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To: Blogger

What I basically construed Hagee to be saying is that Christ came as suffering servant not the conquering Messiah the Jews expected.

BUT HE WILL COME AS CONQUERING MESSIAH.

IF that’s what he meant, he was not far off.


1,674 posted on 11/22/2007 8:11:19 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Quix

That’s basically what he said. However, to say that He wasn’t the conquering Messiah at the time ignores verses such as His interaction with the woman at the well and leaves the door open for unbelieving Jews to proclaim that there is another Messiah.

What he said wasn’t biblical. However, it wasn’t the heresy that it sounded like it was at first.

He does skirt fairly close to allowing another way of salvation for the Jews, but I’ve heard him explicitly deny this is what he is saying.

As to Jesus not being conquering Messiah, He was, even at His first coming. He conquered sin, hell and the grave. Satan is living on borrowed time and one day soon will experience the physical banishment that he so deserves. True, “soon” in this case is at least 1,007 years away. But, in the economy of eternity, that is soon.

Theoretically, if the Jews had accepted Jesus as Messiah, He would have set up a physical kingdom right then and there. But, that is only in theory. God knew what would happen and had already ordained salvation for the Gentiles as well.


1,676 posted on 11/22/2007 8:50:57 AM PST by Blogger (Propheteuon.com)
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