Should the believer's faith depend upon the coming of a literal Messiah son of David?
A literal Messiah son of David? Grass will grow upon our cheeks, and still a Messiah son of David will not
have come. Why? Because all the “ends” [foretold by Moses Torah] have passed, and a Messiah son of David
has not come. Thus, our ultimate redemption depends only upon repentance and good deeds. Thus, if Israel
repented a single day, immediately would the paradigm of Messiah son of David be fulfilled.
Yet, should national Israel insist upon having a physical Messiah, let him come, but may we not see it. Why?
Because of the birth pangs preceding the coming of such human Messiah... In the generation in which that
Messiah appears, disciples of the wise will grow fewer and fewer.
And as for those who remain, their eyes will be consumed with sorrow and sighing. And many agonies will
afflict the entire people-- harsh decrees added one to another, so that while one is still in force, another is
quickly promulgated. In the footsteps of a human Messiah, insolence will increase and honour dwindle; the
vine will yield its fruit [abundantly] but wine will be dear; the government will turn to heresy and there will
be none [to offer them] reproof; the meeting-place [of scholars] will be used for immorality; Galilee will be
destroyed, Gablan desolated, and the dwellers on the frontier will go about [begging] from place to place
without anyone to take pity on them; the wisdom of the learned will degenerate, fearers of sin will be
despised, and the truth will be lacking; youths will put old men to shame, the old will stand up in the
presence of the young, a son will revile his father, a daughter will rise against her mother, a daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law, and a man's enemies will be the members of his household; the face of the
generation will be like the face of a dog (brazen), a son will not feel ashamed before his father. So, upon
whom is it for us to rely? Upon our Father who is in heaven, upon sincere repentance, good deeds, and Torah
study (“This book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night,
that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way
prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success”- Joshua 1:8).
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A lie will remain false, even if the whole world chooses to believe it. But truth will still be true, even if the
whole worlds chooses to deny it. Thus, trust God's eternal Law ('Thy righteousness is an everlasting
righteousness, and thy Law is the Truth'- Psalm 119:142), and do not lean upon your own understanding
('Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding'- Proverbs 3:5)”
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