Hi Douggg,
I agree with a lot of what you say, however I don`t see that Israel will believe that the A/C is their Messiah. Where do you get that idea?
Thanks, Marilyn.
The prefix Anti can mean "against" or "instead of" or both "against and instead of".
About 8 years ago, I was watching this video, that it caught my attention of what the Jews are looking for regarding the messiah. At minute 0.57-1.02, the speaker, the head rabbi for Jews for Judaism at the time - said the messiah is
the King of Israel.
And at the time I was in a big argument about the messiah with the Jews at their site about the messiah, and Salvation. They informed me that their position is "Savior" means savior from physical destruction, not Savior as Christianity views it.
Anyway the emphasis for them is the messiah is supposed to be the King of Israel.
So I picked up on that, and the more I researched in the gospels about Jesus - it was apparent that him being that promised great King of Israel descended from David was a major factor.
In John 12:12-15, as Jesus is riding into Jerusalem on the donkey, people were hailing him as the King of Israel - that comes in the name of the Lord.
Shorty afterwards, after the Jewish leaders conspired to have him killed, and on the cross, with "King of the Jews" sign placed by Pilate - Jesus was mocked by the same Jewish leaders... as "
Christ the King of Israel", Mark 15:32.
Then I was reading where the woman at the well, in John 4:25, made the connection of the term Christ as equivalent to the Messiah.
Okay, that is not all.
I was reading in Deuteronomy that Moses made it a law that all of the future leaders of Israel, on the feast of tabernacles, were to give a big speech to the nation of Israel, confirming the Mt. Sinai covenant on a 7 years interval, Deuteronomy 31:9-13.
Added to that, some more information from the Jews on what they believe, is that the new covenant of Jeremiah 31:31, does not mean new, but
a "renewal" of the existing Mt. Sinai covenant. Which confirming the Mt. Sinai covenant for seven years - the one we read about in Daniel 9:27 would be a perfect fit - the renewal of the Mt. Sinai covenant as the Jews expect.
So when all those things are put together what the Jews expect of the messiah - the King of Israel - and in fact Jesus was the rightful King of Israel - called "Christ the King of Israel" even by them who opposed him - taking "Anti" placing it in front of "Christ" to get Antichrist, the Antichrist is someone who will be believed by the Jews to be the King of Israel.... "instead of and against" Jesus the rightful King of Israel.
Wait, there's more, that ties into this King of Israel concept. We have a person called the false prophet in Revelation. There's appears to be more to it than the religious spokesman for when the person becomes the beast....
What the Jews believe about the messiah - they believe that when the messiah comes, in order to become the King of Israel, he must be anointed by a known prophet.
Who would that known prophet be? Well every passover, they set a dinner place for Elijah, in anticipation of his coming to prepare for the messianic age.
Where they get that a known prophet has to anoint the person is the only three kings over united Israel were Saul and David, anointed by Samuel the prophet, and Solomon by Nathan the prophet.
So in all likelyhood, the false prophet will claim to be Elijah. And in fact, in Revelation 13, he later calls fire down from heaven, like Elijah did in his episode against the prophets of Baal.
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Okay it all adds up, the Antichrist to be anointed by the false prophet as the King of Israel.... but there is a big problem!
The problem is this...
Most of the prophecies regarding the person is as
King of the fourth empire - the Roman Empire, not as the King of Israel. And he is the 7th (Revelation 17:10) king and then later the 8th king (Revelation 17:11, the beast).
So that is where we have to start putting together the whole scenario... to satisfy him being the King of the Roman Empire and at one point the King of Israel (the Antichrist).
The person starts out as the leader of the EU, 7th Caesar family King of the Roman Empire, as the little horn. He is not the Antichrist, King of Israel, yet.
Then following Gog/Magog, is the prince who shall come, a transitional role, which he will be thought by the Jews as their messiah... because it will appear to them that he fits the messiah requirements (there's some more on that, but I need to keep this post short from too much information to digest).
And is anointed the King of Israel by the false prophet. Which then as the leader of Israel, playing the part, confirms the Mt. Sinai covenant for 7 years, the big speech to the nation, as Moses required by in Deuteronomy 31:9-13.
Goes good, for a while, as the Jews and the world are thinking Peace and Safety, early stages of the Messianic Era. When about 3 years into it, the person goes bad and thinks he has attained God-hood. Which ends his Antichrist, King of Israel, period, as the Jews are not going to tolerate that claim.
As the revealed man of sin, another transitional role, but this time on his way to becoming the beast. He is killed, then brought back to life - as the beast, reverting back to his original power base the EU, as his kingdom (Revelation 17:17), the 8th Caesar family King of the Roman Empire.