Matthew 24:26

ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, a likely place for a Christ to be (Moses, Israel's first deliverer). μὴ ἐξέλθητε, go not out (cf. Matthew 11:7-9). ἐν τοῖς ταμείοις (vide Matthew 6:6), in the secret chambers, the plural indicating the kind of place, not any particular place. Both expressions in the desert, in the secret recesses point to non-visibility. The false prophets bid the people put their faith in a Messiah not in evidence, the Great Unseen = “The hour is come, and the man is somewhere, out of view, not far away, take my word for it”. Interpreters who seek for exact historical fulfilments point to Simon son of Gioras, and John of Giscala: the former the Messiah in the desert of Tekoah, gathering a confiding multitude about him; the latter the Messiah in the secret places, taking possession of the interior part of the temple with its belongings in the final struggle (vide Josephus, B. J., iv., 9, 5 and 7; Matthew 24:6; Matthew 24:1, and Lutteroth, ad loc.).