Lineage of the MessiahThe heritage of the awaited Messiah demonstrates that he could come from any race, ethnicity, and should be accepted without any discrimination. The Messiah is thought to be the descendant of King David. Unknown to many, King David's great-grandmother was a non-Jewish convert to Judaism. Ruth married Boaz and three generations later King David was born. The Messiah will be of the same line as both Ruth and David.Coming of the MessiahMessiah already exists in Paradise. It is not under any human control as to the time when the Messiah will come; God will bring the Messiah in His own time. When the time is right; when the time for judgment is upon us, the Messiah will descend upon the Earth. The Messiah will be ushered in by the aid of the prophet Elijah:Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. (Malachi 4:5, King James Version)Traditional Jewish thought is that the Messiah will present himself in Jerusalem by entering the Temple Mount via the Golden Gate, as prophesied in Ezekiel:Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. (Ezekiel 44:2-3, KJV)Since God is the King, the prince referred to is the Messiah. The Messiah will then go to the site of the holy Temple; the House of God:Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. (Malachi 3:1, KJV)The Messiah paves the way for his Father, God, to come to Earth and make His judgments.
A Jewish veiw of Messiah To Come
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Notice the last line of the above post says "The Messiah paves the way for his Father, God, to come to Earth and make His judgments".This is the belief of the Jews this belief is why When the Antichrist/Satan comits the Amobination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel, That is when Antichrist stands in the Holy place (Holy of Holies on the Temple mt.) And declares himself to be God. The Jews (and many christians will realize this is Antichrist. Sense they believe that the Messiah is to pave the way for God he would not claim to be god. So the fake messiah(antichrist) claiming to be god will alert them that this is not right. This will cause many Jews to understand this is the Antichrist Daniel warned of and many will come to realize that Christ was the true Messiah starting the process of Eze 37 when the two sticks Judah (jews) and Christian (Ehpriam representing 10 lost tribes)are reunited under Christ the joining of the two sticks of Eze37
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Yes, Ruth was a Moabite, which were people descended from Lot. Lot was Abraham's brother's (Haran's) son. Both Abraham and Haran came from Terah.Likewise, the tribe of Joseph blatantly has Gentile blood in them. Joseph married an Egyptian priestess, and as such his children Ephraim and Manasseh are 1/2 Egyptian and 2/3's removed in just one short generation from the Jews. This is why DNA evidence cannot be used to "prove" that Saxons or Celts did not originate from the lost tribes because Jews and Israelites are in each other's family tree, but the pedigrees are different until they converge in Jacob. In other words, their DNA can be different. These children of Israel (Joseph) can be rightly called the "Gentile children of Israel" who bear His name and foreshadows Gentile conversion to the Messiah.Skeptics (and atheists) who poke fun at such topics start of with improper assumptions (as they do about God) and try to make the DNA evidence fit their preconceived and (as usual) subjective notion---- but genealogy proves this cannot be done.I find the other end of the skeptics about lost tribes is the Christian themselves who want to box the whole of God's people into the little box called Judaism. Again, even the apostle Paul says of Israel (as a whole):Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promisesNow, people will vehemently argue that Paul only knew of two classes of people: Jews and Gentiles (who were not God's people ever). However, when were Jews ever adopted? Paul was alluding to the adoption of Joseph's two sons Ephraim and Manasseh in lieu of Reuben and Simeon, the Gentile children. Read carefully and rightly, Paul really knew of 3 classes: Jews, Gentiles and Gentile Israelites the latter two he often lumped together since Israel was divorced and became Gentile while the Jews kept their identity.
