Jezebel Spirit

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A Jezebel spirit can destroy the stmosphere of worship, fellowshiping, praising and prayer among believers. Jezebel spirit full of jealousy, envy, strife, division, self center, controlling, manipulative, domineering, and malice. A Jezebel spirit will respresent oneself very sweet, innocent, meekness, kind, caring, submissive, but that is a deception.

How to tell a Jezebel Spirit:



They gain power by diminishing others. It is causes them a rush “win” over someone. They manage to get in positions of authority, and are difficult to displace, once there.
They are controlling, manipulative, bossy.
They can either be war-like in their personalities, so that they are intimidating, or so sweet, timid, charming and charismatic, they are able to fool and recruit others to join them.
The spirit is critical of others, vicious to the point of blood thirsty as to reveal weaknesses.
They are never wrong in their own eyes; they are unable to apologize.
They recruit others to rally behind their charges against their victims. They act to persuade recruits, and do not give up this activity until the recruits are won over. If the potential recruits do not cooperate and accept their position they will grow angry.
They are by nature narcissistic. While they tend to be oversensitive, they have no concern for the feelings of others. They are not sympathetic about their victims, and tend to play the role of victim themselves, in order to gain sympathy. This way the real victim is left stranded, and opposed by others if they ask for help. Being the center of attention really pleases them.
They lie, and they believe their own lie. Avoiding the truth, or intentionally acting to withhold truth is part of a false picture presented to others.
Impulsive, disorganized, failure to plan ahead. Life is often chaotic and family in their care is in disarray.
The have a lack of remorse after hurting someone. They can justify the harm and remain smug about their victory.

They prove to be consistent irresponsibility, unpunctual, undependable. Will make rash promises, but cannot be trusted to fulfill.
They often express irritability, aggressiveness (open or subtle), and can be quick tempered.
This person is an “outlier” or non-conformist, they have their own ways.
Psychological counseling will not help, since they deny their condition.
They may claim religious sentiments, but are found very superficial in spiritual disciplines. Places emphasis on emotions over depth of condition.





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.

2 Kings 9:22 - And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is it] peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?

1 Kings 21:7-8 - And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. (Read More...)

1 Kings 21:25 - But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

1 Kings 16:31 - And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

Romans 12:9 - [Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

1 Kings 19:1-21 - And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. (Read More...)

2 Kings 9:30-37 - 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. (Read More...)


 

djness

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There are a ton of threads about this Jezebel spirit already.
Do you think this is an actual spirit that inhabits the person or do you think this is just a sinful way of life?
 
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There are a ton of threads about this Jezebel spirit already.
Do you think this is an actual spirit that inhabits the person or do you think this is just a sinful way of life?

Jezebel spirit is within a person and a way of life because the person is using this tactic to control others. Jezebel spirit is in many churches today creating strife, division, and confusion in the body of believers and this Jezebel spirit is within this ChristianChat site. I was not aware of it until lately because that Jezebel spirit is very cunning, manipulative, and controlling. Jezebel spirit despise the power of prayer,fellowship, ministering to others, and encouraging believers. Especially when the Jezebel spirit has others in authority under ones power and discernment is important.
 
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RachelBibleStudent

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the idea of a 'jezebel spirit' is unbiblical...
 
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Mitspa

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the idea of a 'jezebel spirit' is unbiblical...
From what I have seen it is used by certain religious leaders to cast doubt on anyone who questions the errors and greed of many in the "make the preacher rich" class! What the bible says is that Jezebel caused Gods people to eat those things offered to idols ...We know covetousness is idolatry! If their is a Jezebel spirit, its in those preachers who think the people of God are called to buy them big houses and fine cars. But basically Jezebel sounds like those who bring idols into the church...such as the RCC?
 
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From what I have seen it is used by certain religious leaders to cast doubt on anyone who questions the errors and greed of many in the "make the preacher rich" class! What the bible says is that Jezebel caused Gods people to eat those things offered to idols ...We know covetousness is idolatry! If their is a Jezebel spirit, its in those preachers who think the people of God are called to buy them big houses and fine cars. But basically Jezebel sounds like those who bring idols into the church...such as the RCC?
The RCC is not the only church to have the Jezebel spirit!!
 
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Mitspa

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The RCC is not the only church to have the Jezebel spirit!!
Well if you let the bible speak and not some of this stuff made up by certain folks selling books and trying to get rich, you would have to say that "eating things offered to idols" would be the place to start when you are looking for the truth of what Jezebel means as it relates to the end time revelation.
 

damombomb

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I honestly have an ex DIL just like this. To the tee.
 
