As it is intimated in the scriptures, and articulated by the Church fathers, we know that in the end times a false Christ will appear and he will get many of these faithful jews to believe in him and follow him as the messiah. So I keep a close eye on the developments among the jews in things such as this, since as the Church fathers have said, the antichrist will be a jew, and come as a jewish messiah in similar fashion to Jesus Christ.
When the Jewish leaders incited the crowd to ask for Barabbas instead of Jesus, this had eschatological implications as well as immediate ones. Barabbas means “son of the father,” the Jews chose this son of the father over the Son of the Father in Jesus Christ. And in the same way the antichrist will be embraced by the jews as the long awaited messiah in place of Jesus, a false messiah who acts more like Barabbas instead of Jesus. Meaning that, when Jesus comes in peace, the antichrist, like Barabbas will come in violence, like Barabbas’ fellow zealots in the time of Jesus who sought a materialistic restoration of Israel to its former glory rather than seek out the true kingdom of God which as Jesus teaches “is not of this world”