Four Startling Facts About the Identity of the Messiah – Susan Perlman

This post was authored by Susan Perlman from the jewsforjesus.org/ website.
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Talmudical reckoning the Messiah should long since have come; yet, there was the exile, still the bitterest fact of Jewish life, to be accounted for. Can it be the coming of the Messiah has passed and the promise has not been fulfilled? Sorely perplexed, the rabbi decided to begin a study of the original predictions of the Prophets, but the mere contemplation of the act filled him with fear, for according to the teaching of the Rabbis, “Cursed are the bones of him who calculates the time of the end.” And so it was that with trembling hands, expecting at any moment to be struck by a bolt from heaven, but with an eagerness irresistible, he opened the book of the prophet Daniel and began to read.1

Today some might wonder, why so much angst over the Messiah? After all, we have managed thus far without him. Do we really need a Messiah? Perhaps the longing seems to express a childlike hope in a hero on whom most of our people have long since given up. For many, the Messiah seems like little more than an ancient Jewish version of Santa or Superman. But don’t miss the deeper emotion this “sorely perplexed” young rabbi felt. His cold fear was simply stated in the sentence, “Can it be the coming of the Messiah has passed and the promise has not been fulfilled?”

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Worthy is the Lamb! Blessings!