Subject: Christians before Jesus came |
Bible Note: EdB, Nice to meet you... I appreciate your perspective, but I just don't see how they would have anticipated a Messiah. It is clear that in the inter-testamental period that those thoughts arose and that they began to look for such a person, but in the majority of Israel's history, I don't think you can validate a claim such as the one you are making. Even so, like I said, if you could validate such a claim, that would only account for those in the Israelite community who did have access to God's revelation, and this would not include those who were outside of their community. A lot of the things that we consider "messianic prophesy" in the OT are not. The first legitimate one that I can think of would be Isa. 53...and who really understood what that was talking about until Jesus fulfilled it? with love, chesed |