(Fay,

I am so pleased that you have taken the stand that you have, regarding the "synagogue of Satan" things some have said.

It is right that you call this out.

One, because of the damage that it does to the work of the great commission, especially with the children of Israel.

Two, because how it must grieve Jesus at his very heart.

Three, because none of us want to be remembered as having ever thought like, Haman, Hitler, the Inquisition, or the great dragon.)

(Only two of the seven churches in Asia had Jesus mention this to them, Smyrna and Philadelphia:)

Revelation 2:9b  and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 3:9a Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; 

(It is interesting, that the only two churches that were not rebuked by Jesus, were told the same thing, about this.

Only the churches in Smyrna and Philadelphia were told about these same people.

Only these two were warned about those who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; those who are the synagogue of Satan.

Jesus didn’t say that these people were “bad Jews”, or “apostate Jews”, but that they were not even Jews at all, but liars.

Yes, in the Bible, there were some Jews, who were evil and / or unbelieving, yet the scriptures still says that they really were Jews:)

John 19:14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

  15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

Acts 9:23 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:

Acts 14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

(However, the people that Jesus is speaking about to the churches in Smyrna and Philadelphia,

he says they are not Jews at all, but actually liars.

Why would these liars come to the two churches that received no rebuke from Jesus?

These pretenders came to the suffering, martyr church in Smyrna, and to the revival, evangelistic church in Philadelphia.

Apparently, that is where Jesus was performing a really great work, that Satan, no doubt, wanted to stop, or mess up.

They seemed to try to mess things up, by presenting themselves as Jews,

possibly to mimic what had be done in the churches in Galatia.

Philadelphia was only about 150 miles southwest of Galatia,

so they no doubt knew about what happened in the Galatian churches, some 40 years earlier.

However, this time, the people were not even Jews trying to bring people back under the law.

Instead, they were pretenders, liars from what Jesus called the synagogue of Satan.

What they taught, or what they tried to do, Jesus doesn’t mention, but he warned these two churches about them.

Again, it was only the two churches that Jesus did not rebuke, that he mentioned this.

Not only because those were the two churches targeted by these people,

but perhaps these were the only two churches that Jesus could trust with this.

Perhaps these two churches wouldn’t then turn against, or hate, real Jews,

simply because of the pretenders that had come in their name.)

(Over the years, people have mentioned the Khazars, in relation to this.

However, when Jesus said this to the churches in Smyrna and Philadelphia, there was no kingdom of Khazars.

Jesus was not speaking of an entire kingdom, or ethnic group of people.

He was speaking about people who came from one place, not a country, but a single synagogue.

However, Jesus said this single synagogue was the synagogue of Satan.

Also, that the people of that single synagogue were not even Jews anyway, but lied about it.

So, to try to say that Jesus was only "prophetically speaking", about a yet future kingdom of Khazars,

that Jesus was trying to warn, that in the future, Holocaust survivors would not be Jews, but Khazars,

is such wickedness, straight from the heart of the dragon, that would even shock mediaeval inquisitors.

I would challenge anyone who believes this Khazar doctrine, to fast and pray, water only, for a week,

set apart from the world, with only their Bible to read,

and ask Jesus to show them solely from the scriptures, whether this is so.

No one ever got this Khazar doctrine from the scriptures, but rather, first heard it from an outside source.

In Genesis 3, Eve heard an outside source, that she chose to believe.)

(Also, there have been others that said that they were Jews, and they also were not really Jews, but were liars.

As with British Israelism, that the ten lost tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel, migrated to England & America.

That Britain was primarily the descendants of Manasseh, and that America was primarily the descendants of Ephraim.

Then there were those who then believed that America was the “new Canaan”, that it was theirs for the taking.

Then there also developed a very dangerous doctrine, by twisting what Noah said:)

Genesis 9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

  26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

  27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

(The false doctrine taught that these three lines applied to the Europeans settling in America.

The descendants of the ten lost tribes would be blest and given “new Canaan”.

That the other Europeans, the descendants of Japheth would be enlarged, by also migrating to “new Canaan”.

That the native Americans were descendants of Shem, and thus Japheth would dwell in the tents of Shem.

In other words, that the Europeans would come and live where the tepees of the native Americans had been.

Also, that Canaan would be the servant of Japheth.

From that, they taught that Canaan represented the descendants of Ham, whose descendants primarily lived in Africa.

They thus taught that the Africans would be the servants of the Europeans, but in the land of the tepees.

This gave a supposed strong doctrinal basis for slavery in America, but it is false doctrine, especially evidenced by its fruit.

Also, the idea that America was the “new Canaan”, made it proper in their minds to do what Israel was commanded in the real Canaan.

Israel had been commanded to kill the inhabitants of Canaan, and to dwell in it in their place.

The false doctrine of the “new Canaan”, justified the slaughter of the native Americans, to take their land, and dwell in their place.

However, many of this false and evil persuasion, heard the gospel, and were saved, and repented of their false doctrine.

They realized, but too late, for many who died in slavery or in the slaughter of the native Americans, what Jesus really loves.)

(Also, there are those like Jehovah Witnesses, who claim to be the 144,000,

and thus are guilty of a similar thing, like those who Jesus warned the two churches about.)

(Fay, please continue to stand against this false doctrine, and I thank Jesus that your heart is with the Lord's people)