This is an odd claim -- is the list maker (the list of 365 supposed prophecies about Jesus in the T'nach / bible) actually claiming that being a witness is a messianic prophecy? Really? Someone being a witness is NOT a messianic prophecy. It is far too generic to be a messianic prophecy. Have you ever witnessed a document? Been a witness to a crime? Been a witness in a trial? Well -- if you have ever witnessed anything you too could be the messiah and claimed to have "fulfilled" this prophecy -- according to the list maker (not according to reality). The claimed passage, Y'shayahu / Isaiah 55:4 is speaking of David and his righteous descendant (which Jesus was not legally). "Behold, a witness to nations have I appointed him, a ruler and a commander of nations." Y'shayahu / Isaiah 55:4. Did you notice an important part of the sentence omitted by the list maker (because it destroys his / her claim). . . The missing piece is a witness to nation. Not just a witness. A a witness to nations.
Jesus was not a witness to nations either. Jesus was murdered by the Romans in Judah -- he never witnessed to anyone other than those in Judah and the Galilee according to the Christian bible. Indeed Jesus states that his mission was only to the “lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24), as he refused to help a non-Jewish woman who asked for healing for her daughter. Jesus said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24). Jesus often claimed he was a shepherd to Israel -- but not to the other nations. See Mark 6:34, 14:27; John 10:11-16, Hebrews 13:20; 1 Peter 5:4; and Revelation 7:17 -- all of which speak of Jesus as there for the Jews. . . but not a word about the nations. The list maker, in making this claim, is reversing the actual words of the prophet Isaiah. Y'shayahu / Isaiah 55 is speaking of the messianic age when all Jewish exiles will be returned to the land of Israel from exile. The messiah, an anointed king who is descended from Kings David and Solomon (which Jesus was not if Joseph was not his biological father, aka the virgin birth). . . will rule over the nations. Jesus never fulfilled this true prophecy of Isaiah. As for claim #273 -- being a witness is not any kind of a prophecy -- messianic or other.
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