The Jezebel in each Woman

… thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee (Genesis 3: 16)

It is interesting that we find no problem with a woman who behaves as if she can do away with men. The sad fact is that this same woman may be an expert in ruining families and to an extent young men and boys by making them dependent on her ‘generosity’.

We deceive ourselves when we think that the only independence that is worthy of our mention must be material or monetary in simple terms. Thus we will label a woman who can never live without a man, even if it has to be a schoolboy, independent simply because she does not depend on a man for her upkeep.

This woman is the epitome of God’s judgment on the woman after the fall. What happens is that she realizes that a stable man is not easy to control and manage. She therefore looks for the weakest link in the family unit; a searching or desperate youth or an unstable or irresponsible husband. Then she can really be in control.

A woman’s innate desire is to control her husband. That is the default position of her makeup. That is the natural leaning of her unreformed heart. Though we use that verse to show that every woman desires to have a man around her, the Hebrew word used in the verse goes beyond that. It includes a desire to overshadow and override her husband.

Before you accuse me of heresy let me give you one other incident that same word is used.

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. (Genesis 4:7)

That makes it evident that the desire to get married was not the judgment God decreed on the woman. That is a natural inclination as we also see it in a man. People crave companionship and fellowship and marriage is the greatest aspect of both. God could not surely have released it as a curse. In fact it was for that very reason He created Eve. He couldn’t have used marriage as an illustration of heaven if it was the product of a curse. We would therefore be imputing sin to God for something He had created even before the fall.

Simply saying Eve was cursed to crave to dominate her husband. In fact it may not even have been a curse. God was just commenting on what had happened. Eve had overshot her position and made the man to do what God had prohibited. She had in actual fact overshadowed him and completely overthrown him to have him eat the forbidden fruit.

Again we see why or the ground was cursed for Adam. He had listened to his wife.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; (Genesis 3:17)

This was because such listening had led him to disobey God’s clear command. A man needs to have two sets of ears; one to listen to his wife and another to listen to God. And there is no need to debate on which should carry the day. But that is not what we are taught nowadays. I have read a lot and attended seminars yet I don’t remember ever hearing this being taught. In fact even a call to ministry has to be verified by a wife for it to be treated as valid in our day. A wife has to hear for God to have spoken to her husband. I know people whose call to ministry was aborted because the wife had not heard. That is purely unbiblical, even wicked.

A wife ought to listen to her husband without fail. In fact even her commitment to God is subject to the same. Let me produce a scripture before you stone me.

But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her. Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity. (Numbers 30:8, 13, 13)

The whole chapter deals with vows. I have taken vows that relate to a married woman to get the point across. Compare that with what the bulk of the church teaches. Compare it with the running of most churches. We even have pastors whose pillars of support are women who are married to ‘demons’, to use common phraseology. These pastors are always praying for the rebellious husband to come back home as if that home belongs to the wife. Is that scriptural? Tell me.

Old Testament doctrine, I can hear someone crying. Is that constrained to the Old Testament? By no means. Again let us look at the same in the New Testament.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. (1Timothy 2:11 - 14)

Again I want us to see the reason for this. Paul takes it back to before the fall. This makes it plain that it is not sin that brought that order about. Sin in actual fact sought to reverse it. And it does the same to date. In fact the order was established to protect us from the allure of sin. Sin and Satan fears structures as he knows he cannot penetrate if he has to use official channels. Man could not have fallen if Satan had sought to convince Adam as not only had he the order but he also knew where it came from. He therefore saw beyond the allurements to the consequences.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? (1Corinthians 14: 34 – 36)

Again it is clear that spiritual instruction in the home is the preserve of the husband, meaning that the wife is simply supposed to learn further from him if there is some preaching that is not clear in the church.

How come that we have everything from pastors to bishops who are women, and many of them women with a ‘mysterious' past? How do men survive there? Or are they men really?

I want to demonstrate that there is a Jezebel in each woman by virtue of that statement God made. This is so that each of us will appreciate the extent of our warfare against our human tendencies and leanings. We will then know how to address issues that proceed from those tendencies. But above all the man will know the order that God gave to counter that tendency.

Before the fall the man was the head of the woman and therefore gave direction to the woman and she followed. After the fall we see a woman seeking to reverse the order of things by controlling the man and overshadowing him. Then God orders the man

he shall rule over thee

The same thing He had told Cain and Cain had failed to do.

Now it does not proceed from the natural order of creation or the authority vested in the man. He now has to counter the sneaky and pervasive albeit veiled resistance to his authority with the full force of his being if he has to be in obedience to God. He has to consider that this wife he so loves seeks to divert him from what God has set in order for him.

But I also want to show that through Christ that leaning can be countered by the power of the gospel if it is given enough space to flourish. But we must be aware that it takes immense investment and commitment to start the journey in that direction.

It is also important to realize that the father of lies works overtime to make sure that this never happens as it will put an end to his work on earth. One thing he does so effectively is to spiritualise the jezebel in each woman by subverting that vice into a virtue. Thus we celebrate the independent woman who many times is a single mother without first asking how she got that child in the first place as we know that children are not picked from trees.

How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. (Jeremiah 31:22)

Again we see a similar thing, only that this time it is being directly connected to the backslidden state. A woman literally compasses a man. I like to compare this to the way a constrictor kills its prey, contrary to what I was brought up believing, it does not break any bones. It just slowly reduces the expansion and capacity of the lungs that they literally stop functioning as they then cannot be able to circulate adequate oxygen to the body.

Is this what nagging does to a man? Why does the Bible indicate that nagging is destructive, at least by inference?

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. (Proverbs 21:9, 19)

We are able to see the power of nagging when we look at Samson.

