Failed Prophecy

 

Jesus didn’t fulfill a single messianic prophecy. Not one. Let’s take a look at the most commonly claimed prophecies and why Jesus obviously does not fulfill them.  It's no wonder why the Jew rejected Jesus when he didn't do what the bible said the messiah would do. If Jesus fails even one prophecy, he is not the messiah, and Christianity is false. Remember, a prophecy is a specific prediction of a future event. So, read the words and let the words mean what words mean!

 

Fail! Jesus lied about his return.

Mark 13:26 “Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in clouds’ with great power and glory. 27 Then he will send out the angels and gather the elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.28 “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. 29 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 30 Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. 31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Matt 24:30 “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see ‘the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven’ with power and great glory. 31 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.32 “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Matt 10:When they persecute you in this town, flee to the next, for truly I tell you, you will not have finished going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Jesus tells his apostles their generation will not pass away before He returns in the clouds with his power and glory. Jesus tells them not to waste time in towns that reject his message because he will return before they have time to visit them all. There is very little disagreement among scholars that Jesus is speaking about his second coming in these passages. Obviously, that entire generation has long since passed and Jesus has not returned. 

The fact is Jesus and his disciples were apocalyptic Jews. They believed the end was imminent. Even the 666 in Revelation, that Christians imagined to be Satan, is really the Roman Emperor Nero as is evidenced by the use of gematria. This means the writer of Revelation thought he was absolutely living in the end time.

 

Fail! Paul says Jesus is the final sacrifice for sins. Yahweh says when the messiah comes, the sin offerings will never cease and there will always be a king in Israel.

Heb 10:11 And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, “he sat down at the right hand of God,” 13 and since then has been waiting “until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.” 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds,”17 and he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” 18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

Jer 33:14 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 15 In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will live in safety. And this is the name by which it will be called: “The Lord is our righteousness.”17 For thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, 18 and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to make grain offerings, and to make sacrifices for all time.

This contradiction is a massive problem for Christians. Paul is clear that Jesus is the perfect and final sacrifice for sin. However, the OT is clear that when the messiah comes, the sin offerings will never cease! Furthermore, this OT prophecy demands when the messiah arrives, there will always be a king in Israel. As a point of reference, the last king of Israel was Hoshea (732-722 BC). Obviously, Jesus fails this prophecy because he never sat on the throne and the Jews were scattered in 70 CE.

 

Fail! Jesus has the wrong blood to be the messiah.

2 Sam 7:12 When your days are finished and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from you, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he does wrong, I will discipline him with a rod of men and with strokes of sons of mankind, 15 but My favor shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from you. 16 Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever. 17 In accordance with all these words and all of this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

This is a prophecy Christians often claim Jesus fulfilled to be the messiah. It’s simple to understand why this claim is false. First, Jesus does not share any blood with David because Joseph is not his biological father. Yahweh claims he impregnated Mary to give birth to himself. The bible makes no claim that Mary is a descendant of David, who is from the tribe of Judah. Instead she is claimed to be from the tribe of Levi. Second, Jesus never spends a single second sitting on the throne of Israel. Christians try to cope by saying Jesus fulfilled that part spiritually. Sure. I would ask these same Christians to try paying their taxes spiritually. Finally, this “descendant” gets disciplined by god for doing wrong so this scripture is a triple failure unless Jesus can do wrong. The fact is OT Hebrews didn’t believe the messiah would be god himself. That claim was invented by Christians.

 

Fail! The virgin birth is false prophecy

Mat 1:22 All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet:23 “Look, the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us.”

ISA 7:10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.” 13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary mortals that you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son and shall name him Immanuel.15 He shall eat curds and honey by the time he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted. 17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on your ancestral house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria.”

The writer of Mathew is a liar. Isaiah is writing here between 735-716 BCE about the Syro-Ephraim war. King Ahaz is under attack and Yahweh gives him a sign that victory will be his when a specific child is born. This scripture says the woman is with child so this is obviously not a prophecy about the birth of Jesus. Furthermore, this prophecy is fulfilled in chapter 8 when the Assyrian king sweeps in and destroys Ahaz's enemies. Furthermore, Isaiah speaks of THE  woman who is pregnant. This means he knows who the specific woman is. It simply can't be Mary who won't come along for hundreds of years. Matthew 1:23 says that Jesus is called Immanuel, which means “God with us.”  Nobody, not even his parents, call him Immanuel at any point in the bible. This is just terrible myth making.

