The Mystery of the Messiah

By Frederick Guttmann

This book is oriented to Jewish eschatology and messianism. The idea of a savior that the Hebrew people expected, and where there has been a large number of debates, especially since the appearance of the figure of Yeshua (Jesus), because Christians were the ones who mostly declared that he was the messiah. The Jews did not recognize Yeshua as a messiah because he does not fit the profile they expect, and because they claim that he did not fulfill the prophesied characteristics. Religious Jews feared that the proclamation of Yeshua as king of the Jews would cause conflict with the Romans, but that still happened later, when Shimon bar Koba was named the messiah by the Sanhedrin three decades after Yeshua's crucifixion. The union of the people for liberation motivated the Zealots in a fateful war against the Romans, which ended in the expulsion of the Jews from their land.
It must be defined what a messiah is and what role he plays. In Hebrew history, his deliverer was Moses, who before his death proclaimed that a deliverer would come in his place, one of his own Israelite brothers. Certainly, that "savior" was seen in the figure of Joshua (Moses' successor), but it was understood that Moses was speaking of someone who would come in the future and be the guide of all the people in a more universal scope.
King David said that a son of his would come who would be the savior (the messiah), the right hand of Jehovah. Initially the concept of "son" was interpreted literally, not as a future successor, so that his heir, Solomon thought that he was this messiah.
Jewish scholars have dedicated themselves to searching for clues about this Messiah, who must also reestablish Israel by reuniting the lost tribes. And this search is done in public figures, in the Scriptures, even in their codes. They review the previous opinions of the midrashim of the Talmud. They find two important figures: the greater Messiah and the lesser Messiah. The younger is called 'Messiah son of Joseph', and the older is called 'Messiah son of David'. Some have speculated that they are not two but the same, representing two characteristics of the same being.
Another aspect that does not even seem to have been present in the idea of the Messiah among the Jews even in the time of the apostles, was that of a successor to the priest Aaron, the older brother of Moses, from the tribe of Levi. He was the only one authorized to enter the Holy Sanctorum, and who was the representative authority of Jehovah, "the man closest to God." The wife of Ner (Noah's brother) had a son from whom the priestly order called 'Melki-Tzedek' (Kings of Justice) began. That high priest of the Melki-Tzedek order also had to demonstrate.
At the end of Genesis the patriarch Jacob announced that someone great would come as Envoy and Peacekeeper, with whom the power of the tribe of Judah would disappear and who would remove the power of the 613 ordinances that Moses would impose. In the words of the major and minor prophets of Israel there was also mention of the arrival of a preacher who would unite people, who would teach love, who would care for the unwanted elements of society and would achieve great things without the need for force.
We analyze all the references related to the characteristics to identify said messiah, from the place, time and conditions that had to occur for his appearance, and how said appearance would develop, its patterns and end, in the light of Hebrew literature, and both from the canon of the Tanak as well as the Talmud and the Kabalah.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Frederick Guttmann
• Release date: Apr 10, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224314034

Frederick Guttmann

Israeli writer, researcher, disseminator, documentary filmmaker and influencer. He is the writer of more than 35 books, mostly research and dissemination theses.

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FREDERICK GUTTMANN R.

THE MYSTERY OF THE MESSIAH

המשיח של המסתורין

Project Magen

By: Frederick Guttmann R.

Cover: Aday Quintero P.

Web / blog: www.frederickguttmann.com

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104 pages

May 2017

Index

Introduction - 5

Where was the Messiah spoken? - 8

The Messiah ben Yosef - 12

Must he be a Priest? - 17

Shilo - The Envoy - 22

A Preacher of Peace - 27

The Desired - 30

It would be consecrated - 32

The Prophet Brother - 35

The Son of David - 39

A Servant - 44

The Power of Judah - 48

Is Jesus the Nazarene the Anointed One? - 50

The Galilean Before Showing Himself to Israel - 59

When should the Messiah appear? - 62

Where should the Messiah appear? - 66

How should the Messiah appear? - 68

Elijah Must Come First - 74

Isaiah 53, the Holocaust or the Messiah Suffering? - 77

What are the Clear Signs of His Manifestation? - 84

Does the Cross has any Relationship with the Chosen One? - 89

Did the Messenger really have to Die and Resurrect? - 93

Visions of the Anointed One - 99

INTRODUCTION

What means to be 'the Messiah'? «Messiah is, in the Abrahamic religions, the descendant King of David, promised by the prophets to the Hebrew people; that man filled with the Holy Spirit of God. Throughout history there were many people who were considered Messiahs, but it is generally understood that this particular title is assigned to the chosen messenger of God, who will bring peace to mankind by establishing the Kingdom of God.» (Wikipedia) The concept of an expected Savior is common in many cultures, and is understood as a response to the injustices and evils of the world that humanity itself as a society has not come to resolve. Such an idea has a huge force that it is even used to refer to devilish figures: the Antichrist of Christianity or Dajjal of Islam, would be a kind of deceiving Messiah, a false liberator who actually using witchcraft and Satanism would deceive humanity before the end of time. According to these perspectives, a semi-divine man would be the light of the world and his supernatural guidance, but there would be at least another figure in his likeness, but at an antagonistic level. In any case, humanity would be waiting for a superhuman being to save them from their misfortunes, free to the world of evil and injustice, and bring a new era, one of peace, harmony and happiness.

«Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yaheveh ...» (Tehilim 118:26) I respect the believes of all creations of God, so I´ll try to start this research using any kind of source that I consider related to the subject in question. So, from thousands of years ago there seemed to be a great awareness throughout the globe of the need for prophets to spiritually guide peoples and belief in a future remarkable man that would emphasize on the humanity. The Persian prophet Zarathustra (Zoroaster) was defined as redeemer and savior sent from God, not considering himself the only nor the last, and is believed to have announced the coming of an exemplary man who would come in the name of God, after him, and Which would lead men to the path of truth; The ancient Buddhas announced the coming of a future one, the Maitreya, that many confuse with modern personalities; The Mayans, Aztecs, Incas and Jopi announced the return of the wise man who was once with them, who would guide the race of the Earth towards the path of righteousness and unity, brotherhood and peace; The Muslims say that Muhammad (Mohammed) announced the return of Yeshua ha.Notzri (Jesus Christ) for the days of the coming struggle between the Mahdi and the Dajjal (Antichrist); The Jews - in a general context – believe in the arrival of their delivering Messiah in the days of the return of the prophet Elijah, when Israel will be Redeemed.

It is transcendental to know that long before the birth of Zoroaster, Krishna, Hermes Trismegistus, Siddartha Gautama, Lao Tze, Confucius, Meng-Tse, Yeshua ha.Notzri (Jesus of Nazareth), Mani, Mohammed or Nichinen Daisonin, had already been announced Coming from the true man, a supernatural and exemplary being that would change the course and destiny of humanity. How could suppose to be known that someone would come? If one does not believe in the spiritual and supernatural realm, so then will not understand the root and reason of religion. One of the spiritual aspects is related to precognition, remote vision, premonitory dreams and other nuances of the dream world, extrasensory abilities, transcendence to the 4th Dimension - of physics and mathematics (the 'time') -, Mind, quantum mechanics, and many other areas where the prophetic component is analyzed and studied - or incorporated - to see things before they occur. Well, with mere triangulation and experiential knowledge of the cycles of fate one can foresee the future, there are important details, such as the predictions of determinant and punctual things. In that sense it is fundamental to add that the historical appearance of a child of God was not exclusive to the Hebrew people, and was, however, a theme known everywhere. Any culture that is studied will have, somewhere, a story where mentions that supernatural beings had children and/or daughters with mortal women, and almost always these offspring turned out to be great eminences of history (Check ‘Genesis 6:4-5’).

To say, God's son will come, was to assume that strictly speaking the one who believed in one god: «[the] son ​​of the creator god comes» (phrase in pre-Sanskrit, engraved on a pre-Columbian figure of 13,000 years of antiquity found in Ecuador). But if the gods had children with the human, how can we specify which of all these offspring would be the specific one that was so expected? Time after birth of Siddarta Gautama (the Buddha) was told that his mother had conceived him during a dream in which she was impregnated by a white elephant; On Alexander the Great and Plato it was said that his father had really been Phoebus Apollo; Xerxes, and many Caesars and Pharaohs were considered semi-divine beings, sons of some important or sovereign god. The book of Genesis (circa 1450 BCE) relates that before the Flood there was a divine race that descended to the Earth and fathered children with mortal maidens, and their children were the great heroes and half-gods of the That later would be narrated in the mythologies. This story of Moses is not unique to this book, and is referred to in other Hebrew texts and in countless cultures all over the planet, and there are even complete lists of these beings describing their names, years of government and successions, such as Cases of Egyptian or Sumerian records.

For example, the idea of ​​a savior and enlightener of the world was both prior to Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth and contemporary to him, but decidedly after the absence of spiritually imposing figures, there remained only disciplines based on imprecise hope or simply deteriorated Faith and the work done was lost. While some were considered semi-deities, but did not have a humanitarian roll, others considered themselves mere emissaries, and with humility and care they tried to guide justice and altruism to their fellows. Only rarely, as with Christianity, did the conviction persist that its leader was permanent and would return, to the degree that this belief became a solid pillar of the theology of these peoples and groups of people. The Jews knew that Moses had died, the Mazdas knew that Zoroaster died, Muslims know that Muhammad died, but for other cultures, his inspiring figures such as Krishna, Osiris, Hermes, Buddha or Yeshua (Jesus), even though they had experienced a Physical death, had transcended this world, and some of them continued to appear clearly to their followers even centuries after they were considered dead. Is this true?

