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https://www.aish.com/jl/li/m/48944241.html
"They wanted nothing to disturb or distract them, in order that they should be able to strive to become worthy of the life in the World to Come."
How can one become "worthy of the life in the World to Come"?
"The Messiah will also achieve prophecy and become the greatest prophet in history, second only to Moses."
While on earth, the prophet Yeshua Meshikha made several predictions about what would happen shortly. Do you agree with me that Yeshua made several successful prophecies about the calamities that occurred to Jerusalem and its temple?
George Peter Holford's _The Destruction of Jerusalem_ (1805, 1814, 1858) http://www.preteristarchive.com/Books/18...proof.html
hat tip: https://www.amazon.com/Destruction-Jerus...967831725/
from PDF http://vladspost.com/pdf/Jews/Destructio...usalem.pdf
Of the prophecies which have already been fulfilled, few, perhaps, are so interesting in themselves, or so striking in their accomplishment, as those which relate to the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple, and the signal calamities which every where befell the Jewish nation. *The chief* of our Lord’s *predictions, relative to these events, are contained in Matt. 24; Mark 13; Luke 19:41-44; 21; 23:27-30:* and we may with confidence appeal to the facts which verify them as conclusive and incontrovertible proofs of the divinity of his mission.
"the Messiah will be mortal. He will eventually die and bequeath his kingdom to his son or his successor"
Will that successor be as good a leader as the Messiah?
"There are numerous Jewish families today that can trace their ancestry directly back to King David"
Do you agree with me that Yeshua was a descendant of King David?
"Tradition states that he will be a direct descendant of King David, son of Jesse, as it its written, 'A shoot will come forth from the stock of Jesse, and a branch will grow from his roots' (Isaiah 11:1)"
"the Moshiach is a Jewish concept, Biblical, he is a mortal man who Gd uses as an instrument of His Will just as He used Moses and as Isaiah prophesied he comes at the End of Days"
Yeshua the Meshikha was a mortal man, who came at the end of an Era. Jerusalem's utter destruction put an emphatic period on the end of that bygone era. Yeshua the Meshikha rose from the dead, so he's no ordinary mortal man.
"YOU HAVE MADE YOU DEITY IN THE IMAGE OF MAN, THAT IS PURE PAGAN IDOLATRY"
Do you agree with me that Jacob (of Abraham Isaac and Jacob fame) wrestled with God?
Isaiah 11:1-2 (HCSB)
1 Then a shoot [Hebrew: ntzr] will grow from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him—
a Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
a Spirit of counsel and strength,
a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
interlinear PDF of Isaiah 11:1 has ‘ntzr’/ scion
http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInter.../isa11.pdf
Yeshayah 11:1 (Orthodox Jewish Bible)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...on=KJV;OJB
And there shall come forth a Khoter (Branch) out of the Geza (Stem, Stump, Stock) of Yishai,
and a Netzer [Branch [see Tzemach, Moshiach Jer 23:5; 33:15; Zech 3:8; 6:12, Ezra 3:8 which give as Moshiach’s Namesake Yehoshua/Yeshua; compare Mt.2:23 OJBC] shall bear fruit of his roots:
Mt 2:23 (based on Younan plus looking at Khabouris), http://dukhrana.com
And he came (and) dwelled in the medintha [city] that is called N-tz-r-th [Natzrath],
so that might be fulfilled the thing which was spoken b'nabia [by the prophet] that,
"He will be called d’n-tz-r-i-a [of natzria]."
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Daniel made a prophecy unusual in that it had a time limit. Was Daniel a false prophet?
Jerusalem and its temple were destroyed in A.D. 70. What's the identity of the Messiah mentioned below? And when was he slain? When did "the forgiveness of the iniquity" occur? Re: "to bring in everlasting righteousness," when did that occur?
Daniel 9 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/DAN/dan9.htm
24 *Seventy times seven weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city,* to finish the transgressions and to make an end of sins and *for the forgiveness of the iniquity* *and to bring in everlasting righteousness* and to fulfill the vision of the prophets *and to give the most holy to Messiah.*
25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to *the coming of the Messiah* the king shall be seven times seven weeks, and sixty-two times seven weeks;
the people shall return and build Jerusalem, its streets, and its broad ways at the end of the appointed times.
26 *After sixty-two times seven weeks, Messiah shall be slain,* and the city shall be without a ruler; and *the holy city shall be destroyed* together with the coming king; and *the end thereof shall be a mass exile,* and at the end of the war, desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for seven weeks and half of seven weeks, then *he shall cause the sacrifice and gift offerings to cease,* and upon the horns of the altar the abomination of desolation;
and the desolation shall continue until the end of the appointed time; the city shall remain desolate.
