| Many "Christian Identity" groups (who taint the | | | | ethnic group (whom He acknowledged as literal |
| Israelite origins of the West) claim that most who | | | | physical descendants of Abraham and so did Paul) |
| refer to themselves today as Jews aren't really | | | | or to the Jewish religious authorities in Jerusalem. |
| Jews but dangerous imposters. | | | | Again, spiritually speaking, anybody who professes |
| Such misguided souls rely heavily upon two | | | | to be a true Christian is claiming to be a spiritual |
| scriptures, taken out of context, to stoke their | | | | Jew, as Paul spoke of such circumcision of the |
| unwarranted hatred: | | | | heart. Therefore, TRADITIONAL CHURCHIANITY |
| "And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna | | | | CONSTITUTES THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN -- |
| write; These things saith the first and the last, | | | | cleverly misleading the masses for a Gentilized |
| which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, | | | | Jesus, a counterfeit gospel, a different spirit and |
| and tribulation, and poverty, but thou art rich and | | | | pagan holidays and ways of the Babylonian |
| I know the blasphemy of them which say they | | | | Mystery religion -- in those days and in these |
| are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of | | | | days! (2 Cor. 11:4, Rev. 17:5). |
| Satan." (Rev. 2:8-9) | | | | Any literal, physical Israelite or Jew remains such |
| "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia | | | | regardless of whether they're blind to Jesus' |
| write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is | | | | identity at this time, as Paul made reference to |
| true, he that hath the key of David, he that | | | | his ethnic Jewish brethren and didn't reject them |
| openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and | | | | as such, even though admitting they were |
| no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I | | | | enemies of the gospel. Paul didn't once call them |
| have set before thee an open door, and no man | | | | counterfeit Jews or synagogue of Satan or any |
| can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast | | | | thing like it. Instead he praised their zeal (having |
| kept my word, and hast not denied my name. | | | | shared it) but said it was "not according to |
| Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of | | | | knowledge." However, Paul, like true Christians, |
| Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but | | | | knows in God's good time the blindness that |
| do lie; behold, I will make them to come and | | | | afflicts ISRAEL (Anglo-Saxons and Northwestern |
| worship before thy feet, and to know that I have | | | | Europeans) and JUDAH will be history. |
| loved thee." (Rev. 3:7-9) | | | | Some persist in their error and state that the |
| Both messages were given by Messiah through | | | | physical Jews in Israel today aren't Jews in God's |
| the apostle John to two different Church of God | | | | sight any more since they reject the Priest-King |
| congregations in what today would be modern | | | | of Israel and therefore aren't worthy to live in the |
| Turkey. Unlike Jerusalem, the Jews were no | | | | Holy Land, saying God would never give it to |
| major power or threat in either Gentile city. | | | | them. |
| The Sabbath-keeping Churches of God, who | | | | Others compound their sin against our Jewish |
| follow the plain truth of the Bible as taught by | | | | brethren (ethnically, tribally speaking) by refusing |
| Herbert W. Armstrong, have always understood | | | | to believe that they're even physical Jews, |
| such scriptures about imposter Jews to refer to | | | | repeating the lie that they're all Khazar converts, |
| professing Christians who were following the false | | | | exaggerating claims made by those who refuse |
| convert, Samaritan sorcerer Simon Magus: | | | | to submit to God's Word that clearly reveals |
| "Simon had bewitched the people of that country, | | | | LEGITIMATE JEWS would again be living in the |
| and they followed him as their leader in the | | | | Promised Land of Israel, exercising sovereignty |
| Babylonian mystery religion "from the least to the | | | | over Jerusalem, contested by the international |
| greatest, saying, This man is the great power of | | | | community of fools, just before the False Prophet |
| God" (Acts 8:10)... | | | | and Beast occupy Jerusalem. |
| [After being rebuked by Peter]...Simon proclaimed | | | | The Bible, the inspired Word of God, calls them |
