Jesus indeed was Messiah.  John 1:41 states that Andrew told his brother we have found the Messiah.  John 4:25, 26 shows Jesus revealing himself to the Samaritan woman at the well as Messiah.  As Messiah Jesus would deliver from the enemy.  The first advent he conquered sin on the cross as a suffering Messiah.  The Jews as a whole did not reject this Messiah for some did and still do come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.  But some were looking for a Messiah to set up a kingdom and defeat their natural enemies.  This too will come but only in the Second Coming when He does come as King.

 

Joh 6:15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

This tells us that Jesus was aware of what they were looking for and that he knew the appointed time and he would not be taken as Messiah king by force before he willing gave his life as Messiah "Suffering Servant".  Those not willing to accept the servant nature of Messiah were blind and deaf.  They should have understood when he declared within the temple what he was anointed for and what he was on Earth to do.  Did they not understand that when he read the portion from Isaiah that he closed the book before he finished the scripture? 

 

Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Luk 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

Luk 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears.

 

Isaiah 61:2 the rest of the story

 

and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Sometimes we are all guilty of seeing and not seeing, hearing and not hearing.  I truly believe Pastor Hagee was just attempting to say that the Jew not all but certainly the leaders of the day were looking for the Lion of Judah and rejected the Lamb of God.  They will one day mourn for the son they pierced.  It tore the Lord's heart out that he's own people could not see nor hear.  But such grace for those of us Gentiles who had sat in darkness so long and now could see and hear.

 

Jesus is King but offered himself first as Saviour. 

 

If he would have come as King first we would never be apart of his kingdom because the debt of sin would still be over our heads.

 

I would like to believe that Pastor Hagee just means that in the sense Messiah King Jesus did not offer himself to the people and that's what they were looking for and wanted.  They thought their salvation came from the works they did and they missed the work of grace. Pride is what I think caused them like so many now.  We love the pomp of the kingdom but we want it without the cross. 

 

Maybe it was a bad choice of words or maybe what he mean't was lost in the brevity of his statement.  It's hard to see Messiah mean King and Servant but He is, was and will always be..

 

- The Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as the Messiah. - Jesus did not come to Earth to be the Messiah. - Jesus refused, in both word and deed, to be the Messiah. - The Jews cannot be blamed for not accepting what was not offered. Interestingly when Jesus came to earth their was a king on the throne...a Hero and they chose insurrection over resurection...Jesus did not attempt to overthrow Herod and that's what they really were looking for in a Messiah.  In that sense I agree they were looking for a literal King to establish a Kingdom and they couldn't hear the sound of the Messiah.......Father forgive them Hard hearts make for much tribulation.  We who love his appearing may suffer but Tribulation is a "time of Jacobs trouble".  Jacobs heart was right he would have done anything for the blessing and God gave him trouble for his actions in the flesh but blessed him for his heart. 

Guess what I've done is made a long story but the short of it is.......Pastor Hagee has some mighty fine fruit I can see I'll leave his heart to the Lord...we all suffer in the flesh for speaking with zeal thank God we have a God who can see are hearts and judge in righteousness.

Zec 12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have piercedd, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which  pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.