Messiah

The Manchurian Messiah: Project Blue Beam, UFOs, Aliens & the NWO
Conspiracy theories, conspiracy theories, oh so much to say about conspiracy theories...
I could even argue against a global appearance of God by claiming that aliens or the Illuminati were attempting to manipulate us via holograms or some such thing...

Face to Face with God:
Let us close by considering other Old Testament—the Tanakh—texts which record God appearing:

“So she named ADONAI who had spoken to her El Ro'i [God of seeing], because she said, ‘Have I really seen the One who sees me [and stayed alive]?’” (Genesis 16:13).

Anthropomorphic Idolatry:
Some Jewish arguments against Jesus being God in the flesh state:
1. That it would be idolatry.

2. That God would have broken His own commandment against making an image of God.

3. That if Jesus was God those who look at Him would have died.

4. That it is inconceivable that God would reduce Himself to the level of mere humanity.

Yet,

1. If God did take human form it would not be idolatry to worship God in that form.

Considering the Polemic:
In a translation and interpretation of the Old Testament—the Tanakh—that Rev. Dr. A. Cohen edited, the following interpretations are offered:
Commenting of Genesis 18:1, “The LORD here means the three angels.”

Genesis 18:2, “three men. One to bring the tidings that Sarah would give birth to a son, the second to overthrow Sodom, and the third to heal Abraham; the last also went on from there to save Lot.”

This essay will focus on one biblical instance of an appearance of God in human form millennia before the time of Jesus and the polemical issues which orbit around it.

Part 1: Considering the Text
Part 2: Considering the Polemic
Part 3: Considering the Polemic (continued)
Part 4: Anthropomorphic Idolatry
Part 5: Face to Face with God

Considering the Text:
Let us consult the Jewish Publication Society 1917 translation of Genesis 18:1-2, 8, 13-14, 17-18, 20-22, 26-27, 33, 19:1 [with added emphasis]:

There are a few points to the Jewish and Christian polemic over, the mother of all disputed texts, Isaiah 52:13-53:12 (succinctly referred to as Isaiah 53).
The following parsed essay is a basic rundown of the charges made against Christianity and some responses from the context of the text and from rabbinic writings.
The charges are made by what I will term Modern Rabbinic Judaism; meaning that the Rabbis decide the authoritative interpretations.

This essay is parsed thusly:

Part 1: Introduction and Context
Part 2: Various Rabbis and Jewish Scholars

Jesus may have been rejected yet, the Talmud makes some very interesting statements that we ought to seriously consider because it is beyond question that something happened that changed the Jewish religion and thus, changed the world of Judaism forever.

What was this occurrence?

The Temple Institute,

In this parsed essay we will present some example of the charges of corruption made against Christianity and some examples of the Rabbinic manner of interpretation.

Part 1: The Charges (and the problems for those making them)
Part 2: The Targumim
Part 3: Targum Yerushalmi or Jerusalem and Targum Onkelos or Onqelos and Targum Jonathan or Pseudo-Jonathan
Part 4: Fragmentary Targum and Targum Neofiti and Examples of Rabbinic Interpretation

Various Rabbis and Jewish Scholars:
Rabbi Maimonides,

Encyclopedia Judaica 6:861 & 10:390,

"The Bible has no word for the abstract idea of eschatology. It does however, have a term-'aharit ha-yamim-that often has eschatological connotations, at least in the broad sense mentioned above, it means literally 'the end of the days' i.e., 'the end of time.'_.

A publication titled "Issues" points out four facts about the Messiah,

"FACT ONE: The Messiah's appearance was locked into a fixed time.
FACT TWO: that fixed time was while the Second Temple was still standing.
FACT THREE: the Messiah had to come from a specific lineage that was only verifiable through the Temple records.
And the FOURTH STARTLING FACT is that the Messiah had to die a violent death. The details of these facts together present some of the strongest evidence that he has in fact already come."

The meaning given to these signs is,

"Men. 109b. Tosaf Sotah 38a suggests that the Ineffable Name could be pronounced only when there was some indication that the Shechinah rested on the Sanctuary. When Simon the Righteous died, with many indications that such glory was no more enjoyed, his brethren no more dared utter the Ineffable Name."1

Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner,

1. 1. See Yoma 39b, footnote 1, p. 186 of the Soncino Babylonian Talmud
   

Norman Lamm; President of Yeshiva University,

Jesus may have been rejected yet, the Talmud makes some very interesting statements that we ought to seriously consider because it is beyond question that something happened that changed the Jewish religion and thus, changed the world of Judaism forever.

What was this occurrence?

This event occurred 40 years before the destruction of the Second Temple which was destroyed in 70 AD; forty years prior is 30 AD. What is it that happened in 30 AD that had such a profound impact on Judaism?

Melchizedek's Priesthood and the Messiah (continued):
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Vol. 1:

Melchizedek's Priesthood and the Messiah:
Henry H. Halley wrote,

Isaac and the Future Sacrifice (continued):
The event involving Abraham and Issac is called the aqedah. Jewish author Philip Segal writes,

This essay seeks to elucidate some of the biblical symbolism which points to the Messiah.

Part 1: The Seed and the Coming Messiah and Isaac and the Future Sacrifice
Part 2: Isaac and the Future Sacrifice (continued) and The Serpent in the Wilderness and the Lifting Up of the Messiah

Examples of Reinterpretations:
Joseph Sarachek,

In order not to expose themselves to criticism, many Jewish exegetes waived their own messianic explanations and expounded the texts as allusions to the past.1 [emphasis added]

John Bowker commenting on Genesis 18:1-25,

1. 1. Joseph Sarachek, The Doctrine of the Messiah in Medieval Jewish Literature (New York: Hermon Press, 1932)