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Well if you let the bible speak and not some of this stuff made up by certain folks selling books and trying to get rich, you would have to say that "eating things offered to idols" would be the place to start when you are looking for the truth of what Jezebel means as it relates to the end time revelation.
thank you for your comment!
 
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wwjd_kilden

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Why don't people also speak of having a Saul spirit? or a Pharaoh spirit etc?
Why are they so obsessed with this "jezebel spirit"? I agree that it is totally unbiblical.
I think it is used as a means of putting people down (and making oneself seem more holy in the process)
 
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Why don't people also speak of having a Saul spirit? or a Pharaoh spirit etc?
Why are they so obsessed with this "jezebel spirit"? I agree that it is totally unbiblical.
I think it is used as a means of putting people down (and making oneself seem more holy in the process)
They was a few people in the charismatic circles that wrote a couple books a few years back...basically your right, it was just a way to condemn anyone that didn't go along with this greed gospel or anyone who stood up against the errors running rampant through the charismatic groups. The people who wrote this books themselves are not very godly and basically used this sort of teaching to attack those who had called them out on their own ungodly behavior.
 
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Why don't people also speak of having a Saul spirit? or a Pharaoh spirit etc?
Why are they so obsessed with this "jezebel spirit"? I agree that it is totally unbiblical.
I think it is used as a means of putting people down (and making oneself seem more holy in the process)

It Jezebel spirit is in the Sacred Word because I gave scriptures above. In the Literature by DT NILES, Jezebel spirit is mention along with two ungodly spirits. I guess folks did not read the scriptures that I had posted also .LOOOL!! Thank you for your comment.
 
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They was a few people in the charismatic circles that wrote a couple books a few years back...basically your right, it was just a way to condemn anyone that didn't go along with this greed gospel or anyone who stood up against the errors running rampant through the charismatic groups. The people who wrote this books themselves are not very godly and basically used this sort of teaching to attack those who had called them out on their own ungodly behavior.
The Sacred Word does mention Jezebel spiirit and wha about the scriptures that I have above. This interesting because I always use scripturesHMMMMMMMM!!.
 
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pastac

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To all you who profess to say unbiblical just do a bible search on familiar spirits or better yet jut the word spirit in the bible. Each man has a spirit and the attributes to these spirits is often spoken of. Yes the Jezebel spirit is in the bible as is the spirit of David, the spirit of divination ect its a simple search. but it is certainly very biblical. Ignorance of scripture or not understanding context is in no way an attempt to condemn anyone. Sinners if they don't receive Jesus will condemn themselves. Why make a comment based on limited understanding and opinions that are wrapped in lack of understanding or limited understanding and all you have to do is put in the time to research. Remember the carnal mind cant understand spiritual things. Just a thought
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john832

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Albert Barnes...

Revelation 2:20

Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee - Compare notes on Rev_2:4.
Because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel - Thou dost tolerate, or countenance her. Compare the notes on Rev_2:14. Who the individual here referred to by the name Jezebel was, is not known. It is by no means probable that this was her real name, but seems to have been given to her as expressive of her character and influence. Jezebel was the wife of Ahab; a woman of vast influence over her husband - an influence which was uniformly exerted for evil. She was a daughter of Ethbaal, king of Tyre and Sidon, and lived about 918 years before Christ. She was an idolater, and induced her weak husband not only to connive at her introducing the worship of her native idols, but to become an idolater himself, and to use all the means in his power to establish the worship of idols instead of the worship of the true God. She was highly gifted, persuasive, and artful; was resolute in the accomplishment of her purposes; ambitious of extending and perpetuating her power, and unscrupulous in the means which she employed to execute her designs. See 1Ki_16:31 ff.
Adam Clarke...

Revelation 2:20

That woman Jezebel - There is an allusion here to the history of Ahab and Jezebel, as given in 2 Kings 9:1-10:36; and although we do not know who this Jezebel was, yet from the allusion we may take it for granted she was a woman of power and influence in Thyatira, who corrupted the true religion, and harassed the followers of God in that city, as Jezebel did in Israel. Instead of that woman Jezebel, την γυναικα Ιεζαβηλ, many excellent MSS., and almost all the ancient versions, read την γυναικα σου Ιεζαβηλ, Thy Wife Jezebel; which intimates, indeed asserts, that this bad woman was the wife of the bishop of the Church, and his criminality in suffering her was therefore the greater. This reading Griesbach has received into the text. She called herself a prophetess, i.e., set up for a teacher; taught the Christians that fornication, and eating things offered to idols, were matters of indifference, and thus they were seduced from the truth. But it is probable that by fornication here is meant idolatry merely, which is often its meaning in the Scriptures. It is too gross to suppose that the wife of the bishop of this Church could teach fornication literally. The messenger or bishop of this Church, probably her husband, suffered this: he had power to have cast her and her party out of the Church, or, as his wife, to have restrained her; but he did not do it, and thus she had every opportunity of seducing the faithful. This is what Christ had against the messenger of this Church.
E.W. Bullinger...

