Defeating Jezebel

2 Kings 9:22.  Now it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?"  So he answered, "What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are so many?"

Jezebel is not just a person, but a spirit...

Rev 2:18-23

"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, ‘These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass:  19 "I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first.  20 Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. 

21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.  22 Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.  23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.

Operates in a spirit of religion

1 Kings 16:31-32

[Ahab] took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him. 32 Then he set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

1 Kings 18:4.  For so it was, while Jezebel massacred the prophets of the Lord

• Comes off as more spiritual, prophetic, prayerful & knowledgeable (teach)
  • Causes you to lower your guard

Stops true worship

• Hinders praise & worship

Intimidates; Knocks off balance – especially after a spiritual high

1 Kings 19:1-3

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time." 3 And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

• Causes to doubt God, self, etc.

Manipulates

1 Kings 21:25.  But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up.

• To incite, to entice to be evil, to lead astray, to stir up causing to deviate

Steals inheritance (& source, resources) – 1 Kings 21

• Causes financial lack – Spirit inflicts poverty
• Discourage working principles of increase

Operates in illegitimate authority – 1 Kings 21

• “The Lord told me…”
• Doesn’t submit – independent
• Looks for a platform – often at their table (1 Kings 18:19)

Seduces – flattery, divisiveness, prophecies

• Wins people to themselves, rather than to the pastor & church
• Pit’s people against leadership & each other – accusations

Curses destiny

2 Kings 9:30-31

Now when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she put paint on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked through a window. 31 Then, as Jehu entered at the gate, she said, "Is it peace, Zimri, murderer of your master?"

Emasculates – ability to reproduce

2 Kings 9:32-33

And he looked up at the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" So two or three eunuchs looked out at him. 33 Then he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses; and he trampled her underfoot.

Brings a spirit of infirmity & suffering – Rev 2:22

How to gain Victory over this spirit 

Kill the witch – Ex 22:18.  “You shall not permit a witch to live.”

Rev 12:7-9

And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, 8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Displace, cast out:  Eph 4:27.   Neither give place to the devil.

Repent 

Acts 3:19.  Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord

Pray against the specific strategies 

Isa 62:8-9.  The Lord has sworn by His right hand and by the arm of His strength:

"Surely I will no longer give your grain as food for your enemies; and

The sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored.

9 But those who have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord;

Those who have brought it together shall drink it in My holy courts."

Rev 12:11.  They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.