I was referring to the Messianic age from a Jewish standpoint ..it is the Jews argument that Jesus did not fulfill messianic prophecies so they await another who will …many Old Testament prophecies are still unfulfilled
Non-believing Jews have their own religion, Judaism. While I believe Christians can learn a lot from looking at ancient and historic Jewish ideas, especially as it pertains to the historical Jewish context of the New Testament. I see no reason to be concerned with trying to reconcile Judaism and Christianity. We are talking about two distinct religions that have been separated from one another for two thousand years.
As a Christian I believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ. That's where our name comes from, we are believers in Jesus the Messiah. Non-Christian Jews don't believe that. And what non-Christian Jews have to say (or not say) about Jesus isn't relevant to me as a Christian.
Jesus fulfilled everything He came to fulfill. The promises of God made in the covenants and promises to Adam, Abraham, Moses, and David have all been fulfilled in Jesus the Messiah. Through the Messiah God has called the Nations to Mt. Zion, He has made of two people--Jews and Gentiles--a new people in the Messiah. Even as natural branches were pruned away from the olive tree, so has God grafted on wild branches. The whole tree, Jew and Gentile, are rooted in the Messiah as the people of God, namely the Church.
Non-Christian Jews look for the Messiah to come and rebuild the Temple, that is a false hope. There is already a Holy Temple, it is the Messiah and His Church, as He has said, "Tear down this temple and in three days I shall raise it back up again" and the Apostle says that the Church is the Temple of the Holy Spirit, and each of us as members of that one mystical Body of Christ--the Church--is a spiritual stone. So God's Temple already exists, and has for two thousand years. If anyone should build a structure upon the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, it will be a meaningless building without significance.
The Messiah already reigns, seated at the right hand of the Father. Even as was said by Daniel, the Son of Man was taken up before the Ancient of Days and given kingdom and everlasting dominion. What does Christ say at His Ascension? "All authority has been given to Me" and that those who heard His own words would see the Son of Man coming into His kingdom--taken up on clouds up into heaven, as the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles bears witness.
When He returns, He returns to judge the living and the dead. For we read in the 15th chapter of St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians that the Messiah must reign until every enemy is made subject to Him, the final enemy to be defeated being death, then He shall deliver all things over to the Father and God will be all in all. So the Messiah reigns, He reigns now through His Church, not like emperors and kings do, but as the Royal Suffering Servant, the Son of David, the Root of Jesse--He who says the kingdom of God is not likened to the kingdoms of this world and that His kingdom is not of this world has His kingdom from heaven from which He reigns and we are seated with Him in heavenly places. When He returns, He comes in Judgment, and the dead shall be raised, and then God will make all things new.
Those who look seek temples and sacrifices in the earthly Jerusalem look after false messiahs. Which Christ has warned about. But the Gospel is the very power of God to save all who believe, for both Jew and Gentile. So that all who call on His name shall be saved, and all who trust on Him shall not be put to shame. God who consigned all to disobedience has mercy on all, and is unwilling that any perish, but that all repent and live.
But yes jesus also comes to save Israel from the beast and false prophet and will sit on the throne of David for he is king of the Jews
He died for them as well and has purchased the land with his on blood
And he will reign for 1000 years this is known as the millennium
This is the false doctrine known as Dispensationalist Premillennialism. It is entirely foreign to Scripture and the ancient and apostolic faith of the Christian Church.
When Jesus returns, He returns as Judge. As we see time and again concerning His promised Parousia throughout the New Testament: He comes, the dead are raised, and those who remain at His coming shall join in the resurrection, "For I tell you a mystery" says St. Paul, "We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed." Which he mentions again in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, that at Christ's glorious coming the trumpet shall sound, the dead shall be raised, even those who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with the resurrected dead to meet the glorious returning Lord Jesus as He comes. And then God shall make all things new: new heavens and new earth.
I'd recommend avoiding trying to take St. John's Apocalypse too literally, otherwise we end up believing in literal human-faced locust monsters and a literal prostitute named Babylon on a hydra. But St. John was writing in symbols and figures. That's what the ancient Jewish apocalyptic genre of literature involved: revelation (Greek:
apokalypsis) concerning heavenly and spiritual things. It's not meant to be taken literally the same way that other forms of literature are meant literally. It is
intentionally non-literal.
-CryptoLutheran