Let's begin by looking as Isaiah 11:1 and then the next verse, because the first verse is quite important:
"And a shoot shall grow out from the stump of Jesse, a twig will sprout from his root."
This refers to the Messiah as a descendant from Jesse, through his son David. Now verse 12:
"And YHVH's ruach will rest upon him, a ruach of wisdom and understanding, a ruach of counsel and might/strength, a ruach of knowledge and the fear/awe of YHVH."
In the Tanach, a ruach is an emanation from God that is used to adjust reality, forcing it to his will. A ruach was used in Genesis to part the waters and dry them. When God wanted a people to hate one another, He sent a ruach of evil. When he wanted honest people to lie, he cast a ruach of lying upon them. When he wanted a husband to suspect his wife of adultery he cast a ruach of jealousy upon him. And, on a positive note, if He wanted someone to be wise, He case a ruach of wisdom upon them.
But there's one type of ruach not mentioned here, a ruach of holiness, or "ruach Hakodesh", which is often translated as "holy spirit", but in the Tanach is an expression for "knowledge from God", which is not to be confused with "navuah" or "prophecy". That's likely because, as I have mentioned before, there is no prophecy about the Messiah needing such abilities.
As I have also mentioned repeatedly, for one to be from the family tree of Jesse, one's birth father needed, at the very least, to be from the same tribe. Jesus, not having a Jewish birth father was tribeless, and therefore was not a descendant from Jesse.
Also, if Jesus was also YHVH, was he really in awe/fear of YHVH? And did he demonstrate his strength and valor by slaying the wicked that was upon the land? (verse 4)
Given all of that, let's look at the fulfillment claim in Matthew 3:16:
"And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightaway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: and, lo, a voice from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved son, in whom I am well pleased." (KJV)
A note about being baptized: while it is true that people would immerse themselves when they perceived themselves to be tamai ("impure"), it was a lone (unless the place was crowded) activity that one did naked. There was no such job as a "people dunker", and a later Hebrew word had to be invented to describe "John the dunker" as a "matbil". It's just another one of those elements in the text that didn't need to be there.
It's also not clear how, out of all of those people in the story being dunked, only Jesus had that special moment, a vision, and why only he seemingly heard the Voice.
But to be serious, Isaiah 11:2 speaks of one who has a paternal lineage connection to Jesse, who was given several different kinds of ruach, and not just a generic one, who didn't need to be dunked. After all a "baptizer" was unknown to the singer. This warrior messiah would be given the ruach of valor to be a strong and uncompromising king who would slay all of the evil in the land and from which would have a period of peace where the "lion would lay by the lamb".
So Jesus did not fulfill those most important requirements by standing in a pool of water naked and being dunked by John the Dunker (This was the Hebrew name used on the plaque I saw at the Masada visitor center). And was Jesus really in fear/awe of YHVH?
But that's for another post.
Style: "Messianic, lineage and lack of warrior problems, Jesus didn't fulfill"
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