Messiah

Pronunciation: meh-SY-uh

Who He Is

Messiah is the name the Books of Achee use for Motsah, the Son of God, the Man that Anokeesed became. Achee tells His life in the flesh: His birth, childhood and education, His public ministry, and His suffering and resurrection (Achee, Contents, I Achee chs. 8–10). He is “the Angel of the Presence who is the Messiah of Israel” (Moses 14:35).

God in the Flesh

The books teach that Messiah is God in the flesh: Anokeesed Himself, come as a Man. Rak taught the young Shem: “When Anokeesed saw His children falling away from their perfect selves because of agency, He knew they must have a way to be cleansed so they could return to be with Him as their perfect selves. And Anokeesed said Oh woe is me, I cannot stand to lose them, I will go myself to rescue my children… And the Man that He became was shown forth in the brightness of His fullness, and He was called the Son” (Melchizedek 9:26–27).

To join His children, “He allowed His fullness to become narrow so He could fully join with them in the likeness of them as human creatures out of His infinite love for them… and when He wept with them later over the slain Matteniah He wept as a Man, being an equal among men in His tears” (Melchizedek 9:28). “His first act of salvation was to leave His fullness” (9:29), “and the Creator became one with the created” (9:32). So “Anokeesed declared that He would come Himself as a Man of flesh to rescue His children,” and “our Redeemer is a Man of flesh like unto us in every way except that He did not sin” (Grandmothers 4:60). “The very Man that He became was conceived by a virgin to be born of woman” (Melchizedek 2:65).

In short: Anokeesed is the Father, and Messiah, whom the first parents named Motsah, is the Man that Anokeesed became. The books hold both as one.

Begotten by the High Priest Communities

“Achee saw and bore witness, and they all came each in their turn, and they all established righteousness that calls forth the conditions which will beget some specific aspect of the being of the Son of Man, and they each one gave Him a new name, and each High Priest is a brother to one of the Eerkodeshoi” (I Achee 2:18).

The Names Given Him

The names given Him by the 24 High Priests (Handbook pp. 518, 520). Each High Priest’s entry tells how and why the name was given.

  1. Adam: “Lamb of God”
  2. Seth: “The Word”
  3. Enoch: “Word of His Power”
  4. Noah: “The Man”
  5. Shem: “The Prince of the Host”
  6. Achee: “Friend and Brother”
  7. Abraham: “The Only Begotten”
  8. Israel: “The Prince of Peace”
  9. Joseph: “The God of our Fathers”
  10. Moses: “The King of Kings”
  11. Jonah: “Firstfruits of God”
  12. Elijah: “Messiah of Israel”
  13. Isaiah: “Immanuel”
  14. Josiah: “Redeemer of Israel”
  15. Abinadi: “God the Father”
  16. Goker Harim I: “Son of David”
  17. Goker Harim II: “Jesus of Nazareth” (in I Achee 7:41, “Goker Harim II called His name Joshua”)
  18. John the Baptist: “Son of God”
  19. Zabdee: “Son of man”
  20. John the Beloved: “The Lord of Lords”
  21. Malatsar: “The God of Zion”
  22. Goker Harim III: “The Lion of Judah”
  23. Goker Harim IV: “The Truth of God”
  24. Elisheba: “The Savior”

His Birth

On the fifth day after Messiah was born, the Men of Renown chose seven learned men, four of them High Priests after the Order of Melchizedek, and went to Netophah, south of Bethlehem. For four years they instructed the Eerkodeshoi concerning His life at each sunrise and sunset. “Whenever a human soul is born upon the earth, in whatsoever land they be in, Messiah prays for them, and He instructs all the Eerkodeshoi in their behalf for the first four days of their life… and on the fifth day thereafter that child is presented by Him unto all the Eerkodeshoi as a new living soul” (I Achee 8:1–2).

He Takes the Covenant

At Secacah, “when He placed His hair upon the coals of the altar, and as the smoke ascended, lightning split the sky from west to east and the thunder shook the earth, and the song Israel sang unto His rock of witness was heard to come from above and beneath.” He had been helping with the morning meal and had forgotten to roll down His sleeves, “and Mary His mother who looked on was embarrassed that His sleeves were rolled up” (I Achee 8:71–72).

Walking Among the Eerkodeshoi

Enoch commanded the Eerkodeshoi by reason of his compassion, and they saw him as being in the image of God, “but when Messiah walked among them they saw more than the image of God” (I Achee 9:11).

Below All Things

Before His suffering Zabdee affixed the Urim and Thummim for Him, “and Messiah beheld through the eyes of His Father concerning all the manner of His doings in going below all things,” and the Men of Renown were told “to instruct all the Eerkodeshoi to obey all the desires of Messiah in His heart” (I Achee 10:20).

The Resurrection

On the morning of the Resurrection, Mary had shorn her hair and lay weeping in the dust while Semihazah mocked her: “now there is no Messiah in Israel.” “And there was no one to meet Him as He arose from the tomb… and the Lord arose and after speaking to the woman went straight away to see His mother.” She looked up from kneading bread, “and behold it was her Son… and He said Mother, and she gasped and said, Oh, You live… Then we all shall live,” and He dampened a cloth “and He wiped her face clean” (I Achee 10:83–87).

Advocate for All Men

“Messiah was the advocate of all men once before creation in the great council of heaven, and once again during the time just preceding the creation of all of the souls of men. In the first place He pleaded with His Father to create all men in the presence of His Father in Elda, for it was the desire of Messiah that all men be utterly whole and good and pure and holy in the day of their creation” (II Achee 6:13–14). The Second Book of Achee tells of His anointing before the world, His advocacy for all men in the flesh, His thousand-year reign, the Final Judgement, and His last pleadings in the midst of eternity (Achee, Contents, II Achee chs. 3–9).

He Put the Law into Every Soul

“Messiah put the Law into the soul of every vision of created purpose that has ever been found upon the earth” (Moses 16:118). See Motsah for His character and His burden.

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