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. That false religion was her public religion which was called idolatry. The covetous practices of the governments of the world and their citizens who are greedy for gain at the expense of others.[1]
By manipulation, deception, and seduction, she misled the saints of God and the people into sins of idolatry and covetous practices[1] in the institution of a form of public religion.
In particular, Christians associated the Jezebel spirit with fornication[2] 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[2], 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 other. Like 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 nor 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.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Covetousness is idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fornication, adultery and idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- Psalms 106:38 And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
- Ezekiel 16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
- Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
- Proverbs 20:16 Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.