V. ANOTHER VIEW OF THE MESSIAH
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THERE can be no doubtwhatever, as we have seen, that the Jews expected a Messiah, and it is equally certain that the kind of Messiah that Jesus proved to be was distasteful to them. Yet the important point for us is that he did claim to be the Messiah; his religion is founded upon this claim, and it is a claim that we see was fulfilled in numberless ways.
Now we shall present another view of the Messiah which is always slurred over by Christians, but which is the most important view of it, as we shall show; for if Jesus is the Messiah, as he claimed, and Christians believe, Jehovah and Jesus are identical.
The view that we have in mind is this: Jehovah said again and again that He Himself was to come into the world as the Messiah, the deliverer of the Jews. We shall prove it.
"O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountains; O Jerusalem, that
