Messiah Research Paper
Although this did happen, it was not in the way they expected. They believed that someone, the Messiah (“the Hebrew word ‘Messiah’ means an anointed person or thing” ), would come and be their king and take them away from Roman rule and, as a result, bring Israel together. One of the many verses that the Jewish were basing their expectations of the messiah on was, “your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before me; your throne shall be established for ever.” (2 Samuel 7:16). This can give the impression that a king would be sent from God who was like David: a king that would lead them, that they could follow, and enter the kingdom of God. They waited for the “Kingdom of God as employed by Jesus signified God’s victory over the
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evil forces, a conception that was shared with standard Jewish apocalyptic expectations.” You can see in Jesus’s teachings that his mission was to save the people from sin, and to restore the relationship between God and man, but in the Jewish minds they were looking for a war and bloodshed for the Kingdom of God to be on earth. Both the Jewish people and Jesus believed that freedom would come with the Kingdom of God, but the way that they believed it would happen was different. Jesus’ freedom mission was from sin, whereas the Jewish believe it was from the Roman rule. Freedom was something that the Jewish wanted badly as they were God’s chosen people and had been under the rule of the Romans for a long time. The following passage can have a couple of different meanings: “the one who breaks out will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the Lord at their head” (Micah 2:13); as a Jewish person you can look at this passage as the messiah coming and going before them to overturn the Roman rule. On the other hand, Jesus said he was sent to earth to break the strongholds of sin over the earth and to lead the way to God, and happiness free from sin. This can also been seen in the gospel of John: “I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. . . . I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10), “and then [God’s] kingdom shall appear in all his creation,” which describes the Kingdom within people showing that it is spiritual and not natural.
What the Jews expected to happen with the Messiah and the Kingdom of God happened but not as quickly as people first perceived and expected.
Jesus spoke to many people of varying circumstances, from the rich to the poor, murderers and tax collectors, and people that were sick – i.e. people that society would not touch. He said to them that “for yours is the kingdom of God” (Matthew 5:3), which implies to them that anyone can enter the kingdom. The Jewish did not understand this and wanted to hold onto their expectations of a kingdom for the high and mighty and a united nation, as god said to the Jewish people “For the LORD will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other” (Deuteronomy 28:64). So the Jews were scattered across Israel and in the first century were waiting for something to happen to restore them based on Daniel 7. Alex Bein writes in “14 May 1948 in terms of the European-Christian calendar, an event occurred for which many generations of Jews had been waiting anxiously and hopefully and . . . the foundation of a Jewish state.” This can be interpreted showing that the Jewish people were hopeful and determined people. They never lost hope and waited for the day of the restoration of their nation, but with this it is not what the messiah and the Kingdom of God was. It was something that had to be gone out and received not wait to come to
them.
The expectations of the Jewish people did not line up with Jesus’ teaching on the Kingdom of God. The way they interpreted the ideal of what it would look like and believed it was a natural world kingdom not a spiritual world kingdom was different to Jesus and Gods idea of the Kingdom of God. Unfortunately due to that they were not receptive to Jesus’s ideas and they did not see that the Kingdom of God and Messiah had come.
evil forces, a conception that was shared with standard Jewish apocalyptic expectations.” You can see in Jesus’s teachings that his mission was to save the people from sin, and to restore the relationship between God and man, but in the Jewish minds they were looking for a war and bloodshed for the Kingdom of God to be on earth. Both the Jewish people and Jesus believed that freedom would come with the Kingdom of God, but the way that they believed it would happen was different. Jesus’ freedom mission was from sin, whereas the Jewish believe it was from the Roman rule. Freedom was something that the Jewish wanted badly as they were God’s chosen people and had been under the rule of the Romans for a long time. The following passage can have a couple of different meanings: “the one who breaks out will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the Lord at their head” (Micah 2:13); as a Jewish person you can look at this passage as the messiah coming and going before them to overturn the Roman rule. On the other hand, Jesus said he was sent to earth to break the strongholds of sin over the earth and to lead the way to God, and happiness free from sin. This can also been seen in the gospel of John: “I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. . . . I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10), “and then [God’s] kingdom shall appear in all his creation,” which describes the Kingdom within people showing that it is spiritual and not natural.
What the Jews expected to happen with the Messiah and the Kingdom of God happened but not as quickly as people first perceived and expected.
Jesus spoke to many people of varying circumstances, from the rich to the poor, murderers and tax collectors, and people that were sick – i.e. people that society would not touch. He said to them that “for yours is the kingdom of God” (Matthew 5:3), which implies to them that anyone can enter the kingdom. The Jewish did not understand this and wanted to hold onto their expectations of a kingdom for the high and mighty and a united nation, as god said to the Jewish people “For the LORD will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other” (Deuteronomy 28:64). So the Jews were scattered across Israel and in the first century were waiting for something to happen to restore them based on Daniel 7. Alex Bein writes in “14 May 1948 in terms of the European-Christian calendar, an event occurred for which many generations of Jews had been waiting anxiously and hopefully and . . . the foundation of a Jewish state.” This can be interpreted showing that the Jewish people were hopeful and determined people. They never lost hope and waited for the day of the restoration of their nation, but with this it is not what the messiah and the Kingdom of God was. It was something that had to be gone out and received not wait to come to
them.
The expectations of the Jewish people did not line up with Jesus’ teaching on the Kingdom of God. The way they interpreted the ideal of what it would look like and believed it was a natural world kingdom not a spiritual world kingdom was different to Jesus and Gods idea of the Kingdom of God. Unfortunately due to that they were not receptive to Jesus’s ideas and they did not see that the Kingdom of God and Messiah had come.