jesus is the four thought stumbling stone psalm 180 according to matthew 21 this means uh that it is foretold in tonight that jews would reject jesus makes sense that jews do not believe in jesus what your response to that question this is a typical christian argument and it doesn't come out of just matthew it appears in the synoptic gospels in matthew mark and luke in the context of the parable of the wicked tenant evan martinum the stone which the builders rejected jaesel raj pina would be the cornerstone therefore jesus being rejected makes him therefore the
messiah and this is of course completely silly on so many levels let's unpack them it's very clear in tanakh in fact there is no idea that's conveyed more clearly throughout the jewish scriptures that when the true messiah comes that all the nations will follow him this is very clear in the jewish scriptures it's uncontroversial it's everywhere in zachariah chapter 9 verse 10. and christians don't read it people who are christian please if you're a christian don't be offended but christians read zechariah 9 9 they never read 9 10 if they would read 9 10 they
would leave the church immediately but the christian bible is very careful to pick one and not the other but in zechariah chapter 9 verse 10 it says he will have sovereignty throughout the world through all the nations he will speak to them he will speak peace to them and what will all the nations do they'll follow him and his sovereignty will be from the river to the ends of the world um adam from sea to sea afsaya urets and from the river to the end of the world that's the key the key is that if
someone claims to be the messiah and anyone doesn't follow believe in him that means he's not the messiah that's the critical thing you can't be the messiah if people don't listen to you the navi says it's such a famous passage that even this every christian knows this verse in isaiah chapter 2 verse 4 the shaft being ha and he will judge among the nations this is speaking about the messiah all christians recognize this and he will rebuke many nations he'll give that's it and what will they do as a result they will take their swords
turn into plowshares and their spears into pruning oaks they'll listen to everything he says he will not be rejected by anyone laissez will not lift up sword against nation neither will they learn of war anymore so be very clear about this if someone claims to be meshiach and the world doesn't all abide by him doesn't follow him you could be sure he's a false messiah because that's the whole point that in those days all the nations will speak in a pure speech saifanya zephaniah chapter three verse nine it's so interesting how christians play this i
was gonna say they play this game and they do but they don't realize they're playing the game because this is what they're taught in churches i understand i understand in churches they taught but if they would just sit and listen for a moment to the same words they say they would see this is all silly you know the one of the most quoted verses in the entire christian bible is daniel chapter 7 verse 13 and one like a son of man will come with the clouds of heaven to the ancient of days right it's the
most quoted passage in the entire christian bible quoted more than anything everywhere all over the place okay and jesus is therefore called the son of man and they add in the definite article in the new testament you can imagine why so all christians know this who's the savior is getting created who's the son of man they'll all say it's the messiah even though it doesn't mean that in this case in daniel 7 13 it's talking about the meshiach a son of strangely according to christian teachings in the gospels itself jesus was not a son of
a man he was only the son of a woman because according to matthew and luke jesus didn't have a human father he wasn't the son of a man he was only the son of a woman it's crazy i mean you could call him a son of god i mean it's wrong to do that but it doesn't even work in christian theology but i'm digressing get back on the key is the very next verse very next verse i beg you christians listen carefully daniel 7 14 to him it will be given this is speaking about the
messiah god will give him the ancient of days will give one who comes like a son of man with the clouds of heaven glory to his kingdom that all peoples i didn't stick that in your bible that all peoples all nations and all languages will serve him he will be the indisputed leader of the world everyone will listen to him and his dominion will be an everlasting dominion this is the fulfillment of the davidic covenant in 2nd samuel chapter seven which will not pass away and his kingdom will be one that will not be destroyed
that's talking about the messianic age the context is in daniel 7 four kingdoms come into view for the great prophets four famous kingdoms i'm not going to go through it now but in a night vision daniel sees four kingdoms that are that appear to him symbolically and are very troublesome one worse than the next but finally the last kingdom is destroyed and then it all reverts back to hakodeja baraku the kingdom is from god and one like a son of man comes to god called the ancient of days that means he was always there okay
what i'm saying is not only uncontrovert uncontroversial it's not only clear no christian has an excuse to say i didn't know this because i'm deliberately quoting the most famous verses to the christian so how could it be that the jews reject him or anybody would reject them as messiah when the bible says all nations and moreover the holy prophets tell us that in those days 10 gentiles 10 of the nations of of different languages will grab the hem this knife of a jew literally says of a jew in zechariah 8 23 and they will say
we will go with you all meaning youths plural for we have heard that that god is with you is with you the nations will come to the jews so how could the jews be rejecting the messiah when we are the light of the nations with the urlagoyan isaiah chapter 49 verse 6 isaiah chapter 42 verse 6. it's in there these are the verses that christians are quoting up and down listen to your verses how could anyone even dreamed that someone would reject the messiah you know how convoluted it is to make such a suggestion so
