I hear what you guys are trying to say. Don't lose those glasses you have on. You guys completely miss my point. But read the rest of the verse you quoted, which has not come to pass yet, yes the child was born and for those reasons but the Jews for the most part don't even believe He was the messiah, they rejected Him. They will one day accept him though:
But they DID Accept Him!
By the
Thousands!!
True Israel was John the Baptist, Mary, Joseph, Jesus, Elisabeth, the 12, the 70, the 3000 at Pentecost, and the great many jews that first rejected but later accepted Jesus Christ.
These Jews are true Israel. They later went out and began to preach to gentiles that they might be included into the Nation and receive Abraham's blessing of
Genesis 12:1-3, which is an eternal promise fulfilled to Christ's Nation.
Saying that the Jews Faild to Accept Jesus is the same as saying the Jews NEVER entered the Promised land after the 40 years in the wilderness because not all of them did...
You do understand this right?
Many here (maybe you too?) have a bizarre idea of who is Israel (they count the disobedient sons of Abraham as Israel while discounting entirely the faithful sons of Abraham).
St. Paul said that when the nation was in mass apostasy, the TRUE Israel was carried on not through the lineages of the wicked sons but rather through the OBEDIENT FEW (called the "remnant"), such as was true in Isaiah's day (
Romans 9:27-29) and Elijah's day (
Romans 11:3-5).
Peter says the same thing at Acts 3:22-24, where it is clear that the wicked jews who refuse Christ were to be "cut off from among the People of Israel" while the faithful jews (John the Baptist, Joseph and Mary, the Twelve, the Seventy, the three thousand on Pentecost day, and many other jews) were the True Faithful Israel.
Just as the jewish church abode with Moses in the wilderness (Acts 7:37-38), so Jesus had HIS jewish church (Mt. 16:18-19). And within a few years after Pentecost, the faithful Israel learned how to start accepting both jewish
and also gentile followers from all over the empire to convert into their Nation (
1 Peter 2:9-10; Mt 21:40-45). And so the tiny remnant True Israel grew into a worldwide Judaism living under the promised NEW covenant of Israel's Messiah.
And so it was also in Moses' day, when the countless thousands of wicked sons of Abraham were slain in the wilderness while the faithful sons of Abraham survived and got to enter the Promised Land.
We must NEVER count the continuation of Israel through the wicked sons but rather always through the faithful remnant!
Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
Accomplished.
This is today's reality.
And Scripture PROVES IT!
Matthew 28:18
Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority
has been given to Me in heaven
and on earth."
Mark 1:14-15
Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying,
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
1 Peter 3:21-22
Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven,
after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him
Revelation 1:5
Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead,
and the ruler of the kings of the earth
Acts 2:30-36
David...being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascended into the heavens...Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
1 Timothy 6:15-16
[He] is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who alone has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see
Scripture clearly says that Jesus is the King of Kings
now over heaven and earth, Ruling from the Throne of David!
Read again the scriptures above. What do they say?
They say Jesus is the reigning king over all heaven and earth now. He has taken the throne promised to David's son, according to Acts 2:30-36, and he reigns and does great things, like pour out his powers at Pentecost and bring judgment at AD 70 and judge the all the living and the dead. Was King David able to do any such things? No. But the Son of David is a Divine King. A God-King, ruling over Heaven and Earth RIGHT NOW.
