Nearly 2000 years ago, the apostle and Bible author John specifically called out the “synagogue of Satan” (Rev 2:9) and the “throne of Satan” (Rev 2:13) when describing the enemies of the fledgling church. This one-two punch attacked both the religious faith as well as practical lives of believers, in an effort to lure them from the plain and simple truth of God’s intended plans for both salvation and sanctification.
In Rev 2:9, John specifically describes the “synagogue of Satan” as those “claiming to be jews themselves, but are not.” This is a group of ethnic jews who asserted a need to revert to the jewish ritualism of the Babylonian Talmud - which while claiming His name, actually rejected God the Father, and by extension, blasphemed against the Son and His Holy Spirit. In short, an internal perversion of the faith.
Today, this body is manifest in the Zionist movement, luring Christians to assert their allegiance to Israel in Palestine, and perceive them as “great allies” and “God’s Chosen.” It also seeks to deflect criticism of twisted and demonic rabbinical practices such as infant circumcision. Additionally, it creates a starry-eyed idealism about jews in general, both as the greatest of businessmen, as well as perpetual victims. Finally, it drives for “faith-as-well-as” doctrines that seek to replace simple belief and assertion that Jesus Christ is God, incarnated, crucified for man’s sins, risen, and now enthroned at the right hand of The Father, with some hybridized requirement that one must also follow rituals, customs, and earn salvation through good works, denying the glory due Christ alone.
In Rev 2:13, the “throne of Satan” is a bit more cryptic, although there is some discussion of “meat sacrificed to idols,” which historically was a practice of materialism or elementalism, through offerings given to localized or specialized entities in order to secure health, wealth and general prosperity, or as tribute to the Roman Emperor, himself granted deity status. There was also mention of the Nicolaitans (Rev 2:6), linked to the occultist Balaam (Rev 2:14), who promoted racial intermarriage, sexual hedonism, and seducing his contemporary believers into the materialism of idol worship.
The modern equivalent of these today is the secular humanist system easily seen any time you switch on a television or absorb the lion’s share of social media. It is a system that seeks pleasure, and worships the created rather than the Creator, both in material wealth seeking as well as environmentalism. It also ultimately promotes the superiority of some alternative to whom one’s ultimate allegiance be given, rather than God. For some this “alternative” is the state or authoritative collective, for others, it’s the literal cosmos through scientism (which includes both atheism as well as the religious who appeal to human authority and perception as represented by scientists). For yet others it’s blank materialist greed, while yet more simply employ the elevation of self as the pinnacle, either directly, such as in the tenets of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism, or indirectly as they seek pleasure and “self-care” (read: entitlement).
Looking now at the two primary threats as manifested today, it’s clear that both are under the control of the jew. The “religious jews” who promote the lie of Zionism and jewish superiority, and “secular jews” who promote the idolatry inherent to worshipping the material world.
With this in perspective, it makes things easier to categorize.
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