Subject: where is Christ battling Satan in HELL |
Bible Note: Dear Ed, You asked, "But aren't all real Jews looking for the Messiah?" (sic) I can hear my grandfather now... "So... there are unreal Jews already? You see these unreal people often? There are doctors for this." :-) Messiah is not hidden in some corner in which the Jews have failed to look. Judaism looks for a Messiah of their own fashioning. Have you not read... "I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me; I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me. I said, 'Here am I, here am I,' To a nation which did not call on My name. I have spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, Who walk in the way which is not good, following their own thoughts" (Isaiah 65:1-2 NASB) The Jews [presumably real ones] then gathered around Him [Jesus], and were saying to Him, "How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ [Messiah], tell us plainly." Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify of Me. But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one." (John 10:24-30 NASB) In Him, Doc |