Evidence That Christ is the Messiah

 Moses predicted that God would send "a Prophet like me" to Israel.        
And if Israel rejects him, there would be hell to pay.        
(Words to that effect.)(Deuteronomy 18.18-19).        
       
The implication is that the curses in the Law of Moses would be        
"visited" upon the nation. as a penalty for such an abomination.        
Those curses included defeat in war, the destruction of Israel's cities,        
a forced exile into many lands, with many Jews going as slaves(Deuteronomy 28.25,49,52,64).        
       
So, if Jesus was the Messiah, or at least "the Prophet like Moses" and        
if the national leaders were to reject him and pressure the Romans into executing him,        
surely some foreign army would later swoop down upon the Jews,        
killing them and destroying their cities and even the Jerusalem Temple.        
       
Well history tells us that just 40 years after Christ's death on the cross in AD 30,        
the Romans did in fact rip the Jews to pieces, destroying Jerusalem and        
especially the Temple.        
The Jews were led away into every part of the Roman empire as slaves.        
     
But the exile wasn't for very long.        
For within just a lifetime of about 65 years, the Jews were back, home,        
revolting against Roman rule one more time from 133 to 135 AD.        
This time they rejected not Christ but the "Body of Christ,'meaning the Jews that believed in jesus.        
Amazingly up until AD 133,the start of the Second Roman-Jewish  
War, the Jews tolerated the Jewish believers in Jesus!!        
What ruined that special arrangement was the insane move        
by Rabbi Akiva to proclaim Jesus Bar Kochba as the Messiah.        
Akivah thought the Christian Jews would be willing to continue        
 to fight along side of the other Jews against the Romans.        
But the Jesus believers refused to fight        
under the banner of a false Messiah.        
       
My point is that the Jews didn't just have a role in the killing of Jesus.        
They also rejected His people His collective identity, - the Church -    
(calling them "traitors!" because they refused to join in the fight against the Romans).        
Thus it was a double rejection.        
How serious it was is shown by the length of the subsequent exile,        
from AD 135 to AD 1948, about 1800 years,you could say !! ,        
       
Yes, taken together, the rejecting of Jesus        
and the embracing by the Jews of the false Messiah,        
that was enough to draw down upon themselves        
the curses of the Torah, "the words spoken against us" (Daniel 9.11-13).    
like a lightning rod draws down bolts of electricity from the sky.        
        
The falling of the curses of the Torah Law upon the Jews soon after  
the crucifixion of Christ is obvious evidence that Jesus was  
"the Prophet like me" that Moses had predicted would be sent by God.      
And by extension He is the Messiah who will save Israel        
at "the time of Jacob's trouble" (Jeremiah 30.7).      
Namely when "Magog" or Russia leads "all nations""      
in an invasion of Israel (Ezekiel 38-39; Zechariah 14.1-4)      
(For we read that when the Messiah appears, the Jews will  
"see Him whom they have pierced (previously)" (Zechariah 12.9-11).    
Namely, Jesus who was certainly pierced    
by nails in wrists and feet at the Crucifixion.)      
     
When will the invasion of Israel by Russia, etc, take place?      
Going by Daniel's account of the same invasion, it will come right after Russia    
invades "many nations, sweeping thru them like a flood"(Daniel 11.40-41-45).      
Namely the nations of Western Europe(Daniel 7.8).      
Which really is talking about something much bigger than that.      
For the USA is the leader of the NATO alliance comprising Europe and America.     LSS: any Russian invasion of Western Europe will have to    
include a pre-emptive strike against Mother America. .