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A Spider Upon Catching a Fly

JESUS, THE MESSIAH: IN BIRTH, WORK, AND DEATH
Because he was not a king or a military leader or a descendent of King David and because he allegedly failed to achieve immediate world peace , it is a common belief among those of the Jewish faith that Jesus was not the Messiah . However, through his birth, his works and miracles, and his death, as described by Luke, Jesus exemplified Christian ideals of the Messiah and fulfilled over 330 prophesies specifically contained in the Jewish Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, that were written hundreds, and is some cases, thousands of years before Jesus was even born, which undoubtedly proves that Jesus, was the Messiah—the “envoy of God,” the Son of God, Savior, Christ—of both the Christian and the Jewish faiths.
What was prophesized in the Old Testament concerning the birth of the Messiah, was fulfilled by Jesus. For example, according to prophesies, “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call h...

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