The scriptures speak often of a Messiah – the word means an anointed one – and it is possible to be mislead about the identity of the Messiah.
The prophecies about the Messiah are in the Tenach because it was to Israel that the Messiah is promised. Judah i.e. the Jews, are just one-thirteenth part of Israel.
The first time the word Jew is used in the KJV (2 Kings 16:5-6) it tells about Jews being at war with Israel!
There are no prophecies that the Messiah had to be born of a virgin (that’s paganism) or that he would be killed and come back for a second effort. The Messiah is prophesied to be raised up (there is no Hebrew word for resurrect) at the end of days.
1st Samuel 16: 12-13 He sent and brought him. He was ruddy, with bright eyes and pleasing appearance. ETERNAL then said, ‘Arise and anoint him, for this is he!’
Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers, and the spirit of ETERNAL passed over David from that day on. Then Samuel arose and went to Ramah.
You will see the significance of the spirit of ETERNAL coming on David from that day on as you, yourself, dig into these verses in your scriptures.
Isaiah 11: 1-5 A staff will arise from the stump of Jesse and a shoot will sprout from his roots. The spirit of ETERNAL will rest upon him – a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and strength, a spirit of knowledge and fear of ETERNAL.
He will be imbued with a spirit of fear for ETERNAL; and will not need to judge by what his eyes see nor decide by what his ears hear. He will judge the destitute with righteousness, and decide with fairness for the humble of the earth.
He will strike the wicked of the world with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked. Righteousness will be the girdle round his loins, and faith will be the girdle round his waist.
You know what happens when a root sprouts – a branch (staff) comes out of the ground. Where is King David at this time? He’s in the ground. As we noted the spirit of ETERNAL rests upon him.
Isaiah 55: 3-5 Incline your ear and come to me; listen, and your soul will be rejuvenated; I will make an eternal covenant with you, the enduring kindnesses promised to David.
Behold I have appointed him as a witness over the regimes, a prince and a commander to the regimes.
Behold, you will summon a nation you had not known, and a nation that had not known you will run to you, for the sake of the ETERNAL, your CREATOR, for the Holy One of Israel, Who has glorified you.
David has an eternal covenant with the CREATOR. This prophecy was not fulfilled in his lifetime but will be on his return.
Jeremiah 23: 5-6 Behold days are coming – the word of ETERNAL – when I will establish a righteous sprout from David; a king will reign and prosper and he will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. This is the name people will call him: ETERNAL is our righteousness.
ETERNAL speaks against the shepherds and then says that David would rise to reign as king with great power.
Jeremiah 33: 14-15 "Behold days are coming – the word of ETERNAL – when I will fulfil the favorable matter that I spoke concerning the House of Israel and the House of Judah.
In those days, at that time, I will cause a sprout of righteousness to sprout forth for David, and he will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
This repeats the prophecy that David will reign over a period of righteousness and prosperity over a combined Judah and Israel. Will you be there too?
Zechariah 6: 12-13 "Thus said the ETERNAL of hosts; behold a man called the Branch shall branch out from the place where he is [see previous note about David rising up] and he shall build the Temple of ETERNAL.
He shall build the Temple of ETERNAL and shall assume majesty, and he shall sit on his throne and rule. And there shall also be a priest seated on his throne and harmonious understanding shall prevail between them.
David is to build the Temple – an essential duty of the Messiah.
Ezekiel 34: 22-25 So I will save My sheep, and they will no longer be for spoils, and I will judge between lamb and lamb.
I will establish over them a single shepherd and he will tend them – My servant David; he will tend them and he will be a shepherd unto them.
And I, ETERNAL, I will be a God to them, and My servant David a prince among them. I, ETERNAL, have spoken. I will seal a covenant of peace with them and abolish evil beast from the land; and they will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.
ETERNAL will be judging severely the shepherds who have mislead or exploited the people they should have been caring for.