In any case, living or in another dimension, what would their teachings serve if the majority of humanity conceived of biological death as the end? Many hope that a utopian era of peace, harmony and unity will be established among all peoples, and in communion and love we will achieve immortality, but there remains the greedy and bloody component that precludes balance and equity, having a few power and using it to keep the rest in conflicts and wars. For the most spiritual, that is not the biggest problem, but fervently consider that the soul (a personified and individualized component of the Universal Consciousness) is evaluated by its actions while incarnated, and when leaving the bio-chemical body is judged by his actions, and of being found guilty of evil would suffer in other worlds for several decades or even generations. For those who see destiny in this way, more than a leader to end the struggles between tribes and nations, it is more priority to go to the core of the problem: the soul. Thus, the idea of ​​savior for religious is oriented to conscience and righteousness, assuming that only a man of great virtue can teach us the path of truth, honesty and love, to live in peace with others and save Our soul and take it to planes of paradisiacal reality, established for the pure and giving.

What do the Jews expect?

Speaking of 'Messiah', the first thought that culturally comes to the mind of a Westerner is the biblical vision of the savior. Who do the Jews expect? According to the Jewish version, the people of Israel wait for several messianic figures, each playing a particular roll, but all focused on the same issue: the Redemption of Israel. One of the pillars is a successor to Moses as a prophet of Israel, and another is a successor king to King David: «Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace, for I will give him peace from all his enemies round about; Therefore his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and rest to Israel in his days. He will build a house for my name, and he will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.» (1st Chronicles 22:9-10) So it was almost 2,900 years since that king was born? As with Joshua and Moses, with Solomon it was clear that he was not that awaited king, and that what was announced to the king David was over another of his offspring. That is what means the son of David.

The Hebrews also expected an 'Envoy', but what would he be sent for? Although the Israelites had hoped for a descendant of King David, they also understood that there would be a successor to the prophet Moses, a forerunner of the son of David and an Apostle and Beloved of the world. Were these the same person or those attributes belonged to only two or three figures? Hebrew scholars for centuries have inquired about who would be this liberator, and some believe that the king and the prophet will be two independent individuals, although few assume that there is a possibility that it was one and the same. The Tanach (Old Testament) alludes to Israel's transgression of the commandment of Yaheveh (Iaheveh, Jehovah, Yawe, YHWH) and was abandoned to its enemies, but refers that at a certain time Iaheveh will return to them, and many allusions to this return seem to indicate that it will not be strictly by means of angels - as it was in the past (in Sinai, for example) - but by way of a man, the Anointed (that is, the Chosen One). The attributes of this Envoy are analyzed in the light of the Hebrew Scriptures in order to know how to recognize him when he manifests himself, and the Jewish sages faithfully believe that certain titles and characteristics which are referred to in certain passages evoke this Messiah, such as speaking Shiloh or Shiloah, Jamedet, Ben Daud or Imanu-El.

However, it must be accepted that the idea of ​​Messiah encompasses the parameters of an anointed one, and the anointed Hebrews were kings, prophets and priests. Could the Messiah identify these three titles himself in one? The truth is that in Jewish eschatology there are not only one Messiah but 2 and belong to the group of 'the 4 Carpenters' (or '4 horns'), according to rabbinical traditions believed to be born of Suk 52b of Rav Hana bar Bizna - of the Babylon Talmud – some believe that the idea is even prior to the second century BCE. Although the most common interpretation is that these 4 would be 4 kingdoms, or simply 4 key figures, before the era of peace (after the time of the Redemption of Israel): Mashiaj ben Daud (Messiah son of David), Mashiaj ben Yosef (Messiah son of Joseph), Elijah and the Right or Just Priest (associated with Melki-Tzedek). While Mashiach ben Daud would be descended from David, the belief in the second Messiah, the 'ben Yosef', that he would be a descendant of the tribe of Ephraim, that is, of the ancestry of the tribe of Joseph (one of the 12th tribes of Israel.

WHERE DID THE MESSIAH BE SPOKEN?

