SID: You see, here’s the big problem we Jewish people have. We read in the same Tanakh that when the messiah comes, the wolf will lie down with the lamb, there will be peace on earth, and you say, “Look around. There’s no peace on earth.” But then there’s a whole set of prophecies like the one I just read that He’s going to die for our sicknesses. He’s going to die for our sins. By his stripes, we were healed. We were totally … Our sins were atoned for. So how do you account for the fact that it appears as though one messiah will die for our sins, the other messiah will usher in an age of peace, and it’s all in this same Tanakh.
SID: Well the ancient rabbis before the messiah came said two messiahs, Messiah ben (son of) David, would usher in an age of peace, but before that could occur, there would have to be Messiah ben Joseph who would suffer in our place. So rather than two messiahs, what about one messiah with two appearances, once to make us a sanctuary, a Holy of Holies, for God and once He does this, to return to usher in an age of peace? Makes more sense. I am a Jew. I believe in one God. His name forever according to Torah is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and one messiah, the Jew, Jesus.
SID: Isaiah 65:1 explains further. “The Lord says, ‘I was ready to respond, but no one of my chosen Jewish people asked for help. I was ready to be found, but no one of my Jewish people was looking for me. I said, “Here I am. Here I am,” to a nation,'” and the word nation in Hebrew is goyim, the gentiles. “‘I said because my Jewish people didn’t respond, I said to the goyim, ‘Here I am. Here I am,’ the goyim that did not call on my name.” In other words, the scriptures say that the gentiles will follow the Jewish messiah. I believe in one God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and one messiah, the Jew, Jesus.
SID: There’s a problem for Jew and gentile alike. We’re all in the same race, the human race. It’s revealed in Psalm 143:2. “Enter not into judgment with your servant. For in your sight, no one, Jew or gentile, no one living is righteous.” But Job 1:8, he was pretty righteous. It says, “Then the Lord asked Satan …” He’s bragging about Job. He says, “Have you noticed my servant Job? Here’s the finest man on all the earth. He’s blameless, a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.” But then Job in Chapter 42, Verse 5 and 6, he had an encounter with the living God and although he thought he was righteous, although God called him righteous, here’s his reaction when he had his own encounter with God. “I’d heard of you only by the hearing of the ear, not experientially, but now my eye sees you. Therefore, I loathe and abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
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