The End

Nevertheless, a suffering servant is exactly what was pre-

dicted about the Messiah (or the Anointed One): “…the

Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing…”(Dan

9:26a). The Messiah was to suffer and die (cut off), before Jeru-

salem (the city) and the Temple (the sanctuary) was to be de-

stroyed (Dan. 9:26b). Therefore, He came before Jerusalem and

the Temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.

An important note is that the prophets themselves did not

see that there were not two Messiahs, but two separate appear-

ances of one Messiah. They did not divide the prophecies that

foretold of His suffering from those that foretold of His glory,

even though they searched the Scriptures intently (1 Pet. 1:10-

12). The Old Testament prophets saw what appeared to be one

mountain peak event (one coming) in the distance. Actually

there are two mountain peak events (two comings) with a long

valley of time (2,000 years) between them. For example, the

prophet Isaiah did not see the “2,000 year comma” in the

verse, “To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the

day of vengeance of our God (Isa. 61:2, KJV).”

We are now living in this “comma,” better known as the

parenthetical dispensation of the Church Age. Therefore, Isaiah

saw the prophetic and kingly work of the Messiah, but did not

see his priestly work, during this 2,000 year period of the Mes-

siah’s human/physical absence from the earth. The prophets

therefore saw the Altar (sacrificial suffering) and the Throne

(glory), but did not see the Table (the Lord’s Table). The Table

represents 2,000 years of His present, heavenly, priestly work.

To the prophets and the inquiring Old Testament Jews,

there seemed to be two Messiahs converging together in one