Who is the Messiah?
How can we recognize Him?
When will He come?
1. He must be of the seed of Abraham. Moses recorded the promise of G-d to Abraham in the following way: "In thy seed shall all the natiions of the earth be blessed" (Genesis 22:18)
2. He must be of the tribe of Judah. When Jacob was dying, he said to his son Judah: "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver
from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be" (Genesis 49:10)
3. He must be of the house of David. In Isaiah's prophecy of the
Messiah we read: "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with justice and with righteousness" (Isaiah 7:14)
4. He must be born of a virgin. The Prophet Isaiah wrote:"Therefore
the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14) 5. He must be born in Bethlehem. As foretold by the prophet Micah: "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel" (Micah5:2)
6. He must be God. Isaiah clearly stated that when he wrote: "His name shall be called......The Mighty G-d, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6 More than 1900 years ago, a child was born in a stable in the town of Bethlehem. He was of the seed of Abraham. He was of the tribe of Judah and the house of David. His mother was a virgin. The Messiah has come!
Who is the Messiah? The only one who meets all the requirements is Yeshua. As a devout Jew, Yeshua lived a remarkable life. He restored sight to the blind, healed crippled limbs and even raised the dead. He astounded the Jewish leaders of that time by his insight, wisdom and teaching of the Tanakh (Jewish Bible). By his words and works he proved himself to be G-d's Annointed One.
Then, according to the predetermined plan of God, Yeshua gave himself as G-d's Passover Lamb--he died for the atonement of his people's sins. As the Prophet Isaiah predicted: "He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised and we esteemed him not....But he was wounded for our treansgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:3-6)
Yeshua, the Redeemer, the Suffering Servant of God, died on a Stake of Calvary and was buried. On the third day He rose from the dead and appeared to hundreds of eyewitnesses.
By the resurrection, God clearly demonstrated that Yeshua is Messiah. If you have not received Yeshua as your Messiah, He invites you:
"If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Yeshua, and shall believe in thine heart that G-d hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved" (Romans 10:9)
