Is Jesus the Jewish Messiah?

Is Jesus the Jewish Messiah?

The first promise of the Messiah is in Genesis chapter 3, shortly after Adam and Eve's fall. God told the serpent:

"I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise his heel." 
Genesis 3:15

It is remarkable that God called the Messiah the Seed of the woman, and not the Seed of the man. (An indication of the virgin birth?)

In following chapters God makes a covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob resulting in the formation of the nation of Israel, and promising them the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession. Cutting a covenant sounds strange to Western ears, but would have been perfectly understandable to Abraham at the time and in the place in which he lived.

It was a solemn agreement between two parties. Animals would be killed as a sacrifice, cut in half and placed in two lines. The parties would walk between the lines, covenanting that neither would ever break the conditions of their agreement. In this case, it appears only God walked between the lines. It was an unconditional covenant. God was choosing a nation of His own, through whom He could manifest Himself to the world. One chapter says three times that it was an everlasting covenant.

In the Old Testament book of Jeremiah, God promises that the nation of Israel will still be there at the end of time:

Thus says the Lord,
Who gives the sun for a light by day,
And the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,
Who disturbs the sea,
And its waves roar
(The Lord of hosts is his name):

"If those ordinances depart
From before me," says the Lord,
"Then the seed of Israel shall also cease    
From being a nation before me for ever."
Jeremiah 31:35, 36

Nations come and go. But Israel will last as long as the sun and the moon. That promise has been given to no other nation. Not America. Not Britain. Not Russia. Only Israel. (A number of people have tried to destroy the Jews. It's a pity they didn't read the Bible. It would have saved them a lot of trouble.)

 After God gave Canaan to the nation of Israel, He scattered them from the land because of their sin. But in the Old Testament book of Amos, He promised that He would restore them to the land He had given them. to be plucked up no more:

"They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
I will plant them in their land,
And no longer shall they be pulled up
From the land I have given them,"
Says the Lord your God.
Amos 9:14, 15

A precious promise.

Well, I still haven't proved that Jesus is, or is not, the Jewish Messiah. But there is a remarkable prophecy in the Old Testament book of Daniel chapter 9 verses 24 to 26.