So one can't help but ask, who is the Messiah?

Who is the Messiah? After the death of King Solomon, the son of King David, the kingdom of Israel was divided. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn the 8th century BCE, the northern kingdom of Israel was destroyed by the Assyrian Empire, and the northern 10 tribes of the 12 tribes of Israel were taken captive to the Assyrian capital and scattered throughout the empire, eventually becoming the 10 tribes that were lost.

In the 6th century B.C., the southern kingdom of Judah was destroyed by the Chaldean Neo-Babylonian Empire, and most of the people were taken captive to the city of Babylon and then distributed throughout the empire. From then on Israel perished.

The nation of Israel learned from the prophecies of the Old Testament that the direct descendants of King David would raise up a king who would lead the nation to restore the glory of the kingdom of King David-Solomon, and this "son of David" was called the "Messiah."

"Messiah" means "anointed one" in Hebrew, i.e., "one anointed by God," and its Greek name is "Christ."

After the fall of the Chaldean Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Medo-Persian Empire allowed the Israelites to return to the province of Judah to settle and rebuild Jerusalem and Solomon's Temple.

Shortly after Alexander the Great destroyed the Medo-Persian Empire, Israel became a colony of the Hellenistic Kingdom of Syria. From the end of the 2nd century BC to the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Maccabees of the tribe of Judah led the rebellion against the tyranny of the Syrian king, who trampled on the freedom of worship and national dignity.

Since the Maccabees belonged to the tribe of Judah, but not the royal family of David, the Jews had long hoped that the royal family of David would raise up a savior and become a national hero for the restoration of the kingdom.

Today, the rumors that the birth mother of the newborn Jesus, Maria, his adoptive father, Joseph, the shepherds, and the learned men of the East claimed that Jesus was the Messiah, caused panic among the Jewish rulers of the day, King Herod the Great.

At that time, Israel had a two-track rule, with a Roman governor on the one hand and Herod the Great king on the other.

Edom, the ancestor of the Edomites, and Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites, were twin brothers, their father Isaac, and the Arab ancestor Ishmael, the eldest son of Abraham, and Isaac the second and eldest son of Abraham (the Qur'an refers to Abraham as Ibraham and Ishmael as Ishmael).

The nation of Edom has ruled for the kingdoms of Israel and Judah many times in history, so it is a great insult to the nation of Israel to have an Edomite king as the king of Israel.

In order to keep his throne, Herod the Great curried favor with the Roman authorities, repaired the temple and pleased the Israelites, and murdered his political enemies. At this moment, the infant Jesus became his target for assassination.

Joseph was warned by an angel and fled to Egypt with Maria and Jesus. When Herod the Great could not find the Child in Bethlehem, he brutally murdered all the boys in the city under the age of two.

When Herod the Great died, Joseph and Maria took Jesus back to their hometown of Nazareth to settle down. Joseph and Maria had four sons, Jacob, Joses, Simon, and Judah, and daughters.

(The Catholic tradition holds that these were the cousins of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, a lifelong virgin and ascension to heaven.) Protestants found this tradition lacking the semantic support of the original text of the Bible, and besides, the Virgin Mary was a Jew, a saint, a royal family of David, a member of the Holy Family, the mother of the Holy Jesus, and a disciple of Jesus Christ, a saint, so she was called Our Lady).

Jesus of Nazareth knew his mission from an early age when he stayed in the temple for many days at the age of 12 while accompanying Joseph and Maria on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, professing to "remember my Father's house."

At the age of 30, he went to the Jordan River to find his cousin John the Baptist and was baptized; At the end of the baptism, the Holy Spirit descended upon him, and a voice said to him from heaven:

"You are my beloved son; I am pleased with you. ”

From then on, Jesus of Nazareth called his disciples and preached the gospel, and chose 12 of his disciples to be apostles. He was persecuted by the Jewish elite because of his sharp opposition to Jewish religious leaders in his beliefs and practices.

On his way to Jerusalem in the first month of his 33rd year, his female disciple Maria anointed him with an expensive bottle of Gennada perfume. Jesus Christ said it was for His own burial.

But this Maria was neither the Virgin Mary nor Mary Magdalene, but the sister of another female disciple, Martha, whose brother Lazarus was buried four days after his death, and was awakened from the tomb by Jesus Christ outside the tomb.

One of Jesus Christ's apostles, Iscario Judas, betrayed Jesus Christ to the Jewish magnates for 30 silver coins.

