Jesus was never a king -- and what king would the list maker claim replaced Jesus? There was none. Read Z'charyah / Zechariah 11 for yourself -- it says nothing about a king being rejected, let alone a king being rejected in favor of another king. The claimed verses speak of G-d Himself. "So said the L-rd, my G-d: Tend the flock of slaughter, whose buyers shall slay them and not be guilty; and whose sellers shall say, "Blessed be the L-rd, for I have become wealthy"; and whose shepherds shall not have pity on them. For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land, says the L-rd. And behold! I will deliver the men, each one into his neighbor's hand and into his king's hand. And they shall crush the land, and I will not save [them] from their hand[s]." Z'charyah / Zechariah 11:4 - 6. Do you see anything about a king being rejected for another king? Me neither. G-d is saying that the Jews (described as a flock being led to slaughter) will be killed by enemies even though they are not guilty of anything (Nazi Germany ring a bell?). G-d says that he will not save those being led to slaughter from the hands of their enemies -- this has nothing to do with a Jewish king being rejected by the Jewish people in favor of "another" king. G-d says that in the past He personally tended the "flock" of the Jewish people, using both pleasantness and destruction to keep the Jews observant of His mitzvot. He says that He cut off three rulers in one month because He could not tolerate their ways. As a result it has come to this: G-d refused to tend to the people. He no longer used the staff of pleasantness, saying that whatever happens, happens. He gave the last kings of Judah one final chance to return to Him. None of this fits the missionary claim.
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