Friday, July 10, 2015

Two Messiah's?

As a whole, people understand that Messiah comes from the line of David and is from Bethlehem . Tenach prophecies of this. "Behold, the days come saith the L-RD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgement and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE L-RD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." Jeremiah 23:5,6.
These verses speak of the thousand year kingdom when Messiah shall reign. This event is yet to happen. Micah 5:2 speaks of the birth place of Messiah when he came the first time and is one of the ways a person can recognize who the Messiah is. "But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." Not only do these verses prophecy The Messiah's birth but also it states Messiah has always been and his reign as king is to be, which means The Messiah's reign is in the future, not at the same time as his first coming.

The tenach tells of different purposes for The Messiah's two comings, the first time to be the suffering lamb of G-d which taketh away the sins of the world( Isaiah chapter 53) and the second time to rule and reign in Jerusalem. Because of two separate comings of the one Messiah some people mistakenly think there are two Messiah's and use the prophecy of Joseph in Genesis 49: 22-24 as proof that there are two Messiahs and the second Messiah comes from the tribe of Joseph . Verse 24 says"But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty G-d of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)" People think the phrase "From thence is the shepherd" is speaking of a Messiah, the second one that will come from the tribe of Joseph. You will notice before the phrase, from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel, the verse is speaking of G-d and the phrase is clarifying where the shepherd is coming from, not from Jacob but from G-d. Once again this verse is speaking of Messiah's deity, he is from G-d and not from the tribe of Joseph.

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