According to the Old Testament, Jesus is the Messiah.

I accept my opponent's definitions, although they were displayed a bit confusingly, and I will rebut his argument and state mine without ado. To begin: From one Book, the Hebrew Scriptures, have come two faiths. One faith says: "We"d rather die than confess the name of Jesus." The other faith says: "We"d rather die than deny the name of Jesus." One faith says: "There are two Messiahs who will only come once." The other faith says: "There is one Messiah but he will come twice." How do we know which one is correct? Simple. Only one of these two faiths is based on the power of God while the other has been built on the traditions of men. There really is quite a difference! And the God of the patriarchs, the God of the exodus, the God of the prophets, is the God of the Messiah, and He has made things plain in His Word. If you seek Him with all your heart, then the Scriptures will be "a light to our path and a lamp to our feet" (Psa 119:105). His Word is sure. He cannot lie. [4] Many verses give way to the True Messiah who is Jesus. [5] REBUTTALS My opponent says that the third definition, the one saying that the Messiah is a person who is expected to save people from a very bad situation, is unimportant to this debate. I see what he is saying but I would like to point out how Jesus definitely lives His life on earth this way, while in His last days He dies on the Cross to save us from our sins (the version of "a bad situation"). Messianic Prophesies are all over the Old Testament and much are fulfilled in the New Testament. But you would be surprised to find the prophesies fulfilled in the Old Testament as well. Perhaps the most remarkable is Isaiah, who prophesied no later than 680 BC many things that Cyrus the Great would accomplish, including decimating empires, allowing the Jewish people to return to their homeland, and a decree that the temple in Jerusalem be rebuilt (Isaiah 44:28-45:13). Isaiah prophesied this more than 80 years before the first exile of Jewish people were taken captive to Babylon (circa 597 BC). Cyrus ruled Persia and the kingdoms he subsequently conquered like Babylon from roughly 560 to 530 BC. [1] There are plentiful reasons I believe Jesus is the True Messiah, but one big reason does not have to do with prophesies fulfilled, rather the logic in having Him who came to save us from our sins. Another whammy is, if Jesus wasn't who He said He was do you think His apostles would have died this way? For example... Matthew, Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia , killed by a sword wound. Mark, Died in Alexandria , Egypt , after being dragged by horses through the streets until he was dead. Luke was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous preaching to the lost. John, Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution in Rome. However, he was miraculously delivered from death. John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve as Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey. He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully. Peter was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross. According to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die in the same way that Jesus Christ had died. James, Just The leader of the church in Jerusalem , was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's club. This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the Temptation. James the Great, son of Zebedee, was a fisherman by trade when Jesus called him to a lifetime of ministry. As a strong leader of the church, James was ultimately beheaded at Jerusalem . The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended his faith at his trial. Later, the officer walked beside James to the place of execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge and knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian. Bartholomew also known as Nathaniel Was a missionary to Asia . He witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey . Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death by a whip. Andrew was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras , Greece . After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words: "I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it." He continued to preach to his tormentors for two days until he expired. Thomas Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church in the sub-continent. Jude, Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. [3] Etc. etc. Please watch the video, [2], and you all will get a better understanding of Jesus and why I believe He is/was the Messiah. I feel that I have rebutted all your arguments and made my position clear as well, so I thank my opponent for an interesting round and look forward to the next. SOURCES [1] http://www.biblegateway.com... [2] [3] http://www.facebook.com... [4] http://realmessiah.com... [5] http://www.lds.org...