By special request from
Jane:
THE JEZEBEL SPIRIT
I was privy to a situation
that taught me firsthand about a Jezebel demon. Most people think this is a
spirit that entices men sexually and gets them into trouble. Yes, that’s part
of it, but it’s much more insidious than that. Even though it has a female title,
it’s not gender-specific, and though it goes after those in positions of
authority, it also tries to bribe ordinary Christian believers in various
sneaky ways. I’m going to tell you a true story to illustrate how it works and
what the Bible says we can do about it.
When I walked into work,
my friend Lupe was staring at a difficult-looking sample to match. Where did it
come from? Well, not from her boss. It
came from a middle management fellow, and
it was for his friend, not for our company.
She avoided it for a week,
and she told me she wasn’t feeling very
comfortable with it. She didn’t even like the fellow who asked her to do it.
She was double-minded about even starting it and then told me, “I’ll just find
a close match as fast as I can, and
that’ll be it.” We got busy and a couple of
weeks went by. Then out of nowhere the female purchasing agent, Delia, came to
Lupe and asked how the “special” sample was going. The fellow with the original
request had called the purchasing agent to facilitate the completion of the
sample.
Lupe was furious. She
didn’t like the idea of doing the sample in the first place since it wasn’t a
legitimate job. It was something she was just supposed to sneak in on the side.
And now she was being seduced and pressured by Delia to get it done. She fumed
and complained all day long. But she began the sample, and it took several hours. It was a tricky one and everything that
could go wrong did. Then we heard that
the boss was coming in. Lupe grabbed all evidence of the sample and hid it.
She had never done anything like that before. She’d
always been very honest in her dealings at work. But Delia had pestered her so
much, Lupe gave in and did something that was dishonest. Now she was caught in
the trap. They had a secret. If Lupe didn’t say anything to our boss, then
Delia would always have this trump card over Lupe’s head and could use it whenever she needed to make sure Lupe knew
who was really in control. Now Delia had power over Lupe, which is exactly what a Jezebel spirit wants—CONTROL and POWER.
A Jezebel spirit operating
in a person will always try to get them to join into a secret illegal bonding.
With men, this Jezebel spirit will use the power of sexual passions to lure and
then control the man. To a woman having this spirit in her, a man doesn’t even
have to have physical contact, if a seductive glance of her eyes will do the
job of capturing and controlling him enough to get what she wants.
The first mention of
Jezebel in the Bible is with the
manipulative wife of King Ahab. The Jezebel demon has existed way before the
woman named Jezebel came along. But she is a noteworthy prototype, and thus the
name, “Jezebel spirit.” She coerced over
ten million Hebrews to bow to Baal and to kill God’s prophets. This one spirit
was responsible for corrupting an entire nation. It is intensely ambitious, but
it doesn’t want to be the King, it
wants to be the sneaky shadow, controlling the King, as it keeps its packet of
secret alliances ready for use whenever it wants something. Jezebel is a master
at blackmail.
Proverbs 5:3 tells us:
“The lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb,
and her mouth is smoother than oil.” And Proverbs 7:5: “Keep thee from the
strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.” In these two
verses, the word “stranger” is a Hebrew word meaning “a stranger to the truth,
an alien, an enemy, one who turns aside.”
When I saw these verses,
Delia came to mind. She has an unusually sweet, quiet, soft way of
speaking—very compelling. One time she came up to me and whispered, “I think I
put that big gouge in the floor. Do you think you could fix it without the boss
seeing it?” I thought that was a little strange. I thought, “If the boss wants me to fix it, tell him, and he can authorize it. Otherwise, I’ll just
keep doing what I’m hired to do.” And I never did a thing about it and
never mentioned it again. At the time I had no idea what she was up to, but
just glad the Holy Spirit in me didn’t let me get trapped by the sweet and oh
so innocent-sounding voice!
Deuteronomy
13:6 tells us about the Jezebel spirit: “If thy brother, or thy son or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul,
entice thee secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast
not known.” That pretty much says it
right there. The gods who are other than the true God are the ones who want us
to do dishonest things: Things like stealing time, lying about things, hiding
things—all those things that we intuitively know are bad. But with the clever
enticement of a close relative or a friend, this Jezebel spirit knows all the
right words to get us off track enough to do something that could easily come
back to bite us later if we don’t chop it’s head off immediately.
Proverbs 23:27 tells us:
“A strange woman is a narrow pit.” In other words, a tough one to get out of. First Corinthians puts it another way:
“What? Know ye not that he which is joined
to a harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh.” Second
Corinthians says: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for
what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion
hath light with darkness?” Just one hook-up with evil can take us down a long
dark snake hole!
Proverbs 7:21-27:
“With her much fair speech, she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips
she forced him. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the
slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike
through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is
for his life. Hearken unto me now, therefore,
O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.”
“Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not
astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men
have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the
chambers of death.”
So, what does the Bible say we are to do about a Jezebel when it
comes at us?
Proverbs 2:10-11 and 16 give us part of the answer: “When wisdom
entereth into thine heart, and knowledge
is pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall
keep thee, to deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which
flattereth with her words.” “Disgression” is translated from a Hebrew word that means “a
plan, craftiness.” Jesus tells us: “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the
midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (Matt. 10:16).
Where it says “understanding shall keep thee,”
the word “keep” means to “preserve and guard against
danger.” Now that you understand something about a Jezebel demon, you can make
a plan to keep yourself from danger.
Proverbs 5:8 tells us: “Remove thy way far from
her, and come not nigh the door of her house.” Second Corinthians 6:17
corroborates what Proverbs says: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive
you.”
There’s another point that’s important here. Deuteronomy 13:8 tells us:
“Neither shall thine eye pity him.” This demon elicits pity from its prey.
Because the person exhibiting the Jezebel spirit talks so nicely and seems like
such a gentle and wonderful person, we are tempted to feel sorry for them and
be nicer toward them, but God says don’t do it.
The way God has made for these people to get delivered from these demons
is to be exposed and made naked. When exposed, they get so ashamed that they want to be delivered and get free from that spirit that
is ruling their actions. See Hosea 2:5 and 19, Ezekiel 16 and 32.
There are many more examples of unholy alliances, and Jezebel demons
luring good people down bad paths. The record of Samson and Delilah comes to
mind.
I hope that this article has helped you. For me, once I saw Jezebel
operating in real life and took the time
to study it in the Bible, I feel I have a much greater awareness of what’s
going on, and now I know what to do about
it.
Love, Carolyn
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