Rabbi Singer Shuts Down Missionary's Made-Up Second Coming

Um, but eventually I get to the same objection almost every time. Jesus can't be the Messiah. Why? Because he didn't bring world peace. He didn't gather the exiles. He didn't rebuild the third temple. And he didn't bring universal knowledge of God. And maybe you're wondering, you know, where is that rule actually found in the Bible? And honestly, I could never find it. That's a phantom. There's even no such prophecy. It doesn't even exist. This is a uh a leading missionary here in Israel who his argument for that Jews should convert to Christianity because that's what he does. And the key point is he uses this argument from a fallacy of ignorance. >> Um but eventually I get to the same objection almost every time. Jesus can't be the Messiah. Why? Because he didn't bring world peace. He didn't gather the exiles. He didn't rebuild the third temple. And he didn't bring universal knowledge of God. And maybe you're wondering, you know, where is that rule actually found in the Bible? And honestly, I could never find it. Now, before people start rushing into the comment section, let me make something clear. The Hebrew scriptures absolutely speak of a future age of peace. They speak about the nations knowing God. They speak about Israel's restoration. and they speak about another temple. And I'm not arguing against any of that. My question is a different one. Where does the Bible actually say that the Messiah must accomplish all of those things before he can be recognized as the Messiah? Because that's the assumption behind this argument. And the more I looked into it, the more I realized that this objection isn't as biblical as people think. Because a lot of people don't realize that one of the greatest rabbis in Jewish history, Rabbi Aka, publicly identified Balva or Barokba as the Messiah, which is really interesting, especially if we apply that same standard that I made in the beginning of the video, which is basically today's standard. Did Bara bring world peace? No. Did he gather the exiles? No. Did he rebuild the temple? Nope. Did he establish universal knowledge of God? No. None of those things happened. Yet Rabbi Aka still believed he was the Messiah and enough people believed as well they felt confident enough to start a revolt. So there are so many fallacies here it's hard to know where to begin. Uh as it turns out he's relying on the argument that where did it say in Tanakh that the Messiah cannot come twice? It's a argument from a fallacy because as it turns out there's nowhere in Tanakh that the Messiah is called the Messiah. Now that might confuse some people but the Hebrew word Messiah appears 39 times meaning Messiah um throughout the Hebrew Bible. It's never referring to the Messiah. He's called David. He's called the prince. He's called the king. He's just not called the Messiah. Now the church is going to play with Daniel 9, but you'll notice that they translate the word Messiah in the Hebrew Bible like the King James in 37 places as anointed only in Daniel 9, which is a separate topic. So that's just begin with that. Moreover, he said Barakba was someone who Rab as an example um thought that he was the Messiah. Well, that's the point. See, we're playing tennis with a net. Christians are not because as it turns out the moment that Baraka was killed by the Romans then everyone knew that he wasn't the Messiah. See the question go to this missionary is how do you know Barakpa wasn't the Messiah? He was killed by the Romans without uh bring about universal peace, universal knowledge of God and so on. Jesus didn't even do any of those things. I mean there was no even revolt. There was nothing. There was no even beginning. So the moment that Bakba failed and was killed, everyone knows he's not the Messiah. In fact, I could not have picked a better example to display who the Messiah isn't than Baraka as he got killed. But let's go back to the subject here. As it turns out, what he said is not true. It says explicitly in Tanakh in the Torah about how to identify a false prophet. We have two stellar passages for this. One is Deuteronomy 13, meaning he changes the message. We're not going to talk about that today. We're going to talk about Deuteronomy chapter 18. And this is very critical. The chapter ends by telling us precisely there's no second coming. That's the key of the whole passage. Let's go to Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 21 and 22. That's how even if you don't remember ch just remember Deuteronomy 18 and it's striking that the Christian Bible used Deuteronomy 18 to say it's talking about Jesus. I'm not kidding. But we're not going to talk about that. We're going to go to the last two verses which tells precisely how to detect a false prophet. And Torah says you may say to yourself. So the Torah is saying to to you and there's no question that the Torah has Christianity in mind here. So it's because it's a very interesting language here. You may say to yourselves, how can we know when a message has not been spoken of the Lord? Meaning that the prophet is not really from God and he's speaking presumptuously. The last verse of Deuteronomy 18:22. If what a prophet proclaims in the name of God does not play take place or come true, that is that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid. It's interesting the Torah put in there, don't be afraid. That is so important. And I my guess is that my fellow Jews do not understand why that last caveat is put in there like don't be afraid. Why didn't it just stop? Like why don't be afraid? Now everyone watching me who was a Christian knows exactly why the Torah says don't be afraid. Why is there what is don't be afraid? Because when people are leaving Christianity, what are they afraid of? Why should I be afraid? I I'm not afraid to not believe in Joseph Smith. What do you mean not be afraid? Because Christians are afraid of going to hell if they don't believe in Jesus. And every former Christian listening to me right now knows exactly what the chief argument is. Why you shouldn't convert to Judaism or become a Benoak? Because you're afraid. Aren't you afraid of going to hell? It's like so so here the Torah tells us without squinting that the way you identify a false prophet and Jesus is spoken of as a prophet he's called a prophet