Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 24:26

26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold he is in the desert, go not forth, Behold he is in the secret chambers, believe it not.

Mark hath much the same, Ch. 13.21, 22, 23. There is no doubt, but that our Saviour here hath a special Respect to those Persons, who about the time of the Destruction of Ierusalem ▪ taking advantage of the Iewish Expectation of the Messiah. as a secular Prince, who should restore them to Liberty (an Opinion, which as we have often heard had infected the Generality of the Iews; and not a little even the Disciples of Christ) made themselves Heads of Parties, and pretended that they were the Messiah, the Christ, thereby to incourage People to follow them, and to stand up for their Liberty, of which kind there were several mentioned both in the History of Iosep[illegible: 1 letter]us, and in the Roman History, respecting those times Our Lord therefore cautioneth his Disciples against such, and thereby taketh them off their Expectation of any such secular Kingdom of the Messiah, as they had dreamed of. He tells them, that there would such Persons arise, and some of them should do great signs and wonders, insomuch that if it were possible, they would deceive the Elect of God, but he had prayed for them, only they must also Watch and take heed, that they might not be Cheated, and deceived by them; tho they came with never so fair Pretences, for his coming would be quite of another Nature, and his Kingdom, would be a quite other Kingdom.