Jezebel. See 1Ki_16:30-34; 1Ki_21:25. This patroness of Baal-worship will have her sinister antitype in the future.
Expositors...

When we turn to the second group of the seven epistles, we at once breathe a different atmosphere; and the contrast is rendered more striking by the fact that in the first of the four we have the very sins spoken of which have already twice crossed our path in the epistles to Ephesus and to Pergamum. According to the best critical reading of Rev_2:20, the charge against Thyatira is, "Thou sufferest" (Thou lettest alone; thou toleratest) "thy wife Jezebel" Jezebel was a heathen princess, the first heathen queen who had been married by a king of the northern kingdom of Israel. She was therefore peculiarly fitted to represent the influences of the world; and the charge against Thyatira is thus that, in the persons not of a few only, but of her united membership, she tolerated the world, with its heathen thoughts and practices. She knew it to be the world that it was; but notwithstanding this she was content to be at peace, or even to ally herself, with it. The church in Sardis is not less blameable. There are a few names in her that have not defiled their garments; but the church as a whole has deeply sinned. She has reproduced the Pharisaic type with which the Gospels have made us acquainted, substituting the outward for the inward in religion, and then yielding to the sins of the flesh to which she has thus given the supremacy. The church in Philadelphia, like that in Smyrna, is not blamed, and it is well that there should be one church even in the midst of the world of which this can be said; yet even Philadelphia has only a little power1 while the exhortation, Hold fast that which thou hast2 appears to indicate that she has been losing much. Lastly, no one can mistake the willing identification of herself with the world on the part of the church in Laodicea. She says that she is rich, that she has gotten riches, that she has need of nothing.3 Her members are well-to-do and in easy circumstances, and they have found so much comfort in their worldly goods that they have become blind to the fact that man needs something better and higher for his portion. In all these four churches, in short, we have an entirely different relation between the Church and the world from that set before us in the first three. There is not simply danger of decay within, and the need of trial with the benefit resulting from it. There is actual conflict with the world; sometimes, it may be, a victory over it, at other times a yielding to its influences and an adoption of its spirit. In the first three churches all, or all with few exceptions, are on the side of Christ; in the last four the "remnant" alone is true to Him. (1 Rev_3:8; 2 Rev_3:11; 3 Rev_3:17)
John Gill...

because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel; or "thy wife Jezebel", as the Complutensian edition and Syriac version read; the name of King Ahab's wife, who seduced him, in the Hebrew language is "Izebel", but is read by the Septuagint in 1Ki_16:31, Jezebel, as here; and by Josephus (a) Jezabela; she had her name from זבל, "Zebel", "dung", to which Elijah has reference in 2Ki_9:37; the Ethiopic version calls her "Elzabel". By her is meant the apostate church of Rome, comparable to Jezebel, the wife of Ahab; as she was the daughter of an Heathen, so is Rome Papal the daughter of Rome Pagan; and as she was the wife of Ahab, and therefore a queen, so the whore of Babylon calls herself; and as Jezebel was famous for her paintings, so the church of Rome for her pretensions to religion and holiness, and for the gaudiness of her worship; and as she was remarkable for her idolatry, whoredoms, witchcrafts, and cruel persecution of the prophets of the Lord, and for murder, and innocent blood she shed; so the church of Rome, for her idolatrous worship of images, for her whoredoms, both in a literal and spiritual sense, and for the witchcrafts, magic, and devilish arts many of her popes have been addicted to, and especially for her barbarities and cruelties exercised upon the true professors of Christ, and for the blood of the martyrs, with which she has been drunk; and as Jezebel stirred up Ahab against good and faithful men, is has this church stirred up the secular powers, emperors, kings, and princes, against the true followers of Christ: and the end of both of them is much alike; as scarce anything was left of Jezebel, so Babylon the great, the mother of harlots, shall be cast into the sea, and be found no more at all: compare 2Ki_9:7 with Rev_17:1,
Matthew Henry...

