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After freeing the Jews from Babylonian rule 540 BC, Cyrus the Great was later referred to as a Messiah in the Jewish bible. Cyrus the Great, king of Persia; which geographically today is Iran.
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Cyrus the Great of Persia was the first and only non-jewish person in the Bible to be identified as Messiah. He was given this title for helping the jews build their second temple.
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The deadline for the coming of the Jewish Messiah is only 222 years away(year 2240 or the year 6000 in the jewish calendar)
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Moses of Crete was a Jewish messiah claimant of the 5th Century who “persuaded the Jews of Crete to walk into the sea, as Moses had done, to return to Israel - with disastrous results
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Much of the medieval Jewish world thought they had found their Messiah until he converted to Islam under threat of death
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In the 17th-century Jewish rabbi Sabbatai Zevi proclaimed himself the true Jewish Messiah with the doctrine of redemption through committing sin, Vast numbers of Jews in the Jewish diaspora accepted his claims. At the height of movement Sabbatai Zevi had 1 million Jews following him.
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Sabbatai Zevi, a Sephardic rabbi who in 1648 claimed to be the long awaited Jewish messiah. He later converted to Islam and continued to claim he was the messiah, even inciting some of his Jewish followers to convert.
