True Messiah

I came across a rabbinical statement that I had never heard before. The following article is in part a conversation with Jay Weisburd about it.

Roy:
What do you make of this statement?
We have seen on other occasions that had Moses entered into the Land of Israel, the Temple never would have been destroyed, and Moses would have been the Messiah. The only problem was that the people were unworthy.

Jay:
This flies right smack into the reason why Moshe was denied entrance into the Promised land in the first place.
Exodus 20: 6 Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them. 7 The LORD said to Moses, 8 “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”

9 So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he commanded him. 10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”

God tells Moses to SPEAK to the rock, and the water would come out. Why would He want him to speak to a rock and not do as he did? Answer: Because God wanted the people to see He was the one with the powers, the one who had the power to bring water from a rock.

What would the people think when Moses says "must WE" bring you water from this rock? How sure would they be that the person with the power was God, and not Moses? When water comes from that rock, was it because God listened to the prayer or because Moses drew it out by hitting it?

So, it was hardly that the people were unworthy...Moses was too proud, too consumed with his abilities, which is also why the Rabbinic Jews are so wrong to expect the Meshiach to be a conquering King on the first coming...

Yeshua was humble, and while He intimated on more than one occasion that he was God, it was because HE WAS, but He NEVER exalted Himself, He always accredited what was being done to Father. Moshe did not do that with the rock.

Roy: Excellent

Jay: Secondly, Moses was a Levite. Paul has written extensively in Hebrews about why the Meshiach would not come from the Levitical tribe, because Moshe's lineage had something to do with his being chosen, as he was a descendant of Levi. I think God always intended for the Meshiach to be in the order of Melchizedek-chosen because of his characteristics, not his blood line. Besides, if we look at Gen 1:26, where God says "Let US make man in OUR image," He already knew His Son, who was there before mankind existed---I mean, who else was God talking to if man had not been created yet but the person in whose PHYSICAL IMAGE we were cast--so if we look at that, we see that God's plan was always to have Yeshua step forward--He was ALWAYS, from ALPHA to Omega, the anointed one...But first God had to give us His lessons, His commandments, his Laws..and establish a priesthood that would teach it to us, then He would come and as the master show His apprentices how to apply what we had learned, truly apply it, so as adults in the faith, we could use it on our own merits,.
God just had to wait UNTIL IT WAS TIME.

Roy: Thank you. Good info.

Jay Weisburd is a Messianic Jew from Levitown New York