Ezekiel 37

[middletop]

Is this Chapter the reasons why the Jews didn't believe Jesus to be Christ? He didn't fullfill all Messianic Prophecies. Or do they get it from somewhere else.... I know that the Christain's Bible is different than the Jews Scripture, but I know that they have a version of this book in theirs. The Tanakh (Nevi'im)

[guarddog]

Christ conquered death of the body and the soul.

I found this commentary on the passage breaking it down to 3 interpretations of the prophesy in which Christ fulfilled it.

"1. Whether it be a confirmation or no, it is without doubt a most lively representation of a threefold resurrection, besides that which it is primarily intended to be the sign of. (1.) The resurrection of souls from the death of sin to the life or righteousness, to a holy, heavenly, spiritual, and divine life, by the power of divine grace going along with the word of Christ, Jn. 5:24, 25. (2.) The resurrection of the gospel church, or any part of it, from an afflicted persecuted state, especially under the yoke of the New-Testament Babylon, to liberty and peace. (3.) The resurrection of the body at the great day, especially the bodies of believers that shall rise to life eternal."

[jamesglewisf]

I don't know how I missed this thread the first time, but here it goes:

The Hebrew Bible is the same as the Protestant Old Testament. The number of books is different only because the Hebrew Bible combines several books together. For instance, they combine 1&2 Samuel into Samuel, 1&2 Kings into Kings, and they combine Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micha, Nahum, Hagakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi into The Twelve Prophets. There are other ones that are combined also.

The original Hebrew and Aramaic texts that are used for the Hebrew Bible and the Protestant New Testament are the same manuscripts. It is possible that English translations differ, but the manuscripts they are translated from do not differ.

[jamesglewisf]

Christians would say that all Messianic prophecies are fulfilled in Jesus, however not all have been fulfilled yet. Jews would argue that since all of the Messianic prophecies were not fulfilled while Jesus was alive, that he could not be messiah.

Jews are forgetting that many of the prophecies in the Bible were not fulfilled in the lifetimes of the people who received the prophecies. For example, in Genesis 46:3-4, God promised Jacob that he would bring him back from Egypt. Jacob died in Egypt, but the prophecy was fulfilled when Jacob's bones were carried back from Egypt by Moses.

Many of the Jews in the Old Testament died before their prophecies were fulfilled, but they died having faith that God would ultimately fulfill them.