MESSIAH
Mašīah
(Anointed, Messiah) is a term related to anointmeent of a future ruler by a
priest or a prophet in order to deliver G-d's Grace to this ruler in a way
similar to modern delivery of gifts of the Holy Spirit to any person who has
accepted JHS as his Lord, cf. 1 Sam=Šemū’ēl
ālep 10, 1: prophet Šemū’ēl
anoints Šā’ūl (Saul) a king.
In prohets' speech, the term “Annointed”
begins to mean a King Saviour after the Jews had got into Assyrian and Babylonian captivities, but there appears a mystic insight of a Saviour Redeemer from sins in deepest prophecies
(cf.
Is=Ješà‘jā
53).
Since then Messiah is a descendant of King David with a task to restitute
the Kingdom of Yisrael. Up to now there exist a confusion between two messiahs
in Talmudic tradition: one
is suffering, and the other is triumphing.
This intricacy can be solved in
favour of One Messiah only in the Person of JHS, Crucified, Resurrexed, Ascended
to Heaven and Coming again with glory.
Mostly staggering prophecies about JHS in the OT are: Is=Ješa‘jā
53; Ps=Tehillīm
22; 41, 9; Zech=Zekàrjā
11, 12-13; 12, 10; Dan=Dāniyyēl
9, 24-27 (the latter
presents a precise mathematic calculation of the date of the First Coming of the
Messiah).
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