The Jezebel spirit gained her reputation as an enemy to the prophets of God in the Old Testament era. While dogs devoured the wicked Queen Jezebel, her spirit is alive and well in New Testament times. And this depraved principality has earned another reputation in the last days: enemy of the apostolic.
Queen Jezebel is infamous for her antics in the Book of I Kings.
The Jezebel spirit is charged with murdering many prophets and cutting off the
voice of others that fearfully hid in caves (I Kings 18:4, 13). The
Book of Revelation exposes this spirit’s operation in the New
Testament age as one that calls herself a prophetess, to teach and
seduce the Lord’s true prophets with lust and idolatry (Revelation
2:20).
The
Jezebel spirit’s attack on prophets has a ripple effect on apostles because
these two graces are foundational gifts that work together to build
the Church (Ephesians 2:20). Prophets say and apostles do. Cutting
off or perverting the prophetic voice, then, hinders the
manifestation of the glorious church because apostles are most
effective when prophets are in watchtowers instead of caves, in
local churches instead of in lust, parking lots and street corners.
While the Jezebel spirit has not given up on her mission to cut off the
prophetic voice, God’s mouthpieces are no longer ignorant to her
devices and this powerful principality is now employing more subtle
tactics in effort to corrupt the apostolic reformation. She is using
false prophets and false apostles that flow in divination (fortune
telling) and merchandising (using spiritual gifts for unjust gain)
to discredit God’s true ambassadors.
Paul spoke against false apostles who sought unjust gain,
proclaiming: “I’d die before taking your money. I’m giving nobody
grounds for lumping me in with those money-grubbing ‘preachers,’
vaunting themselves as something special. They’re a sorry bunch –
pseudo-apostles, lying preachers, crooked workers – posing as
Christ’s agents but sham to the core” (2 Corinthians 11:12-13 MSG).
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Apostle Paul was no stranger to the operations of false apostles or
demonic governments. The Jezebel spirit is likely one of the principalities
Paul wrestled against (Ephesians 6) as she attempted to exercise her
influence in territories through which he traveled to preach the
Gospel. Thyatira was such a territory. Jesus had one thing against
the church in Thyatira: it tolerated Jezebel (Revelation 2:20).
Just as true prophets (John the Baptist) make a way for true
apostles (Jesus Christ), false prophets make a way for false
apostles. Thyatira was the city where a false prophetess made a way
for false apostles to merchandise people through soothsaying and
attempted to discredit the ministry of true Apostles Paul and Silas.
It was in Thyatira that Paul encountered a damsel possessed with a
spirit of divination who brought her masters much gain by fortune
telling (Acts 16:16). The “masters” in this verse were governmental
officers with natural authority in the jurisdiction just as the
apostles were governmental officers with spiritual authority in the
jurisdiction. But the thievery of these wicked masters lumps them in
with the “sorry bunch” Paul described as pseudo-apostles and crooked
workers.
So in Thyatira we see the damsel (false prophetess) making a way for
the masters (false apostles) to gain unjust profit (merchandising)
through a false ministry gift (divination). We also see this false
prophetess attempt to discredit the true apostles because many who
heard her utterance may have wrongly believed that Paul and Silas
employed the demon-possessed girl to announce their ministry. This
may also have led to some witnesses to question what power the duo
used to bring forth the miracles in the city. The false apostles
(masters) then sought to further damage the reputations of Paul and
Silas by publicly beating and jailing them (Acts 16:23).
In Thyatira the false apostles prated against Paul and Silas with
malicious words because the Holy Ghost-filled sent-ones put an end
to their merchandising schemes.
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The spirit of
Jezebel is an enemy of the apostolic because she counterfeits true
prophetic operations that lead hungry believers to empty their
pocketbooks for false spiritual moves that work to discredit the
true five-fold ministry gifts the Lord is restoring. But just as
mature prophets are rising up with a Jehu conquering spirit to rid
their lives of this menacing spirit, mature apostles are combating
the false spiritual moves that the Jezebel spirit is orchestrating by refusing
to compromise the truth of the Gospel for the sake of unjust gain.
Notice how Paul dealt with the damsel in Thyatira. He confronted the
spirit of divination and commanded it to come out of her in the name
of Jesus (Acts 16:18. This apostolic command refuted any
misconception that Paul approved of her soothsaying or that his
works were by the power of any spirit other than the Spirit of God.
Ultimately the Jezebel spirit’s fate – and those false prophets and apostles
who follow her – is sealed. Jesus promises to throw her on a bed of
anguish, bring down pressing distress and severe affliction, and
strike her proper followers dead (Revelation 2:22-23 AMP).
Of course, with full knowledge of her impending doom, the spirit of
Jezebel will not go down without a fight. So she remains an enemy of
the apostolic.
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