Man Against Messiah

In this book, I discuss the life and times of Jesus based on the Bible and the works of religious scholars, researchers, authors, and spiritual teachers. The focus of this book is to show how Jesus, through his teachings, caused the members of the Sanhedrin great concern as his followers began to increase (much more than any other of the many "false" Messiah's who had come before him). Jesus was different. Unlike most others, he did not encourage an uprising against the Romans who had conquered Jerusalem in 63 B.C. His threat was against the evil leaders of the Jews, the Sanhedrin, those he referred to when he spoke of the Scribes and Pharisees. He threatened their power over the Jews by questioning their lack of understanding of the scriptures, and their pompous, prideful, and phony pious that exalted them above others, often including the angels and prophets of old. Jesus's teachings of love, compassion, and forgiveness, and his miracles of healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, feeding thousands with a few fishes and loaves of bread, and raising Lazarus from the dead, began turning the people toward Jesus and away from the Sanhedrin. This book reveals many of the actual members of the Sanhedrin at the time of Jesus Christ. It exposes the kind of men they were, how they lived, how they fought for position and power, and why they were so anxious to crucify Jesus Christ.