The deeds of the Nicolaitans

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Rev 2:6  But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
In Revelations 2:6, we read that Jesus hated the Nicolaitans.  Who were they, and what did they do?  Why did Jesus say he hated them?
Jesus said he hated the Nicolaitans because of their ‘deeds’; and he hated the deeds of the Nicolaitans.  The Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionary says the Nicolaitans mentioned in Revelations 2:6 are ‘Nicolaite’.  The Nicolaite where adherents of Nicolaus: – Nicolaitans.
‘Deeds’ are works.  The Nicolaitans deeds, were the works they did.  And their works were hateful.
Works are ‘actions’; and actions are ‘deeds’.    History recorded some of the hateful  deeds Nicolaitans did.  Two early church historians, Ireneus and Hippolytus, recorded how Nicolatians enticed some of the church-members to follow them instead.    One way they managed to do this, was by first entering the Church in sheep’s clothing, and then by creating false doctrine.
One such wolf was Nicolas.  Nicolas clothed himself in the sheep’s clothing of a proselyte.   Act 6:5  “And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:”  There is nothing wrong with being a proselyte; but to be a wolf wearing  the ‘sheep clothing of a proselyte’ is something entirely different!
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionary says that a ‘proselyte’, is an ‘arriver’ from a foreign country; and more specifically:  an ‘acceder’ (a convert) to Judaism.  So, Nicolas was not born a ‘Jew’.  Nicolas had converted from ‘paganism’ to Judaism .  And after converting to Judaism, did he later experience yet another conversion; that time from Judaism to Christianity.
Nicolas had first been a ‘pagan’.  We take from Wikipedia, that a pagan is someone who does not come from a ‘adoring God’ background.  A pagan’s practices are known by the ‘classical world’.  Back in the Bible days, another word for ‘classical world’ was the word ‘gentile’.  To say that Nicolas had been a ‘gentile’ would be correct.  More specifically, Nicolas was a gentile who was a ‘Greek’.
Back then, the Greeks were known as pagans.  Pagans were also known as the ‘classical world’.  They were of the world; they were of those who were born or spoke:  Latin, Greek, etc…  Paganism had its root from the pre-Abrahamic religions of Balaam; the more modern form of these pagan religions, are the activities of the Esoteric (the occult).
In his doctrines and practices, Nicolas taught a mixture of the Occult, Judaism and Christianity – all at the same time.  He made doctrine out of ‘compromise’; he was highly tolerant of Christian believers who practiced a watered-down version of Christianity.   Nicolas’ version of Christianity was an apostate church.
Nicolas and his followers left Christianity.  They did not teach Christ there; instead, they taught the doctrine of Balaam.  Revelation 2:14,15,16 says, “Rev 2:14  But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.  Rev 2:15  So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.  Rev 2:16  Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.  And that is why Jesus hated the doctrines and the works of the Nicolaitans.  Because the doctrines and the works of the Nicolaitans caused spiritual injuries to Christians by placing religious and social pressures upon the Christians there – to leave Christ.  And then, leaving Christ, they willfully commit sin.  And then, the Nicolaitans, by satanic practices, spiritually removed Christians from God’…