throughout the Christian Bible and it says explicitly if this prophet and that's how false prophets are called in Tanakh in the Hebrew Bible both true prophets and false prophets are called a prophet so if that prophet because the word novi means really to speak so the word novi the word prophet itself does not indicate in Tanakh whether it's true or not. So if that prophet says something is going to happen and it doesn't happen then you know he's a false prophet and don't be afraid. Now if you can have a second coming so then how can any pro false prophet be exposed you blown the whole criteria. So we have this missionary going to war against the God of Israel against Moses. He's saying there could be a second coming and the says there cannot be no second comingings. Moreover, in case you say what does Jesus say didn't happen, he said openly explicitly in the synoptic gospels that he there are many of you standing here will not taste of death until these things happen. You'll see the son of God coming in full glory. This generation shall not pass away. You find this in all the synoptic gospels. John is written so late. The reason why you don't have that kind of passage in John is because John was written already at least at the end of the first century. I'm steelmaning this but John is written so late that he he has to move the goalpost and essentially he has to make it sort of a kingdom in heaven. Well, we're not going to talk about that. The key point of the synoptics explicitly say look at Mark chapter 9, look at Mark chapter 13, look at Luke chapter 21, look at Matthew chapter 24. I mean openly. So if he said it, he didn't. Everyone dropped dead. Everyone died. So that so openly that goes against Deuteronomy 18. And moreover, if a person could accomplish nothing except born to a virgin of Nazareth, accomplish nothing. So then who then could be dismissed as a false prophet? Again, you're playing tennis without a net. You have no guard rails. There's there's nothing there. That's the point. Moreover, you're insisting that Tanakh somewhere says that a Messiah can't come twice. That's You're making a claim that the Messiah can come twice. That is a fantastic claim. You really should have fantastic evidence. You don't you don't prove something because it doesn't say it. That's a complete fallacy. If you make a claim has to come twice, you have to demonstrate it from the text itself. Moreover, in Tanakh, whenever you have a prophecy that someone will accomplish something, it happens as an example. When Moses is told, who is in in let's say Exodus chapter 3, that he's going to be the one who's going to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. So, guess what? He did it. He didn't die. And we're waiting for a second coming. When Joshua is told he's going to bring the children of Israel across the Jordan opposite Jericho and conquer Cananan, conquer the Holy Land, he did it. He didn't die and then he came back 300 years later. He didn't do any of those things. When Tanakh says that Cyrus, the king of Persia, is going to give the command to rebuild and restore Jerusalem. See Isaiah 44:28. See Isaiah 44 45:1. Two passages side by side. He did it. There's no second comingings to any of these. So therefore, this argument is silly. As it turns out, we have explicitly ant what will happen. See Jeremiah 23:5-8. See Isaiah 11, the whole chapter. See Ezekiel 37. There will be an in gathering of the exiles. There will be a worldwide knowledge of God. War will come to an end. There are nearly 30 wars that are are raging today around the globe. You really know about one of them. But there are many of them all over in Africa. There's genocides. All that comes to an end because we have a prophet that tells us that he meaning the Messiah. He's not called the Messiah there. He will rebuke the nations. He will judge among the peoples and they will take their implements of war, swords and spears and turn into plowshares and pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation. Neither will they learn of war anymore. The opposite happened in the first century. The temple wasn't built in the first in the first century. It was destroyed in the first century. Jews weren't gathered in as are told in Isaiah 56 6-8. The Jews were expelled from the land of Israel. Moreover, if you just look at the first century, what you encounter is the very opposite of what the messiah is supposed to do. Now, I want you to listen very carefully. Missionaries will argue, and you have to be ready for this. Missionaries will argue, it's not like Jesus didn't do anything. He did some things and then he'll do other things in the second coming. Okay, this really is I'm steel maning the whole thing because I want to make sure this is all. So missionaries will argue that he did this. Basically, there are two categories of messianic prophecies. There's the first coming fulfillment of the messianic prophecies, okay? And and there's a second category one, category two, okay? And Jesus fulfilled the stuff in category one like he was um he was born to a virgin in the city of Bethlehem. I'm not kidding. and he will be a resident of the city of Nazareth. It's a in Matthew 2:23. That's a phantom. There's even no such prophecy. It doesn't even exist. The city of Nazareth is not mentioned anywhere in Tanakh. Made it up. Matthew made it up. It's an M source. Could you plot? What I want to do is I want to steal man this whole thing. I want to forget the fact that says nowhere in Isaiah 7:14 that the Messiah will be conceived supernaturally. He's not talking about the Messiah. You know, if he would only use this standard, I mean, he would have no problem tell you that says in Isaiah 14 that the Messiah born a virgin. Even though it says nowhere in Isaiah, anywhere that the Messiah won't there's nowhere in chapter 7 the Messiah is mentioned. But he'll do it even though it's not there. and he'll say he will not use that sin or show me the verse it says he will it's all silly born to a virgin in ba Bethlehem it's a mis it's ripping Micah out of context there's no thing but I want to do is I concede it all I don't even care about this okay so that's category number one he did all those things like born in the city of Bethlehem 28 virgin supernaturally conceived and was a resident of Nazareth There are by the way in the