Have you noticed that the world is free from sin? How about death. . . has death ceased to be? Of course not -- so this "prophecy" claimed to have been fulfilled by Jesus is false. Y'shayahu / Isaiah 61:1 - 2. is not about Jesus. It is about the prophet Isaiah. "The spirit of the L-rd G-d was upon me, since the L-rd anointed me to bring tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to declare freedom for the captives, and for the prisoners to free from captivity. To declare a year of acceptance for the L-rd and a day of vengeance for our G-d, to console all mourners." Y'shayahu / Isaiah 61:1 - 2. Do you see anything about sin ending? No. The word for sin does not appear in the passage. Do you see anything about death ending? No. There is not a word about death ending. Did Jesus free anyone from any kind of bondage? No. Jesus did not free anyone from bondage -- not even himself. The prophet Isaiah is speaking of himself. "The spirit of the L-rd G-d was upon me." ME. Isaiah. Aside from Isaiah's use of the pronoun "me" we know the prophet was speaking of himself because the passage is in past tense. The spirit of the L-rd G-d was upon me, Not "is." "Was." Read the two verses again -- Isaiah is speaking of himself -- and in the past (what G-d did to him, not what G-d will do in the future for Jesus). "The spirit of the L-rd G-d was upon me, since the L-rd anointed me to bring tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to declare freedom for the captives, and for the prisoners to free from captivity. To declare a year of acceptance for the L-rd and a day of vengeance for our G-d, to console all mourners." Y'shayahu / Isaiah 61:1 - 2.
Isaiah's vision of all these things is still in the future. The prophet saw a time of the real messianic age when the world will be at peace, when the Jewish exiles will all be returned to the land of Israel, the Temple will be rebuilt and the entire world will know G-d Luke 4:18 - 19 has Jesus reading from Y'shayahu / Isaiah 61:1,2 and then Jesus says "Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.” Luke 18:22. One wonders why the list maker chose John 8 which has Jesus speaking about his teachings rather than Luke 4. . . perhaps because John 8 has Jesus saying those following his teachings will know the truth and be "free." In Luke Jesus' supposed reading of Y'shayahu / Isaiah 61 includes the passage "and the regaining of sight to the blind." The passage in Y'shayahu / Isaiah 61 says nothing about the blind regaining sight. Missionaries may try and claim that the book of Isaiah was altered after Jesus' time but this argument has been debunked. The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa), is one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in 1947 and is the complete book of Isaiah. The scroll has all 66 chapters the Book of Isaiah. The scroll has been carbon dated from 150 - 125 BCE -- at least 125 to 150 years before Jesus was supposedly born -- ergo it was not "changed" to remove the passage regarding the blind regaining sight. There is another ancient scroll of Isaiah called "scroll B" or 1QIsaB. It also contains the first two verses of and the passage about the blind regaining sight is simply not there. This scroll is generally dated to the 1st century BCE -- before the birth of Jesus. It is incomplete, but well preserved -- and contains the verses in question. Today's image is that of 1QIsaB. The Christian bible has Jesus reading a passage that, quite simply, does not exist -- not in the T'nach (bible) or the copies of Isaiah which predate Jesus' supposed birth. He couldn't have read a passage that, quite simply, did not exist. Perhaps the authors of the Christian bible added the passage to claim that at least one thing in it was fulfilled by Jesus (restoring sight to the blind) -- even though that is not, and has never been, a messianic prophecy. In both cases (John 8 and Luke 4) simply "saying so" does not fulfill any prophecies. A prophecy is fulfilled when it comes to pass -- and both sin and death still exist, the captives are still in prisons, there is no year of acceptance of G-d. . . none of this happened with Jesus. He did not fulfill the prophecy. Some missionaries will say "this will happen with the second coming." There is no prophecy that the messiah will come, fail in his mission, and have a second attempt. . . The "second" coming is nothing more than an excuse to explain why Jesus failed to fulfill the true messianic prophecies. Jewish sources show that the Messiah will fulfill the prophecies outright; in the T'nach no concept of a second coming exists. In fact, the T'nach says when a person dies, "on that day his plans all perish." T'hillim / Psalm 146:4. Yet again the list maker has made claims that simply are unsupported by the very biblical passage s/he references as "proof."
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