The Jews, the Rabbis of the Jews, have imagined and divided the Messiah into two, the Suffering Messiah who they separate out as being Messiah ben Joseph, and the Glorious Messiah, who they separate out as being Messiah ben David. The Jews further claim the house of David as being the house of Judah by the bloodline ancestry of the parenthood of Boaz, the surrogate husband of Ruth and the father of Obed, who was legally 'the seed' of the dead, meaning Oben was the son of Mahlon, Ruth's first husband according to the Law of Moses.

When the Redeemer comes again, he will return not as the bearer of the corrupting blood line of Judah, he shed that blood in Gethsemane and upon the cross having been crucified by those who had longed to claim him but did not only reject him but killed him. So when the Redeemer comes again he will come in his true identity for he will return as the rightful prince of Ephraim and heir to the covenant fulfiled. There is no glory in being of the tribe of Judah to be claimed. There is only glory to be obtained as the redeeming descent of Ephraim, the firstborn in Israel, the son of the covenant, It is through Ephraim, in Christ as the atoning Savior and the faithful servants of the latter day by whom all the nations of the earth were to be provided the blessings of the covenant of Abraham, the covenant of the Fathers, the covenant of God the Father of spirits as pronounced before the foundation of the world. And this is only rightfully fulfilled by the one and only firstborn son of the Father in the spirit, who is Jehovah, even Jesus Christ, the firstborn in Israel both of the Father in the spirit and of Israel as the rightful heir of the Firstborn of Israel, Ephraim, in the flesh.

Of course the Jewish concept of the 'Suffering Messiah' can be associted with such scriptural references as Isaiah 53, which is of course Messianic in its references. The fact that the Jews directly associate this 'Suffering Messiah' as being 'Messiah ben Joseph' is not an error in itself. The error is rather in their imagining the Messiah to be divided into two separate and distinct individuals, the dividing of Messiah ben David and Messiah ben Joseph into two separate people. Thus when one knows and understands that Isaiah 53 and other such Old Testament references to the 'Suffering Messiah' is indeed references to Jesus Christ and to Messiah ben Joseph as stipulated by the Jews, rather than faulting the Jews for making Jesus Messiah ben Joseph apart from Messiah ben David, we ought to appreciate that Jesus was indeed both Messiah ben David and Messiah ben Joseph in one person due to his dual ancestry as so stepulated in this text.

Thus the historic Jews in defining the 'Suffering Messiah' as being Messiah ben Joseph are actually an added testimony that Jesus was indeed both Messiah ben David as well as being Messiah ben Joseph. That is Jesus was 'a descendant of Jesse as well as of Ephraim, or of the house of Joseph' and Jesus 'is a descendant of Jesse, as well as of Joseph, unto whom rightly belongs the priesthood and the keys of the kingdom' (D&C 113:4 & 6).