FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
CHRIST’S CHURCH AND THE ‘SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN’
“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.” Rev. 3:9, KJV.
Prophets wrote more our time, the future to them, than theirs. In the final sifting of the commandment-keeping remnant church when church and state finally combine and the threefold union of Romanism, apostate Protestantism, and Spiritualism takes temporary control of the world, starting in America, the true church and its condition were described as follows:
“God has a church. It is not the great cathedral, neither is it the national establishment, neither is it the various denominations. IT IS THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE GOD AND KEEP hIS COMMANDMENTS. ‘Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the MIDST of them’ (Matt. 18:20). Where Christ is, even among the humble few, THIS IS CHRIST’S CHURCH, for the presence of a high and holy One who inhabiteth eternity’ can alone CONSTITUTE a church. Where two or three are present who LOVE AND OBEY the commandments of God, JESUS THERE PRESIDES, let it be in the desolate places of the earth, in the wilderness, in the city enclosed in the prison walls….They that be DOERS of the Word are building securely, and the tempest and storm of PERSECUTION will not shake their foundation [of faith, courage, and character] because their souls are ROOTED in the Eternal Rock [Christ Jesus and His Word].” E. G. White, Letter 108, Oct. 28, 1886, quoted in Upward Look, p.315.
In contrast, we see described those who make up the ‘synagogue of Satan,’ who profess to be ‘Jews,’ i.e., the counterfeit-sabbath keepers of the last days, in the following:
“Satan had a large CONFEDERACY, his church. Christ calls them [in Revelation] as THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN because the members are the children of sin [not the children of God]. The members of Satan’s church have been constantly working to CAST OFF the divine law [the Decalogue] and CONfUSE the distinction between good and evil. Satan is working with GREAT power IN and THROUGH children of disobedience [to God’s law] to exalt TREASON and APOSTASY as TRUTH and LOYALTY.” – Ibid, Testimonies, p. 16.3.
More tomorrow on who make up the “synagogue of Satan,” who “call themselves Jews but are not, and do lie.” Pray for an undefiled conscience and a clear mind to discern between the counterfeit and the genuine, and the will and courage to do what is right in the sight of God, not man and his institutions! God bless, NMF