This is what Zechariah wrote of the Redeemer and King of Israel.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem!
See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, gentle and riding on a
donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will
proclaim peace to the nations; His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from
the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.…
the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them. “And in
that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of
grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they
will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him
like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.