Scriptural Requirements Concerning The Messiah
The following is an example of a list of scriptural requirements in Judaism and Christianity concerning the Messiah: his actions, and his reign. Jewish and Christian sources both believe that the Messiah will fulfill all relevant prophecies.
| Jewish Interpretation of Sample Messianic Prophecy | Judaism | Christianity |
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| The Sanhedrin will be re-established | The Sanhedrin existed in Jesus' time. | |
| Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance. | ||
| The whole world will worship the One God of Israel | ||
| Jews will return to full Torah observance and practice it. | To be fulfilled. Some in the Hebrew Roots movement and Messianic Jewish movements have already advocated this. | |
| He will be descended from King David via Solomon | ||
| The Mashiach will be a man of this world, an observant Jew with "fear of God" | ||
| Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his leadership | ||
| Knowledge of God will fill the world | ||
| He will include and attract people from all cultures and nations | ||
| All Israelites will be returned to their homeland | ||
| Death will be swallowed up forever | ||
| There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will cease | ||
| All of the dead will rise again. According to the Zohar, the resurrection will take place forty years after the arrival of Moshiach |
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| The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness | ||
| He will be a messenger of peace | ||
| Nations will end up recognizing the wrongs they did to Israel | (Fulfilled in recognition that Anti Semitism is recognized as inherently not Christian ) | |
| The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance | To be fulfilled. | |
| The ruined cities of Israel will be restored | (This was fulfilled beginning in 1948, perhaps even earlier according to Messianic Jewish and Christian thought.) | |
| Weapons of war will be destroyed | ||
| The Temple will be rebuilt resuming many of the suspended 613 mitzvot. | To be fulfilled. | |
| He will rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. | ||
| He will gather the Jewish people from exile and return them to Israel. | ||
| He will bring world peace. | ||
| He will influence the entire world to acknowledge and serve one God. | ||
| He will then perfect the entire world to serve God together He will give you all the worthy desires of your heart |
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| He will take the barren land and make it abundant and fruitful |
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“The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places—to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.”
—Olympia Brown (1835–1900)