The end of days will be secure for the people who find and seize the truth and practice it. Don’t just talk about it!
Ezekiel 37: 21-26 ‘Thus said ETERNAL: Behold, I am taking the Children of Israel from among the nations to which they have gone;
I will gather them from all around and I will bring them to their soil; I will make them into one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, and one king will be a king for them all; they will no longer be two nations, and they will no longer be divided into two kingdoms, ever again.
They will no longer be contaminated with their idols and with their abhorrent things and with all their sins.
I will save them, taking them, from all their dwelling places in which they had sinned, and I will purify them; they will be a nation to Me, and I will be the ETERNAL to them.
My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them; they will follow My ordinances and keep My decrees and fulfil them.
They will dwell on the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, within which your fathers dwelled; they and their children and their children’s children will dwell upon it forever; and My servant David will be a leader for them forever.
I will seal a covenant of peace with them; it will be an eternal covenant with them; and I will emplace them and increase them, and I will place My Sanctuary among them forever.
The true Children of Israel who make a stand for ETERNAL’s laws, feasts and ordinances have these wonderful assurances.
We have to decide if we wish to obey the CREATOR of the Universe and do His will or will we be lost in a mire of pagan beliefs. It’s simple but it ain’t easy!
Hosea 3: 4-5 For many days the Children of Israel will sit with no king, no officer, no sacrifice, no pillar, and no ephod or teraphim. Afterward the Children of Israel will return and seek out ETERNAL and David their king, and they will tremble for ETERNAL and for His goodness in the end of days.
We, will seek out the ETERNAL and knowing we have to keep the Sabbath is a sure sign that we have been seeking the ETERNAL and that we are on the way to finding Him.
Psalm 2: 7-9 (This is David talking) ‘I am obliged to proclaim that ETERNAL said to me, "You are My son, I have begotten you this day. Ask of Me and I will make nations your inheritance, and the ends of the earth your possession. You will smash them with an iron rod; you will shatter them like a potter’s vessel"’
I know you have heard this psalm attributed to others but it is David sharing the very good news that the ETERNAL has said David is His begotten son.
Psalm 16: 8-11 (David speaking) I have set ETERNAL before me always; because He is at my right hand I shall not falter.
For this reason my heart rejoices and my soul is elated; my flesh, too, rests in confidence; Because You will not abandon my soul to the grave, You will not allow Your devout one to witness destruction.
You will make known to me the path of life, the fullness of joys in Your Presence, the delights that are in Your right hand are for eternity.
David knows he will not spend eternity in the grave – he’s coming back to experience joy for eternity with ETERNAL. That assurance is for us.
Psalm 89: 21-28 I have found David, My servant; with My holy oil I have anointed him; with whom My hand shall be established, My arm also shall strengthen him.
The enemy shall not exact from him, nor shall the iniquitous person afflict him. And I will smash his tormentors from before him, and smite those who hate him.
And My faithfulness and My kindness shall be with him, and through My Name his power shall be exalted. And I will set his hand upon the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.
He will call to Me, "You are my Father, My God and the Rock of my salvation!" I, too, will make him a first-born, supreme over the earth’s kings.
Here David is the firstborn of the ETERNAL he was not the firstborn in his earthly family. The firstborn is dedicated to the ETERNAL and also receives a double portion on the inheritance.
Psalm 110: 1-4 (Written about David). The word of ETERNAL to my master. "Wait at My right, until I make your enemies a stool for your feet"
ETERNAL will dispatch the staff of your strength from Zion; rule amid your enemies! Your people volunteer on the day of your campaign; because of your majestic sanctity from the inception of your reign, you retain the dewlike freshness of your youth.
ETERNAL has sworn and will not relent, "You shall be a priest forever, because you are a king of righteousness."
David receives this promise that his enemies will be a stool beneath his feet.
Those of us who support him will be volunteers in the campaigns to come. We will want to be on the side of the winners and the scriptures show clearly who the winners are going to be