What did Jesus fulfill in the scriptures?

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My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow My ordinances and be careful to observe My statutes. They shall live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, in which your ancestors lived; they and their children and their children’s children shall live there forever. And My servant David shall be their prince forever. I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forevermore. My dwelling place shall be with them; I will be their G-d and they shall be My people. Then shall the nations know that I the L-rd, sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever-more. Ezekiel 37:24-28 (See also Ezekiel 34:23-31)
 
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A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The spirit of the L-rd shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the L-rd. His delight shall be in the fear of the L-rd. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears hear. But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, and faith-fullness the belt around his loins. The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den. They will not hurt or destroy on all My holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the L-rd as the waters cover the sea. Isaiah 11:1-9
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How does this not relate to what Jesus did?
 
Now, I think it only fair that @ShowersofRoses give specific passages that say the Messiah will do these things in a “two-step process.” To say that is bending the word of G-d to fit one’s wishes and not reading the Bible objectively.

So, specific passages about a “two-step process” please, from the Hebrew Bible. Thank you in advance.
 
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The days are surely coming, says the L-rd, when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell securely. And this is name by which he will be called: The L-rd is our righteousness. Jeremiah 23:5-6 (See also Jeremiah 30:7-10 and 33:14-18 )
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And this one. How did Jesus not do this?
ConstantLearner said:
My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow My ordinances and be careful to observe My statutes. They shall live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, in which your ancestors lived; they and their children and their children’s children shall live there forever. And My servant David shall be their prince forever. I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forevermore. My dwelling place shall be with them; I will be their G-d and they shall be My people. Then shall the nations know that I the L-rd, sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever-more. Ezekiel 37:24-28 (See also Ezekiel 34:23-31)
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As well as this. I see Jesus written all over this
 
Two of them use the exact same words with some minor differences. So they count as one.
 
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Isaiah 2:1-4, Micha 4:1-4, Hoseah 2:18, Isaiah 32:16-18, 60:18; Zechariah 8:23, Isaiah 60:3, 61:6,9; Zechariah 14:9,11; Psalm 86:9, Zepheniah 3:9, Isaiah 66:23, Jeremiah 31:33-34, Ezekiel 11:19-20, 36:26-27, Deuteronomy 30: 1-9, Isaiah 11:12, 40:11, 43:5,6, 49:12,18,22, 60:4, 66:20, Jeremiah 3:18, 30:3, 31:7, 32:37, Ezekiel 11:17, 20:41, 34:13, 36:24, etc.)
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These passages sound like what Jesus did and what will happen in the Second Coming. Many of these passages fit perfectly with Jesus’ teachings and virtually none of them speak of anything we wouldn’t expect Jesus to do or have already done.

Now for my question. Where does it say that the Messiah has to complete all this in one lifetime? Where does it say that he cannot return again? All these passages speak of what he has done and what he will do, not when he will do it.
 
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Which ones did He not do?
You read all of those?
 
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I will comment about this later, I have work to deal with.
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I do admit, though, that I’ve never seen a thing in the Hebrew Bible that indicates a “two-step process.”
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Well is it really God who must tell you how everything will go step by step? Or is he allowed to have mystery involved?
 
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Ambiguous. Got anything specific?
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While I’d love to spend hours on here discussing this, I have to go spend some time with my kids. Sorry I can’t do specific right now.
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But the Messiah MUST do it in one step. Or he isn’t the Messiah.
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We’ll just have to agree to disagree. I didn’t intend to start a debate about Jewish vs Catholic beliefs.
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Now, I think it only fair that @ShowersofRoses give specific passages that say the Messiah will do these things in a “two-step process.” To say that is bending the word of G-d to fit one’s wishes and not reading the Bible objectively.

So, specific passages about a “two-step process” please, from the Hebrew Bible. Thank you in advance.
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Debating a one or two-step process of salvation really isn’t the purpose of this thread or why Cardinalbird started it. I don’t think two-step process is even really the most accurate way to describe it, but I was in a hurry and I apologize. I should have said that His return will be the final fulfillment of His redemption plan for us. However, I believe Jesus came for our salvation and will come again in glory. If you’d like to start another thread about this subject, I’m sure others would love to debate it and I will chime in as I have time.

Also, you are a guest on a Catholic forum, as am I. I am stating Catholic beliefs to the best of my knowledge, but you are accusing me of bending the Word of God to my wishes and not reading the Bible objectively. If you are accusing me of that, then you are accusing the whole Church of that, since we do believe Jesus to be the Messiah. Here is the Catechism about His return so you can read a more accurate description. You might disagree with the Catholic Church’s teachings about the Messiah, but there isn’t any reason to make such accusations about me personally.

Sorry @theCardinalbird that I don’t have time now to give you detailed references for the Second Coming, but real life calls.
 
I deleted many of my posts. I realized this is the “Sacred Scripture” section, and I assume it’s Catholic sacred scripture.

Of you want to continue, I think we should do it in the “Non-Catholic” section. It would be more respectful.
 
In the words of Zechariah 9:9
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
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