Ante Semetich:
You actually believe in Jesus as the Messiah? Shocking
You guys are rare but in the end times it says jews will convert. But it also Rev 2:9 mentioned the synagogue of satan and those who claim to be jews but ain't.
That is correct.
Greywarden > However, Rev 2:9 and 3:9 speaks about those in Smyrna and Philadelphia who were being persecuted and attacked by real Ethnic Jews. These Jews turned other ethnic Jews that believed in Jesus to the Roman authorities and slandered them.
You have to take into consideration that for the authors of the New Covenant, those who were only Ethnic Jews, but lived as fleshly individuals weren't considered real Jews, but fakes.
Here is a clear example from the Apostle Paul > Romans 2: 28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.
29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.