DavidT
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If you've read many of my posts, you'll hear me mentioning about the 'false Jews'. This is not an idea I am making up, it is very Biblical. It's about those which Jesus called the "synagogue of Satan" in Revelation 2 & 3...
Rev 2:8-9
8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
KJV
Notice Jesus says there that those "say they are Jews, and are not". What does He mean by that?
It means just what Jesus said there, those of that "synagogue of Satan" are not... true... Jews of the seed of Israel. It means they are foreigners that crept in among the Jews at some point. Those foreigners converted to the Jew's religion as a requirement for strangers living among Israel under the old covenant. Is there actual Scripture proof for their creeping in among Israel? Yes!
In Judges 2 & 3, God rebuked the children of Israel for falling away to pagan idol worship against Him, for He had warned them to not allow the pagan nations around them to marry their daughters nor go in unto them, nor allow those pagan foreigners to live among the Israelites. They didn't obey God, so He said He would leave those foreigners with their pagan gods to dwell among the children of Israel, to test Israel, to see if Israel would follow Him, or not.
Then in Judges 9, a group of Canaanites disguised themselves as people having come from a far away nation on a long journey, and were on the verge of starvation. They petitioned Joshua to let them come in and dwell with the children of Israel. Those Canaanites did that because at that time God had told Israel to literally wipe out specific nations in the land of Canaan per Deuteronomy 20, and not leave alive anything that breathed. And Israel was doing that, so those Canaanites feared for their lives, and disguised themselves. Then one of the Israelites under Joshua got to inspecting the baggage of those Canaanites and discovered who they were. Too late, Joshua had already agreed to make a pact with them to allow them to dwell among Israel. So Joshua made them bondservants unto Israel.
Then in 1 Kings 9:20, there is mention in Solomon's day about those Canaanite leftovers that were made bondservants to Israel.
Then in Ezra 2 there is mention of priests that returned with the Jews back to Jerusalem after their 70 years Babylon captivity, who's names could not be found among the genealogy of the children of Israel. The Nethinims (temple servants to the Levites) are also mentioned, and in Nehemiah 7:60 it is said they were Solomon's servants, i.e., the bondservants of the Canaanite slaves among Israel per 1 Kings 9:20.
The "house of Judah" (Jews) captivity to Babylon for 70 years by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, brought corruptions of many things among the Jews of that time. Ezra 9 reveals that even many of the leaders of Israel had taken wives of the Canaanites during the captivity, and had mixed children by them. The children of Israel left off Hebrew as their main language, using Aramaic instead. The original paleo-Hebrew type letter characters were changed to the block-like Hebrew characters of today. And the Babylonian Talmud of Hebrew sage philosophy became the main religious text that the Israelite priests used over the Word of God.
Thus foreigners crept in among the Jews long, long ago.
Recall the scribes which were present with the particular Pharisees that went around tempting Jesus, to try and find something against Him so they could execute Him. Per 1 Chronicles 2:55, the scribes of Israel were of the Kenites, a foreign people from the land of Canaan per Genesis 15. The scribe duty of Israel was to keep God's written Word from generation to generation.
Thus by the time of Lord Jesus' 1st coming, the stage was set with false Jews of pagan foreigner nations that had crept in among the children of Israel, and it was them especially that caused the movement to have Jesus killed. The rest of the Jews, truly of the seed of Israel, were simply blinded, and not aware, even as it is to this day.
This is actually what Jesus was showing us in His parable of the tares of the field in Matthew 13. The "tares" represent fake wheat. Real tares in horticulture look just like real wheat while growing among wheat. Then at harvest, the tares emit these black buds on the end, so they are then recognized as weeds. The tares at harvest time are thus separated from the wheat and thrown into the fire. These false Jews of Israel's history represent those "tares" of foreigners that crept in, the "synagogue of Satan".
Many brethren instead confuse the authentic seed of Israelite Jews with that "synagogue of Satan" which Jesus mentioned, simply because they missed this Old Testament history about the creeping in of foreigners of the Canaanites among the Jews. They instead wrongly treat all unbelieving Jews like they are the Canaanite crept-in scribes and Pharisees that wanted Jesus killed. The true Jews of that time were simply deceived by those crept in unawares, just as most of them still are to this day, and especially more so when the coming false-Messiah shows up in Jerusalem which the false Jews plan to setup as their king.
And by the way, not all of the Pharisees were crept-in foreigners like the Nethinim temple-servants of the Canaanites. Some of the Pharisees accepted Jesus Christ. Nicodemus was a Pharisee, and he stood against the blood lust of the other Pharisees that wanted to kill Jesus (John 7:48-52). Nicodemus also brought spices for Jesus' burial (John 19:39).
The Book of Jude also reveals about this creeping in of pagan foreigners among the children of Israel, even revealing these crept in unawares were "ordained" to that condemnation of working against Christ.
Jude 3-4
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
KJV
You brethren that think God's Word is all above 'peace, love, dove' ideas, thinking that about God's Word and Christianity is on the level of an infant's understanding. Those in Christ Jesus are at war, in a spiritual war. And Satan has his elect servants here on earth too in that war. We are to be spiritual soldiers for Christ, not pacifists.
