Must Jews Accept A Gentile Messiah /Christ ?

Common Sense Commentary: The Old Testament Hebrew word "Messiah" means "Anointed of God". The New Testament Greek word "Christ" means "Anointed of God". So the question is, Must Jews accept a Gentile Messiah/Christ ? I once put that question up on our church marque by a busy street. A Jewish gentleman wheeled in to our parking lot, the next day, and wanted to know why I was so insensitive, uncaring and dumb to put up such an "insulting question". I asked him what was wrong with it. He answered, "Jews do not have to accept a 'Gentile Christ'." You are correct, I told him, Jews do NOT have to accept a Gentile Christ....but Gentiles must accept a JEWISH Christ." He stood there a full minute mulling that over in his mind, turned, got in his car and drove off. You see, Mary, the mother of Jesus was a Jew. He lived on earth in a Jewish body, was raised by Joseph, a Jew, and had Jewish relatives, read a Jewish Bible (O.T.), and had Jewish disciples except for one. Jesus was a Jew and Jews, Negroids, and Gentiles, descendants of the three sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth, MUST accept Jesus Christ as Savour or remain lost until they do,if ever. Most Jews believe in a coming Messiah, but not Jesus Christ...but Muslims also believe in a coming Messiah whose name is Mahdi (Google it. Very interesting).
Mahdi could very well be the anti-Christ but pretending to be Christ. Muslims believe Madhi will teach Jesus to pray and Jesus will convert to a Muslim. Christians and Jews both believe in the same Messiah. Jews believe he is yet to come. Christians believe the Jewish Messiah is Christ and are looking for His Second Coming.

Now lets put it together in as few words as possible. I will only use phrases and sentences from Scripture which relate most directly with my points and are not repetitious. I cannot reprint half the Bible, so I will skip large portions of text and use (...) to tie thoughts together that relate and keep the truth flowing in as few words as I can. (Words in ( ) are added for clarity.

The Apostle Paul,a Jew, writing to Christians in Rome, a Gentile nation, said, "To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints; Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." Rom 1:7. These were both Gentile and Jewish Christians living in Rome.

Paul continues in 8:3-16 "....What the law (of Moses) could not do (because the flesh is weak) God sending His own Son (Jesus) did ....That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk...after the Spirit (of Christ) .... Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his ....For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, They are the Sons of God .... (You Roman Christians) have received the Spirit of 'ADOPTION', whereby we (pray to)....our Father. ... We are the children of God. Next Chapter Rom.9:2-33. "I have...continual sorrow .... for my kinsmen...Israel .... of whom Christ (Messiah) came (born of an Israelite woman). ...They are not all Israel, which are of Israel. (God said) ...I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy ....(including Gentiles) Even us, whom He hath called, NOT OF THE JEWS ONLY,BUT ALSO OF THE GENTILES....I will call them my people, which were not my people, and her beloved which were not beloved (Gentiles). (Paul asks a Question & then answers it) What shall we say then ? That the Gentiles which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness which is (by) faith (in Christ)." But Israel, which followed after the law(of Moses)for righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness (Why)? because they sought it not by faith ...but by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written ... I lay in Zion a stumblingstone and rock of offence:("that rock was Christ" 1Cor 10:4) and whosoever (Jew or Gentile) believeth on Him shall not be ashamed. My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved." (Rom.9:2-6,15,23-24,30-33,10:1)

The Apostle Peter, also a Jew, writing to the Christians (Jewish and Gentiles) living in that area between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, writes in 1Pet.1:1-2 & 1P.2:2-5,8, "Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to....(the) elect...of Jesus Christ ...To whom coming, as unto a living stone, ...ye, also as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house (Christ's Church) acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture (Isa28:16), 'Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, ....unto you therefore which believe, He is precious: but unto them which be disobedient .... a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, which stumble at the word."

God sent Jesus first to His chosen, fleshly, children, the descendants of Abraham, but the majority, not all, of the nation of Israel rejected Christ as their Messiah and still do. This fact, however, was prophesied (741 years before the fact)in the Jewish Old Testament in Isa.8:13-14 "The Lord of hosts....He shall be for a sanctuary (to believers); but a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel...." They also had Isa.53 which perfectly describes Jesus Christ.

The Apostle John, a Jew, observed in Jn.1:1,3, 10-17 these immortal words, "In the beginning was the Word (capitalized=proper name), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, ...as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (God spoke the worlds into existence with "WORDS" "Let there be").... He (the "Word") was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own(Jews), and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God,even to them that believe on His name. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."

At the end of this, The Church Age, outlined in Rev.3, when all the Muslim nations surrounding Israel with sympathizers from around the world, come together as one to Armageddon to destroy God's chosen people as described in Zec.12(read the entire chapter). In V.9-11 "In that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom the have pierced, and they shall mourn for him (Jesus) as one mourneth for his only son....in the valley of Megiddon." Israel will accept Jesus Christ as their prophesied Messiah in that future day. Pass It On. RB