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   From: EliyahuSilver@Hotmail.com   
      
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   An excerpt from my Daniel 9 page, to be found here:   
   http://www.geocities.com/Metzad/Daniel9.htm   
      
   Who was the messiah? In order to understand this we first have to   
   understand what is a messiah. Messiah comes from the Hebrew word   
   'meshiach' which means 'anointed one' It was the custom to anoint   
   kings with oil before they came to power. There were already many   
   anointed kings in Jewish history. Read for instance I Samuel 9:27   
   to10:1; Here Saul is anointed by Samuel the prophet. And thereby he   
   became a messiah, an anointed one, See I Samuel 11:13 up to 12:3: Here   
   in verse 3 king Saul is called G.ds anointed, in the Hebrew   
   'meshiach'. So also king Saul was a messiah.   
      
   The only weird thing is that in Daniel 9 the King James translates the   
   word "meshiach" as  "messiah", and in the rest of the OT when the word   
   "meshiach" appears then they say: "anointed".   
   Another Christian corruption of their translations.   
      
    Look in I Samuel 16:12-13, here the prophet Samuel anoints David, the   
   Hebrew verb for anointing is 'mashach', and he becomes an anointed   
   one, as we can read in II Samuel 23:1; "David the son of Jesse said,   
   and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed (in the Hebrew   
   'meshiach') of the G.d of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel,   
   said; …"   
      
   I Kings 1:39; "And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the   
   tabernacle, and anointed (Hebrew verb 'mashach') Solomon. And they   
   blew the trumpet, and all the people said; G.d save king Solomon."   
   Also Solomon was an anointed one, or messiah: II Chronicles 6:42, here   
   king Solomon prays: "O Lord turn not away the face of thine anointed,   
   …" In the Hebrew: 'meshiach'.   
      
   So now we know what is a messiah: An anointed king. And now we can   
   start to figure out who is the messiah from Daniel 9:25   
      
   For one thing; we know now who could not have been the messiah from   
   Daniel 9: Jesus. He never was anointed as king by a priest and/or   
   prophet, and he never was a king, in other words: He never was a   
   messiah. Therefore he is disqualified to be the messiah of Daniel 9.   
      
   Eliyahu   
      
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