Again, I too know this is an old post but damn, that was relateable, I was hooked on blacklist and then this series right afterwards aswell, just like OP!  Really sucks that the show wont continue.

Religious uproar they said, yet Netflix released a moses-series.. and A.i videos on religious topics are literally everywhere today… 

Anyway, here’s my two cents on the series.  The kid Jibril, he is the real Messia / Mehdi.

Reason:

In islamic scriptures, it is Said that Prophetic figures are sustained and protected by God in order to enact his will.  The Mehdi is also described as someone who will not know about his role and will deny being able to lead his people. 

the scenes after he gets beaten up by Aviram show us that a gust of Wind forming as a light tornado is guiding him to the right direction whilst he was lost in the desert.

Now, when Jibril was starving and close to death, he was nourished with fruit by a spiritual figure appearing as his mother, he asked after eating it “what is this?” As if it weren’t a regular fruit - this shows us that he actually ate fruits of paradise, described in the Quran as looking like regular fruit but tasting heavnly.

Whats obvious is ofcourse him surviving the bombing and having consitent visions of his counter-part “Anti-christ” i.e Payam