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So why then weren't all the prophets whose messianic prophesies have not yet been fulfilled deemed to be false prophets; why are their books included in the bible?

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Obviously you are referring to what Christens call the second coming and not the first, where over 300 prophecies where fulfilled.

For example, when the angel Gabriel told Daniel (Daniel 9:25) that it would be 173,880 days from the time the walls and the city would be rebuilt till the Messiah Nagid would come and indeed it was 173,880 to the day that Jesus was called Messiah Nagid (King). There is only one time in the NT that Jesus allowed himself to be referred to as King:

Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
Luke 19:38

Of course, they are singing Psalm 118.

And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
Luke 19:39

Why? What for? The Pharisees assure our noticing the significance!

And He answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Luke 19:40

Genesis 49:10: Jacob prophesied the scepter (administration of the death penalty) would not leave Judah until Shiloh (Messiah) comes. The Romans where the first people to control Israel that did not allow the Jews to administer the death penalty, that is why they could not kill Jesus by their own authority.

Jesus points us to Psalms 22 when He is on the cross and then you have Isaiah 53, the list goes on and on.

You have obviously discarded the prophecies on you own, is this not good enough for you, the books in the Bible stand because the prophecies are correct even though all of them have not been fulfilled.

The scripture you are referring to speaks of false prophets that intentionally deceived the people and tried to persuade the Jews to do things against Gods law and rebel against Moses leadership, they posed a mortal threat to the people in the desert.

God said kill them.

Jeff,

I don't believe the difference in wording between the LXX and the KJV and the Arimaic Talmud changes what the recorded record of the time of Jesus had to say. I also don't believe Jewish authorities contrived proof that Jesus was the Messiah that they did not believe in.

Here is an article with references to what actually happened.

The Scepter of Judah

In Genesis 49, Jacob prophesied over each of the twelve tribes. Among these seemingly cryptic riddles, the best known one concerns the royal tribe of Judah:

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Genesis 49:10

The term "scepter" refers to their tribal identity and the right to apply and enforce Mosaic Laws and adjudicate capital offenses: jus gladii. It is significant that even during their 70-year Babylonian captivity (606-537 B.C.) the tribes retained their tribal identity (1). They retained their own logistics, judges, etc. (2)

The term "Shiloh" was understood by the early rabbis and Talmudic authorities as referring to the Messiah (3).

The Scepter Departs

In 6-7 A.D., King Herod's son and successor, Herod Archelaus, was dethroned and banished to Vienna, a city in Gaul. Archelaus was the second son of Herod the Great (4). The older son, Herod Antipater, was murdered by Herod the Great, along with other family members. (It was quipped at the time that it was safer to be a dog in that household than a member of the family!) Archelaus' mother was a Samaritan (1/4 or less of Jewish blood) and was never accepted. After the death of Herod (4 B.C.?), Archelaus had been placed over Judea as "Entharch" by Caesar Augustus. Broadly rejected, he was removed in 6-7 A.D.

He was replaced by a Roman procurator named Caponius. The legal power of the Sanhedrin was immediately restricted and the adjudication of capital cases was lost. This was normal Roman policy (5). This transfer of power is mentioned in the Talmud (6) and by Josephus:

After the death of the procurator Festus, when Albinus was about to succeed him, the high priest Ananius considered it a favorable opportunity to assemble the Sanhedrin. He therefore caused James, the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, and several others, to appear before this hastily assembled council, and pronounced upon them the sentence of death by stoning. All the wise men and strict observers of the law who were at Jerusalem expressed their disapprobation of this act... Some even went to Albinus himself, who had departed to Alexandria, to bring this breach of the law under his observation, and to inform him that Aranius had acted illegally in assembling the Sanhedrin without the Roman authority (7).

This remarkable passage not only mentions Jesus and His brother James as historical figures, it also underscores that the authority of the Sanhedrin had already been passed to the Romans.

Panic Reaction

When the members of the Sanhedrin found themselves deprived of their right over life and death, they covered their heads with ashes and their bodies with sackcloth, and bemoaned, "Woe unto us for the scepter has departed from Judah and the Messiah has not come! (8) They actually thought that the Torah, the Word of God, had failed! They should have known better.

The scepter had, indeed, been removed from Judah, but Shiloh had come. While the Jews wept in the streets of Jerusalem, a young son of a carpenter was growing up in Nazareth. He would present Himself as the Meshiach Nagid, Messiah the King, on the very day which had been predicted by the Angel Gabriel to Daniel five centuries earlier (9).

(In fact, every detail of His life had been foretold centuries earlier.)

The Babe of Bethlehem

There is another passage that will catch our attention this Christmas season. As we recall the prophecy in Micah that prescribes that the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem:

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah 5:2

This verse not only identifies the significance of Bethlehem, it also points to His eventual ruler-ship, and it also mentions His preexistence.

It is the remarkable Book of Ruth which connects the line of David with Bethlehem. As we recall this love story between Boaz (in the role of the kinsman-redeemer) and Ruth, who becomes his Gentile bride, it is interesting to consider the possibility that their fields may have been the very ones in which the shepherds were visited by angels that famous evening (10).

1.Josh MacDowell, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, pp. 108-168.
2.Ezekiel 1:5,8.
3.Targum Onkelos, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, and Targum Yerusahlmi, The Messiah: An Aramaic Interpretation; The Messianic Exegesis of the Targum, Samson H. Levy, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, 1974.
4.Josephus, Antiquities, 17:13.
5.This transfer of power was recorded by Josephus, Wars of the Jews, Bk 2, Ch. 8 Also, The Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin, folio 24.
6.The Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin, folio 24.
7.Josephus, Antiquities, 20:9.
8.Babylonian Talmud, Chapter 4, folio 37; also, Augustin Lemann, Jesus before the Sanhedrin, 1886, translated by Julius Magath, NL#0239683, Library of Congress #15-24973.
9.Daniel 9:24-27.
10.Luke 2:8-20.