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               WHY WE BELIEVE IN THE MESSIAH
                            -or-
                  IN SEARCH OF THE MESSIAH

 We  now want to utilize the side of the brain not used very
 often,  or so it seems,  nowadays.  I want you to use  your
 imaginan order to produce a report as to the Nature  of
 the Messiah as fortold in the Scriptures.

 Now,  I will take the role of the chief advisor,  but it is
 important to note that King Herod is of the nature that, if
 we don't produce what he wants, we may very well be fired -
 in OIL!

           Let's tackle the origin of the Messiah:


 GENESIS  3:15         "Seed of Woman"
 GENESIS 22:18         "Seed of Abraham"
 DANIEL   7:13         "Son of Man"
 ISAIAH   7:14         "Virgin Birth"
 ISAIAH   9:6          "GOD HIMSELF [Father of Eternity]"
 PSALM    2:7          "SON OF GOD"
 PSALM  110:11         "Son of DAVID - Yet David's LORD"

 That's getting too confusing
                             so

 lets tackle the BIRTHPLACE
 MICAH    5:2       "Out of thee (Bethlehem"
 HOSEA   11:1       "Out of Egypt --"
 ISAIAH  11:1       "Branch" used Hebrew word NEHTZER
                     which had been commonly accepted by
                     the religious leaders to be NAZARENE!
              Forget that for a little   while
           let's try How the people are to react
            towards Him ... and He to the people...
ISAIAH   8:14      "Rock of offense" -   he is going to
                    alienate the people -PSALM  118:22
ISAIAH  28:16      "To be the Corner Stone"
ISAIAH  11:1-10     Will be Jew (Branch  from Jesse) yet in
                    Verse 10 we see that the Gentiles will
                    seek Him - THIS IS NOT RIGHT?!-NO JEW
                    WOULD COME NEAR A  GENTILE.
ISAIAH  25:7        The "veil" on the hearts of Gentiles
                    will be destroyed while a veil of
                    disbelief will form over the hearts
                    of some (not all) Jews!

           We are really  getting nowhere - FAST!
        Let's try to find HIS ANNOINTING (function)

                           Compare
                     PSALM  22 with 72
                     ISAIAH   53 with 11

Well  it  looks  as though there might be  TWO  MESSIAHS  -
   otherwise HOW can this apply to ONE MESSIAH?!

Zechariah   6:12-13   "Priest   upon His throne"
Psalm     110:4       "Priest on the order of Melchizedek"
Jeremiah   23:5       "A King"

Now, we as the advisors to the King know that   ONLY a member
of  the tribe of Judah can be KING and we know that only  a
member  of  the tribe of Levi may be a priest!  How  can  a
Messiah be from  both Levi and Judah?

Let's look at Isaiah 40:5 where HE will be the GLORY OF   THE
LORD  and in ISAIAH 53:1-3 He will be DESPISED AND HAVE  NO
BEAUTY!  Then    we have Zechariah 11:12 & 13 showing that  a
price of 30 pieces of silver will  be paid for Him - or will
it be paid for a potter's field?

This Messiah is    getting more and more confusing,  isn't it?
Let's take a few more verses:

   Zechariah 13:6 shows that he will be wounded,  while  Psalm
22:16  shows His  hands and feet pierced - while Psalm 34:20
shows  that he is "keeping His  bones".  How can one  pierce
the  hands  and not break a bone - and why would   the  fact
that His bones are not broken be so important?

If this be the    Messiah,  then why in Psalm 22:1 - 8 does it
show Him being forsaken by GOD?

               NOW LET US COME BACK TO THE PRESENT

I.  The difficulties that they   experienced then were due to
    the fact that the "answer" had not been  provided,  yet.
    The  same is with our "difficulties" - if there  is  no
    answer to each of us.  than we must look for answers or
    await the answer  at HIS timing.

                         MATTHEW 2:22-23
Joseph was about to    return to Bethlehem. Humanly speaking -
this  prophesy  hinged  on an odd  fact  of  History  - King
Herod, during an outrage against "those who plotted  against
him"  and  in a very peevish mood CHANGED his will and  put
ARCHELAUS,  the  son  he  HATED most  to  rule  INSTEAD  of
ANTIPAS,  the   eldest.  It was this dread of ARCHELAUS that
led  Joseph  to resettle in  Nazareth.  Here  God  used  the
spiteful  wrath  of  a paranoid king to bring   prophesy  to
fulfillment.

                       I PETER 2:6-8
                      MATTHEW 21:42-44
Here Christ is shown as the CORNER STONE and in MATTHEW  we
find how He was a "rock of offense" or stumbling block,  as
He is today, to  those who REFUSE to believe on Him.

                       LUKE 4:17-21
Here    we see the Lord reading ISAIAH - yet NOT FINISHING THE
READING!  WHY?  -  because  Christ was not ready to announce
the  Day  of Judgement - He plans  to do that  on  His  next
visit!

                       MATTHEW 26:15
Thirty     Pieces of Silver paid to Judas. WHY 30 PIECES? Let's
look  at Exodus 21:32  where "if a person's bull should push
(kill)  a  manservant the owner of the  bull was to  pay  30
pieces of silver.  In other words a DEAD SERVANT was   worth
30 pieces of silver.  The price paid reflected the contempt
the   leaders had toward Jesus.

                      MATTHEW 27:3-10
                What did Judas do with the money?

                       JOHN 19:31-37
Here     BOTH  of the thieves crucified with Christ had  their
bones broken - BUT  JESUS DID NOT.  The wounds of the  nails
pierced flesh and not bones!

Now,     we should look at the ONLY prophesy that outlined the
EXACT day that the  Messiah would enter Jerusalem.

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