"The Messiah suggests that even with his Zappa-like release schedule, the man hasn't been spread too thin, and just to keep things interesting, Sizzla's narrow world of modern roots music shifts ever so slightly. The shift is toward the mystic reggae of Vaughn Benjamin's group Midnite as the opening "Psalm 21," "Look How Many Years," and the title cut all offer plaintive stories that meander and spin, straying off their narrative and freely wandering into biblical verse".