| himself a Christian apostle, nevertheless, and called | | | | Jews and refers to "the cities of Judah" (not |
| the pagan Babylonian mystery religion | | | | occupied "Palestinian" towns) so we should believe |
| "Christianity." He accepted the doctrine of "grace" | | | | the Bible over men who would say otherwise, as |
| for the forgiveness of sin (which the pagan | | | | I bring out in a Jewish Homeland. |
| religions had never had), but turned grace into | | | | Both Israel and Judah have been blessed because |
| license to disobey God (Jude 4). He aspired to | | | | of ABRAHAM'S OBEDIENCE. Our ethnic Israelite |
| turn his pagan religion, under the name | | | | folks, mostly professing Christians, were not |
| "Christianity," into a universal religion, to gain | | | | denied the physical inheritances God unconditionally |
| thereby the political rule of the world. | | | | promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that their |
| Simon, the "Pater" (Peter) of his counterfeit | | | | heirs would inherit -- even though we're acting like |
| religion, did not accomplish this in his lifetime. But | | | | Gentiles. Yes, we're Gentilized Israelites just like |
| succeeding leaders, with the headquarters moved | | | | our pagan forefathers who rejected God's holy |
| to Rome, did, later, gain political control over the | | | | days for pagan holidays. |
| Roman Empire and its medieval successor, called | | | | Yet God has blessed Joseph primarily, the leader |
| "The Holy Roman Empire." This empire is in | | | | of the Northern Ten Tribes, with the United |
| process of again being resurrected in Europe | | | | States and British Commonwealth. Likewise, God |
| now!" (Mystery of the Ages, Herbert W. | | | | has not denied Judah a homeland despite their |
| Armstrong). | | | | current serious spiritual condition that -- like our |
| Spiritually speaking, all truly converted Christians | | | | Israelite countries -- is in desperate need of |
| are spiritual Jews. Ethnic Jews and physical | | | | repentance and healing or we'll all suffer national |
| Israelites who reject Messiah are spiritually | | | | destruction, defeat and deportation (Dan. 9:11, |
| Gentiles. Paul explains: | | | | Malachi 4:4). God has faithfully given us the |
| "For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice | | | | blessings He promised Abraham but now their |
| the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the | | | | continuance is conditional upon our obedience. |
| Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. | | | | Both counterfeit Christians and jaded Jews must |
| 26 So if the uncircumcised [Gentile] man keeps | | | | come to NATIONAL REPENTANCE. The Jews |
| the requirements of the Law, will not his | | | | have rejected Jesus, blinded by their traditions, |
| uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? [a | | | | and Churchianity has rejected Jesus for their |
| spiritual Jew/Israelite] 27 And he who is physically | | | | idolatrous traditions, both against the biblical |
| uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not | | | | traditions the Jewish apostles have shared with us |
| judge you who though having the letter of the | | | | (Titus 1:16, 1 John 2:4). Such blindness, in large |
| Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the | | | | part, was prophesied. But now that God is |
| Law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one | | | | revealing these things, bringing it to light, exposing |
| outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is | | | | the darkness in traditional Judaism and Christianity, |
| outward in the flesh. 29 But he is a Jew who is | | | | we're to confess and forsake our sins and get |
| one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of | | | | back to the biblical basics, back to the Faith once |
| the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his | | | | delivered -- so help us God -- or we'll go back into |
| praise is not from men, but from God." (Romans | | | | national captivity. |
| 2:28). | | | | The good news is even if we insist upon learning |
| When Yeshua mentioned the "synagogue of | | | | the hard way, going through the "hell" of the |
| Satan," Yeshua was speaking to the Smyrna and | | | | Great Tribulation, the Time of Jacob's Trouble, |
| Philadelphia Churches of God in Asia Minor. He was | | | | Two Witnesses will see us through the long night |
| referring to some "synagogue of Satan" opposing | | | | and help us prepare to meet our God, to receive |
| them there. He was not referring to Jews as an | | | | our King: Yeshua the Messiah. |