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Spirit of Jezebel |
The Lord is
my light and my salvation; whom do I fear? The Lord is my life's
refuge; of whom am I afraid? Psalm 27:1
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The Jezebel Spirit
In the last days, the latter times, there will be an onslaught against
the faith (Jude), the genuine believer will be tested, and
the results of this testing to come is apostasy, (renunciation of
Faith- Religious Allegiance) a great falling away. In the first
century Paul faced the Judaizers who had bewitched the Galatians and
then he dealt with asceticism (harshness). Apostle John in the
end of the first century saw Gnosticism (a pre-Christian and
early Christian religious movement teaching that salvation comes by
learning obscure spiritual truths that free humanity from the material
world, believed in this movement to be evil) invade the halls of faith.
However, Paul also told of the apostasy (renunciation of Faith)
to come, and it will be a great falling away from the truth, a departure
from what is true to believe what is not true, and this seduction will
take place as a result of the Jezebel spirit for the most part.
First let's take a look at what Paul saw in the Spirit and wrote for our
benefit. 1 Timothy 4:1-3 ¶ Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in
hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to
marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to
be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
The Holy Spirit revealed to Paul what the latter times would bring, a
raging onslaught of false doctrine that will be empowered by the demonic
realm, seducing spirits.
When seducing spirits are at work, the individuals most often
think they are fine, they are having great theological ideas given them,
revelations that are coming from the lord, but in fact they are false
doctrines and must be tested to see if they are of God, tested against
Scripture, that is Scripture that is interpreted using sound
hermeneutical skills. Demon spirits entice what appeals to the flesh,
they bring forth unsound doctrines that will "feel" good, as emotions
can be manipulated and they can be wrong when it comes done to truth
especially when truth contradicts feeling as it almost always will. The
apostasy many times comes from "good" people who are sincere in what
they believe, but they are sincerely in error, and despite their cries
of foul when exposed, they are sincerely wrong and must be exposed
as such overturning their false doctrines for the truth.
There are some very distinct characteristics of seducing spirits
from Paul's letter to Timothy. First they are in the faith, they are in
the church, they are members in good standing and they are more than
members on a role, but they are able to instruct because Paul makes
clear that some depart from the faith as a result of their instruction.
They may be ministers or deacons or Sunday school teachers, but for some
to depart from the faith, these people must and do teach their
destructive heresies to perhaps some unsuspecting "fools" in the
congregation. Paul makes clear that we are to NOT take what someone says
as the truth, by as is by nature for disciples [learners], they study
God's Word to know what it says, and NOT what someone or some group
says. 2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth. Many "religions" exist and have existed from the beginning,
but age doesn't make them true and far too many in the church world go
further than tolerate things, they embrace them into their own belief
system because they sound or feel good. False teachers will not let go
of their false doctrine because their conscience is seared, they have no
desire for the truth. Those who want the truth allow themselves to be
taught as well as teach, they are accountable, and they are responsible.
Paul taught clearly that the Law was dead to the
believer, it was obsolete as the writer of Hebrews said (Hebrews 8:13),
that we are saved by grace (Ephesians 2:8), and NOT grace
plus the Mosaic Law. Galatians 3:1 O
foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the
truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,
crucified among you?
John went on to address the conclusion of Gnosticism that what is done
in the flesh means nothing against the spirit of man. John deals with
the issue of sin, what it is, and who is a sinner. 1 John 1:6 If we
say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and
do not the truth: John refutes the Gnosticism theory (a pre-Christian
and early Christian religious movement teaching that salvation comes by
learning esoteric spiritual truths that free humanity from the material
world, believed in this movement to be evil) and shows what the
truth is, the flesh does matter, and if we are sinning, if we are
walking in darkness, and we say we are fine, we lie to ourselves and to
others who we give this false doctrine to. Gnosticism of the day has had
a name change, but the false doctrine is still taught, it is called
eternal security or Once Saved Always Saved. It is Gnostic in origin
and just as it was false doctrine in the first century, it remains false
doctrine in this century.
The sad reality of the Jezebel spirit is yet to be made. Look at where
this person is! She is teaching
in the church! The Jezebel spirit has no boundaries, but she
seduces well known and famous people to teach her false doctrines,
television evangelists with huge empires, their own little kingdoms to
seduce God's people. Jezebel is endorsed and welcomed into the church to
seduce the servants of God. 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.
Jezebel is welcomed into the church to destroy the church. The church
embraces false doctrines for its own destruction, and welcomes them!
Jezebel was married to Ahab, king of the ten northern tribes called
Israel. Jezebel ruled the nation through her husband. I have in times
past humorously labeled this duo, Jezebel and the Jelly Fish, a
spineless creature, no backbone to stand for himself. Beginning in 1
Kings 16 we gather much information about Ahab and Jezebel, and we
see the severity of the Jezebel spirit. The whole purpose was idolatry,
to stray away from God to another or others, (Jezebel led Israel to
worship the Baals and the Ashtoreth. Mythology), to rid the world of
believers and to establish evil as good, to be able to do what you
wanted. Jezebel even went so far as to have Naboth murdered to give his
vineyard to Ahab because he liked it. The Jezebel spirit has nothing
good in it, and all the doctrines bring one result, apostasy (the
renunciation of Faith), wandering away from the truth until one is no
longer able to see the truth, but accepts everything that is evil and
thinks they are fine as they are.
With all this information about Jezebel and the Jezebel spirit, it
boggles my mind to see her allowed to teach in the church. How can we be
so stupid to allow Jezebel into pulpits?? For those who would dispute
that the Jezebel spirit even exists rejects sound Scriptural facts, and
to deny she is teaching in the church is sheer folly. She is teaching in
the church and she is endorsed by many to teach. She is there to seduce
God's people with her seductive doctrines that endorse or justify sin in
one way or another. The church world is embracing its own seduction
rejecting all the Scriptural warnings and admonitions. The Jezebel
spirit is behind the apostasy and the Whore of Babylon that will engulf
the world. We are truly near the Parousia (Return)of Jesus Christ.
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