It is going to be a rather long post due to the nature of the subject and the volume of sources, but let’s put an end to the Christian falsehood of messianism.
Christians hold as an argument of their messiah the Hebrew prophecies, specifically those of the Old Testament! But let’s examine which are the Hebrew presuppositions of the coming of their messiah according to their scriptures, that the Christians “disregarded” and those of the Old Testament as Christians argue.
Since Christians consider Jesus as their messiah, why the mount of Olives did not split in two as the Jews had prophesied?
In Zechariah 14:4, we read, “On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.”
Jesus did not become King of the world. He didn’t even become king of Israel!
Zechariah 14:9 «The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name».
Did Jesus become king of the whole world? Only the 20% of the earth’s population converted to Christianity and this only “on the point of the sword, upon unspeakable crimes, genocides and destruction of ancient civilizations”! As for how many still believe in him, it is a big question mark! If he could really foresee as a god the future events and the evil that his disciples would bring to the world, he would have committed hara-kiri. At least he would have spared the Jews from the Christian pogroms and holocausts.
SIBYLS PROPHESY FOR JESUS. Christians argue that even the Sibyls foretold the coming of the “savior” Christ, but it is well known that the Sybil of Delphi foretold of the “savior” Apollo. Christians appropriated the oracle-myth and created their own “Messiah” as pope Leo X argued about. “How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us and our predecessors.” Besides, other ancient religions prophesied the coming of their messiah, as Jean-Baptiste Du Halde who was a French Jesuit historian specializing in China, said that the Chinese also prophesied the coming of a “Savior” who was Buddha, or Fo, or Few-Kyau, or Skek-ya.
On Isaiah’s prophecy. The 44th chapter and the beginning of the 45th that were not written by Isaiah, are a compliment to Cyrus, who permitted the Jews to return to Jerusalem from the Babylonian captivity, as it is stated in Ezra and for this he was proclaimed as “savior”.
As for Isaiah 7:14-18, the verses speak of the king of Syria and the king of Israel who made a treaty among them and marched together against Ahaz, the king of Judah, toward Jerusalem. Ahaz and his people became alarmed, and reading the verse 2, we learn that, “And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.” In this critical situation, Isaiah said to Ahaz that according to a divine prophecy, those two kings should not march together against him otherwise he would be defeated and told him to ask a sign. In the next chapter, in verse 2, we read further on, “And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, and I went unto the prophetess, and she conceived and bare a son”.
This is how the story begun with this child and the virgin prophetess (was Mary a prophetess?) and it is based on this falsified story, that the book of Matthew, and the cunning interests of priests later on, have applied this story as a prophecy of the birth of Jesus. Besides, the name of the prophetess was Maher-shalal-hash-baz and not Mary and her son was Immanuel and not Jesus.
But to understand the falsehood of Isaiah’s prophecy, one has to read of the sequel of this story, which is related in 2 Chronicles 28, that instead of these two kings failing in their attempt against Ahaz, king of Judah, they succeeded! Ahaz was defeated, a hundred and twenty thousand of his people were slaughtered, Jerusalem was plundered, and two hundred thousand women, and sons and daughters, carried into captivity.
Besides, there is not a passage in the Jewish Scriptures declaring that a child should be born of a virgin. The word translated “virgin” does not mean a virgin, but simply “a young woman”. The whole passage is a mistranslation. There is no reference to a miraculous conception and a virgin-born child. The Jews themselves did not regard this passage as a Messianic prophecy; neither did they believe that the Messiah was to be born of a virgin. All this is a fabrication of the Christians.
Another supposed prophecy on Jesus Christians refer to, is in Genesis 49:10 which states: “The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from his descendants, until the coming of the one to whom it belongs.”
This verse signifies the leadership role of the tribe of Judah and foreshadows the coming of a significant ruler, often interpreted as a reference to the Messiah. It emphasizes the importance of Judah in the lineage of kings and the eventual fulfillment of God’s promises to His people.
If Shiloh refers to Christ the prophecy was not fulfilled, for the scepter did depart from Judah 600 years before Christ came. But Shiloh does not refer to a Messiah, nor to any man. Shiloh was the seat of the national sanctuary before it was removed to Jerusalem. This so-called prophecy, like the preceding, is a mistranslation. The correct reading is as follows: “The preeminence shall not depart from Judah so long as the people resort to Shiloh.”
Another alleged reference to Jesus as messiah is in Isaiah 9:6. “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be declared Wonderful Counsellor, The Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace”.
Prof. Thomas Kelly Cheyne, a Hebraist and Biblical Scholar, who is considered as the highest authority on Isaiah, in his work, “Notes and criticisms on the Hebrew text of Isaiah”, says that this is a forgery. He says, “Every honest Christian scholar must admit this. It is a self-evident forgery. No Jewish writer could have written it. To have declared even the Messiah to be “The mighty God, the everlasting Father” would have been the rankest blasphemy, a crime the punishment of which was death. These alleged Messianic prophecies are, in their present form, Christian rather than Jewish. Christian translators and exegetists have altered their language and perverted their meaning to make them appear to refer to Christ”.
What do you say so far for these evidences debunking the messianic Christian prophecies?
See part II
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