Appearing at the Temple is not the fulfillment of any messianic prophecies. Mark 11:15-16 simply speaks of Jesus going to the Temple -- something millions of people did every year during its existence. Simply going to the Temple is not the fulfillment of Malachi's prophecy which speaks of G-d -- not the messiah or any human. "Behold I am sending My messenger (angel? Malachi? Eliyahu / Elijah?), and he will clear a path before Me; suddenly, the L-rd Whom you seek will come to His Sanctuary (Temple). And behold! The messenger of the covenant, for whom you yearn, behold He comes, says HaShem, Master of Legions." Malachi 3:1. Josephus, a 1st century Jewish historian, wrote of the Jews who came to Jerusalem and the Temple at Passover. Passover was one of the three Pilgrimage Festivals / Shalosh Regalim / שלוש רגלים -- Pesach / פֶּסַח (Passover), Shavuot / שבועות (Weeks or Pentecost), and Sukkot / סֻכּוֹת (Tabernacles, Tents or Booths). In In the time of the Emperor Nero, around 68 CE, 2 million 700 thousand 200 Jews came to the Temple for Passover, sacrificing 256,500 goats or lambs in the process. "Now the number of sacrifices was 256,500: which, upon the allowance of no more than ten that feast together, amounts to 2,700,200 persons that were pure and holy." Wars of the Jews 6:423-27, Josephus. This was the population for one festival out of the entire year. Two million Seven hundred thousand Two hundred persons. No, Jesus just "showing up" at the Temple is no prophetic fulfillment. Malachi 3:1 has G-d saying (through Malachi) that His messenger will clear the way before Him. G-d will come to the Temple and the angel to punish the wicked will arrive. The prophet Malachi is speaking of what will happen in the true messianic era -- when the messianic prophecies which have yet to be fulfilled will come to pass. Jesus didn't do any of the things prophesied of the real messiah -- one of which includes ushering in an age of world peace: "And he shall judge between many peoples and reprove mighty nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nations shall not lift the sword against nation; neither shall they learn war anymore." Michah / Micah 4:3. Do you see peace in the world? Hasn't happened yet. The list of real messianic prophecies is difficult to fulfill -- and Jesus did not fulfill even one of them. Here are a few of those messianic prophecies with their sources listed: A. Build the Third Temple (Y'chezkel / Ezekiel 37:26-28). B. Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Y'shayahu / Isaiah 43:5-6). C. Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore." (Y'shayahu / Isaiah 2:4) D. Spread universal knowledge of the G-d of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. As it says: "G-d will be King over all the world -- on that day, G-d will be One and His Name will be One" (Z'charyah / Zechariah 14:9). If an individual fails to fulfill even one of these conditions, then he cannot be "The Messiah." Jesus fulfilled not one. Read the entire chapter in Malachi (read all three, they are relatively short). Malachi 3 gives the prophecy that the Jewish people will, as a whole, become Torah observant in the messianic age -- a time when all Jews will return to the land of Israel. This, too, did not happen with Jesus. Yet another claim that disappears into thin air simply by reading the bible.
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