Also, Mathew interprets the Greek word  "Parthenos" as virgin. This word has a wide semantic range including young woman and virgin.  At the time of this writing, it was often used to mean young woman which is how the Jews, who wrote the Old Testament, have always interpreted it. We shouldn't interpret the New Testament through the book of Mormon. Likewise, we shouldn't interpret the Old Testament through the New Testament. Both ways are wildly dishonest.

 

Fail! Jesus does not fulfill the whole prophecy about the messiah coming from Bethlehem.

MAT 2:5 They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it has been written by the prophet:6 ‘And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.’ ”

The writer of Mathew lied again. Jesus was never a ruler in Israel. Christians know this and cope by saying he will be when he returns. Nope. The scripture says he will come as a ruler. Lots of people back then came from Bethlehem so being from that town is meaningless.

 

Fail! The gospel of Mathew lies about the flight to Egypt.

MAT 2:14 Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt 15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, “Out of Egypt I have called my son.”

HOS 11:11 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. 2 The more I called them,the more they went from me;
they kept sacrificing to the Baals and offering incense to idols.

Ex 4:22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son. 23 I said to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” But you refused to let him go; now I will kill your firstborn son.

Ridiculous! Mathew is lying about what Hosea says in an attempt to create a prophecy Jesus can fulfill. First, it's not a prophecy. Second, the "son" referred to in Hosea is the Hebrew people during the exodus. What makes it even more hilarious is this "son" was sacrificing to the Baals! If Christians want to hold onto this, then they must believe Jesus offered sacrifices to Baal!

 

Fail! Mathew lies and twists the Old Testament.

Mat 2:23 There he made his home in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, “He will be called a Nazarene.”

Isa 11:11 A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.

This is a very weak attempt to make Jesus the Messiah.  Matthew is not quoting a prophecy directly, and there are no Old Testament passages with the wording he uses. Matthew is associating the word Nazarene with the Hebrew word netser (“branch or sprout”). The “Branch” was a common term for the Messiah, such as in Isaiah 11.  Hebrew, at the time, was written with consonants, and netser would have appeared as NZR—the same main consonants as Nazareth. Seriously. This famous Christian claim is incredibly weak!

 

Fail! Mathew lies on an Old Testament prophecy.

MAT 2:16 When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the magi.  17 Then what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:18 “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.”

Jer 31:Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah,lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

Surprise! Mathew lied again about what the Old Testament says. In chapter 31, Jeremiah is referencing the Babylonian exile.  "Rachel" is the symbolic figure that represents the grief of Israel who is weeping for their people that have been taken into captivity. This is not a prophecy and it certainly has no connection to Herod allegedly killing babies.

 

Fail! Jesus riding a donkey doesn't make him the Messiah

Mat 21:4 This took place to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet:5 “Tell the daughter of Zion,Look, your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey,and on a colt, the foal of a donkey."

Zech 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you;triumphant and victorious is he humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 He will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.

First, the idea that riding a donkey is meaningful is ridiculous. Many people have ridden these animals. Jesus fails this actual messianic prophecy badly for two reasons. First, he was never an actual king. Christians will claim he is a king now in heaven but that's not what the scripture demands. The prophecy says he will come as a king! Second, and even more obvious, Jesus brought no peace to the world. This is required in the prophecy. Again, Christians will cope by saying he will bring peace when he returns. Nope! Until he does it, he hasn't fulfilled the prophecy.

 

Fail! Christians claim Jesus is in Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53.

The Psalms were written by David about his life and relationship with Yahweh. Christians read about David's suffering and see similarities to parts of the story of Jesus. Nope! These typological arguments are terrible evidence for Jesus being the Messiah. 

The book of Isaiah is about Israel's sin, suffering, judgement and redemption so it's no surprise that Christians see typologies all over it. The suffering servant in Isaiah is Israel. Christians know this but in Isaiah 53, they expect the reader to switch that servant to Jesus without any indication from the writer. Believers say, “It sounds like Jesus so let’s say it’s Jesus.” The Hebrew writers never intended for it to be considered as a messianic prophecy. If Christians could be bothered to read down to verse 10, they would see they are claiming Jesus had “offspring”. That’s a real problem for this attempt to make a Jesus prophecy out of a non-prophecy.

Isa 53:10 When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days