The Jezebel Spirit – The Consequences Of Committing Adultery With Her (Part 3 of 3)
Send to KindlePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:42 — 24.3MB) | Embed
It has never been God’s intention for those who have a personal love relationship with Him–which in reality means to be married to Jesus Christ–to live in defeat, lacking the financial means for living and giving, to always battle with sickness, or die prematurely. On the contrary, God’s desire and prayer for us is that we may prosper in all things and be in health, just as our souls prosper. See 3 John 2 NKJV
Jesus the Bridegroom, showed us how much He loved us by giving His life for us and washing us from all sin. Now, He is looking forward to coming back for a glorious church, His Bride, and that is us, living free from sin and evil attachments or as the Bible describes it, “without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish.” (Ephesians 5:26-27 NLT)
But for some reason something has driven a wedge between us and Jesus in our marriage with Him, causing us to struggle, feeling spiritually isolated from God, feeling guilty and fearful, resulting in us becoming ineffective as Christians for God’s Kingdom. We lost the ability to walk in God’s power, unconditional love, and having a sound and not confused mind. That “something” that has come between us and God, is what I call the “sin of committing spiritual adultery”, where we knowingly or unknowingly have allowed someone or something to become more important to us than our husband, Jesus, which is the same thing as having an idol.
In the natural world, the definition of adultery is referred to as extramarital sex, infidelity, or voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and another person who is not his or her spouse.
In the spiritual realm, it means we have entered into an extramarital affair with somebody other than God, and we are now reaping the consequences of its curse.
Listen! The LORD is not too weak to save you, and he is not becoming deaf. He can hear you when you call. But there is a problem — your sins have cut you off from God. Isaiah 59:1-2 NLT.
In other words, because we have committed the sin of adultery, it has literally broken and fractured our marriage relationship with God.
Much of the source of our sins is rooted in the Jezebel spirit, whose clear purpose is to seduce us and lead us away from God by having us commit spiritual adultery with her. The spirit of Jezebel is a rebellious spirit that is born out of witchcraft.
Those who are “infected” with the Jezebel spirit are evil, and practice evil. Their character traits are well described and categorized in the secular world who classify these people as narcissists or psychopaths for whom there is no healing treatment or cure.
Two Types of Jezebel Personality
There are two types of Jezebel personalities: The high-profile type who is loud and vocal and is the one who wears the pants in the family. And then there is the low-profile type who is generally soft-spoken, giving the illusion of being motherly, protective, and even very submissive. The latter type is the most dangerous, as this is the most difficult to discern. She relies heavily on manipulation and is very subtle and crafty.
Although the Spirit of Jezebel is genderless, it is usually women who possess it because of its seductive sexual nature.
Characteristics of the evil Jezebel spirit
She is proud, likes self-worship, is arrogant and power hungry. She seeks recognition and affirmation. Her identity is based on her performance rather than having her value in Jesus Christ.
She often succeeds well in the pursuit of her goals, and in this process she hinders others in learning to operate in the gifts and talents God gave them, because she jumps in before anyone else can.
She never wants to be accountable, but instead she is resentful and tries to attack and intimidate those who are trying to make her accountable.
She is seductive. She uses any type of seduction available, to manipulate her way to gaining control and power, flirtation being one of them. She uses a spiritual seduction which operates on both men and women. Although Jezebel usually dislikes women, she will seduce women in position of authority, or wives of those in authority. Jezebel always seeks to be the efficient executive assistant at the side of a powerful businessman or church leader. Men are almost always blind to her seduction as she flatters them with her attention.
She is bitter and often openly envious of others. For instance, she jealously stands in the way of others receiving attention or recognition, applause, and a position of power.
She murmurs and complains to get her way.
She is not easily satisfied no matter what people do to appease her.
She clearly lacks in humility. She is unrepentant, stubborn, and will never admit any wrong doing.
She schemes and plots to get what she wants.
