{"id":4025,"date":"2013-11-22T08:29:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T16:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2014-08-23T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:23:48","slug":"two-messiah-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/22\/two-messiah-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Sages Taught: Two Messiahs to Come\u2014 The Same or Different Persons?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Scriptures Reveal Two Messiahs Are to Come \u2014
\nOne Who Will Be Like Joseph and One Who Will Be Like David<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Jewish literature, the Messiah whose life would resemble Joseph was referred to as the suffering servant or \u201cMessiah Son of Joseph\u201d (Mashiach Ben Joseph<\/i>), while the Messiah whose life and ministry would resemble David was referred to as warrior king or \u201cMessiah Son of David\u201d (Mashiach Ben David<\/i>). The Jewish sages came to this conclusion because when reading the messianic prophecies in the Tanakh they saw two different, even conflicting Messiahs whose roles were very different from each other. What was not known by the ancient Jewish sages, and was a subject of much debate, was which Messiah would come first, when he would come, would he be the same person or two different individuals, and how much time would separate the two comings.<\/p>\n

For believers in Yeshua, this does not seem like a dilemma, for we look back in time and can see clearly that Yeshua fulfilled the Suffering Servant role at his first coming, and will fulfill the Conquering King role at this second coming. But two thousand years ago, without the benefit of historical perspective, this was not so easy a matter to figure out. Even the disciples were at times in a quandary as to which mission Yeshua was to fulfill as evidenced by their last question to him before his final ascension, \u201cWill you at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?\u201d (Acts 2:6).<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s review some of the passages in the Tanakh that point to the two different Messiahs.<\/p>\n

\"Yeshua<\/a><\/p>\n

Messiah Son of Joseph<\/strong><\/p>\n