if you enjoy these programs please like And subscribe he said isn't it obvious that your greatest Rabbi was wrong about the Messiah and I turned to him and I asked him tell me this how do you know that bako wasn't the [Music] Messiah well I remember wasn't it Rabbi AKA who uh was on record saying that Baraka was the Messiah and when it didn't pan out they didn't consider aka some sort of apostate or heretic he maintained his due reputation as a Great Sage of Israel that's always made me wonder how Jewish Christians that's so
not an oximoron uh in the beginning if they beli Jesus was the aside did they necessarily think Jews who didn't believe that were going to be in trouble at the final judgment it seems to me not necessarily we might be imposing much later Christian views on them right so you know anyway I'll tell you funny story many years ago maybe 30 years ago I was in Dallas and I met up with a Christian leader very well-known guy and he in our conversation he said look Rabbi Akiva he was perhaps one of the greatest rabbis that
ever lived he was a Tano he lived in the second century it means he was an author of the missionary was way up there he said Raba was wrong about BBA the re revolutionary who from 132 to 135 had a for the time being a success Revolution ultimately he was killed by the Empire the whole thing was crushed so he said to me I'll never forget this he said isn't it obvious that your greatest Rabbi was wrong about the Messiah okay and I turned to him and I asked him tell me this how do you
know that Baka wasn't the Messiah and he looked at me like I had lost my mind and he said what are you talking about bapa was killed by the Romans and he filled no Messianic prophecies and I just stared at him and then he he got what he had said he dismiss I I just simply asked him how do you know B isn't the Messiah his reply was Bak was killed by the Romans without fulfilling any Messianic prophecy I said hello that's exactly what you believe in I mean it's mindblowing and and and then he
he really got it say here's the point I'm not trying to be cute as long as Bara was in a movement and he retook Jerusalem it didn't last for many years but it last for a few years it was a a revolution that occurred some 60 years after the destruction of second temple as long as baru was alive then he could potentially be the Messiah and it was not tical the moment Barak was killed by the Romans and became heresy to believe that he is the Messiah and that's the whole point so right Rabbi keev
was a great Rabbi who thought maybe this person is the Messiah maybe why because he's doing what the Messiah is supposed to do I mean read the text he's he's supposed to destroy the enemies of God namely the Empire so while he was successfully doing that he could have been he really it was not heretical things as the Messiah it becomes heretical the moment you say after he's killed by the Romans without accomplishing his that then you have just left Judaism that's so RAB Kea is the perfect point to demonstrate exactly why Christianity is a
false religion Rabbi Kea was very consistent oh you're killed then you can't be the Messiah let's move on so absolutely while he was alive well while no one knows whatever Jesus was doing because we have no writing of his you know we you know we don't we don't have you know people when they say Jesus really the real Jesus they're just um saying you know they're using very similitude of what we think an orthodox Jew nobody knows you know you can extract from the gospels but the gospels are so so much myth so much later
so Paul never met it's just you could do all you want to you can't it's it's a game it's not real science when people people say Jesus was this or Jesus was that you know um you know there were Christian thing you know as Albert schweitzer's ideas seem to hold sway today but no one can it doesn't we don't know but the key is once he's dead he can't possibly be the Messiah that's the point and that was the point of RAB AKA as long as Bak was alive sure that's not heretical it is heretical
once he's dead I love that passage in Isaiah I believe also in Micah uh practically verbatim when it says that the day will come when the Nations will uh stream up to Mount Zion to be taught the Torah and when I try to explain that in classes or I did I would say it it's like everybody says okay look the the the Messiah has come uh God has redeemed Israel I guess we know who was right right now so uh let's uh let's go and get the education we should have had long ago I think
that that's somehow a unique uh scenario that really explains a lot let's talk let's talk B let's talk not Bob but Dr Price and I'll tell you why I say that because you're a new testament scholar here we have the most ecstatic Messianic prophecy arguably in the entire Hebrew Bible so famous that Isaiah 2 is not only quoted in Micah but it appears in front of the United Nations on First Avenue engraved on the wall the UN and I can't stand the UN I'm not a fan but they had the brains to create an Isaiah
wall and as it turns out the the most numinous Messianic prophecy arguably in all the Hebrew Bible is quoted no we in the New Testament Isaiah 2 is never quoted in the Christian Bible not once really not once how is that possible so ah beautiful words out of Zion will go forth the Torah and the word of God from Jerusalem no eukar no none of this just pure it's going to return and we're Jerusalem and what's Jerusalem Jerusalem is a City that where I live has no natural resources it's it's a it's a tiny place
it's there's no even ocean front and and look at that the New Testament never quotes it why do you think that is because Jesus didn't do it it's like you know the Christian Bible has a knack for quoting things that have nothing at all to do with why they're being quoted that they quote you know but Isaiah 2 is you know you know even you you take books like the Book of Jonah so the book of the point of the Book of Jonah is that here is the worst people in the world the capital of
Assyria they repent and God forgives them I mean that's the whole point and Jonah is bewildered at the end it's beautiful story here you have a book that's devoted to sin and atonement we are told the New Testament and although the Book of Jonah is quoted for every reason in the world that Jesus is going to be Matthew 12 going to be in the in the Tomb for like Jonah was in the wh it's a sign of the whale same chapter Jesus saying that the people of nve testify against you in this arrogant thing you
have someone um with you who's greater than Jo but you don't mention that God will forgive you if you repent hello and that's the Christian Bible like how did you miss that fine you want to say Jonah was in the belly of a whale for three days and three nights the fish whatever fine he wasn't three days and three nights even but let's just I don't want to be pendan but you can't mention that God had mercy on people that and this is a book that is putatively about Sin and atonement that's the whole Christian
Bible and that you didn't think was important of that's how that's how damaged the Christian Bible is it goes back to your first question this is not just a mistaken book this is not the bvan Gita nor the Hindus nothing personal but it's not that this is an an evil book that did so much damage to the world you know it so well it's it's amazing no one can accuse you of speaking out of ignorance it's uh you you putting me to shame with h your uh immediate knowledge of anything and everything in in the
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