Where did the idea that He will come only once and bring peace in one time come from??
“Our rabbis tell us that when Messiah comes, he will establish peace on earth. When the real Savior comes, he will even bring change to the physical world. But a Savior who changes the physical world without first changing us is really no savior at all. And a Messiah who establishes peace on earth without first establishing peace in our hearts is really no Messiah at all.
Messiah had to die. Messiah had to take our place. There was no other way. No other substitute was found. No one else could pay the price. Nothing else could heal our wounds, for sin required death.”
The Bible clearly speak about “two” comings of the Messiah - One - as a suffering Messiah and one of the prince of peace:
http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/5_8/firstthings
http://www.jewsforjesus.org/answers/jesus/changed
http://www.messianicassociation.org/a-sn-peace.htm
http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/5_8/twopictures
We live in fallen world… but there is hope in Yeshua who came to first and foremost, restore our hearts to a real relationship with God.
Biblically speaking, pain and suffering are the results of sin in the world. Adam, who represented all humanity as well as creation, rebelled against God and brought suffering into the world. This sin is more than simple rebellion and breaking of God’s law. It is an offense against a holy God. Sin is permeating throughout all of God’s creation bringing imbalance, famine, earthquakes, disease, etc. This is not how God created things but it is God who is allowing them to continue for his divine plan. Ultimately, we can’t know all the reasons why God allows suffering, we just know that He does.
There is war and suffering throughout the world but there are also miracles and healing and lots of love throughout the world - What do you chose to focus on? The works of satan or the works of GOD?
Yeshua paid the price. It was his death that brought us life. He alone was the Substitute for a sinful human race, and he alone can offer us redemption.” Michael L. Brown (Read this full article here: http://realmessiah.askdrbrown.org/read/jesus-yeshua-who-he)
This is another passionate Israeli Believer speaking on this subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtUl16766Fo
I believe it is good to learn how to ask the right questions. Not all questions are the right kind. “IF Jesus was the Messiah,…” begins with an element of doubt or skepticism (emphasis on ‘if’). There is an obligation to learn who this person, Jesus of Nazareth is, before the next part of the question can be examined.
1. If Jesus was the long awaited Messiah, sent by God - not just to the people of Israel, but the world - then the second portion of the question stands on its own, without the dependent clause, “If Jesus was the Messiah,…”
2. Jesus the Messiah DID bring peace. It came, though, not in the form that people demanded, i.e., political and religious freedom from Rome’s domination.
3. The form of peace that Jesus the Messiah brought was another Kingdom - invisible to the naked eye.
4. It is helpful to understand ’normality’ the way Jesus expressed it: on the basis of what one has ‘lost’, and the reality of what one ‘gains’ by believing in Him. Jesus’ words to Nicodemus, recorded in John’s Gospel, chapter 3, verse 7 (3:7), remain helpful in this regard.
5. In light of this normality, Genesis 3:7, therefore, speaks to a loss of the Life of God (breath of God) from the human spirit.
6. If normality is defined on the basis of how Jesus described it - and He Himself claimed to be speaking the words of the Father - then we can have confidence in Him, regardless of a lack of peace due to human and non-human evil.
7. Inner peace for the believer in Jesus as Messiah is a ’sign’ of being secure in His Love. A lack of peace presents a different perspective/expectation to individuals/groups on what Jesus’ mission was while upon the earth.