The last claim referenced the "New Testament" -- a bit of a large landscape to "prove" a single prophecy! This claim is not much better. This one references "Acts" --- not a given passage or sentence but the entire book of Acts! Acts have multiple themes -- one is Paul's qualification as an apostle -- and that has nothing to do with Jesus' claims to being a messiah / man-god or anything else. . . Y'shayahu / Isaiah 55:5 says "Behold, a nation you do not know you shall call, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, for the sake of the L-rd your G-d and for the Holy One of Israel, for He glorified you." Foreign nations coming to G-d is not a prophecy about Jesus -- it is a prophecy about G-d. Where is the proof that this is about Jesus when Isaiah tells us it is about G-d? One must already believe in the trinity (that Jesus is part of G-d) to apply this to Jesus -- so it is circular reasoning at its finest. Jesus fulfilled this because he is god -- but how do you know he is god? He fulfilled the prophecies. . . Totally illogical. Not to mention that the triune god (trinity) is pagan. G-d is a simple One -- not a trinity. See G-d is One, not a Trinity. “Hearken to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, who was called by Me (singular), I am He (singular), I am first, yea I am last.” Y'shayahu / Isaiah 48:12. Jesus is not G-d. Did Jesus have anything to do with foreign nations? Nope. Jesus supposedly lived and died in Judah and the Galilee. None of the nations (other than a few Samaritans and Romans in Judah) ever heard of him. No foreign nations came to Jesus -- he was murdered known only to those in Judah and the Galilee. It was his followers who spread the religion to other nations, not Jesus. Did Jesus even care about other nations? Not according to the Christian bible -- indeed he rejected them at first -- saying that he was specifically NOT here for other nations, but only for the Jews. "Jesus sent out these twelve, instructing them as follows: “Do not go to Gentile regions and do not enter any Samaritan town. 6 Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Matthew 10:5 - 6. and "A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” 23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.” 24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” Matthew 15: 22-24.
Isaiah is speaking to his own people -- those alive when he was speaking. He is telling them Isaiah tells to to turn to G-d and thus avoid exile. Exile or no exile, Isaiah says that a time will come when the messiah, a descendant of King David (which Jesus was not according to Jewish law) will come -- returning the Jews to Israel (didn't happen with Jesus). At that time the Messiah) will chastise the nations and rule over them.
In the messianic age the real messiah will call a nation unknown to the Jews of Isaiah's age and they will come because they’ve heard about the miracles G-d has performed for Israel. Again -- this never happened with Jesus. Yet again the list maker is taking a partial sentence out of context, a prophecy about the real messiah which Jesus never fulfilled is held up as "proof" that Jesus was the messiah even though he did not fulfill the prophecy. Perhaps appeals to the list maker because of the last few words: "He glorified you." Y'shayahu / Isaiah 55:5. Who did G-d glorify? To whom is Isaiah speaking? He is speaking to the Jewish nation.] Therefore the "you" is to the Jews, not to Jesus. The Jews will be glorified as G-d's exalted servant in the messianic age. The Jews will be recognized as a nation of priests by the rest of the world who will seek out the Jews to know G-d. "So said the L-rd of Hosts: In those days, when ten men of all the languages of the nations shall take hold of the skirt of a Jewish man, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that G-d is with you.'" Zechariah 8:23.
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