<p>17:23 <i>And they shall say to you, Look there, or, Look here. Do not go, nor follow after them</i>- The Lord has been teaching that He is &quot;amongst&quot; them; there is no need to go looking for Him anywhere. But His thought moves on specifically to the time of His return. For the Lord repeats this warning in the Olivet prophecy. There will be false Christs and bogus claims that the Lord has returned. Spoken to the disciples, this suggests that they were the ones who would see these things associated with the return of Christ. But they did not. And in any case, all twelve of them were being addressed, and one of them would turn away from Christ. So there was in any case a conditionality attached to the Lord&rsquo;s words.&nbsp;</p><p>&ldquo;Lo&rdquo; AV suggests the actual pointing out of a person. &ldquo;Here&hellip; or there&rdquo; is poor translation, because the same original word is behind both &ldquo;here&rdquo; and &ldquo;there&rdquo;. The impression is given of people pointing out actual individuals and claiming that &lsquo;This is Christ&rsquo;. The faithful are to flee once the sign is obvious that the Lord is about to be revealed, and in those days and they may literally be days or hours the world will know that His return is imminent, and therefore all manner of charlatans will start claiming &lsquo;It&rsquo;s me&rsquo;. The relatively few claims to be Jesus Christ which are made today are hardly credible, no temptation at all for the faithful, and nearly always the person making the claim is mentally ill. But the Olivet prophecy suggests that these claims by false Christs will be so credible that even the faithful will be sorely tempted to believe them. The risk of deception would be so great that the Lord repeatedly warned against it. If there is some worldwide sign that the Lord is about to return, perhaps literally in the sky, as &ldquo;the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven&rdquo;, then in those days, such claimants will have far more credibility. It could be that one claimant is particularly persuasive, leading to the final show down on Mount Zion between the true Christ and the anti-Christ, the fake duplicate of Christ.</p>