MATTHEW 24:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.”
Then if anyone says to you: look, here is the Christ! or There he is! do not believe it. The repeated warning against false messiah claims during the tribulation: the extreme distress of the great tribulation is precisely the moment when false messiahs will find the most receptive audience. The do not believe communicates the absolute requirement to resist the false claims regardless of the desperation of the moment.
Church Fathers on Matthew 24:23
When the Lord had finished all that related to Jerusalem, He came in the rest to His own coming, and gives them signs thereof, useful not for them only, but for us and for all who shall be after us.
Wherein He shews that His second coming shall be not in lowliness as His first, but in glory; and therefore it is folly to seek in places little and obscure for Him who is the Light of the whole world. [marg note: John 8:12]
Notwithstanding, by reason of the great tribulation in which men shall be cast, false prophets promising to shew aid present from Christ, will falsely affirm that Christ is present in divers places, that they may draw into the service of Antichrist men discouraged and distracted.
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