In the Tanak (Old Testament) the word 'Mashiaj' (anointed) appears in 9 cases (untranslated, 11 in all), being allusions to the first two kings of Israel, called Saul (see 1 Sam 24:7, 11, 26:16, 2 Sam, 1:14, 16, 21) and David (see 2 Sam 19:22, 23:1), there being another apparently prophetic section of King Solomon in Lamentations 4:20. The prophet Isaiah was the clearest in speaking about the anointed, sayingthat, «The spirit of Adonai Iaheveh is upon me, because he has anointed me Yaheveh. He has sent me to preach good news to the poor, to bind up the brokenhearted, To release liberty to the captives and prisoners to open the prison, to proclaim the year of the goodwill of Iaheveh and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all those who are in mourning, to order that the They shall be called Trees of righteousness, Planting of Iaheveh, for their glory. [...] [...] You shall be called the priests of Yaheveh, the ministers of our God, you shall be called, and you shall eat the riches of the nations, and with your glory you shall be exalted. "Instead of your double shame and your dishonor they will praise you in their inheritance. They shall possess double portion, and they shall have perpetual joy.» (Isa. 61: 1-7)

Preach good news? And, why to the poor (from the word that also translates as 'humble') or to sell the brokenhearted? To proclaim liberty to the captives? Preach Yaheveh's goodwill? To comfort those in mourning? To give the oil of joy to the afflicted of Tzion (Zion)? What does all this have to do with the role the Jews expected of the Messiah? This too is codified in Psalm 74:21, where the concept of Yeshua (salvation) appears in the phrase poor (afflicted, humble) and needy praise your name. In the translations of the Tanach (Old Testament), there are only two mentions to the 'Messiah', and both are from chapter 9 of the book of the prophet Daniel, one giving the details of when it would appear (verse 25) and the other giving To understand that he would be killed (verse 26). Logically, for possible convenience, it seems the Jewish orthodoxy evades the study of the book of the prophet Daniel (some pretexts are that it is simply past water), and prohibit the analysis of chapter 9 (specifically these last verses). Here he speaks of a covenant, which Jeremiah also stated in announcing a new covenant. Even Muhammad made this clear: «And when we made a covenant with the children of Israel, Do not serve except Allah! Be good to your parents and relatives, to the orphans and the poor, speak well to all, do the azalas of the azaque! Then you turned aside, excepting a few, and turned away.» (Quran 2:83)

Apart from these words so incompatible with the idea of ​​a military savior, the other passages that directly speak of the Messiah basically say that he would be cut: Daniel 9:25-26. This is another apparent contradiction, since it is understood that the Messiah would be practically immortal, as the Christian sources (which, as we know, were not born of Gentiles but of Galilean Jews: the 'Sect of the Nazarenes'): «And the people answered him, We have heard of the law, that the Anointed One abides forever. How then do you say that it is necessary for the Son of Man to be raised up? Who is this son of man?» (Gospel of John 12:34, New Testament). This probably reinforces the rabbinic theory that the one to be killed is Messiah ben Joseph, but he does not answer why so many quotations about the 'Messiah' (anointed) describe him in a totally humble, peaceful, merciful character, given to The needy, master of justice, and, as the hidden messages of the Tanak (Old Testament) show, are fundamental to know their identity.

What are the hidden messages of the Tanak? It is known that in Spain in the thirteenth century Jews studied the Mosaic scriptures in the light of revelations hidden behind their letters (it is said to be the origin of the ‘Kabala’), but it is well known that Christians at the beginning of this movement used the numerical equivalences of letters to hide Words, as we delve deeper into the history of the search for mysteries behind the words, places, numbers, phenomena and objects - or animals - that are quoted in the Hebrew-Christian Holy Scriptures, more surprising things are discovered Even though the narratives themselves, which are already striking. From the deportation to Babylon, during the mandate of the Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar II, some Jews dedicated themselves to analyze the words and phrases that contained the books of the Tanak, since besides trying to understand the text, they were aware that there was much more Between lines and behind the messages. In 1997 an American journalist named Michael Drosnin published a book called 'The Secret Code of the Bible', based on the previous discovery of Israeli professor and mathematician Eliyahu Rips, and started from finding keywords in an area of ​​the text written in the Tanak – using an mathematical program develop by his team -, where they were separated by one or more letters equidistant from right to left or from left to right.

Although Isaac Newton was already looking for codes in the Tanak, after this public discovery began an euphoria, being not only the friends of Rips who looked for these enigmatic finds, but still people without necessarily religious inclination. But if this was discovered by computer, How did the rabbis and experts in the Scriptures look? They sought other mechanisms, just as complex but humanly possible, that pertain to research patterns of the Symbolic Kabbalah - or 'Artificial Kabbalah' - one of the two used in rabbinic mysticism (the other is the Real or Dogmatic Kabbalah). These are systems used even outside the Hebrew culture, but which the Jews call Gematria, Temura and Notaricon. Gematria is the study of numerology and its hidden mysteries; Temura is the permutation of the letters of a word in a complete or total sense (beyond a simple anagram), thanks to the ability of the Semitic voices to have several meanings in single terms with two or three letters, and to the fact Not having vowels strictly in terms of phonetics, as understood in the Western languages; Notaricon is the taking of the initials (acronyms) of each word of a sentence or the last of the same (bacronyms) to form new words, and since with Temura shows that they do not need to be followed, they can be reconstructed and reveal