[CCWoody]

Yep. They read the scriptures and saw what they literally said.

And even though before their very eyes, they saw the blind receive their sight and the lame walk and the lepers cleansed and the deaf hear and the dead raised up and the poor receiving the gospel, they still hung their Messiah from a tree.

Very well, you can't show me. I didn't expect you to, given the manner in which you have spiritualized prophecy.

Gosh, just because I happen to believe the Lord when He says that His kingdom is not of this world, doesn't mean that I have spiritualized prophecy. My point is that you cannot see the kingdom of God because you are spiritually dead.

[malakhi]

And even though before their very eyes, they saw the blind receive their sight and the lame walk and the lepers cleansed and the deaf hear and the dead raised up and the poor receiving the gospel, they still hung their Messiah from a tree.

...Assuming, of course, that the gospel accounts are true.

Gosh, just because I happen to believe the Lord when He says that His kingdom is not of this world, doesn't mean that I have spiritualized prophecy.

Let me see. You believe he is Lord based on a spiritualized interpretation of prophecy, and then because you believe he is Lord, you accept the spiritualized interpretation which "supports" it. Sounds circular to me.

The prophets said that the messiah would bring world peace. World peace has been noticably lacking the past 2000 years. How do you account for this? And while you're at it, perhaps you can point out the precise passage of the Hebrew scriptures where it prophecies a second coming of the messiah.

My point is that you cannot see the kingdom of God because you are spiritually dead.

I know that your faith depends on your believing this. Otherwise you might have to consider the possibility that Jesus was really not the messiah.