Jesus Christ was unlawfully arrested on the eve of Passover in the Garden of Gethsemane at the foot of Mount Olives on the outskirts of Jerusalem, and subsequently subjected to unlawful torture and trial before Pontius Pilate, governor of the Roman province of Judah. Pilate was pressured to release the robber Jesus Barabbas and crucify Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary on the outskirts of the city, where he was buried in a cave of the rock.

The next day, at the request of the Jewish high priest, Pilate sent troops to guard the tomb of Jesus Christ.

Early in the morning of the third day after the death of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and several other female disciples found the tomb of Jesus Christ empty, and the resurrected Jesus Christ appeared to his disciples and younger siblings several times.

On the 40th day after the resurrection, Jesus Christ ascended to heaven in public and prophesied that He would return at the end of the world to judge the earth, sin and the living and the dead.

"Blessed are the humble in heart! for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ”

"Blessed are the mourners! for they shall be comforted. ”

"Blessed are the meek! for they shall inherit the earth. ”

"Blessed are the hungry and thirsty for righteousness! for they shall be satisfied. ”

"Blessed are the merciful! for they will receive mercy. ”

"Blessed are the pure in heart! for they shall see God. ”

"Blessed are the peacemakers! for they shall be called sons of God. ”

"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake! for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ”

"Blessed are you, if anyone reproaches you and persecutes you and invents all kinds of evil against you because of me! Rejoice and be glad! for great is your reward in heaven; In the same way they were persecuted by the prophets who were before you. ”

Verses 43 and 44 make a very clear point.

You've heard people say:

You must love your neighbors and hate your enemies.

But I want to tell you: love your enemies and bless those who curse you.

Do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who abuse you and those who persecute you.

In the first few lines of this paragraph, there are these words:

"Do not resist evil deeds, whoever wants to hit you on the right cheek, stretch out the left cheek as well."

These ideas are, of course, the most famous and innovative moral ideas that have ever emerged, because they were not part of Judaism in Jesus' day, nor were they part of other religions.

In Matthew 16, Jesus Christ asked His disciples:

"Who do you say I am?"

The Chief Apostle Simon Peter replied:

"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Jesus Christ answered him,

"Blessed are you, Simon Bajonah! For it is not shown to you by flesh and blood, but to my Father who is in heaven. I also tell you, that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church; The authority of hell cannot prevail against him. ”

"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and all that you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; Whatsoever thou hast released on earth, let it be released in heaven. ”

He then prophesied that he would go to Jerusalem, where he was arrested and insulted by the Jewish magnates, handed over to the Romans to be put to death, and resurrected on the third day. These words were truly jaw-dropping at the time!

In the 6th chapter of the Gospel of John, the New Testament, Jesus Christ told His listeners the day after He had fed five loaves and two fish to 5,000 men and their accompanying women and children:

"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. My flesh is truly edible; My blood is truly drinkable. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. As the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father; In the same way, he who eats my flesh shall live because of me. This is bread that comes down from heaven. And he that eateth of this bread lives forever, not as your fathers ate manna and died. ”

Words like these, full of metaphors, metaphors, and other parables, make Jesus Christ very difficult to understand.

It was not until the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and resurrection that these teachings were gradually understood, for after all, no other religion had ever died and risen again, and had died atoning for the sins of sinners. This is a one-of-a-kind mythological historical event.

Christian doctrine declares that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary (well, although there is also a maiden name, but this theory is generally considered heretical), and that he was the Son of God in the flesh.

Preaching the message that the kingdom of God has come, healing the sick and casting out demons, and challenging Jewish traditions, he was condemned to death on the cross in the most humiliating way.

But he rose from the dead three days later and proved to the world that the word he preached before his crucifixion was true, and that whoever believes in him will be resurrected bodily as he did. His resurrection also proved himself to be the "Messiah/Messiah" prophesied by the Old Testament prophets.

Whoever trusts in Him will receive eternal life in the judgment of the last days.

In the Old Testament, the Messiah means God's anointed one (theanointedone), the anointed king or prophet of God. King David in the Old Testament was God's anointed one.

In the intertestament period (c. 2nd century B.C.E.), Jewish texts show that they had a great desire for the coming of the Messiah, which in this case meant a powerful Messiah sent by God to be like King David.

He was to deliver the Jews from Roman rule. But after Jesus' resurrection from the dead, some of Jesus' followers discovered that God had sent the Messiah not only to save the Jews, but also to save the whole world, so that all who believe in Him would have eternal life, so they declared Jesus to be the true Messiah, the Christ, and called Him Jesus Christ (JesusChrist).