Here is a good example of how the Bible breaks down this evil behavior of scheming and plotting to obtain what we want:
What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn’t it the whole army of evil desires at war within you? You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous for what others have, and you can’t possess it, so you fight and quarrel to take it away from them. And yet the reason you don’t have what you want is that you don’t ask God for it. And even when you do ask, you don’t get it because your whole motive is wrong — you want only what will give you pleasure. James 4:1-3 NLT
She is controlling and very manipulative.
She is selfish.
She is critical of others.
She is bossy, and rebels against authority that seeks to replace her.
She is a back-stabber and craftily uses lies to discredit others.
She is emotionally cold.
She will never give you her approval.
She puts impossible, high expectations on others.
She is unable to acknowledge the pain she causes others.
She is usually very calculated but acts innocent.
She only gives conditional love.
She hates the true prophets of God and seeks to persecute and destroy them.
She belittles men and emasculates those who allow her to dominate and get her will. She HATES men of authority who discern her spirit.
She is delusional and likes to give herself prominent name titles.
If you have experienced these things, it is likely that you have encountered the spirit of Jezebel. This spirit can work through friends, relatives, work colleagues, as well as believers in the church. The truth of the matter is that we all are susceptible to some of these behaviors. That is why it is important to note that just because a person exhibits one or more of these characteristics, it doesn’t automatically make that person a Jezebel. We need to have the spirit of discernment to be able to identify this spirit, as Jesus exposed this evil spirit in the church of Thyatira, saying to them:
I know all the things you do — your love, your faith, your service, and your patient endurance. And I can see your constant improvement in all these things. But I have this complaint against you. You are permitting that woman — that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet — to lead my servants astray. She is encouraging them to worship idols, eat food offered to idols, and commit sexual sin. Revelation 2:19-20 NLT
It is interesting to see here, that Jezebel makes this seemingly good church, who is allowing her, believe that she speaks on behalf of God, because she has proclaimed herself to be a prophetess. Therefore, it has become relatively easy for Jezebel to teach the church whatever she wants them to hear and believe, and in doing so, craftily removing the people’s focus on Jesus onto herself. Jezebel causes them to worship, support, defend, and idolize her and her so-called ‘deeper truths’ teachings, like we hear many preaching nowadays. These are teachings that only focus on how you can get wealthy and get stuff for your own pleasure. In other words, Jezebel makes the church gratify itself by having them eat food offered to idols (idol food=false teachings), and because of that they commit adultery with her. But Jesus calls these false teachings, the depths of Satan (See Revelation 2:24 NLT)
I gave her time to repent, but she would not turn away from her immorality. Therefore, I will throw her upon a sickbed, and she will suffer greatly with all who commit adultery with her, unless they turn away from all their evil deeds. I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am the one who searches out the thoughts and intentions of every person. And I will give to each of you whatever you deserve. Revelation 2:21-23 NLT
The consequences of committing adultery with Jezebel are very serious. We will suffer hugely emotionally, physically, financially, and even to the point of death. But what you can see in the above scripture is that God mercifully provides time and opportunity for repentance from the sin of indulging in this Jezebel deception.
Those who are infected and infested with the Spirit of Jezebel stubbornly do not want to repent from their evil deeds. But those who commit adultery with Jezebel are often more open to want to turn away from their sins.
In order to regain the blessings of breakthrough of God upon our lives we need to first of all repent and then fully turn away from ALL evil deeds, which means breaking with ALL ties connecting us to the Spirit of Jezebel, emotionally and physically.
The spirit of Jezebel is very wicked and is determined to retaliate on anybody who wants to escape her deadly claws. Therefore, it will send demons of intimidation, fear, and discouragement to try to get you back into the relationship with her and getting under her control.
