Christians - Jews not accepting Jesus as the Messiah?

The first thing that sprang to mind was 'He came unto His own, and His own received Him not'.

The Pharisees with their Scriptural knowledge knew full well who Jesus was.

Try and imagine having a job in the Temple. The faithful bring their tithes and sacrifices and you get fed and watered for providing the services.

Part of Jesus' role was to become the 'once and for all' sacrifice. The sacrificial system and therefore the work of the temple staff would end, with the end of the sacrificial system, Jesus they figured was a real threat to their way of life, and after years of not having to get their hands dirty, they would have to suddenly do the same as everyone else to survive.

The Pharisees being devout Scriptural followers tried repeatedly to trip Jesus up with different aspects of the law and failed, but they finally succeeded in getting him before Pilate with the charge of claiming to be a king which was a crime against the empire. So the Pharisees could consider themselves guilt free because Jesus' death sentence would be carried out by Rome and not them.

You have to consider what the Jews or Judah the tribe were chosen to do.

Judah was given the crown, all the way down from David, they together with the tribes Benjamin and part of Levi were recorders of time, keepers of the Temple and the guards.

To this day, Judah keeps time better than all the other tribes, they are doing what they have always done and are supposed to do. As with all nations a remnant do regard and accept that Jesus is the Messiah and that is the way it is supposed to be.

The Bible refers to 'the little flock' this being those from all nations who believe and hold on to the belief that He was the one the prophets wrote about and forewarned that the Jews His own people would reject him.

Far from shaking faith, it actually strengthens it.

Does not affect my faith at all.

The jews at the time had the expectation of a worldly leader, and welcomed Jesus to Jerusalem as their King (thinking He would overthrow the Romans). This is known as the Triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The jewish leaders (Pharisees) already hated Jesus through jealousy, and when it transpired that Messiah was not about physical kingdom the people turned against Him.

Now if the jews really knew their own scriptures they would never be waiting for a soldier leader, but the suffering servant who was to bring about an new kingdom of Zion in man's hearts. The Torah shows that Messiah would be pierced and scorned etc etc etc, but their "human" needs overruled their spiritual understanding. This too was prophesied, and God then opened his Grace to the whole World.

Praise God!

And the fact that even now they are still waiting just underscores how they missed the boat.

that's an exciting question that many Christians themselves do no longer totally comprehend. Jesus and his disciples practiced Judaism including Passover while Jesus dies Peter and disciples taught approximately Jesus' existence and persevered to prepare Judaism. On changing new followers the adult males have been "circumcised". a guy observed as Paul who had on no account met Jesus had a "creative and prescient" on the thank you to Damascus. He switched over and became the using rigidity in the back of the hot faith. despatched some letters to Peter - many circumstances they have been in dispute. Paul desperate that mandatory to transform the Roman military as they have been controlling rigidity in section - the adult adult males have been of course slightly reluctant with the 'welcome ceremony' so Paul make certain dthat this grow to be no longer mandatory. It grow to be this that initiated the version between Judaism and the hot faith. Peter and the unique disciples persevered to prepare Judaism, yet Paul travelled fantastically preaching his version of Jesus and his version became fantastically easy and at last written down into New testomony.

Has it possibly occurred to you that Christianity is that the religion of Jesus, but rather the religion of Paul. Was it not Jesus who said that a tree is know by its fruit (Matthew 12:33)? And have you not ignored the First Commandment (Mark 12:29). No, truly Christianity is something else instead. ( http://www.pocm.info/index.html ) No, do not criticize out of ignorance what your eyes are too blind to see.

If you are genuinely curious then it is surprisng that you haven't bothered to read the Bible since it makes it abundantly obvious.

Never wondered why the Jews have been in exile for nearly 2,000 years, dispersed among all nations, their Temple utterly destroyed?

So how then can you be curious?

It does not for Jesus came unto His own first and they knew Him not so He went to sheep of other pastures.

There's such a thing as Jews for Jesus...but that's pretty f*cked up.