JustAGamer

You are rejecting the clear 1st-century timeline given by Gabriel simply because you are confusing a subverted expectation with a broken promise. Accepting Jesus as the final Messiah does not break any promises. I was an “outsider” in that I was not raised in either Jewish or Christian theology. I have still written extensively on this subject within this app. You assume the Messiah had to be a physical military-like figure, but that completely ignores how God historically operates. When God freed Israel from Egypt, Moses did not wage war on the Pharaoh. He stood there peacefully while God did the fighting. Jesus did not need to fight Rome. He planted a spiritual movement, died, rose, and within three centuries God conquered the Roman Empire from the inside out through Constantine. The pattern is perfectly consistent. God does the fighting on His own terms. By arguing that the timeline in Daniel cannot be Jesus because the physical restoration did not happen instantly, you are missing the progressive revelation. God did not break His physical promise to Israel. He just was not on a human schedule. Fast forward to 1948, Israel was miraculously re-established through a defensive war and a UN delegation, proving the covenant is alive and well. If you throw out the 1st-century deadline because it did not fit a political bias, you are stuck waiting for a future candidate who can never prove his Davidic bloodline anyway because the Temple records are gone. Jesus fits the timeline, the title, and the divine pattern of unexpected victory.