Does the OT suggest Messiah was supposed to have a first and second coming?

Question

Consider Hosea 6:1-3? "6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/book-of-hosea#6 How interesting if it a) alludes to resurrection and b) concerns three days and c) speaks of a first & second coming or an arrival like a latter & former rain? And could there even be a reference to a 2,000 year period between Ascension and Return there if the Talmud itself treats Hosea 6:2 like it's referring to 2,000 years in a 33rd footnote [here](http://halakhah.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_97.html)? Also, compare Zechariah 9:9-10 with stuff like Daniel 7:13 & Zechariah 14:3-4? Will Moshiach come lowly on a donkey and speak peace to gentiles? Or will Moshiach arrive on clouds of heaven and mete out judgment? Or both or neither? Add in Isaiah 53 and Daniel 9:24-27 and what does not strongly support a notion that Messiah was supposed to come first like a lamb and is supposed to return like a lion?

Answer 1

Yes. The difference between the two is so stark that ancient rabbis thought there were supposed to be two different Messiahs: Messiah ben Yoseph ("Messiah, Son of Joseph", The Suffering Servant), and Messiah ben David ("Messiah, Son of David", the Conquering King). By the time Jesus arrived, they had obsessed on the latter so much that they rejected Him for not looking more like a conquering king (which would have actually been way out of order). For more on that, see here: http://www.messianicassociation.org/ezine34-af.christology-messianic.htm