Prophecy Today | Home. Home. Rapture Ready - Rapture resource for the end times. End Time Ministries: Return of Jesus Christ. How to recognize the messiah. How did the Old Testament instruct people to recognize God's promised messiah? As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene... No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life. 1 - Albert Einstein Jesus was a crackpot 3.1 Who or what is the Messiah?
1.) In order to prevent Christians or Jews or anyone else from reinterpreting ancient Israel's messianic expectations after-the-fact, it must be determined which parts of the Old Testament ancient Judaism agreed upon as pertaining to God's promised Anointed One. The Talmud asserts 'that Messiah must be the greatest of future prophets, as being nearest in spirit to our master Moses.'... 3. His name has been called from old, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, He who lives forever, the Anointed One, in whose days peace shall increase upon us. 4 4. 5. 6.