The Synagogue of Satan

During a conversation he had one day with a group of Jews who steadfastly refused to believe that he was the Son of God despite the numerous miracles he had performed, Jesus said something very provocative; that these Jews and many others were worshiping the devil instead of God. Christ said this: "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire." (John 8:42-44)

What was the devil's desire? To be worshiped by the world as God by convincing the world he was God. And he convinced many ancient Jews to worship him by encouraging them to disregard their scriptures that contained the irrefutable evidence in over 300 specific ancient prophecies that pointed directly to Jesus Christ as Israel's promised messiah. If Satan could cast doubt upon the authenticity of God's word revealed by God to Israel's ancient prophets hundreds and thousands of years before Christ appeared in the world to become the everlasting atonement for sin, then he could lead them astray to worship a different god.

And, according to Isaiah who was one of Israel's major prophets, that different god was Satan himself: "You have said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'" (Isaiah 14:13-14) Though the devil is the god of all world religions, he passionately desires the worship of Jews and Christians who are either ignorant of the Bible or no longer believe the Bible to relevant in today's world.

Satan began deceiving the Jews long before Christ appeared with an abomination called the Oral Tradition or the Mishnah that was later recorded into the Talmud. The Mishnah was a secret, heavily coded oral law allegedly revealed to Moses by God that Moses was forbidden from recording. According to Jewish tradition, the Oral Law could only be understood by a group of elite, enlightened religious scholars who were responsible for passing the law to each succeeding generation. Of course, this Oral Law frequently contradicted the written law recorded in the Bible and was and still is considered by Israel's religious leaders to be the ultimate religious authority over the Jews. Thus, when anyone has attempted to convince the Jews through the Bible that Jesus Christ is their Messiah, they have usually been rebutted by the oral tradition that cancels the Bible's authority whenever it contradicts the oral tradition.

Most Jews certainly don't purposely worship the devil. In fact, many don't even believe he exists. But throughout history, they have been led away from the true God of the universe and His Son Jesus Christ by a counterfeit religious system encouraged and promoted by the devil. The Bible contains God's true word that proves beyond all doubt that Jesus Christ is the Jewish Messiah and the Lord of all. And when Jews and Gentiles confess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and believe that He died on the cross for their sins and was raised by God the Father from the dead, they gain eternal life.

That's a message that Satan doesn't want anyone to read or believe. That's why he works relentlessly to deceive the world and keep billions under the death sentence their sins bring them. Thankfully, many Jews are now rejecting Rabbinic Judaism for the fraud that it is because they realize that it's a counterfeit religious system that was set up by a counterfeit god who wants to take them to hell with him. And they are leaving the Synagogue of Satan for the true Church of Jesus Christ. Amen.