This is the prescription that God gives us in order for us to be healed and set free from the wounds caused by committing adultery with Jezebel, to restore our marriage relationship with Jesus:
So humble yourselves before God. Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. Draw close to God, and God will draw close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, you hypocrites. Let there be tears for the wrong things you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy. When you bow down before the Lord and admit your dependence on him, he will lift you up and give you honor. James 4:7-10 NLT
JESUS CHRIST SAYS:
To all who are victorious, who obey me to the very end, I will give authority over all the nations. (Revelation 2:26 NLT)
Copyright © 2008 Sophia and Edwin Christiaan, used with permission.
To read the rest of the series on Fire Press;
Overcoming the Spirit of Jezebel, part 1 & part 2.
Check out their website: http://instituteoflove.net for more information on them.
May 29th/2012 Edit:
Don’t forget to check out our latest podcast episode with authors Stephen R. Crosby and S.J. Hill, The New Jezebel:
This post has either been written by a guest, or was an episode of the Fire On Your Head podcast. For more contact information, please review the information in this post
16 Comments
All I can say is wow!! My soon-to-be ex-wife certainly has the Jezebel spirit. I was married to her for one year and all I can say is that it was sheer hell!! She was very manipulative and never wrong. And when she was clearly wrong, she always turned the situation around to make it seem like I did something wrong. She never could have spiritual conversations about Jesus and when confronted about it she would always have some lame excuse why she couldn’t. She certainly was a chameleon adapting to environments. Before filing for divorce, she claimed that she was going to live for God while trying to manipulate me with Scripture. I can go on for days. BTW the Lord exposed her wickedness to a week before I was going to accept a job as a full time Pastorate!! The Lord is faithful!! But these articles hit the nail on the head. This was an answer to prayer today because I was in prayer asking the Lord specifically in why I should divorce my wife (although she committed infidelity). This truly spells everything out! Thanks and praise the Lord!!!
We know who Jezebel was and what the spirit of Jezebel is. Is the author of this article
correct? Are we to identify, disconnect, arm ourselves engage and destroy? For a
Christian this is probably correct, looking back in history to Constantine, the crusades,
the inquisition and America’s current Holy wars. How did Yahushua teach on the
subject?
Our Christian author writes
*You can forget about praying for this person but Yahushua said.
Mat 5:43 “You heard that it was said,1 ‘You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’
Mat 5:44 “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those insulting you and persecuting you,
Paul wrote
Rom 12:14 Bless those who persecute you – bless and do not curse.
Rom 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
Rom 12:16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not be proud in mind, but go along with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
Rom 12:17 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.
Rom 12:18 If possible, on your part, be at peace with all men.
Rom 12:19 Beloved, do not revenge yourselves, but give place to the wrath, for it has been written, “Vengeance is Mine, I shall repay,” says יהוה.
Rom 12:20 “Instead, if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him a drink, for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.”
Rom 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
This author has been weighed and measured and has come up short. Woe to you.
I think you can pray for these people and I believe the author points that out if you read all four articles. For you to end with “woe to you” contradicts everything you were trying to state. Making a case for Yeshua’s grace towards people who may be succumb to the Jezebel spirit and then pronouncing judgement (“weighed & measured”) on someone expressing their experiences (not doctrines) in the matter seems amiss to the defense of the grace intended.
I think you can pray for these people and I believe the author points that out if you read all four articles. For you to end with “woe to you” contradicts everything you were trying to state. Making a case for Yeshua’s grace towards people who may be succumb to the Jezebel spirit and then pronouncing judgement (“weighed & measured”) on someone expressing their experiences (not doctrines) in the matter seems amiss to the defense of the grace intended.
