In this hour we are taught heavily on Jezebel, Elijah and Ahab. We are also taught to fear Jezebel subconciously. Why do I say that? Because that Spirit is blamed to be in everybody that is sinning and doing wrong. LOL! Truth of the matter is it is a reigning Spirit, but please be careful not to call everybody Jezebel, because everybody is not. Some people just need to come to The Light of Jesus Christ and Be Set Free. EVERYBODY YOU SEE IS NOT BOUND BY A SPIRIT OF JEZEBEL! In these notes Part 1 and 2 my Purpose is to help you Identify this Spirit for yourself. This is not for you to go on a Witchhunt and call everybody abusive,Jezebel, controlling, and try to make all People out to be False Prophets. Please be careful what you say about people, don't be so quick to point the finger.
Here we go. In The book of 1Kings we are introduced to Ahab the King of Isreal and His Wife Jezebel, The Princess of Sidian and The Priestess of Baal. Lets look for a minute at the Word in 1Kings 16;29-31
"And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years. And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him. 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."
Lets take a look at that for a minute. The Word says that Ahab who was King of Israel was the son of Omri (who by the way was also a wicked King, So we see that Ahab inherited these ways) did more wicked than any other King in Isreal. He provoked God the Most. Why? Because He not only took a wife who was a Priestess of a False God BAAL but, He worshiped Baal and set up a Temple and an Altar in Samaria for Baal and a Wooden image (1 Kings 16;32-34).
So this is the first thing we discover The King married The Princess who was a Priestess, and moved her gods into the land of Israel and worshiped her gods, although He knew who The True and Living God was.
Now Jezebel is allowed to freely worship Baal, and not only that, Teach the people and educate them on her god. And because she is Queen and Priestess, she has the Head of The King to influence, to try to Seduce and Persuade everybody to disregard The True and Living God Yaweh, but serve her god throughout the land. She became an enforcer of this policy as AHAB allowed her. He gave her His power literally which made her guilty of Usurping Authority to Abuse Authority. That word usurp means: To seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right. In this case she used illegal right.
So legally she operated as The Head or King by stepping over The Authority that was originally given to AHAB as King, but He provoked God by allowing her to run the show. Thus making the people subject to her and her gods as so was he (who was the King). Now that was a move from hell wasn't it.
Lets look at her first attempt in usurping King Ahab's authority shall we. 1 Kings 19 "And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time."
She threatened Elijah The True Prophet of God for slaughtering all of her false prophets on Mount Carmel. Which she had no right or Authority to do. But who rebuked her? NOONE. Who stopped her? NOONE. Why did she even feel like are feel comfortable making that threat? Because she was already given the Authority and Power to do so by her husband THE KING. She took the Head of her husband symbollically, and now she was threating to take the Head of Elijah The Prophet of God so that she could Intimidate the people and make him out of an example. That She was first of all THE HEAD PROPHETESS, AND HER GOD WAS THE HEAD GOD. He took the heads of baals prophets symbolizing That Our God was The One and Only True God and there was no other HEAD (GOD) Beside Him.
We shall continue this in part to just laying down the foundation so that you can see (also see 1 Kings Chpt. 18 to get the story of what happened before this all took place).