# The Promised Messiah

Source: https://enocharchive.com/themes/messiah (Enoch Archive).

The five later books in this archive were written or reworked by Christians, and each reads the older story as pointing to Christ. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs look for a new priest from Levi and a star from Jacob, and in Joseph's and Benjamin's testaments name him 'the Lamb of God' and 'the Saviour of the world'.

The Ascension of Isaiah gives the fullest vision. Isaiah is taken up through the seven heavens and watches the Beloved descend through them, taking the form of the angels of each so that he is not recognised, to be born of Mary, crucified, and to rise on the third day and ascend again.

The Cave of Treasures builds its whole history toward Golgotha: Adam's body is carried there by Shem and Melchizedek so that the Cross can stand over his grave. The Kebra Nagast collects the prophecies it understands of Christ and reads Zion, the Ark, as a figure of Mary. Readers who know the Son of Man of the Parables of Enoch will find here how later generations took that hope up.

**category:** Messianic / Apocalyptic