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I watched the series. Of course, it's pure fiction. This false Messiah could not heal the 2 sick people who went to him. As far as the last scene is concerned, all passengers died in the plane crash, including the false Messiah. It shows them getting up, but this is for the afterlife.
The tragedy in this very well-executed series is that Christians believed in him and followed him. This is sad, indeed, if Christians follow the future false Messiah.
I recommend watching it.
I'm watching it a second time. The cool thing is at least on Google I saw around 15,000 atheists saying they were reading the Bible after seeing this series, so whatever the intended goal, which was likely pure profit, it seemed to have a good side benefit of drawing attention of the masses at least to consider Scripture.
A debate on Google was over who the main character was supposed to be. One guy pointed out (correctly) that Jesus would have healed that little girl with cancer, and would not let her die. Also, my son thought shooting the dog was not something the Lord would ever do. We'll never know what they intended with that last scene. I assumed the Messiah had survived uninjured and was resurrecting the others including his Jewish Mussad captor who had in his last moments regretted killing the kid in torture. It was clearly a cliffhanger designed to attract interest in the 2nd year, but thanks to the Islam rebellion, Netflix cancelled it rather than face more criticism from Muslims. It seems everyone assumed he main character was either the false messiah or the antichrist, so the Muslims were mad the "Messiah" was being portrayed as Muslim, at least in appearance. He claimed to be Jewish at one point, so not so clear to me the main character was a real Muslim at all, though he certainly was middle Eastern.
I thought no matter how fictional, it was at the very least more interesting than the vast majority of stuff I see on Netflix or TV in general.
I recommend it too. Just know in advance its not biblical, but it deals with biblical themes. The walking on water scene made the hair on my neck stand up. Amazing how many in the crowd saw it and still didn't believe what they saw with their own eyes, but I guess that is just mankind. Our Lord performed so many miracles and yet most of the Jews didn't believe what they saw with their own eyes either.
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