i have prayed for my jezebel mother for 30 some years and she is more evil so no you cant pray for them and rev. said God gave her time to repent its up to her
I have encountered this spirit. Two years after the death of my son and while I was still unsaved a mother and her adult daughter came to my horse farm. The daughter wanted me to break and train her horse but wanted to work with me in doing so. She was a (fervent Christian and I was a worldly sinner). Through the months that ensued I filed for divorce from my wife and submitted to her seductions. I went to church and became born again. I then had a conviction about being in the process of a divorce. The pastor who was her uncle and knew that she and I were attracted to each other said to just let the divorce go through and then she and I could date after a period of time. This in itself is completely against scripture. This girls mother is a so called prophetis in the church and is very manipulative and controlling. She had been all for the divorce and when she was in a possition as my spiritual leader all was fine. When I said that God had put on my heart thaty I needed to be sitting under a man as my teacher she went crazy. Her daughter got pregnant while we were engaged. The mother and then the pastor said that I was to leave, never see the girl again and never see my unborn child. After months of praying the girl softened and we eloped. She had a child from a previous relationship and I did also. Then we had two together. Throughout our marriage her mother was always divicive and my wife was never satisfiefied with anything that I tried to do to make her happy. Even though she seemed very spiritual, whenever I showed her scripture she would get extremely angry. She was and still is everything that you describe in your article. We were at a different church and when the pastor asked to speak with her she refused and filed for divorce at the demands of her mother. She was screaming at me to the point of me almost blacking out and her mother said with a smile, I am so glad that you have turned out to be such a Godly woman. WOW! I am an ex-marine and I have been yelled at by the best. At no time in my life have I almost blacked out other than this. She divorced me and would not klet my son or myself see my stepdaughter who loved me very much. She also would never let my step daughter see her biological father until she wanted to show the judge that her father was involved in her life so she allowed her to see him under her mothers supervision for the period of the divorce. Interesting, huh? Since the time of the divorce, whenever she wants a change to the parenting plan I am usually very compliable but if I desire anything she is not very accomodating and has even kicked in my door and assaulted me in from of the children and two witnesses. She is now involved in ministry and lives with her mother. It has been over four years since the divorce. Other than my wonderful children, I am sorry for ever laying eyes on this lady. I prayed for her for years and it did not help. As the bible says “I have given her time to repent of her deeds and she has not”. I was so in love with God and people were coming to salvation all of the time because God was using me. Now I feel like dried bones and I so much want for the joy of the Lord to be in me and the Fullness of His glory once again upon my head. I want the fire that I once had in my heart for God back!
hi, have experienced this spirit in my mother althopugh I never understood it properly until 3 years ago. My ex-husband divorced me because he had an affair with a woman who carried this spirit and it was truly atrocious. Now i went into a youth ministry because I was asked to lead a group of girls, three weeks later, I felt a cold presence from another leader, started having bad dreams and had the most hurrendous intimidation and oppression. I realsied this was coming from the group leader, so I stood down from the group and confronted her. Yes, she has used the same trick by saying she cant lead the group, etc. I'm out of sympathy and strength. My time with the group was incredible and the girls are truly amazing. I developed an excellent relationship with them. Leaving was a very hard desicion. The pastor of the group is an ahab so i HAVENT WASTED MY TIME in talking to them about the sitaution as “they are fully aware” just too scared. The leader is trying to coerce me back. I'm not interested until she is exposed, or she repents or stands down. I never ceased to be amazed at the lengths this spirit will go to to regain control. Im also thankful that God is so merciful and kept me one step ahead of the situation so I remain free.
Thanks so much for this article and God bless.
but am waging the battle with christ in me after opening my eyes
… i want my wife back and my son
i will not be fighting alone
i will get them back as god is my witness
for he who is in me is greater than he who is in the world
i will overcome
Thanks for the comments and letting us know in some way that these articles in particular on our site have been of positive impact in your life. I’m honored and humbled to hear that.
Blessings and fire on your head!
Thank you for this great information. I have read several other sites on the same subject, and the bottom line is that the Jezebel in your life will not change. It seems that the advice given is to confront and fight Jezebel – even though she wont change, or to expel her from your life completely.
That is so difficult when it is your mother. I am at the point of expulsion, but really don’t know if this is the right thing to do – especially since biblical teaching on how to treat one’s parents seems to be saying the opposite of what I am considering.
