re being right about messiahs desiree bradley mindlink bc ca desiree bradley writes and from my meagre knowledge of the bible it seems that christians have been hard on the jews of christ s day for being cautious about accepting somebody that their religious authorities didn t accept as the messiah this is a good point christ was hardly the only person who claimed to be the messiah in fact a number of messiahs were active in the area from the time of the roman conquest to after the fall of masada many of the statements made by the apostles especially their repeated attempts to give jesus a sword give him military power point to the fact that they didn t realize the true nature of his reign until after the fact many of the statements in the bible can be seen as being oriented toward explaining this new definition of messiah to the jews who were being preached to alan terlep and the scorpion says it s oakland university rochester mi in my nature atterlep vela acs oakland edu
