![]() The prophecy was that the serpent would bruise His heel, while He would crush the serpent's head (Gen. We cannot help but compare this Jewish messiah with Jesus. On this the conqueror said, ‘Had not God's hand killed him, a human hand could not have injured him’.” ![]() His body, however, was found crushed by a snake. One who brought his head to the Roman General boasted that he had killed him. “The end of the mighty Bar-Cochba is not known. 14)īar Cochba's body, strangely enough, was found crushed by a snake, according to Prof. Without Bar Kokhba, the Jewish resistance crumbled.” (Rabow, p. “Whatever the truth of this story of Bar Kockhba's test, apparently the rabbis of Betar did have Bar Kockhba killed after he executed Rabbi Eleazar. Bar Kockhba failed history's first ‘smell test’. Therefore, they demanded that the blindfolded Bar Kockhba determine by smell the guilt or innocence of an accused man. This must mean, the rabbis concluded, that the Messiah should be able to judge a man by smell alone. “According to Jewish legend, the Messiah will be a man of such perfect judgment that he will be able to judge without relying upon the possibility of misleading evidences of either sight or sound. In other words, the rabbis did not oppose Bar Cochba as the messiah as long as he was winning battles-even though they knew he was irreligious and downright blasphemous-but once he stopped winning, then the rabbis found grounds to question his legitimacy. “If most of the rabbis scoffed at the messianic title for Bar Kockhba when he was vanquishing the Romans and establishing an independent Jewish state, their opposition naturally intensified when the victories were reversed.” Instead of acknowledging dependence upon the divine, Bar Kockhba would pray: ‘Master of the world, neither help nor embarrass us’. “The rabbis were particularly enraged when they heard that before his battles Bar Kockhba didn't pray for God's help, but only asked that God would remain neutral and permit the Jewish army to win by force of arms. Jerry Rabow tells us in his book, 50 Jewish Messiahs, p. He was physically very powerful and apparently had learned to rely upon the arm of flesh. In spite of Rabbi Akiba's confidence that Bar Cochba was the “Messianic King,” and in spite of the name change from Bar Kosiba (“son of lies”) to Bar Cochba (“son of the star”), the Jewish “messiah” was not very pious. ![]()
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