William Struse, _Daniel's 70 Weeks: The Keystone of Bible Prophecy_, location 2244
https://www.amazon.com/Daniels-70-Weeks-...997960906/
Davidson and Aldersmith’s theory, which I fully understood only decades later, was based in part upon the Persian chronology of Sir Isaac Newton and Josephus and their explanations of failed first-century Jewish messianic expectations. In short, Davidson and Aldersmith showed that Newton discovered that nearly 240 years of missing Jewish Rabbinic chronology were directly related to the failed Jewish messianic expectations of the Second Temple era and a divine command to restore and build Jerusalem. Davidson and Aldersmith, upon calculating each of the failed messianic attempts, realized that amongst all the different time elements used by the early Jewish messianic expectants, a biblical lunar cycle of 14 was missing. They had tried solar years, lunar years, and 6-, 9-, and 16-cycle lunar “years,” but the one number ignored just happened to show that a Jewish man named Yeshua fit the prophecy of 70 sevens perfectly.
Daniel 9 (Brenton Septuagint Translation), https://biblehub.com/sep/daniel/9.htm
24 *Seventy weeks have been determined* upon thy people, and *upon the holy city,* *for sin to be ended,* and to seal up transgressions, *and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities,* and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, *and to anoint the Most Holy.*
25 And thou shalt know and understand, that *from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks;* and then the time shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.
26 And *after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed,* and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and *to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint the city to desolations.*
27 And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and *in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away:* and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation.
In prophecies, 1 prophetic day = 1 year. Hence, 1 prophetic week = 7 years. Reference:
Leviticus 25 (Brenton Septuagint Translation), https://biblehub.com/sep/leviticus/25.htm
8 And thou shalt reckon to thyself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and they *shall be to thee seven weeks of years, nine and forty years.*
Numbers 14:34 (Brenton Septuagint Translation), https://biblehub.com/sep/numbers/14.htm
According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, *forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years,* and ye shall know my fierce anger.
Ezekiel 4 (Brenton Septuagint Translation), https://biblehub.com/sep/ezekiel/4.htm
5 For I have appointed thee their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so thou shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Israel. 6 And thou shalt accomplish this, and then shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Juda forty days: *I have appointed thee a day for a year.*
One adherent of Judaism realized that Rashi had correctly identified the right time period, but misidentified the name of the Messiah that was killed. That individual ended up following Yeshua the Meshikha.
Rashi, on Daniel 9
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo...rashi=true
26 And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one will be cut off, and he will be no more, and the people of the coming monarch will destroy the city and the Sanctuary, and his end will come about by inundation, and until the end of the war, it will be cut off into desolation. כווְאַֽחֲרֵ֚י הַשָּֽׁבֻעִים֙ שִׁשִּׁ֣ים וּשְׁנַ֔יִם יִכָּרֵ֥ת מָשִׁ֖יחַ וְאֵ֣ין ל֑וֹ וְהָעִ֨יר וְהַקֹּ֜דֶשׁ יַ֠שְׁחִית עַ֣ם נָגִ֚יד הַבָּא֙ וְקִצּ֣וֹ בַשֶּׁ֔טֶף וְעַד֙ קֵ֣ץ מִלְחָמָ֔ה נֶֽחֱרֶ֖צֶת שֹֽׁמֵמֽוֹת:
*And after:* those weeks.
*the anointed one will be cut off:* Agrippa, the king of Judea, who was ruling at the time of the destruction, will be slain.
*and he will be no more:* Heb. וְאֵין לוֹ, and he will not have. The meaning is that he will not be.
*the anointed one:* Heb. מָשִׁיחַ. This is purely an expression of a prince and a dignitary.
*and the city and the Sanctuary:* lit. and the city and the Holy.
*and the people of the coming monarch will destroy:* [The monarch who will come] upon them. That is Titus and his armies.
*and his end will come about by inundation:* And his end will be damnation and destruction, for He will inundate the power of his kingdom through the Messiah, and until the end of the wars of Gog the city will exist.
*cut off into desolation:* a destruction of desolation.
from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Agrippa
Herod Agrippa, also known as Herod or Agrippa I (Hebrew: אגריפס; 11 BC – 44 AD), was a King of Judea from 41 to 44 AD. He was the last ruler with the royal title reigning over Judea and the father of Herod Agrippa II, the last King from the Herodian dynasty. The grandson of Herod the Great and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice,[1] He is the king named Herod in the Acts of the Apostles 12:1 (Acts 12:1)....
https://www.aish.com/jl/li/m/48944241.html
"They wanted nothing to disturb or distract them, in order that they should be able to strive to become worthy of the life in the World to Come."
