MORE ABOUT JEZEBEL AND
AHAB
The person who embodies a
Jezebel spirit is usually charming and very persuasive. Jezebel in the Bible
turned a whole nation against God, by persuading her husband Ahab, the king, to
do as she wished. The nature of the Jezebel spirit is to coerce others into joining
it in performing illegal and immoral acts against good people. Remember Jezebel
is a spirit sent by Satan to ruin people’s lives. When Jezebel gets someone to
do something wrong, that same Jezebel has ammunition to use as blackmail at any
time. The Jezebel spirit loves to have power
and control over people. That’s why one of the main things God says about a
Jezebel spirit, is to stay far away from it!
“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” (Prov. 7:25-27.
Proverbs 2:10-11 and 16 tell us:
“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 [or man], even
from the stranger which flattereth with her [or his] words.”
“Discretion” is translated from a Hebrew word that means “a plan, craftiness.”
Jezebels are all around us. We need to beware, and be smart and have a
God-given plan of how to maneuver ourselves as far away from a Jezebel’s notice
as possible.
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).
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.”
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!
There’s another important
point God gives us about handling the Jezebel spirit. 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 pleasant person, we are tempted to feel sorry for them and be
nicer toward them, but God says don’t do it.
Another
thing about both the Jezebel spirit and the Ahab spirit is that both are
flighty—they easily flit in and out and both spirits can operate in the same
person. Don’t let that confuse you.
God has made a way for people infused with these
spirits to get rid of them: exposure and embarrassment. I’ve seen this myself.
I had to do a face to face with a woman who tried to pull a Jezebel on me. I had
to tell her outright that I wouldn’t do it and I told her to stop trying to
involve anyone else in plans that weren’t right. She stopped and I never saw
the Jezebel in her again. The first step is exposure and the Jezebel doesn’t
like to be caught out, it likes to be hidden in most cases.
God can work with a person who still has a
sense of shame about sinful acts. God says that some will be so ashamed, they
will turn back to Him and of course He will have mercy and compassion for the
person, or nation, and help them. Hosea, chapter 2 and Ezekiel chapters 16 and
32 give us records of this kind of thing.
But some Jezebel spirits grow so
powerful, and some Ahab spirits make people so weak, that the people who have
them don’t want anything to do with getting rid of them. The end for these
people is not pretty.
In the Bible, Ahab got killed in a
freak accident (See 1 Kings 22). Jezebel’s death was much worse. Jezebel was
powerful and prideful. God’s man, Jehu, came to where Jezebel was: “And when
Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and
tired her head, and looked out at a window” (v. 30). She probably thought she’d
get all decked out and try to entice Jehu, but it was way too late. She’d
murdered many of God’s prophets and Jehu was here to take care of her for good.
“And
he lifted up his face to the window, and said, ‘Who is on my side? who?’ And
there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he
said, ‘Throw her down’. So they threw her down” (vv. 32-33). It was people in
her own household, people close to her, who threw her down.
“And
some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode
her under foot. And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, ‘Go,
see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.’
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the
skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
“Wherefore
they came again, and told him. And he said, ‘This is the word of the Lord,
which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the portion of
Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: And the
carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion
of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.”
Jezebel
was thrown down, and her body so destroyed, that she was unrecognizable.
Our
God is a merciful God. He has given us instructions on how we should avoid
being around Jezebel spirits if at all possible. He has also given us a way to
deliver those who want to get free – by exposing them and shaming them. If they
want to change, they can. But if a Jezebel has been allowed to take over, and
invited into a person, and that person likes who they’ve become, then God has
His limits. You just can’t keep doing evil against God’s people and think God
will not stand up and exert His Godly right to intervene. The results don’t always
look pretty, but God will always protect and save those who turn to Him.
Love, Carolyn
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