The Pseudo Messiah is an expression I have used for decades. I for many years published that expression on YA and BD sites frequently. So we certainly have no problem there.
If I had to choose one place that is pivotal to our differences I would choose Matthew 13:43 "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."
It is the education that God has given these righteous one's and the gloriously bright message they bear because of that education, that causes them to shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
When Jesus brought that glorious light into the world many reacted to it by weeping at the message and gnashing their teeth upon Jesus. That is what Matthew 13:42 compares to.
Matthew 26:65 "Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy."
That Pseudo Christ with a deceiving measure of success proceeds to change times and seasons just as Daniel 2:21 says God does. In that and more ways he stands up publicly in the temple of God exhibiting himself as though he be God. He exhibits this by his presumptuousness, by his presuming to know things that God only knows.
And in that he misleads people to make them think that what they look for lay ahead when in fact it is right upon them and they just cannot see it. And that is why God sent his glorious light into the world that a chain of light bearing humans would begin (Christ's body, his true Church).
The flesh is what we see split and divided. The activity of the flesh view of the church has served to conceal (like a protection of flight into the wilderness Rev. 12:6) so that Satin has not been able to identify all of God's true seed and destroy it.
I guess that's fair enough- my opinion is that those that take the mark aren't saved. So when you said that- to me it's you calling veteran damned for his beliefs.
I was going to reply to that statement but then I realized you might think Christians CAN take the mark of the beast which is a disagreement I won't go into.
A lot of that is my poor skills at expressing myself.
I agree that they cannot receive that mark and be saved but I see their receiving that mark as at the point that have fully and whole-heartedly embraced the deception it is presenting to them. At that point I do not believe that they can be moved to repent it.