Introduction
Revelation 2:20-26 (New International Version)
Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds. Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (I will not impose any other burden on you): Only hold on to what you have until I come. To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations.
Make a guess as to who is that woman 'Jezebel'? In the Old Testament,Jezebel was a woman , an influential woman. Let's see what the passage in the Old Testament has to say about her.
1 Kings 16:29-33 (New International Version)
In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria over Israel twenty-two years. Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him. He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than did all the kings of Israel before him.
Now we know that the 'Jezebel' in Revelation was refered to Jezebel, the wife of an influential evil king of Israel called Ahab. Ahab provoked God our Lord with all his sins he committed and one of his greatest sin was when he married the 'idolatrous' Jezebel.He committed more sins after that.He became worse and provoked God even more.
Their actual sin was towards the prophet of God our Lord,Elijah.They stood against God's servant and influenced the people of Israel to commit idolatry provoking the Lord our God even more.
Serving God or Satan?
This is what Elijah,the prophet of God said:
1 Kings 18:21 (New International Version)
Elijah went before the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him."
But the people said nothing.
This situation came about because King Ahab and Jezebel had jointly went on a killing spree of God's prophets.
1 Kings 18:4 (New International Version)
While Jezebel was killing off the LORD's prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.)
1 Kings 18:9 (New International Version)
"What have I done wrong," asked Obadiah, "that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be put to death?
There was to be a ''duel' for the test of each other's strength on Mount Carmel.
Elijah with God's strength and Ahab/Jezebel with the strength of their idols.
This is what Jezebel said after she was proven that her idols were nothing but stone by Elijah through God's strength.
1 Kings 19:1-2 (New International Version)
Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the false prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them."
Jezebel clearly had the final say to the throne.Ahab feared his wife more than he feared the Living God who created heaven and earth and has put him on the throne.
She was full of threats towards Elijah not knowing that her death will be a gruesome one later. Jezebel was a rebellious and revengeful person.
Have you ever wondered why Eve and her disobedience was never spoken about in the book of Revelation but Jezebel's evil influences were?
Jezebel was an unknown woman who turned to be the Queen through marriage to Ahab, and abused her position to influence others to sin and provoke our God to anger. She was evil.She came against the servant of the Lord and threatened him with death.
What has this got to do with us ,today?
We see a similar Jezebel.This Jezebel claims to be a 'prophetess'.This means she says,she has the help of God.But, which god? She will begin to influence others with what she believes.Her beliefs will be misleading others further into sin.Idolatry and sexual sins will be the main ones.She will use these sins to attract others to her.She will be 'teaching ' the secrets of satan' to those who will turn to her for what she knows.Just exactly what are all these 'teachings' about?
Colossians 2:20-23 (New International Version)
Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: "Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Jezebel will use the basic principles of this world and deceive many, as though they were teachings from God,but they are not.Many will be deceived. The appearance of these teachings will be deceiving but the end result will show that this teachings "lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence".People will become worse off than they were before. Idolatry and sexual immorality will increase amongst us.
1 Corinthians 10:1-12 (New International Version)
Warnings From Israel's History
For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.
Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry." We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. We should not test the Lord, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.
These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!
The last days will be very tricky. Anyone could fall.Watch your steps. We believe that the sins relating to the "stubborn and rebellious woman" is the 'prophetess' Jezebel itself.It will relate to the evil woman's sins which are prostitution,adultery,debauchery,pornography,promiscuity,polygamy,homosexual sins and other related sins that are already causing much concern to many.These sins wlll influence the lives of many in these last days.
The influences of these sins are creating more damage to this world than anything else.People are just falling away from the Lord with this evil influence in society.
It's Satan's way of turning people away from God.
So, who is Jezebel actually?
The New Jerusalem is the Bride of Christ being prepared with full-Christformation in them.So,who is this Jezebel? Yes,it's the 'wife' of the False Prophet,meaning those who share same beliefs with the False Prophet.Remember Jezebel, is the 'false prophetess'.They are the children of the Devil who serve as 'wife' for the False Prophet. They share one 'bed'. Satan counterfeits all things of God and His Christ.Satan counterfeits the Person and the works of the Holy Spirit. It also counterfeits the wife of the Lamb, the Church, the Body of Christ. 'Jezebel' is the counterfeit 'wife' of the Lamb. Do not be cheated or deceived.It may appear just like it belongs to the Lamb but it's not. Is the sin of idolatry and sexual immorality increasing in that midst. These are some of the 'fruits'of the Devil.
God is calling unto those deceived to repent and return to Him before it's too late!
