There is not a single prophecy in the Old Testament that predicts specifically Jesus as the messiah.
I have been shown a lot of verses or chapters from the Old Testament that seem to prove that Jesus was the messiah. However all of the ones which I have seen are either taken out of context and have nothing to do with the messiah, or don’t refer to Jesus specifically.
Most of what the New Testament claims a fulfilled Messianic prophecy is not Messianic when read in its OT context and is often not even prophecy.
It's not even really that clear that the Old Testament has any clear or coherent concept of a messiah at all, but the verses that are interpreted that way contain a number of expectations that Jesus did not fulfill. For example, the Jewish Messiah is expected to rebuild the Temple of Solomon, return all Jews to Israel, cause the world to worship one God, establish a one world government and bring world peace.
The Jewish Messiah was not expected to die or be resurrected, not expected to be a redeemer of sins and not expected to be God or a literal "son of God." The Jewish Messiah is just a human king who will be a direct blood descendant of David. He is most essentially the heir to the throne of David. Messiah ("Anointed") is a title for kings and high priests of Israel. The Davidic Messiah was (and still is) expected to be a national hero, liberator and king, but not God and not a savior of sins or an abrogator of Jewish law.
. And much of the gospel story has been massaged to make Jesus seem to fit what Christians came to regard as prophecies of Jesus.
Therefore I believe that there are no messianic Jesus prophecy claims from the Old Testament
Not a single author in the Talmud, the Mishnah, the Midrash, none of them believed in Christianity. All of them with a single voice said Jesus is not the Messiah.
...The guys who play this game who quote from the Talmud when it suits them... its a complete hypocrisy to attack rabbis.... They're saying its Jewish to believe in Jesus. Well if the Talmud has authority, everyone in the Talmud without exception, clearly was not a Christian, rejected Christianity and would have given their lives, and some of them did, not to become a Christian. So therefore, if these rabbis had authority that proves that Jesus is not the Messiah....
The Old Testament authors never intended to prophesy about Jesus, but their writings were perceived as prophecies because the New Testament authors knew the Old Testament and wrote stories of Jesus that appeared to have fulfilled prophecies in the Old Testament.
A good example of this is Matthew’s use of Isaiah 7:14 as a prophecy of a virgin birth, thus validating the author’s claim that Jesus was born of a virgin. John Shelby Spong says in Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus, that Isaiah 7:14, in the original Hebrew, uses the word ‘almah’, which means ‘young woman’ and is used only in this sense in nine other references in the Old Testament, whereas the word for “virgin” is “betulah” and is used exclusively in that sense more than fifty times in the Hebrew Old Testament. In the Greek Septuagint, ‘almah’ was mistakenly translated into Greek as ‘virgin’, an error that suited the purposes of Matthew’s author.
Sometimes the author of Matthew makes a mistake with his prophecies. For example, verse 27:10 says that Jeremiah wrote of casting the thirty pieces of silver to the potter’s field, but that is actually a reference to Zachariah 11:12–13.
I could go on, alleged prophecy by alleged prophecy. Genesis 5:24 supposedly prophesies Jesus’ ascension to heaven, but how?
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Mark chapter 13 has Jesus prophecy the destruction of the temple buildings in Jerusalem and his return on clouds of glory within the lifetimes of some to whom he spoke. Sure enough, the temple was destroyed in 70 Ce and therefore within the lifetimes of some to whom Jesus apparently spoke, but he did not return as promised. The failure of Jesus to return within that period of time would make this a failed prophecy that can only be explained by Mark having been written at the time of the destruction, or soon afterwards. Having Jesus prophecy this terrible event must have seriously impressed many potential converts, and the promise that Jesus was about to return very soon would have prompted them to convert straight away.
So, not quite self-fulfilling in the usual sense, but destined for fulfilment in the writings of skilled Christian gospel authors.
