Quiet Time Notes

Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God

Who is Jesus? Messiah

March 12th, 2025
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Jews do not believe Jesus is who Christians say he is

Up until about 1,000 years ago, Jew mainly interpreted Isaiah 53 as a prediction of the coming Messiah but now read it as the Suffering Servant aka the nation of Israel

But there is some issues with this thought:

• Servant was sinless - Isaiah 53:9
• Lamb who submits without resistant - Isaiah 53:7
• Servant dies as a substituionary atonement for the sins of others

In fact, there is only one possible candidate for all of these to be correct:

1. Born from a seed of a woman - Genesis 3:15
2. From the seed of Abraham - Genesis 12:3
3. From the tribe of Judah - Genesis 49:10
4. From the line of David - Jeremiah 23:5-6
5. Both man and God - Isaiah 9:6
6. Born in Bethlehem - Micah 5:2
7. Died in 33AD - Daniel 9:26
8. Rose from the dead - Isaiah 53:11

Jews have been waiting for a political messiah but did not realize the Messiah would come as a lamb of God to be slaughtered for the sins on the world - Isaiah 53:7

Even demons know that Jesus is the Messiah - James 2:19

Key Phrase: Predicted: The Messiah would come as a lamb of God to be slaughtered for the sins on the world

Notes from: I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Frank Turek.