Nathaniel Buzolic Instagram – Since the very beginning God has been challenging man’s very understanding of Who God Himself is. Time and time again the bible reveals man’s struggle to make perfect sense of God & God’s ways. The anticipated arrival of messiah would be no different. Based on man’s track recorded, it would be expected that most will miss it That’s because the arrival of Messiah would once again challenge men & women, God consistently seems to do what is least expected when it comes to salvation – and this is no different Messiah first appeared 2,000 years ago & It did not match with what the nation of israel was expecting then, nor does it match with what modern mankind desires to accept now. Both failed to see the real enemy. we as a collective group have a sin issue that separates us from God. The messiah would appear first to both simultaneously save & suffer. The New Testament highlights how First century Jews struggled to understand this paradigm; Peter the disciple puts this theological struggle on displace when he first proclaims Yeshua as the son of God In Caesarea Phillipi & then moments later He would attempt to rebuke Jesus’ need to go to Jerusalem to be killed But far more challenging then a suffering messiah would be this; That Yeshua would Be both the true king of israel & the true God of Israel. That’s right the Messiah is God King David hinted at this, 1000 years before Yeshua would be proclaimed as the one who comes in the name of the Lord on Palm Sunday. David wrote and prophesied about this very challenging reality through out many of his psalms & songs. Psalm 5:3b – My King & My God, for I pray to you. Psalm 110:1 – Adonai declares to my Lord: Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a foot stool for your feet” God first needed to deal with the sin of man, so that all sinners could now come to see God’s great love for us. The day of atonement where God proclaimed that a transfer of sin has taken place was the day Yeshua carried all our sins on the cross to the place known as Golgotha and gave up his life The messiah will return & reveal himself to all people but those who believed without seeing this will be considered the most blessed