Y'shayahu / Isaiah 29:13 has nothing to do with the messiah, or what the messiah might say (berating hypocrites). The passage begins with the words "And HaShem (the L-rd) said." G-d is speaking. Not Jesus. Now many Christians just assume that the two are the same, but that is a belief held by many Christians, certainly not supported by the Jewish bible. When G-d speaks in the T'nach (bible) it is G-d Himself. The list maker is also trying to relay G-d speaking of the people alive in the time of Isaiah (700 years before Jesus) and because Jesus supposedly also took hypocrites to task 700 years later it is somehow prophetic of Jesus. So, anyone berating a hypocrite fulfills Y'shayahu / Isaiah 29:13? "And the L-rd said: "Because this people has come near; with their mouth and with their lips they honor Me, but their heart they draw far away from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of people, which has been taught." This is not a messianic prophecy --- it seems that Matthew 15 is quoting Y'shayahu / Isaiah 29:13 and this alone is a "fulfillment" of a prophecy. Does that mean you could fulfill this prophecy simply by quoting it?
The book of Matthew tries to paint the Jews as evil hypocrites -- this is a theme throughout the book. Calling the Jews hypocrites is part and parcel of this attempt to blacken Jews (and get people to become Christians), although contemporaneous sources such as Josephus paint a very different and positive view of the Jewish people. In fact there is no Hebrew (or Aramaic) word for hypocrite: so Jesus could never have said this! In ancient Greek the term meant a pretender -- an actor. . . The term was Greek, and whoever wrote Matthew in Greek was probably not even Jewish, let alone quoting Jesus properly. The meaning of Y'shayahu / Isaiah 29:13 is to re-enforce the fact that G-d does not want meaningless prayers -- He wants us to love Him and observe His mitzvot. Return to Y'shayahu / Isaiah 2:2-3 and it is clear that Matthew is distorting Isaiah: "And it shall be at the end of the days, that the mountain of the L-rd's house shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised above the hills, and all the nations shall stream to it. And many peoples shall go, and they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the L-rd's mount, to the house of the G-d of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths," for out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the L-rd from Jerusalem." Not Jesus. At the end of days people will seek the Jews to teach them of G-d's ways and His Torah. So the misuse of this passage by the missionary (and Matthew) is outright deceit.
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