Jewish Answers to Christian Missionaries

Book of Daniel has been a popular item in the portfolio of Christian missionaries. The passage that is commonly extracted from this chapter as an example of a “fulfilled messianic prophecy” is Daniel 9:24-27 because, according to most Christian translations, it contains two direct references to “the Messiah” (Daniel 9:25-26). Using mistranslations and mathematical hocus-pocus, missionaries transform this passage into a prophecy that allegedly foretells the coming of Jesus and his crucifixion.
The analysis presented in this essay demonstrates that the claims are inconsistent with what the Hebrew Bible teaches. Moreover, since these claims also include references to being anointed, the anointing process, as defined and applied in the Hebrew Bible, is cast into a template against which the “anointing” of Jesus, as described in the New Testament, is compared in order to test its validity.
David, the son of Jesse, was anointed as King of Israel by the prophet Samuel, who poured the special oil on his head
Solomon was anointed King of Israel by the High Priest, Zadok,, who poured the special oil on his head, in the presence of the prophet Nathan.
To help determine the validity of the “anointing” process, as described by the Four Gospels in the New Testament, a template for the anointing process of kings and high priests of Israel was developed from the accounts in the Hebrew Bible. The corresponding elements were then extracted from the accounts that describe the “anointing” of Jesus in the New Testament, and these were compared, element-by-element, against the template. The analysis demonstrated that, according to the specifications described in the Hebrew Bible, Jesus was not properly anointed.

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Jewish answers to Christian Missionaries

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