Israel Speaks
Since the times of the Bible the Jewish people have waited for
the Messiah who will reign in Jerusalem.
Unlike Christians, most Jews do not believe that this Messiah is Jesus.
He is the son of David, someone who God chose for us and he will
bring us to redemption.
According to sources, the Messiah comes from the line of David
and he should come in our time.
It's hard to say who the Messiah is in one word.
I think there is no Messiah.
I don't think the Messiah exists.
People talk about it when they want someone to solve their problems.
It doesn't work like that. You have to solve the problems.
The Messiah is a descendant of King David and he will hopefully
come in our time.
I wish we knew. We are waiting for him, and we don't know who he is.
David Stav is a rabbi in the city of Shoham near Jerusalem.
He knows the Jewish scriptures about the coming of the Messiah very well.
When is the Messiah going to come? - Very soon.
According to all the sources and signs, -
he should come in the coming years.
It is written that the world was created in 6 days
which is equivalent to 6000 years. The redemption is very close.
There are many signs of this. It is written that in the last days
the young generation will rule and that generation is rebellious, -
rude and does not respect the older people. We can see this now.
When will He come? It is said that He will come if we all repent.
I don't believe in that.
He should already have come. I don't think there is a specific time
written anywhere.
He can come in 2 minutes or in 100 or 200 years
but the faster the better.
That He would come with a great sound of trumpets.
That he would just come.
I wish he came in one minute. He can come at any moment.
We are praying and believing in it.
One of the signs is that there will be a general notification either on TV
or via SMS that He has been found after He has fulfilled certain signs.
After certain things have happened we will know that He is the Messiah.
According to Judaism, more important than the identity of the Messiah, -
are the events related to his appearance.
2000 years ago Jesus declared that He is the Messiah and the Son of God, -
but most of his people did not accept him.
The situation is the same today.
2000 years ago a man named Jesus lived here and a big part of the
world believes He is the Messiah.
May God in His mercy protect us from this terrible mistake, -
which brings catastrophe to the world when He is believed to be the Messiah.
He established a new religion. The wise were afraid of him
and he was given to the hands of the rulers
and in this way he got thousands of followers.
I think he was not the Messiah.
He was a man they believed in.
If he was the Messiah why did they crucify and kill him?
I think the Messiah will not die, but he will lead the whole world.
I don't think the Messiah has come yet. People are still fighting wars
against each other and there is still hunger in the world.
When the Messiah comes this will stop.
If it had been Jesus...
People made him into something that was good for them.
Eli Bar David is a Jew who believes in Jesus.
He thinks Jews don't understand that the Messiah had to appear
first as the sacrifice lamb.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way;
and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and He was afflic- ted, yet He did not open His mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slau- ghter, and as a sheep before its
shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth. By oppression and
judgment He was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested?
Isaiah 53:6-8
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, -
"Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"
John 1:29
Jesus is the stone you builders rejec- ted, which has become the cornerstone.
Acts 4:11
The answer to why the Jews do not understand the Messiah's task
as a humble and suffering sacrifice lamb is found in the book of Isaiah.
The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth, -
but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely
human rules they have been taught. Therefore once more I will astound
these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish,
the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish." - Isaiah 29:13-14
In addition to the Jews not accepting their Messiah, the leaders of the
people gave Jesus to the Romans to be crucified.
Rabbi Menachen Mendel Schneerson, whom the Chabad movement considers
to be the Messiah.
- How will the world look like when the Messiah comes?
The temple will be built and we will all do his will.
You will feel him when he comes.
The shofars will be blown and the dead will rise
and the world will change. Everyone will love each other.
Jerusalem will be the center of the world.
There will be peace in the world.
Everything should change. The dead should rise.
Will the world change? No. Maybe everyone will become religious.
Maybe there will be an earthquake or something. If he really comes.
I don't believe the dead will rise. There is no space for everyone.
I think there will be an earthquake.
The world will change for the better.
We live in a world where everyone thinks he is the best.
The Messiah will bring order and people will finally understand
where the scale turns. Hopefully it will turn towards the Jewish people.
In the New Testament Jesus explains what happens to those who do not
want to accept him as the Messiah.
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me;
but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek
the glory that comes from the only God? -John 5:43-44
Eli believes that the one who comes in his own name is the anti-Christ
of the book of Revelation. He is a great ruler who will rebuild the
Temple in Jerusalem. That's why the Jews believe he is the Messiah
until he erects a statue in the temple who everyone has to bow down to.
Then the Jews will recognize him as the false messiah.
They will refuse to worship him as the messiah at which point the anti-Christ
will attack Jerusalem.
Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you
from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world
to test the inhabitants of the earth. I am coming soon.
Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Revelation 3:10-11
Translation: Sonja Mattayev