How can one become "worthy of the life in the World to Come"?
"The Messiah will also achieve prophecy and become the greatest prophet in history, second only to Moses."
While on earth, the prophet Yeshua Meshikha made several predictions about what would happen shortly. Do you agree with me that Yeshua made several successful prophecies about the calamities that occurred to Jerusalem and its temple?
George Peter Holford's _The Destruction of Jerusalem_ (1805, 1814, 1858) http://www.preteristarchive.com/Books/18...proof.html
hat tip: https://www.amazon.com/Destruction-Jerus...967831725/
from PDF http://vladspost.com/pdf/Jews/Destructio...usalem.pdf
Of the prophecies which have already been fulfilled, few, perhaps, are so interesting in themselves, or so striking in their accomplishment, as those which relate to the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple, and the signal calamities which every where befell the Jewish nation. *The chief* of our Lord’s *predictions, relative to these events, are contained in Matt. 24; Mark 13; Luke 19:41-44; 21; 23:27-30:* and we may with confidence appeal to the facts which verify them as conclusive and incontrovertible proofs of the divinity of his mission.
"the Messiah will be mortal. He will eventually die and bequeath his kingdom to his son or his successor"
Will that successor be as good a leader as the Messiah?
"There are numerous Jewish families today that can trace their ancestry directly back to King David"
Do you agree with me that Yeshua was a descendant of King David?
"Tradition states that he will be a direct descendant of King David, son of Jesse, as it its written, 'A shoot will come forth from the stock of Jesse, and a branch will grow from his roots' (Isaiah 11:1)"
"the Moshiach is a Jewish concept, Biblical, he is a mortal man who Gd uses as an instrument of His Will just as He used Moses and as Isaiah prophesied he comes at the End of Days"
Yeshua the Meshikha was a mortal man, who came at the end of an Era. Jerusalem's utter destruction put an emphatic period on the end of that bygone era. Yeshua the Meshikha rose from the dead, so he's no ordinary mortal man.
"YOU HAVE MADE YOU DEITY IN THE IMAGE OF MAN, THAT IS PURE PAGAN IDOLATRY"
Do you agree with me that Jacob (of Abraham Isaac and Jacob fame) wrestled with God?
Isaiah 11:1-2 (HCSB)
1 Then a shoot [Hebrew: ntzr] will grow from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him—
a Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
a Spirit of counsel and strength,
a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
interlinear PDF of Isaiah 11:1 has ‘ntzr’/ scion
http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInter.../isa11.pdf
Yeshayah 11:1 (Orthodox Jewish Bible)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...on=KJV;OJB
And there shall come forth a Khoter (Branch) out of the Geza (Stem, Stump, Stock) of Yishai,
and a Netzer [Branch [see Tzemach, Moshiach Jer 23:5; 33:15; Zech 3:8; 6:12, Ezra 3:8 which give as Moshiach’s Namesake Yehoshua/Yeshua; compare Mt.2:23 OJBC] shall bear fruit of his roots:
Mt 2:23 (based on Younan plus looking at Khabouris), http://dukhrana.com
And he came (and) dwelled in the medintha [city] that is called N-tz-r-th [Natzrath],
so that might be fulfilled the thing which was spoken b'nabia [by the prophet] that,
"He will be called d’n-tz-r-i-a [of natzria]."
=============================================
Daniel made a prophecy unusual in that it had a time limit. Was Daniel a false prophet?
Jerusalem and its temple were destroyed in A.D. 70. What's the identity of the Messiah mentioned below? And when was he slain? When did "the forgiveness of the iniquity" occur? Re: "to bring in everlasting righteousness," when did that occur?
Daniel 9 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/DAN/dan9.htm
24 *Seventy times seven weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city,* to finish the transgressions and to make an end of sins and *for the forgiveness of the iniquity* *and to bring in everlasting righteousness* and to fulfill the vision of the prophets *and to give the most holy to Messiah.*
25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to *the coming of the Messiah* the king shall be seven times seven weeks, and sixty-two times seven weeks;
the people shall return and build Jerusalem, its streets, and its broad ways at the end of the appointed times.
26 *After sixty-two times seven weeks, Messiah shall be slain,* and the city shall be without a ruler; and *the holy city shall be destroyed* together with the coming king; and *the end thereof shall be a mass exile,* and at the end of the war, desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for seven weeks and half of seven weeks, then *he shall cause the sacrifice and gift offerings to cease,* and upon the horns of the altar the abomination of desolation;
and the desolation shall continue until the end of the appointed time; the city shall remain desolate.
