John Hagee believes Yeshua is not Messiah?

UPDATE: a commenter points out that John Hagee may not actually be saying Jesus is not the Messiah, but rather, Jesus is not the Messiah the Jews were looking for. In short, Jesus was not the triumphant Moshiach ben David (Messiah son of David) the Jews were looking for, but rather, he was the suffering servant Moshiach ben Yosef (Messiah son of Joseph); John Hagee may be stating this fact in his book. However, I've yet to verify either claim. Perhaps if John Hagee or one of his supporters could comment to this post, we can bring clarity to this matter for the body of Messiah.

Update #2: I've written another post that clarifies Hagee's position on Jesus as Messiah.

I'm always skeptical and a little put off by TV evangelists. While some mean well, too many are money-focused, some claim God will bless you if you give to their ministry, and there is no shortage of wolves among the sheep: false prophets, thieves, liars; a good pharisaical bunch, all in all.

John Hagee is a televangelist, and despite his support of Israel, his stand against Islamic fascism, and his stance against sexual immorality, I'm rather disturbed & confused by this book promotion, which claims that Jesus denied and rebuked claims to be the Messiah.



Let me restate that in gentile western Christian terms: he claims Jesus denied being Christ. Thus, it would be inaccurate, as a Christian, to call him Jesus Christ. In fact, gentile believers in Jesus wouldn't be called "Christian" at all, since Jesus supposedly wasn't Christ; you'd be called Jesusian or something. :-) And I wouldn't be a Messianic Jew, I'd be a Yeshuatic Jew. :-)

Ignoring for a moment that this is against modern Christian theology (after all, I am against most Christian theology too!), I don't understand how one can fudge around concise, surgical statements made by our Messiah in places like John 4:

Yeshua said to her, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain in Samaria nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we Jews worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

The woman replied, "I know that Messiah is coming. When he comes, he'll explain everything to us."

Then Yeshua declared, "I the one you speak to am he."

If anything, this only reinforces the view of apparent corruption of televangelists. Do televangelists represent evangelical Christianity as a whole?

If any of you fine blog readers believe I've misrepresented John Hagee in any way, please let me know in the comments; I don't mean to spread lies about anyone, but only to bring things to light, resulting in clarity.