Historical Jesus, Biblical Jesus

[Bucky Ball]

What you provided was something that requires an interpretation of it actually being evidence. Very unconvincing.

Unfortunately for you, it's very convincing ... especially as Josephus went to such great lenths in the "Jewish War" to establish the point. You really should read the book. 
Actually what Josephus talks about in great and repeated detail are the multiple events in which he was confirming that Vespasian was the person prophesied in the Star of Balaam prophesy.
REPEATEDLY, Josephus describes the "miraculous" events he witnessed in Israel, which prove to him that Vespasian was the messiah prophesied in teh Star of Balam prophesy.
The REPEATED, lenthy descriptions require no "interpretation". They're all there ... for anyone to read. You're dead wrong Free. Just admit it.

What you are failing to admit here is that Josephus, not once, ever related that he believed that the Balaam prophesy had anything to do with a Messiah. If you actually understood why, you just might get it. As mentioned, Vespasian does not qualify as a Messiah for the primary reason that he was not a descendant from the Davidic line.

In short, Josephus never believed the prophesy was concerning a coming Messiah. He believed it was concerning the Romans, and their destruction of Jerusalem. And he says exactly that.

And THAT, right there, demonstartes you understand nothing about this, about the culture, and about the times. 
Some Jews thought the Star of Balaam prophesy could and did refer to a NON-JEW. That is where you fail here, (or at least found it useful to flatter Vespasian).  The REASON Josephus wrote so much about the "signs", was that he was one of these. He wrote about the "star" (in Balaam) having fixed itself over Jerusalem.
You don't really even know what the Balaam prophesy says, do you ?
Again, you prove you have never even reat the "Jewish War".