The Jewish religion should identify Yeshua (Jesus) as Messiah

First, Con quoted Isaiah 43 which is a prophecy regarding the gathering of Jewish people from all over the world back to Israel. This is not an indication, as Con claims, that "Prophecy can only exist in Israel when the land is inhabited by a majority of world Jewry." I agree that if prophecy only occurred when most Jewish people of the world were in Israel, then we would have to remove books from the Bible, but no such claim is made in the Bible itself. Con continues to assert that the prophecy concerning the line of King David must be on the father's side. In today's time, Jewish people agree that in order to be Jewish, you must have a Jewish mother. There is a precedent for this in the Talmud [1]. The requirement that Messiah come from King David specifically on his father's side is simply not in the scriptures. The record of who is in the line of King David was lost. I again point out that there is no point in having a prophecy that cannot be validated. The fact that Yeshua Jesus was in the line of David is enough to fulfill the prophecy. Numbers 1:(which Con didn't mention yet) is a description of history and is not enough to show that all prophecies about linage are a reference to the father. Con continues to fail to address Daniel 9 with any level of credibility. Although Con only used 3000 of his 8000 character limit last round, I fear he will attempt to address it in the last round without giving me any chance to give a rebuttal. This is a dubious tactic given Con's lack of attention to the topic for the past 2 rounds. I couldn't find any sources to back up Con's literal interpretation of Daniel 9, so I am unable to give a response ahead of time. Nonetheless, I will continue to further the argument for Daniel 9. The Jewish rabbi's appear to know and deny that Daniel 9 is about Yeshua Jesus. I have already shown that the scriptures, especially Isaiah 53, were changed in the second century in order to rebut Christians. Con has not denied this, yet. A second century rabbi wrote in the Talmud a curse on anyone who attempts to calculate the day of Messiah's coming using Daniel 9. Another rabbi expounded upon the curse by claiming that a lay person would come to the conclusion that the time of Messiah has already passed, yet Messiah has not come [3]. This is, of course, a rebuttal to the Christians interpretation of Daniel 9. However, the Christians were not the first to give this interpretation to Daniel 9. The Mishna interpreted Daniel 9 as being a 'week of years' (7 years, as opposed to a week of 7 days) [3]. Although the Mishna was written by non-Christian Jewish rabbi's after Yeshua Jesus, the date of this interpretation was pushed further back by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls [4]. There are several Messianic Texts Qumram found among the Dead Sea Scrolls which predicted that Messiah would come between 3 B.C.E. and 20 C.E. based on Daniel 9. These texts refer to the coming of two Messiahs. Some of them refer to the Messiah as the son of G-d or even the first born son of G-d. One used termonlogy such as, "G-d begets the Messiah." Because these writing pre-date Yeshua Jesus, there could be no bias in them on the subject. The Christian interpretation of Daniel 9 is the most popular before the coming of Yeshua Jesus. Although I cannot affirm there is no competing interpretation, I cannot find one that dates that far back. Daniel 9 mentions the destruction of the temple and the city after the death of Messiah. Both of these things happened after the death of Yeshua Jesus in the order given by Daniel 9. There is evidence that Jewish rabbis attempted to downplay the importance of the book of Daniel by moving it from the "prophets" category to the "writings" category [5]. When I claimed that Yeshua Jesus is Messiah, I didn't also claim divinity. But for the record, the divinity of Messiah had advocates before the coming of Yeshua Jesus based on Isaiah 9 where the prophet lists a name for G-d among the names of the coming Messiah [6]. Isaiah 9 describes the coming Messiah as a child born for us. Thanks Con for giving me the opportunity to debate this. Good luck in the future. 1) http://www.beingjewish.com... 2) http://www.messiahnj.org... 3) http://amazingdiscoveries.org... 4) http://www.hebrew-streams.org... 5) http://www.hebrew-streams.org... 6) http://www.provethebible.net...