In history, therehave been many, many outlooks on what the messiah is, or what they do. The Jews had many different views themselves on how the messiah works. There was the one where the Messiah is an Oracle, there’s a view that the messiah isa prophet, there is a Priest Messiah, and there is also just a normal messiah. All of them of course have a couple things in common. One of the major ones being that the messiah comes when the people are in desperate need of a leader, or cleanser. In Josephus, the Jewish wars, the Jewish were revolting against the Romans, because naturally they weren’t being treated fairly. The Jewish thought of their Messiah as more of an oracle, or they just called it that. They believed that their savior, or oracle would come from their own land, and that he would become ruler of the whole world. The Oracle would also give the Jews independence from the Romans. And in reality, he turned out to be sovereignty of Vespasian, who was proclaimed Emperor on Jewish soil. In the psalms of Solomon, What they wanted in their messiah was basically a cleanser and a leader. They asked God to send them a messiah who had the power to destroy the unrighteous rulers and purge Jerusalem of its gentiles who “trample her to destruction.” They think that he should be able to see into the minds of all the people and tell the righteous from the unrighteous and let the righteous live with him and let the unrighteous not. Their idea of a messiah was almost precisely what Jesus was, but the only difference is that Jesus could do a lot more. In the teaching of Marqah, Moses was the item they looked at as the Messiah, but instead of calling him a messiah, they called him a prophet. Of course Moses came from the enslaved people of Egypt, but time led him to be the prince of Egypt, then on to be the leader of a great people. Moses was said to have spoken to God on the mountain, then came down with the Ten Commandments. They believed him to be a leader, and a...