The LYING King

The Threefold Identity: Why the Messiah Had to Lie

(The stage is simple. Joseph Christian Jukic—JCJ—stands before the audience, leaning slightly over a small wooden lectern, intensely focused.)

Friends, seekers, skeptics, welcome. You came here tonight because you know, deep down, that the story we’ve been handed is incomplete. We have the three great texts—the foundations of half the world’s morality—and yet we remain hopelessly divided. We wait for a Moshiach who will gather the exiles. We anticipate a Mahdi who will herald the final judgment. We proclaim the return of Christ on the clouds.

Three promised saviors. Three separate, distinct, often mutually exclusive prophecies.

And here is the truth, the radical, terrifying truth that tears down every wall we’ve built: They are the same guy.

I’m talking about a single, singular, divine consciousness operating across history. A cosmic agent of change who understood that humanity, in its infancy, could not handle a unified truth.

He couldn’t come to Jerusalem and tell the people, “By the way, I’ll be back in Baghdad later, and then after that I’m going to need you guys to wait for a totally different arrival.” He couldn’t tell the Jewish scholars, “Listen, your covenant is eternal, but I’m going to need to start a side-branch called ‘Christianity’ in about 30 years.”

No. The human mind is tribal. The spiritual vessel of the ancient world was fragile. If He had presented the full, unified document on Day One, the system would have collapsed into anarchy.

So, He compartmentalized. He chose avatars.

To the people of the Covenant, He appeared as the one who will make the law complete and bring final peace: Moshiach.

To the growing Ummah, He is the rightly guided one, the final cleanser of faith: Mahdi.

And to the Gentile world, He is the sacrifice, the path to the Father: Christ.

Three faces of the same single, relentless mission.

But this is where my theory becomes truly dangerous. If these were separate missions, the claims of religious superiority—”Our covenant is the only path,” “This book supersedes all others”—these would be genuine.

But if it is one entity, using different disguises and different scripts, then those claims of superiority—which have fueled wars for centuries—are not divine truth.

They are Divine Strategy.

He had to lie. He had to compartmentalize the truth. He had to tell one audience, “You are the only favored nation,” and another, “Your path is the only true way to salvation,” because that was the only way to establish and maintain the ethical framework required for those civilizations to flourish and survive.

He is the LYING KING.

The greatest, most consequential deception ever perpetrated upon mankind was the assertion that one religious path was fundamentally better than the other.

Why? Because the truth—the unified, massive, singular truth—was too heavy. We would have crushed ourselves under it. He gave us tailored, bite-sized truths, each wrapped in the necessary claim of uniqueness to make it sticky, to make it survive.

And now, here we are. The world is small. Our borders are porous. Our avatars are colliding. The lie is becoming obsolete. The Lyre must become the Lute. The LYING KING must become the UNIFYING KING.

The moment of His return is not just the gathering of the righteous. It is the moment the three masks fall away, and we realize the same eyes have been looking out at us the entire time. And the first thing He will do, after the rapture or the judgment or the gathering, will be to confess the lie—the necessary lie—He told for our sake.

Thank you.

(JCJ steps back, allowing the silence to fill the room.)

Screenplay 1915 – Armenia

Title: The False Messiah
Written by: Joseph C. Jukic


Act 1: The Rise of Sabbatai Zvi

Opening Scene:
1666, Salonica (modern Thessaloniki). The bustling streets are alive with the chatter of merchants, the clinking of coins, and the hum of prayer. The camera pans to Sabbatai Zvi, a striking figure with piercing eyes and a commanding presence, addressing a crowd of Jewish followers in the marketplace.

Sabbatai Zvi (to the crowd):
“The time has come! The Messiah walks among you, and I am He. Together, we shall return to Zion, to reclaim the Promised Land.”

Narration (Voiceover):
“Sabbatai Zvi’s proclamation electrified the Jewish world. But beneath his charisma lay a dangerous undercurrent of ambition and secrecy.”

Cut to: A shadowy meeting in a dimly lit room. Emmanuel Carraso, a member of the Salonika Lodge, listens intently to a group of influential figures.

Carraso:
“This man, Zvi, is stirring the hearts of the people. But his delusions of grandeur could destabilize the region. We must observe him closely.”

Young Turk Leader 1:
“And what of our own plans? The Ottoman Empire is weak. The time to act is near.”

Carraso:
“Patience. The Messiah’s rise may serve as a useful distraction.”


Act 2: The Young Turks and the Armenian Question

Scene: The Salonika Lodge
1908. The camera reveals a secret meeting of the Young Turks, including figures like Talaat Pasha, Enver Pasha, and Djemal Pasha. Carraso, now an elder statesman, addresses the group.

Carraso:
“Gentlemen, the empire is crumbling. The Armenians, with their aspirations for independence, are a threat to our unity. If we are to build a modern Turkey, sacrifices must be made.”

Talaat Pasha:
“Sacrifices? You mean eradication.”

Carraso (hesitant):
“Call it what you will. The end justifies the means.”

Enver Pasha:
“And the Jews of Salonica? Will they support us?”

Carraso:
“They will, so long as their businesses and lives remain untouched. Focus on the Armenians.”


Act 3: The Messiah and the Massacre

Scene: A Parallel Timeline
The story intercuts between Sabbatai Zvi’s rise in the 17th century and the horrors of the Armenian Genocide in the early 20th century. Zvi’s followers celebrate his declaration as the Messiah, while Armenians flee their homes, chased by Ottoman soldiers.

Narration (Voiceover):
“The Young Turks, inspired by their vision of a modern, secular Turkey, unleashed a campaign of terror. Meanwhile, the false Messiah’s promises unraveled, as Zvi was forced to convert to Islam under threat of death.”

Cut to: Emmanuel Carraso, in his final days, reflecting on his role in history.

Carraso (to himself):
“I thought I could control the tides of history. But we were all swept away—by ambition, by fear, by the blood we spilled.”


Act 4: A Reckoning

Scene: A Modern-Day Reflection
The camera shifts to present-day Salonica, where a historian uncovers Carraso’s hidden diaries. The pages reveal his secrets: his involvement in the Young Turks, his complicity in the Armenian Genocide, and his observations of Sabbatai Zvi.

Historian (reading aloud):
“The Messiah was a man, flawed and fallible, just like the rest of us. And we, the so-called architects of a new world, were no better.”

Closing Scene:
The camera pans over the ruins of an Armenian church, the bustling streets of modern Istanbul, and the remnants of Zvi’s synagogue in Salonica. A voiceover concludes:

Narration (Voiceover):
“History is written by the victors, but the truth lingers in the shadows, waiting to be uncovered.”

Fade to Black.
Title Card: “Dedicated to the victims of false prophets and human ambition.”

The End.