Rev 2:8-9
8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
KJV
Notice Jesus says there that those "say they are Jews, and are not". What does He mean by that?
It means just what Jesus said there, those of that "synagogue of Satan" are not... true... Jews of the seed of Israel. It means they are foreigners that crept in among the Jews at some point. Those foreigners converted to the Jew's religion as a requirement for strangers living among Israel under the old covenant. Is there actual Scripture proof for their creeping in among Israel? Yes!
In Judges 2 & 3, God rebuked the children of Israel for falling away to pagan idol worship against Him, for He had warned them to not allow the pagan nations around them to marry their daughters nor go in unto them, nor allow those pagan foreigners to live among the Israelites. They didn't obey God, so He said He would leave those foreigners with their pagan gods to dwell among the children of Israel, to test Israel, to see if Israel would follow Him, or not.
Then in Judges 9, a group of Canaanites disguised themselves as people having come from a far away nation on a long journey, and were on the verge of starvation. They petitioned Joshua to let them come in and dwell with the children of Israel. Those Canaanites did that because at that time God had told Israel to literally wipe out specific nations in the land of Canaan per Deuteronomy 20, and not leave alive anything that breathed. And Israel was doing that, so those Canaanites feared for their lives, and disguised themselves. Then one of the Israelites under Joshua got to inspecting the baggage of those Canaanites and discovered who they were. Too late, Joshua had already agreed to make a pact with them to allow them to dwell among Israel. So Joshua made them bondservants unto Israel.
Then in 1 Kings 9:20, there is mention in Solomon's day about those Canaanite leftovers that were made bondservants to Israel.
Then in Ezra 2 there is mention of priests that returned with the Jews back to Jerusalem after their 70 years Babylon captivity, who's names could not be found among the genealogy of the children of Israel. The Nethinims (temple servants to the Levites) are also mentioned, and in Nehemiah 7:60 it is said they were Solomon's servants, i.e., the bondservants of the Canaanite slaves among Israel per 1 Kings 9:20.
The "house of Judah" (Jews) captivity to Babylon for 70 years by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, brought corruptions of many things among the Jews of that time. Ezra 9 reveals that even many of the leaders of Israel had taken wives of the Canaanites during the captivity, and had mixed children by them. The children of Israel left off Hebrew as their main language, using Aramaic instead. The original paleo-Hebrew type letter characters were changed to the block-like Hebrew characters of today. And the Babylonian Talmud of Hebrew sage philosophy became the main religious text that the Israelite priests used over the Word of God.
Thus foreigners crept in among the Jews long, long ago.
Recall the scribes which were present with the particular Pharisees that went around tempting Jesus, to try and find something against Him so they could execute Him. Per 1 Chronicles 2:55, the scribes of Israel were of the Kenites, a foreign people from the land of Canaan per Genesis 15. The scribe duty of Israel was to keep God's written Word from generation to generation.
Thus by the time of Lord Jesus' 1st coming, the stage was set with false Jews of pagan foreigner nations that had crept in among the children of Israel, and it was them especially that caused the movement to have Jesus killed. The rest of the Jews, truly of the seed of Israel, were simply blinded, and not aware, even as it is to this day.
This is actually what Jesus was showing us in His parable of the tares of the field in Matthew 13. The "tares" represent fake wheat. Real tares in horticulture look just like real wheat while growing among wheat. Then at harvest, the tares emit these black buds on the end, so they are then recognized as weeds. The tares at harvest time are thus separated from the wheat and thrown into the fire. These false Jews of Israel's history represent those "tares" of foreigners that crept in, the "synagogue of Satan".
Many brethren instead confuse the authentic seed of Israelite Jews with that "synagogue of Satan" which Jesus mentioned, simply because they missed this Old Testament history about the creeping in of foreigners of the Canaanites among the Jews. They instead wrongly treat all unbelieving Jews like they are the Canaanite crept-in scribes and Pharisees that wanted Jesus killed. The true Jews of that time were simply deceived by those crept in unawares, just as most of them still are to this day, and especially more so when the coming false-Messiah shows up in Jerusalem which the false Jews plan to setup as their king.
And by the way, not all of the Pharisees were crept-in foreigners like the Nethinim temple-servants of the Canaanites. Some of the Pharisees accepted Jesus Christ. Nicodemus was a Pharisee, and he stood against the blood lust of the other Pharisees that wanted to kill Jesus (John 7:48-52). Nicodemus also brought spices for Jesus' burial (John 19:39).
The Book of Jude also reveals about this creeping in of pagan foreigners among the children of Israel, even revealing these crept in unawares were "ordained" to that condemnation of working against Christ.
Jude 3-4
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
KJV
You brethren that think God's Word is all above 'peace, love, dove' ideas, thinking that about God's Word and Christianity is on the level of an infant's understanding. Those in Christ Jesus are at war, in a spiritual war. And Satan has his elect servants here on earth too in that war. We are to be spiritual soldiers for Christ, not pacifists.
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