The term Christ is an English derivative of the New Testament Greek word christos, which means "anointed. This term is transliterated in the King James New Testament as messias John John He first finds his own brother Simon, and said to him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
What was the significance of anointing? The Oxford Companion to the Bible states: "In the Hebrew Bible, the term is most often used of kings, whose investiture was marked especially by anointing with oil Judges Judges [8] The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, Reign you over us. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.
The Romans were considered cruel oppressors by the Jews, while the Romans, in turn, considered Judea a backwater province of malcontents. Freedom fighters, Zealots, and men calling themselves messiahs led scattered rebellions that were crushed by Rome, but the Jews continued to hold out hope for the promised Messiah, a prophet king who would, they thought, deliver them from Rome and install a new and glorious kingdom of Israel.
They figured out his location through further Old Testament prophecies, which promised a Messiah would come from Bethlehem, as shown in Micah :. As it turned out, Jesus was indeed found in Bethlehem. But in many ways, He was not the Messiah the Jews were expecting.
But Christianity still stands, two thousand years later, while the Roman Empire collapsed only a few hundred years after Jesus walked the earth. In the Old Testament, prophets, priests, and kings were anointed. Then, the three positions were separate. In Jesus, they all came together. He is the ultimate Anointed One. Prophets proclaimed the Word of God.
Priests were supposed to serve as intercessors between the people and God. You either have to be a masochist or have an acute Messiah complex. And that is the key to grasping how we Americans can and cannot take him seriously as a would-be political messiah.
Fayyad was by no means despised by the masses, but nor was he seen as the messiah -like figure held up by the West. He was a nontragic, happy-ending, American Christ: half- messiah , half Santa Claus. After their restoration, they will acknowledge Messiah at God's right hand as in all things their sovereign Lord.
On the eighth day after his birth, this immaculate Child was circumcised, both because he was a Jew, and the predicted Messiah.
The chief of them went out to get a glimpse of the famous preacher, whom so many hailed as the long-expected Messiah. Perhaps it may be said, that few nations had even heard of the promised Messiah , and still fewer desired his coming.
As a result, few were prepared to accept Jesus as the promised Messiah. It became their purpose to share this wonderful insight with others. As he closed his Gospel, the apostle John summarized the message he had been trying to get across. The Gospels repeatedly declare that Jesus is the Messiah—the One chosen by God and anointed by Him to save His people from their sins Matthew ; Luke ; John ; , Jesus Himself claimed to be the promised Messiah.
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