what do they have to do they have to take verses that have nothing to do with the messiah or don't have any bearing on the messiah very famously psalm 118 evan marso psalm 118 is it's speaking in the first person king dave is crying out he's crying out for god's redemption that god would protect him he's crying out that hakash is saving from his many many enemies and king david had so many enemies he didn't say in the future somebody's people are going to try to kill the messiah and god's going to save him or
he's going to no he's also on the first person king david was someone who was abandoned by his own family his own child wanted to kill him his friend wanted to destroy him he was betrayed throughout his life and could you imagine having such a life when the prophet shmuel samuel came to his father with ruach kodesh which with navoo with prophecy and said one of your children needs to be anointed i'm coming here to anoint them so his father yishai i'm paraphrasing here brings his sons and shmore looks at them not with physical eyes
but with spiritualize and he sees us none of them his own father didn't think that he could possibly it and she will ask him do you have another son ah so he calls out his youngest son youngest of eight children his own father didn't even get it his own father couldn't imagine it no one could moreover just a few verses earlier in psalm 118 but in verse 17 and 18 he says i will not die i will live and recount the deeds of the lord verse 17. the lord has disciplined me severely and he has
not given me over to death same psalm so right before verse 22 right after verse 22 you you would have to be so sedated so not paying attention to the context in order to even for a moan believe this could be speaking about the leader of the christian religion the messiah of the christian religion the messiah the christian religion dies the promises here you will not die you oh my god i will raise you up whoever is speaking is not god every messianic prophecy that describes the messiah tells us that all nations will follow him
he will not be rejected but so what does the church do it scours the jewish scriptures which is very large more than 23 000 verses that covers an enormous span of time thousands of years to find anybody who got in trouble with his contemporaries and god saved them and then they usually exploit these passages say it's really about jesus even if it's clearly not you could have joseph who is rejected by his own brothers and it's really about jesus if you never heard this before you're living under iraq this is what they do so the
church sets in mind the doctors of the church put it in their mind they're gonna find characters internet who were abandoned by their contemporaries were hurt by those who should have loved them and protected them and then well i have to really jesus king david who was at sadiq what joseph and david have in common is that it would have been somewhat easy for them to walk away from their god because they had been betrayed in their lives yet they remained steadfast in the devotion to hashem that's why they're called that's why joseph is called
yes so imagine a religion that would do this just scour the text find a verse has something nothing to do and then say this belongs to this is talking when you see an angel in joshua it's jesus when you see three angels jesus the trinity do you understand this is completely unfalsifiable if you can use these ridiculous techniques in hermeneutics biblical hermeneutics then any religion could be true i couldn't i could defend any religion in the world if i could engage in this salad bar hermeneutics where i pick and choose versus completely ripped out of
context that have nothing to do with anything and i take it and i applied that to my you could find any kind of character you want tanakh covers a very wide range of time with a wide range of personalities that are there psalm 118 is very very famous it's part of the liturgy of the synagogue we read it aloud it's very important to us very important king david is crying out it should remind you of psalm 23 another very famous psalm the lord is my shepherd what is the what is the theme in these chapters
the theme is that although i'm walking in the valley of darkness god is watching over me although i have enemies god will destroy me and his enemies before me which god did for king david and god will do for the messiah his progeny that surely didn't happen to jesus it couldn't be something more opposite it proves the opposite that once the messiah comes there will be no controversy that all nations will follow him my friends look at your own bible read it what am i quoting from am i calling pushkin am i quoting shakespeare what
am i quoting i'm quoting the tanakh scripture am i reading passages out of context when i say that his sovereignty will be from sea to sea from sea to the river that all nations will follow him and he'll give a rebuke to all nations all nations will follow him of all languages all people will serve him and his dominion will be an everlasting dominion is that not talking about and all nations will follow him and zachariah chapter 8 verse 23 isn't that clearly speaking about the nations of the world coming to the jews it says
the jews i mean open your king james bible it says the jews the nations the gentiles will come to you and say surely we've inherited lies and vanity where there is no truth how could a man make unto themselves gods when they are not jeremiah chapter 16 verse 19 and 20. read it for yourself if the nations would read these passages in context instead of cut up into pieces like a salad chopped up if they would read the context of the bibles they have they would repent and the repentance of the nations will bring about
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