2. A faithful reproof for what was amiss. This is not so directly charged upon the church itself as upon some wicked seducers who were among them; the church's fault was that she connived too much at them.
(1.) These wicked seducers were compared to Jezebel, and called by her name. Jezebel was a persecutor of the prophets of the Lord, and a great patroness of idolaters and false prophets. The sin of these seducers was that they attempted to draw the servants of God into fornication, and to offer sacrifices to idols; they called themselves prophets, and so would claim a superior authority and regard to the ministers of the church. Two things aggravated the sin of these seducers, who, being one in their spirit and design, are spoken of as one person: - [1.] They made use of the name of God to oppose the truth of his doctrine and worship; this very much aggravated their sin. [2.] They abused the patience of God to harden themselves in their wickedness. God gave them space for repentance, but they repented not. Observe, First, Repentance is necessary to prevent a sinner's ruin. Secondly, Repentance requires time, a course of time, and time convenient; it is a great work, and a work of time. Thirdly, Where God gives space for repentance, he expects fruits meet for repentance. Fourthly, Where the space for repentance is lost, the sinner perishes with a double destruction.
(2.) Now why should the wickedness of this Jezebel be charged upon the church of Thyatira? Because that church suffered her to seduce the people of that city. But how could the church help it? They had not, as a church, civil power to banish or imprison her; but they had ministerial power to censure and to excommunicate her: and it is probable that neglecting to use the power they had made them sharers in her sin.
3. The punishment of this seducer, this Jezebel, Rev_2:22, Rev_2:23, in which is couched a prediction of the fall of Babylon. (1.) I will cast her into a bed, into a bed of pain, not of pleasure, into a bed of flames; and those who have sinned with her shall suffer with her; but this may yet be prevented by their repentance. (2.) I will kill her children with death; that is, the second death, which does the work effectually, and leaves no hope of future life, no resurrection for those that are killed by the second death, but only to shame and everlasting contempt.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown...

that woman — Two oldest manuscripts read, “THY wife”; two omit it. Vulgate and most ancient versions read as English Version. The symbolical Jezebel was to the Church of Thyatira what Jezebel, Ahab’s “wife,” was to him. Some self-styled prophetess (or as the feminine in Hebrew is often used collectively to express a multitude, a set of false prophets), as closely attached to the Church of Thyatira as a wife is to a husband, and as powerfully influencing for evil that Church as Jezebel did Ahab. As Balaam, in Israel’s early history, so Jezebel, daughter of Eth-baal, king of Sidon (1Ki_16:31, formerly priest of Astarte, and murderer of his predecessor on the throne, Josephus [Against Apion, 1.18]), was the great seducer to idolatry in Israel’s later history. Like her father, she was swift to shed blood. Wholly given to Baal worship, like Eth-baal, whose name expresses his idolatry, she, with her strong will, seduced the weak Ahab and Israel beyond the calf-worship (which was a worship of the true God under the cherub-ox form, that is, a violation of the second commandment) to that of Baal (a violation of the first commandment also). She seems to have been herself a priestess and prophetess of Baal. Compare 2Ki_9:22, 2Ki_9:30, “whoredoms of ... Jezebel and her witchcrafts” (impurity was part of the worship of the Phoenician Astarte, or Venus). Her spiritual counterpart at Thyatira lured God’s “servants” by pretended utterances of inspiration to the same libertinism, fornication, and eating of idol-meats, as the Balaamites and Nicolaitanes (Rev_2:6, Rev_2:14, Rev_2:15). By a false spiritualism these seducers led their victims into the grossest carnality, as though things done in the flesh were outside the true man, and were, therefore, indifferent. “The deeper the Church penetrated into heathenism, the more she herself became heathenish; this prepares us for the expressions ‘harlot’ and ‘Babylon,’ applied to her afterwards” [Auberlen].
I don't see any reference here to an individual, but rather to a "spirit" or influence much like Jezebel.

We speak of John the Baptist coming in the spirit and power of Elijah and it seems that this influence comes in the spirit and power of Jezebel.
 
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Why are so many people obsessed with this jezebel spirit thing ? LoL.....there are so many topics like this in cc LoL.
 
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why not so many of the topics are repeated no one re uses them after 50 replies some biblical some ignorant who wants to scroll through that amount of replies when a new thread can up date or refresh the similar thread. And why are you obsessed against it is a better question Our people PERISH for a lack of knowledge you do understand perish right? That is important don't you think??
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