The Easy Questions: False Jews

There is a frankly ridiculous notion going around in the Christian conspiracy circles that has been going around for decades.

The modern Jews (or even a small sliver of them in the government) are imposters and not the actual children of Israel (specifically the House of Judah from the Scriptures).

What do they base this on? A few verses in the Book of Revelation.

There are thousands of verses that attest otherwise, but no, it must be the End Times now and these Jews must be fake.

One of the smallest groups in this world controls the nations, yet the nations hate it. They’re awful at controlling anything, in my honest opinion. The United Nations always votes against Israel. You’d think if these all-powerful space Jews with time-stopping powers were capable of control, this would not happen.

There is no conceivable way even a handful of modern Jews are fake. They’ll say that they are from Europe, and not Middle Eastern based on the diaspora that happened after the Bar Kokhba Revolt, which was a handful of people who had stayed after the biggest tragedy in the 1st century of the Temple being destroyed in 70 A.D.

Of course, they’re from Europe! They didn’t have a homeland after rejecting the Messiah the first time He came. But God promised to restore them to their land, and that the curses of the covenant weren’t forever.

It took Adolf Hitler’s hateful campaign to set up a Jewish state in 1948, but it happened. God works through the evil of men for ultimate good. Just look at Joseph or the cross.

I hear these people say all the time that the evil Rothschilds made a Zionist state, so God wasn’t in it.

This same God also called King Cyrus to free the Jewish captives from Babylon and rebuild the Temple. Not a follower of Yahweh, yet God used him to carry out a greater purpose.

“…who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all My purpose’; saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’ and of the Temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid’” (Isaiah 44:28 [ESV]).

God used a pagan king to replant His people in their covenantal homeland.

He could use the evil, conspiratorial banking families to do the same thing.

God doesn’t change.

But the notion of the Synagogue of Satan is irresponsible because of the following facts.

The letters to the Seven Churches of Revelation are spoken after John says he is in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day.

Meaning, while these churches certainly existed during their time on Earth in the 1st century, they will probably exist once more in the last of the last days.

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, ‘Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea’” (Revelation 1:10-11 [ESV]).

So, the seven churches are being spoken about in the context of the Day of Yahweh, at the end of history.

Now, these churches certainly existed in the time of John, but there are things written to them that only make sense if viewed through an eschatological lens.

To Thyatira Jesus says this: “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation unless they repent of her works, and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works’” (Revelation 2:19-23 [ESV]).

The Great Tribulation is an End Times occurrence, not something that is happening today.

This letter to the church has an eschatological application that makes zero sense in the context of biblical historicism or preterism. It only makes sense if we take it as John is in the Spirit on the Day of Yahweh.

Incidentally, the letter to the church in Smyrna says:

“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death’” (Revelation 2:9-11 [ESV]).

The tribulation often spoken of in the Bible refers to the eschaton’s time of trouble for both Jews and Christians (the House of Judah and the House of Israel respectively).

Since the other letters seem to be in an End Time context that we can’t ignore, and John had previously said he was in the Spirit on the Day of the LORD, that would mean these Jews Jesus mentions are eschatological figures, not anyone currently alive (unless this happens in the next fifty years).

Furthering my point, perhaps these Jews are slandering completed Jews who have found Messiah Yeshua, and they are not spiritually true Jews because one is a Jew inwardly, not outwardly, as Paul states.

That’s if it doesn’t have an End of Days context alone.

“For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law. For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God” (Romans 2:25-29 [ESV]).

Like Paul says here, you can have the marks of a physical covenant and still break the Torah. You can be a genetic Jew and still fall short.

If a Jew or Gentile finds Messiah Yeshua, they become complete and can be grafted into Israel (Romans 11).

This letter in Revelation could easily talk about something like this, rather than calling the Jews fake.

It could be read that because they are slandering true believers in Christ, their Hebraic heritage means nothing, for they break the Torah.

But where in this (and Revelation 3, too) does it say the modern Jews are fake? It doesn’t.

That must be eisegesis (reading into the text a presupposition).

Antisemitism is on the rise. They always preface it with, “I’m just criticizing the government, not all Jews, but the Jews are fake.”

It’s the same tired blood libels of the past repackaged into favoring conspiracy theories over the truth of God Himself.

And I’m not saying some of those theories don’t turn out to be true. But this is not one of those cases.

Let’s be responsible with the Bible and not read our own theories into it and let it alone speak.

Blessings, understanding, and shalom be your portion.