Jezebel has all but destroyed me, but she is my mother…..
Please give me your perspective….I am really at a cross-road.
I hope my words will bring the Light of God’s Grace, Truth and Freedom into your question. I was raised with a mother who had a jezebel spirit. Evil, wicked spirit, man oh man. I didn’t know it was a jezebel spirit at the time because I wasn’t saved. I grew up, went off on my own, got married, had a child and got saved! Shortly after my 2nd child was born my had moved in and the jezebel spirit was horribly evident in and through her and even in our house. Now I love my mom but that spirit is so manipulative it could make you believe that if you don’t put up with your mom your going against God.
I had an ungodly fear of my mom because of the many years of intimidation and manipulation and abuse I endured by her.
Shortly after my mom moved in my husband finally got to see live and in living color the facts that I told him about her.
3 days into her stay he was shown discernment from the Father that she (my mom) had to leave our house and leave that day! He made it clear, “I am leaving work right now and we are going to move her out right now” I was like, “what!?, what about giving her time, maybe in a week a month something” He made it clear she was to leave and asap.
During the 3 days my mom was acting very erratic and he saw she posed a danger to me and our 2 children while he was at work and I was alone with her because the Lord showed him her purpose was to rule, control and dominate the household that Jesus so beautifully redeemed.
So after trying to convince my husband to give it time I finally agreed with him and told him, “okay but you have to tell her.”
We hung up the phone and the Lord was so beautifully gentle yet perfectly clear when He showed me I was to be the one to tell her. Now I was really terrified. But little did I know at the time the Lord was doing something quite significant and would alter the rest of my life from being set free from that jezebel spirit forever.
In ungodly fear and trembling yet with the strength and power of the Holy Spirit I loved her and respectfully told her she had to leave, that we would pay her way whereever she wanted to go but that she couldn’t stay.
3 hours later she was out of the house. 3 HOURS! No fighting took place, God really kept the strongman Jezebel from thwarting the work the Holy Spirit had done that far.
After 2 days of her leaving I cried and longed for my mom, guilt tried to come when God said something to me one starry night as I cried that was so simple yet so profound. He said in the best words I can write on His behalf, “It is not for you to grieve over her anymore.” When He said those words the tears immediately stopped, I stood straight up and literally felt like a soldier of Jesus Christ taking a command from my Commander and Chief. Obedience took over and never again have I cried for her in that way again.
It has been over 4 years, I do not know where she is and you know what I don’t need to know. All I know and need to know is that God has her. He loves her way more than I ever did or could. I will never speak evil or dishonor about my mother. As a matter of Truth the Lord empowered me to truly Love and and honor her by letting her go into His hands and not be taken captive by the spirit of jezebel that has taken her captive. Generational curse of jezebel has been defeated. Now After 4 kids I finally have my first daughter who is 4 months old and she will know nothing of any spirit except the magnificent, Powerful and most blessed Holy Spirit of the Living God all the days of her life. God bless you in Jesus name, Amen.
hi everyone
many thanks for the great help in revealling the things of the spirit to us, i’m in the proses of getting devorced from my wife because of letting the spirit of jezebel getting to my household, everything is so clear now, will give more detail later on how the above info precisely points out my current situation
praise god he is hope he is the way of escape
Thankyou for your prayers. It seems my son has had the eyes of his heart opened and things are much better for his son.
One yr later i have such a praise! A judge has allowed my grandson to live with his mom and step dad and we get to worship with them at thier church every Sunday.The custody battle is still pending but I praise God for restoring what the enemy had stolen!Please pray that he will be completely signed over to his Mom for rest of his growing up! He was very small for his age and not growing and this yr with his mom he has grown so much and is allowed to pursue his misical talents and sings and plays guitar at church!
A few wks ago after reading Jezebel part i i wrote for prayer for my son and grandson under jezebel spirit in sons wife.Don;t know details but heard she offered him money to just leave.Pray for them.