William Struse, _Daniel's 70 Weeks: The Keystone of Bible Prophecy_, location 2244
https://www.amazon.com/Daniels-70-Weeks-...997960906/
Davidson and Aldersmith’s theory, which I fully understood only decades later, was based in part upon the Persian chronology of Sir Isaac Newton and Josephus and their explanations of failed first-century Jewish messianic expectations. In short, Davidson and Aldersmith showed that Newton discovered that nearly 240 years of missing Jewish Rabbinic chronology were directly related to the failed Jewish messianic expectations of the Second Temple era and a divine command to restore and build Jerusalem. Davidson and Aldersmith, upon calculating each of the failed messianic attempts, realized that amongst all the different time elements used by the early Jewish messianic expectants, a biblical lunar cycle of 14 was missing. They had tried solar years, lunar years, and 6-, 9-, and 16-cycle lunar “years,” but the one number ignored just happened to show that a Jewish man named Yeshua fit the prophecy of 70 sevens perfectly.
Daniel 9 (Brenton Septuagint Translation), https://biblehub.com/sep/daniel/9.htm
24 *Seventy weeks have been determined* upon thy people, and *upon the holy city,* *for sin to be ended,* and to seal up transgressions, *and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities,* and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, *and to anoint the Most Holy.*
25 And thou shalt know and understand, that *from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks;* and then the time shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.
26 And *after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed,* and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and *to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint the city to desolations.*
27 And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and *in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away:* and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation.
In prophecies, 1 prophetic day = 1 year. Hence, 1 prophetic week = 7 years. Reference:
Leviticus 25 (Brenton Septuagint Translation), https://biblehub.com/sep/leviticus/25.htm
8 And thou shalt reckon to thyself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and they *shall be to thee seven weeks of years, nine and forty years.*
Numbers 14:34 (Brenton Septuagint Translation), https://biblehub.com/sep/numbers/14.htm
According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, *forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years,* and ye shall know my fierce anger.
Ezekiel 4 (Brenton Septuagint Translation), https://biblehub.com/sep/ezekiel/4.htm
5 For I have appointed thee their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so thou shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Israel. 6 And thou shalt accomplish this, and then shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Juda forty days: *I have appointed thee a day for a year.*
One adherent of Judaism realized that Rashi had correctly identified the right time period, but misidentified the name of the Messiah that was killed. That individual ended up following Yeshua the Meshikha.
Rashi, on Daniel 9
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo...rashi=true
26 And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one will be cut off, and he will be no more, and the people of the coming monarch will destroy the city and the Sanctuary, and his end will come about by inundation, and until the end of the war, it will be cut off into desolation. כווְאַֽחֲרֵ֚י הַשָּֽׁבֻעִים֙ שִׁשִּׁ֣ים וּשְׁנַ֔יִם יִכָּרֵ֥ת מָשִׁ֖יחַ וְאֵ֣ין ל֑וֹ וְהָעִ֨יר וְהַקֹּ֜דֶשׁ יַ֠שְׁחִית עַ֣ם נָגִ֚יד הַבָּא֙ וְקִצּ֣וֹ בַשֶּׁ֔טֶף וְעַד֙ קֵ֣ץ מִלְחָמָ֔ה נֶֽחֱרֶ֖צֶת שֹֽׁמֵמֽוֹת:
*And after:* those weeks.
*the anointed one will be cut off:* Agrippa, the king of Judea, who was ruling at the time of the destruction, will be slain.
*and he will be no more:* Heb. וְאֵין לוֹ, and he will not have. The meaning is that he will not be.
*the anointed one:* Heb. מָשִׁיחַ. This is purely an expression of a prince and a dignitary.
*and the city and the Sanctuary:* lit. and the city and the Holy.
*and the people of the coming monarch will destroy:* [The monarch who will come] upon them. That is Titus and his armies.
*and his end will come about by inundation:* And his end will be damnation and destruction, for He will inundate the power of his kingdom through the Messiah, and until the end of the wars of Gog the city will exist.
*cut off into desolation:* a destruction of desolation.
from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Agrippa
Herod Agrippa, also known as Herod or Agrippa I (Hebrew: אגריפס; 11 BC – 44 AD), was a King of Judea from 41 to 44 AD. He was the last ruler with the royal title reigning over Judea and the father of Herod Agrippa II, the last King from the Herodian dynasty. The grandson of Herod the Great and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice,[1] He is the king named Herod in the Acts of the Apostles 12:1 (Acts 12:1)....