Why are Jews So Blind Towards Jesus Christ?

The Jewish Nation, for the most part, are blind towards Jesus Christ.  After 1,986 additional years to reconsider and learn from the Christians, why do they still insist that Jesus was not their Messiah?

The prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27

 "24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

shows that Jesus is the only person during the past two-thousand years who has fulfilled ALL of the prophetic requirements set forth in the Tanakh for identifying the Jewish Messiah.  While Daniel 9:24-27 tells us exactly when to expect the Messiah, and His purpose for coming.

In addition, we have Jeremiah 31:31-34 for a prophesy about the coming Messiah

31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. 

Biblical experts suggest there were at least 300 separate prophesies about Jesus Christ in he old testament.  Jesus met every single one of them.  Some statisticians suggest that the odds of meeting every one of these prophesies was one chance in 10¹⁷.  For a taste of the top 50 of these 300 prophesies about Jesus Christ, see here.

It wasn't just the contemporaries of Jesus Christ who were blind. The Great Maimonides a.k.a. Rambam (1135 AD - 1205 AD) was one of the greatest Tanakh scholars of all times.  When Maimonides reported on Jesus Christ in his Mishneh Torah Maimonides saids:

 “Jesus of Nazareth who aspired to be the Moshiach and was executed by the court was also spoken of in Daniel’s prophecies [Daniel 11:14], ‘The renegades among your people shall exalt themselves in an attempt to fulfill the vision, but they shall stumble.’”

 Maimonides denied Jesus Christ, just like his predecessors erred before him.  Respecting Maimonides more than the Tanakh, all subsequent Jewish scholars blindly accepted Maimonides decision rather than reconsidering the issue further.  However, don't blame Maimonides nor his loyal followers for his blindness, for God had foretold that the wise men of the Jews would be unable to understand the vision of Daniel and the other prophets. In Isaiah 29:10-14 says:

10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

 Since Jesus, there have been 27 different imposters who pretended to be the Messiah, and were recognized by one or more Rabbis as such.

For a detailed discussion of Jesus, Daniel 9:24-27 from a Jewish perspective, see Dan Bruce's 84 page pdf booklet that you can read and/or download for free:   He Is The One

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