Malachi 3:Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
But the multitude back then, as is also the case now, were seeking a Messiah of their own choosing, and by clinging to their world view, they built out entire doctrines to support their misinterpretation of the prophecies, which clearly pointed out the Messiah’s work. In fact, now that Christ has come and died and risen again, it is forbidden in many Jewish circles, to read Isaiah 53.
That’s how far the spiritual and secular is going to put persons at odds, for God says one thing and the strong spirit of unbelief says another…… Isaiah 53: 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isaiah 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!