<p>24:23&nbsp;<i>Then if anyone shall say to you</i>- This again, spoken to the disciples, 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><i>Here is the Christ, or another, Here is the Christ- do not believe them</i>- &ldquo;Lo&rdquo; AV suggests the actual pointing out of a person. &ldquo;Here&hellip; or there&rdquo; AV 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 Christ is about to be revealed, and in those days and they may literally be days or hours the world will know that Christ&rsquo;s 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 Christ 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>