In terms of Chinese translation, the Orthodox Church translates it as "Killistu" according to Greek, while Catholicism and Protestantism only take the first and last two words.

Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, the ancestral home of his adoptive father, in the Jewish province of the Roman Empire, and then fled to Egypt to escape the hunt of King Herod the Great, the governor of Judea at the time, and did not return to Joseph's place of residence until the death of King Herod the Great to settle in Nazareth in the province of Galilee (the name "Nazareth" was named after Jesus' death).

Later, he was baptized by John the Baptist and began preaching in Galilee, personally selecting 12 of the believers to be the apostles to enter the house.

In about 33 years, he traveled from the city of Jericho to Jerusalem and was welcomed by the masses. But for various religious and secular reasons, the Jews at that time hated Jesus Christ very much.

They bribed Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus' twelve disciples, and colluded with him for 30 pieces of silver to arrest Jesus and accuse him of "claiming to be the King of the Jews."

Under pressure from the crowd, Pontius Pilate was sentenced to be crucified, and immediately taken to the execution ground of Calvary.

According to the Bible, Jesus was buried in a burial chamber near Calvary. He was resurrected three days later and returned to Galilee to meet the Disciples, and ascended to heaven 40 days later.

Of course, there has been a great deal of debate in the academic community in the past, doubting whether there really is such a person as "Jesus Christ". Their argument is threefold:

First, Jesus' birth year is contradictory. Due to the very chaotic calendar of Rome at that time, the date records at that time were very inaccurate.

So the year of Jesus' birth is possible from 6 B.C.E. to 6 A.D. (It has been confirmed that he was born around 6-4 BC)

Second, "Jesus" is actually just the Greek word for "Joshua," which is actually a very common name that means Jehovah's salvation.

In Nazareth alone, there have been at least three "Joshuas" according to history. There is no evidence that one of the three "Joshuas" may have been Jesus Christ.

Third, Jesus' actions are not recorded in other historical books, raising doubts about their credibility.

However, some scholars say that with new archaeological discoveries, many documents from the first century C.E. (including documentary records from local officials and priests who opposed Jesus Christ) indirectly confirm what Jesus did in various places, as well as the peculiar celestial phenomena at the time of his slain.

However, this evidence did not convince all doubters. At the same time, there is no credible reason or evidence why Christian believers should use false figures to represent their leaders.

Most researchers believe that Jesus was a man who appeared and entered Jerusalem as a prophet and was killed by the authorities for religious or ethnic reasons. But the traditional narrative of other aspects of the church is not widely accepted by people outside of the believers.

Why do you think of Jesus when you see this scene, in fact, Jian Yi has seen a movie before, a movie about the crucifixion of Jesus.

The film chronicles the last 12 hours of Jesus Christ's life, the day he was betrayed, tortured, tortured, and tortured by Judah in Jerusalem.

On the eve of the Passover, Jesus was betrayed by Judas to the Sanhedrin, and Jesus chose to be taken captive.

After staging a farce of an illegal trial, the Sanhedrin handed Jesus over to the Roman authorities. The Roman soldiers bound Jesus' hands and feet with iron chains and carried him to the court. Crowds of Jews poured out, throwing stones at Jesus and spitting.

According to the pardon decree of the Roman government, one of the prisoners executed in the city could be released, and the governor Pilate gave people a choice between Jesus and the robber Barabbas, and the foolish people chose Barabbas.

Barabbas was acquitted, and Jesus would accept his death penalty - crucified. Jesus was thus delivered into the hands of the Roman soldiers, and he suffered scourging. Ignorant people still think that the punishment for Jesus is not enough, and curse Him.

Jesus walked through the streets of Jerusalem carrying a heavy wooden cross, and from time to time he fell to the ground, and the citizens flocked to him even more frantically, venting their unbridled ignorance and resentment. At the end of the crowd, Mary Magdalene looked painfully at Jesus carrying the cross, scarred and bloodstained as she slowly walked to the hillside where the hangings were carried out, her eyes filled with despair.

In the crowd that followed, a line of tears slipped from the corners of our eyes, and a look of deep sorrow flowed from the corners of our eyes. There was silence on the hillside, the hanging cross was wooden under the firmament, and Jesus quietly endured the last sufferings of his life until he surrendered his soul to God the Father. (To be continued.) )

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