Add to ORKGWe hope to have to have shown on the basis or the Messianic elements in these exilic and postexilic eschatological prophecies, that by the time the last books of the Old Testament canon were being written and added--of which these were the last prophetic books--the picture of the Messiah was such as God wanted to reveal in the time of shadows, till the body” would come. If the portrait of the Messianic Priest-King is not as clear nor complete as we would like to see it, perhaps the thinking behind this was that for this reason people would become more curious about this Messiah, to learn what there was to learn and to yearn for what was to be revealed in the eschaton. The angels had desire to see into this mysterious salvation being prep...