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Let’s look at the prophecies which the first coming failed to satisfy.
24.1 The coming of the Messiah would bring an end to sinfulness. This did not happen.
"…ye shall be clean; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you…and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh…and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them…I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities." Ezek 36:25-27,33
"Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them…they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them." Ezek 37:23,24
"The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth…thou shalt not see evil any more." Zeph 3:13,15
"There the wicked cease from troubling…" Job 3:17
"Thy people also shall be all righteous…" Isa 60:21
"…the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found…" Jer 50:20
24.2 The coming of the Messiah would bring an end to weeping. This did not happen.
"…and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying." Isa 65:19
24.3 The coming of the Messiah would bring peace and an end to predation and war. It did not happen.
"…and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Isa 2:4 & Mic 4:3
"…and his name shall be called…The Prince of Peace." Isa 9:6
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together…And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the o24. And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;" Isa 11:6-9
"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall no hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain…" Isa 65:25
"And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace unto the heathen…" Zech 9:10
"…I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth…" Hos 2:18
24.4 The Messiah’s coming would usher in one creed and one religion. This did not happen.
"…the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." Isa 2:2
"…the strangers shall be joined with [Israel], and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob." Isa 14:1
"…[Egyptians, Ethiopians, and Sabeans] shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God." Isa 45:14,22-24
"…for henceforth there shall no more come into [Zion and Jerusalem] the uncircumcised and the unclean." Isa 52:1
"And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising…all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side…[Midianites, Ephahsians, and Shebans] shall come…and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord." Isa 60:3-6
"…The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel…Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings…" Isa 60:14,16
"…shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord." Isa 66:23
"…ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you." Zech 8:23
"And the Lord shall be king over all the earth…" Zech 14:9
"All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name." Ps 86:9
"For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts." Mal 1:11
"…and there shall no strangers pass through [Zion] any more." Joel 3:17
"And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them…" Jer 31:34
24.5 The Messiah’s coming would usher in one kingdom and one king. This did not happen.
"…and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." Isa 11:12
"…I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;" Isa 43:5-6
"…that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought." Isa 60:11,12
"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever." Dan 2:44
"And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him." Dan 7:27
"…I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen…and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:" Ezek 37:21,22
"…[I] caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there." Ezek 39:28
"…in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one." Zech 14:9
24.6 The Messiah’s coming would usher in the abolition of idolatry and false prophets. This did not happen.
"And the idols he shall utterly abolish." Isa 2:18
"They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images…" Isa 42:17
"[God] will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen." Zeph 2:11
24.7 The Messiah’s coming would usher in the gathering of the ten tribes under their own king. This did not happen.
"…I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen…and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:" Ezek 37:21,22
24.8 The Messiah’s coming would usher in a battle between God and Gog, the land of Magog. This did not happen.
"Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog…" Ezek 38
"Behold, I am against thee, O Gog…" Ezek 39
24.9 The Messiah’s coming would usher in the cleaving of the Mount of Olives. This did not happen.
"…and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof…and there shall be a very great valley…" Zech 14:4
24.10 The Messiah’s coming would usher in the building of the future temple. This did not happen.
In a vision, a new temple is described. Ezek 40-46
24.11 The Messiah’s coming would usher in the issuing of living water from the site of the temple. This did not happen.
"…and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the [temple]…and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side." Ezek 47:1,2
24.12 The Messiah’s coming would usher in a renewal of the Covenant as sanctification of the Israelites. This did not happen.
"…I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore…And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore." Ezek 37:26,28
24.13 The Messiah’s coming would usher in the remnant of the nations going up to Jerusalem to worship. This did not happen.
"…every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles." Zech 14:16
24.14 The Messiah’s coming would usher in the safe habitation of Jerusalem. This did not happen.
"…and there shall be no more utter destruction: but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited." Zech 14:11
24.15 The Messiah’s coming would usher in all nations desiring the Messiah. This did not happen.
"And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come…" Hag 2:7
24.16 The Messiah’s coming would usher in slaying of the wicked. This did not happen.
"…and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." Isa 11:4
24.17 The Messiah’s coming would usher in a messianic kingdom stretching to the ends of the earth. This did not happen.
"…and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth." Zech 9:10
"He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth." Ps 72:8
"And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." Dan 7:14
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