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The Messiah Most High Pt. 1b

Sam Shamoun

We continue from where we left off.

Here is another passage which affirms the absolute divine identity of the
Messiah:

“But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier
times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with
contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on
the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. The people who walk in
darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light
will shine on them… For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to
us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be
called Wonderful Counselor,  Mighty God (El Gibbor),  Eternal Father,
Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or
of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and
to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.” Isaiah 9:1-2, 6-7

The coming Prince shall be the Mighty God who will be born as a Child in
order to reign over David’s throne forever. What makes this rather remarkable
is that Isaiah applies the title “Mighty God” to Yahweh in the very next
chapter!

“It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who
have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who
struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.  A
remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob,  to the mighty God (El
Gibbor).” Isaiah 10:20-21 WEB

This provides further confirmation that the Messianic King shall be Yahweh
God in the flesh, which brings us to the next prophecy. 

The following text recalls God’s promise to David that his rule would extend to
the ends of the earth:

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“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout  in triumph, O daughter of

Jerusalem!  Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed
with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal
of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from
Jerusalem; And the bow of war will be cut off. And He will speak peace to
the nations; And His dominion will be from sea to sea, And from the River
to the ends of the earth.” Zechariah 9:9-10

Here, once again, is how certain Jewish authorities understood this prophecy:

Behold! Your king shall come to you:  It is impossible to interpret this

except as referring to the King Messiah, as it is stated: “and his rule shall
be from sea to sea.” We do not find that Israel had such a ruler during the
days of the Second Temple.

just and victorious: saved by the Lord.

and riding a donkey: This is a symbol of humility.

and a foal of she-donkeys:  as in (Gen. 32:16) "and ten foals.” (The

Complete Jewish Bible With Rashi Commentary; underline emphasis
ours)

The prophet then goes on to show that this king who comes riding on a foal of
a donkey bringing salvation is none other than Yahweh God Almighty:

“Behold, a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will
be divided among you. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to
battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women
ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be
cut off from the city.  Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those
nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.  In that day HIS FEET will
stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east;
and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a
very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north
and the other half toward the south.  You will flee by the valley of My
mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will
flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of
Judah.  Then the  Lord, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with
Him!…  And the  Lord  will be king over all the earth; in that day
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the Lord will be the only one, and His name the only one… Then it will
come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against
Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the  Lord  of
hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths. And it will be that whichever of
the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King,
the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them.” Zechariah 14:1-5, 9, 16-
17

Zechariah speaks of the time when Yahweh himself will descend upon the
Mount of Olives with all his holy ones, splitting it in half with the touch of his
blessed feet, in order to reign from Jerusalem as King over all the nations. That
is the day when Yahweh shall be the sole sovereign authority in all the earth:

“Then there will be only one Lord who rules as King and whose name is

worshiped everywhere on earth.” Zechariah 14:9 Contemporary English
Version (CEV)

“On that day Yahweh will become King over all the earth—Yahweh alone,
and His name alone.” Holman Christian Standard Version (HCSB)

Yet this would mean that the king who the inspired prophet said would come
riding on a foal will actually be Yahweh the God of Israel! However, the only
way that Yahweh could ride a donkey is if he takes on a tangible physical body,
which then explains why Zechariah spoke of Yahweh’s feet touching and
splitting the Mt. of Olives in two.

This brings us to our next passage. The prophet Daniel saw in a vision a human
like figure who was clearly more than a man:

“I kept looking in the night visions, And behold,  with the clouds of
heaven  One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the
Ancient of Days And was presented before Him. And to Him was given
dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations and men of
every language  Might serve (yipelachun) Him. His dominion is an
everlasting dominion Which will not pass away; And His kingdom is one
Which will not be destroyed.” Daniel 7:13-14

It is clear from Daniel’s depiction of this Son of Man that he is absolutely

divine since he receives the worship which belongs only to God,

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“Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms
under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints  of the
Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the
dominions will serve (yipelachun) and obey Him.” Daniel 7:27 – cf. 3:12,
14, 17-18, 28; 6:16, 20, 26

And even rides the clouds of heaven like God does:

“The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, And the Lord will by no
means leave  the guilty  unpunished. In whirlwind and storm is His
way, And clouds are the dust beneath His feet.” Nahum 1:3 – cf. Exodus
33:7-11; 40:34-38; Numbers 10:34; Deuteronomy 33:26; Psalm 68:4, 33-
34; 104:3; Isaiah 19:1; Matthew 17:5

That this also happens to be a prophecy of the Messiah is even acknowledged

by the following Jewish commentary:

one like a man was coming: That is the King Messiah.

and… up to the Ancient of Days:  Who was sitting in judgment and

judging the nations.

came:  arrived, reached. (The Complete Jewish Bible With Rashi

Commentary; italicized and underline emphasis ours)

Thus, the paradox is resolved, the mystery is unveiled. The reason why God
could speak of David sharing in God’s exalted status over the entire earth is
because David foreshadowed the One to come. David becomes a type, a picture
so to speak, of the Messiah, and therefore the things said about him are actually
about his descendant that was to come to reign forever over an indestructible
kingdom. This is why God never allowed David to realize the promises made
to him, since they were meant to be fulfilled by the One who is infinitely
greater than David, he who would be both truly God and truly human at the
same time. As such, there is no contradiction since Yahweh is indeed the only
One who reigns as the Most High. The Messiah, after all, is not a mere human
being, but a fully divine Person who eternally shares in the very nature of God
himself.

With the foregoing in perspective it is now time to unveil the identity of this
divine figure. Therefore, please proceed to the second part of our analysis.

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