You remind
me of the false messiah portrayed in Monty Python's thought - provoking film, «The Life of Brian.»
Not exact matches
One
of the things that was very interesting to me is that He never used references like most
false prophets and
false messiahs.
Matthew's version
of this saying occurs in the apocalyptic discourse (Mt 24:23 - 25; Mk 13:21 - 23), combined with a warning against
false Messiahs and
false prophets.
In fact the Jewish people in scripture were warned about
false prophets and the «Jesus» one was just one
of hundreds
of «
messiahs» running around at the time.
The claims
of any other so called
messiah are
false and have been proven to be so over the past 2000 years as it was the Gospel
of Jesus Christ that has spread to end parts
of the earth which is also a fulfillment
of scripture.
Science has it's fair share
of false prophets,
messiahs, and blind followers.
The fact that Peter later denied Jesus reveals that Peter was actually a coward whose
false bravado was completely dependent on his
false conception
of the
messiah.
If Peter was to ever play the leadership role God wanted him to play in the kingdom community, Peter's cowardly character and
false view
of the
messiah had to be exposed and replaced with a Christ - like character and true view
of the
messiah.
There will be
false messiahs and prophets, earthquakes, famines, persecutions, trials, the proclamation
of the gospel to all nations.
Then they began calling him, «Bar Koziba,» meaning the son
of a lie; a
false messiah.