Jezebel
Jezebel
Jezebel interfered with the exclusive worship of the Hebrew God, Yahweh, by disregarding or ignored the rights of the common people and seduced the masses through deception.
And by defying the great prophets Elijah and Elisha, she provoked strife that would degenerate Israel for decades.
She has come to be known as an archetype of the [[wicked] woman and the symbol of false religion.
By manipulation, deception, and seduction, she misled the saints of God and the people into sins of idolatry and covetous practices]] in the institution of a form of public religion.
In particular, Christians associated Jezebel with fornication and whoredom.
The cosmetics which Jezebel applied before her death was simply covering her lie much as the modern Church does today.
Jezebel of Revelation
Revelation 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols."
The men of the church in Thyatira like Ahab allowed the Jezebel-like spirit to dominate the institution of the church of Thyatira.
The Church as a body represents the character of a woman as a caregiver and the Bride of Christ who feeds his sheep.
The Church as instituted by Christ functioned like a pure republic. As a government it did not exercise authority one over the auther. Ike the Church in the wilderness it's minister (clergy, public servants) did not go up by steps. Like the Altars of clay and stone of Abraham and Moses the function of those "living stones" was entirely dependent on the freewill offerings of the elders who were the heads of families gathered in the "Tens" as Christ commanded which is seen as free asemblies or congregations.
The Church had no authority over the people either vnor the Holy Spirit as the Comforter sent by the Father and Son of God. Their doctrine had to confirm to the Doctrine of Jesus or it became by default the doctrine of men.
The Jezebel-spirit introduced the immorality of covetous practices in the form of legal charity which Paul said is idolatry.
The church which conforms to that way commits fornication, even adultery with the civil government the people create for themselves. That state provides the daily bread and social welfare for the people but that welfare is a snare and a trap as David and Paul told us.
The ministers of the church cannot adopt this these ways without the elders of the congregations of the people taking on the spirit of Arab. The [[elders] may desire to blaim the church as Adam once claimed Eve and even God.
The church which allows it's mission to be supplanted by what is symbolically called "Jezebel" in the way that Jerusalem would be symbolically called Sodom and Egypt in its time of iniquity.
The Jezebel spirit of the church in Thyatira was the same spirit that brought iniquity and wickedness to Israel.
The same is true of the spirit of the "morning star" that Isaiah 14:12 applied to a king of Babylon which gave rise to the general use of the Latin word for "morning star", capitalized, as the original name of the devil before his fall from grace.
This linking of Isaiah 14:12 with Luke 10 ("I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven") warns us of the fate that follow the error of Jezebel and Ahab which includes the "error of Balaam" and the ""deeds of the Nicolaitans" which God hates.