The Messiah has Come

If you are familiar with the Jews' religion, then you are aware that collectively they do not embrace Jesus Christ as the Messiah. As Christians, we embrace Jesus as the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of David, who would sit on the throne of David as the result of the Davidic Covenant that God the Father made with King David prior to his death (2Samuel 7). However, the Jews do not embrace the belief that the Man who walked the earth nearly two thousand years ago and died on the Cross for the sins of the world, is the individual for which the scriptures prophesied would come and restore the kingdom to Israel (Acts 1).

This "difference of opinion" has served as a major divide between the Jews and the church since the inception of Christianity. However, there's something that the church needs to atleast take into consideration in regards to the perspective of the Jews not embracing Jesus Christ as the Coming Messiah. The widespread belief amongst the Jews was (and is) that when the Messiah would come, not only would He restore the Kingdom to Israel and assume the throne of his father David, but He would also usher in a type of "Golden Age" for the children of Israel that would make them the spectacle of the the world and the glory of God as His chosen people (Isaiah 61). So, the question that a lot of the Jews have in regards to the validity of the Messiahship of He who we worship as Jesus the Christ is, where is the Golden Age? Where is the change and the transformation that is supposed to come when the Promised Messiah assumes His Throne?

This my brothers and sisters is a legitimate question. But it's not an indictment on the Messiah status of Jesus, but rather a reflection on the witness of the church. When Jesus did walk the earth in human flesh, everything that the Scriptures said He would do, He fulfilled (Isaiah 61). He healed the sick, He raised the dead, He gave sight to the blind, He walked in miracles, signs and wonders; and He died for the sins of the world (Isaiah 53). The misunderstanding amongst the Jews is that when Jesus did this in His three year Ministry, He then equipped the apostles to teach and train the saints so that The Golden Age could then be ushered in and manifested by the church (Acts 1). This is why Jesus trained the disciples for 40 days in His Post-Resurrection Ministry. The scripture says that He spoke to them pertaining to the Kingdom of God (Acts 1). But once again, the fallacy and flaw of the faith of the mainstream church is that we don't major in the Kingdom, we major in religion, which we call Christianity. What we do on Sunday mornings and the activity that we contain in our ecclesiastical gathering centers, is not the idea that Christ had nor has of the church. The church, the Body of Christ, is supposed to be the Divine Agent and Instrument for which Jesus in this day and time ushers in the Golden Age of the Kingdom of God. People want to blame the government and the police and the school system and Wall Street for all the problems that are plaguing our society. But Jesus said that the church is the light of the world and the salt of the earth (Matthew 5). Until we learn and commit to accessing the Kingdom Power of God, things are not going to change. But once we do, and we will, people will know that The Messiah has Come.