a messiah is simply someone a god has chosen to be manifested (channeled) by. moses, christ, buddah, krshna, mohammid, lao tsu, every thousand years, give or take a few hundred, one has appeared among us, for at least the last 26 thousand years. and yes, if such things are real, as they very well might be, we haven't been skipped or kept waiting, the current one appeared in iran in 1844. what i don't find convincing, is the goodness of anything that would wish to be feared. the compensating comfort to me, is that it is only humans who have said that it would.