book of Matthew 11 fulfillment citations. I mentioned three of them just for let's go to category number two in his view c it's not just him he's a a Christian so it's this is across the board I'm afraid all Christians believe I wish to say that only it's not category number two is all the all of the things that are clearly enumerated in Tanakh like Isaiah 11 that means he'll be someone who there'll be world peace universal knowledge of God, the Eden, gathering exiles, the building of the temple, all those things. That's what Jesus will do in the second coming. So that's category two. So he did one and he didn't do two yet. What I It's very easy to get distracted by saying, "But there's nothing like this." And if you really had this, then you would never know who's a false pro. Anybody could be the Messiah. It val Deuteronomy 18. Jesus said it's happening imminently. Not only that, I'll just tell you this. In the oldest surviving Christian literature, the letters of Paul, specifically the oldest the earliest letter of Paul, which is 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, when I I'm breaking because this is very critical. In in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, Paul is essentially asked, so first Thessalonians is written about the year 50 is almost certainly the oldest of Paul's letters and therefore it's almost certainly the old almost certainly the oldest surviving Christian literature. Okay, Paul's essentially asked the following question. If first Thessalonians is written in 50 and let's just say Jesus crucified in 30, he's dead in 30. That means it's 20 years between the crucifixion and first Thessalonians. This is very mainstream. So he's essentially asking the question if Christians are going to be snatched up when G when the final kingdom comes when the end of time comes what is going to happen to all those people here at Thessalonica who died you understand the content to understand this. So during that two decade interval between the crucifixion and first Thessalonians, people are asking Paul a question which he's addressing in all of his letters. Paul is addressing questions from he was didn't think he was writing a Bible. He thought these are letters. These are epistles. He's asked what about okay if we're all going to be snatched up, what about all those people who are already asleep? Meaning all the people who died between the year 30 and 50. So Paul says they're going to join us, which means he thinks that that it's going to happen during their lifetime. So they're dead. They're going to join us. I'm not kidding. Look up 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 17. It's very very simple. But let's get back to the topic here. Is it odd? Is it not striking that everything Jesus putly fulfilled are things that if he didn't fulfill them, you would not know it today? And all those things he did not fulfill. But he was supposedly fulfilled in a second madeup coming. If he had done any of them, we would know about it today. I hope you're keeping your head sharp here. We have We are told that there are two cateories. This is totally made up. Now, why would you make it up? Because it didn't happen. It didn't work. It failed. The whole thing failed. But if it failed, you have to make up a second coming. Second coming is a red flag of a false religion. But it's striking know that all the things that Jesus supposedly fulfilled, let's say for a moment, I just want to steal men. So let's say Jesus was not born to a virgin. You're going, "What?" I know it's hot, but it's possible. Would you know it today? How would you know it today? You have no way. You have no access to that kind of information unless you had the proto gospel of James. We're not going to go there. You would have let's say he wasn't born to let's say Mary wasn't a virgin, right? Would you know it today? The answer is it would be very hard to know that like as an impossible. Let's say Jesus was not born in the city of Bethlehem, right? Let's say he wasn't. Would you know it today? No. What are you going to do? Look up birth records from the Roman Empire? No. Let's say he never lived in the city of Nazareth. Would you know it today? No. You'd have no access to You have no firstand access. That means none of the things he supposedly did would you know it today. But if he would have done any of those things in category number two, namely he would have brought about world peace, you'd know it today. If you would have built a temple, they would know it today. Now, it's silly because Jesus is supposedly coming during time of the second temple. So, it's really not a time for the Messiah to come. The Messiah really comes after the temple destroyed. If one of the things Messiah has to do is to bring about the building of temple, see Ezekiel 37 26-28. See Ezekiel 41-47. It's really all there. So that means the time to come is after the year 70 after destruction of the temple on the 9th day of the fifth month. I'm setting that aside because there's way too much. If he would have brought about a universal knowledge, we'd know it today. If we would have brought about the resurrection of dead, we'd know today. all the things he's going to do like the good stuff that we can verify somehow that falls into just happens to fall into a second coming just plitling serendipity falls the second coming isn't that convenient but born to a virgin he accomplished completely you understand how transparent this is so what happens is people get obsessed with who Jesus is and then they then what they do is they make verses say something they don't and say prove that it prove that It's not true. Well, how should I prove that it's true? You have to prove that it's true. And we have an open prophecy in Deuteronomy chapter 18. This is how Deuteronomy 18 ends. A very famous chapter ends by saying that the way you detect a false prophet is that if he says something's happening, he doesn't do it. He doesn't accomplish it. So then you know he's a false prophet. I can cain if that's the if that's the case. So this is a but explicitly says that there can't be a second coming because if he didn't do it and there can be a second coming then how could you even apply this? You always say he'll do it but he didn't do it yet. He'll do it next Tuesday. If you enjoyed this program, please like and subscribe.