The work "Christ" is defined as "The anointed one". Jesus said "Many will come in my name". This is the key to understanding this scripture. many focus on "I am Christ". When looking tat this scripture as many coming in the name of Jesus and the the word "Christ" as meaning the anointed one, then you will easily see it's meaning which is "Many will arise that will be preaching in the name of Jesus, and proclaiming that they are anointed, but be very careful of that because "many" will be deceitful and cause many believers to go after them and follow them. The root of this is the love of money. They proclaim that they are anointed and will actually produce a personal following. Many will be deceived simply because they have a desire to follow the one that is best anointed and seems to know the Lord and his ways, but wind up following one who is Christ within themselves. This is the reason "shepherding" became big in the 80's and the "anointing" became big in the 90's. They are not part of the five fold ministry because they are not doing what Ephesians said the 5 fold ministry should be doing. Be careful that you are not deceived. Be VERY carful.

Many will come saying they are God and followers of God but are a lie

What Jesus was actually saying : Is that many will come in the name of Jesus and say here is the annointed one BELIEVE THEM NOT! Christ means the annointed one !! That prophecy has come TRUE a million times over! A good example of that is Benny Hinn claiming to have the anointing. BELIEVE THEM NOT

dennis I believe you are 100 correct you have to be careful how you read that cause it has 2 different meanings lots of pastor s and prophets out there writing false doctrines and loads of books making loads of money and are proclaiming that Jesus is the Christ they are correct and this is why people are believing in these false doctrines like you said this verse does not mean that these very people will go around saying that they are the Christ themselves but yes there are also the blatant liers that are proclaiming to be Jesus A true christian see s through theirs lies for we know what to look for when Christ come s back Simply just look up

That time many people
will claim that they are the incarnation of jesus.and they will cheat people.

I believe that Jesus was saying that many will come and proclaim Jesus as the Christ, otherwise He would have said, "Many will come in my name claiming that they are the Christ". As we know there are no punctuation marks in the original Scriptures. It is in error to put I am the Christ in quotation marks.