In the ancient past when the hebrews were struggling with establishing their god of gods and assembling the 10 (lost) tribes to create a single culture, multiple messiahs were coming out of the woodwork staking their claims on the identity. And, an equal number of them were arrested and crucified as heretics. It was a crazy time when gods were plentiful and anyone with an ignorant pauper's notion of what a messiah was came out thinking great things would come from claiming to be one. It didn't quite work out that way.

Rabbis of the various near and distant rabbinicals rounded them up, tried them for heresy and then marched them out guilty to the public to do with as they wished. The public usually stoned them and then the rabbincal strung them up for all to witness what they do to heretics. One of the messiahs so-dispatched was known a Yeishu ha Notzri, or, jesus of the nazarene. Yeppers, 150 years before old Paul heard the story that eventually got exaggerated into 700,000 plus words of nonsense as the bible, this jesus cat wandered around hebrew lands extolling the virtues of a new benevolent god he conjured up in his old noodle. The hebrews treated him no differently than they did any other heretic and put him out of their misery.

So goes the history of men laying claim to being messiahs.

These days those same men are just looked upon as crackpots by all but a few who probably promote them just to see what happens to them.