Again from Tractate Yoma in the Talmud it says:
Forty years before the Holy Temple was
destroyed the following things happened: The lot for the Yom Kippur
goat ceased to be supernatural; the red cord of wool that used to change
to white (as a symbol of God’s forgiveness) now remained red and did not
change and the western candle in the candlestick in the sanctuary
refused to burn continually while the doors of the Holy Temple would
open of themselves. [Tractate Yoma 39:b]
The Temple was destroyed in 70CE.
What a tremendous coincidence in that these things began to happen
forty years before the Temple was destroyed; in 30CE, the very year that Yeshua
was put to death and died on Nisan 14 on a hill outside the city walls of Jerusalem.
The Babylonian Talmud says:
Since nothing was brought forward in his
favor he was hanged on the eve of Passover. (Sanhedrin 43a)
So we see that Yeshua himself believed that
he was Messiah ben Joseph. But didn't he ALSO believe that he
would have a "second coming" as Messiah ben David?
One interesting
point to observe is that rarely, if ever, does Yeshua use a first person
reference when talking about the end time. He put his statements in the
third person, saying "the son of man" will do this or that. We simply
assume that "the son of man" is used as a reference to himself.
But if we
analyze the text we see that sometimes that assumption does not fit. Lets look
again at Matthew 16:13
When Yeshua came into the coasts of
Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I
the son of man am?