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death (Judges 16:16)

Yet we see that nagging was full of their love. In fact the total composition of it was her love for Samson and his failure to prove his.

Yet at the back of any nagging is control. Nagging, like we see with Delilah, may be the easiest and most effective way to wear a man down to compromise. It vexes a man so completely, even to death like we see with Samson.

The danger with nagging is that it is so blatant. It can be compared to armed robbery. There is a great danger that the victim may have a rush of adrenaline and react violently to that control by either fighting or fleeing. Thus we can have the man either becoming violent or moving elsewhere. That is if the woman lacks another weapon to suffocate him more comfortably.

The other world knows and exploits this tendency to control in a woman though like Christ said His people many times are ignorant than those of the enemy. There are therefore enough incidents where we can see the destiny of a man being aborted just because he was given just the right woman.

Though for the most part I will use the Bible for my examples, I want us to know that our folk history is riddled with such stories where a champion was brought down by a woman he was given by the enemy. The clearest I can remember is Lwanda Magere, an invincible man of the Luo/ Luhya legends who appeared to be made of stone as no spear could get to him. Like with Samson the enemy made him find a very beautiful girl whose control method was even better than Delilah’s as she just bid her time and made herself invaluable to this champion. And she was eventually able to get his secret and break his power by leaking it to her people.

One other weapon women have that makes it possible for them to get their way is patience. In fact to be a woman is almost synonymous to being patient. Imagine the time they spend to have their hair made? Imagine the nine months they must carry a pregnancy to term? They therefore can bid their time until a man is worn out enough to accede to their control. And that is one most powerful weapon I believe a woman employs to control the man without seeming to control him.

Sarah is totally submitted to Abraham to the point that she can be taken to a harem to protect him. She follows him unquestionably for years though I do not think she understood why. He has no doubts as to whether Sarah was submitted to his lordship. In fact the Bible says that she called him lord.

Then she suggested that he could sleep with Hagar as technically and legally it was not much different from Sarah herself bearing that child.

What does Abraham think? We do not know. But chances are that that submission had worn his faith in God’s promise about Sarah to tatters. He therefore breaks down. We later see him chasing the same girl at the prompting of the same Sarah.

I will state another fact. That a woman is easily swayed in the spiritual. But it is important to realize that spiritual is not only in God’s direction. They can therefore very easily hear voices that do not come from the one they think they are hearing from, and we know the devil is an expert in that. And that was the reason God gave Adam the commandment and why He called Abraham. The subjective nature of spiritual leanings will need more soberness than the feeling, which is what God has entrusted to the man. I suspect Satan whispered to Sarah and she mistook that whisper for God’s revelation. Like Adam before him, Abraham took Sarah’s revelation as from God instead of seeking clarity from God himself.

Rachael was the woman Jacob loved. But she was the one who carried the spirit of Laban in its entirety. There was more than beauty and love that made him work fourteen years for her and that is what her father capitalized on. Laban used that spirit to exploit this blessing that was Jacob. You remember she is the one who carried away her father’s idols? Though she loved Jacob desperately, I believe she was a liability to his spiritual walk. That may have been the reason God had closed her womb. It might also have been the reason she had to die before Jacob reconnected with his destiny. Otherwise explain to me why Joseph, the eleventh born was given the birthright reserved for the firstborn?

We see the same with Michal, David’s first wife and the wife he loved so much he could break the commandment to get her back after she was married by another. I am sure Saul realized that Merab did not have what it took to neuter David’s growing influence that he had to go back on his word before the whole army. Michal had the right spirit, and by that I mean a spirit that could bring a man into submission. And we get that clearly at the end when we see her not even touched by David’s spiritual growth and worship. She was simply playing in another league. How can she not be affected by the worship of the whole city and comes out only to castigate her husband for embarrassing her?

Rebecca plays games around her husband to ensure that the son she favors gets the husband’s blessing because I think she had tried for years unsuccessfully to get him see it her way.

Bathsheba took the game of control to another level. I suspect she strategically positioned herself so that David could see her bathing. Otherwise explain to me how you can bathe outside with a palace overlooking you unless you have really done your homework to ensure that only the king can see. Otherwise soldiers on patrol would also see their boss’s wife naked. The palace roof is not the preserve of the king. I am sure there were soldiers there most times.

But look at how she positions Solomon. Again she is able to bring David to her position without having to nag like Michal or Delilah.

Let us look at instances where the other side used the power of a woman to accomplish their purposes. I will look at the intent and the result which means some will be positive and others negative.

That Joseph was blessed was evident to all. Again I think that the reason Potipher’s wife wanted to sleep with him had little to do with sex. She may have simply wanted his seed and later the control of all that blessing. I suspect even her husband may have wanted the same. It was the embarrassment of being found out that prompted him to imprison Joseph. How do you convince people that you wanted your slave to impregnate your wife?

But look at the game when he gets promoted. Where do they get a wife for him from? They simply look for the most spiritually portent place, the priesthood, and not the palace. This they knew is the easiest way to assimilate him into Egypt with his blessing. Fortunately his spirituality was way above all the spirituality of Egypt and so were not able contain him as they had intended.

We see the same with Moses in Midian. He is given the heiress of the priesthood, the firstborn. And we see him struggling with her control. She is able to make him refuse to circumcise his son. We can see her spiritual awareness when God seeks to slay Moses. She immediately connects with the cause and rectifies it. She then goes back to her father, probably because she realizes that Moses was getting out of her control.

Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites. And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. (Numbers 25:14, 15)

We see the Moabites playing the same game. We know they had a highly spiritual adviser, Balaam the prophet. The Israelites thought that there was sex cheaply available, sex on demand if you wish, when they saw Moabite girls and women on display. But the Moabites were very strategic. The really spiritual and leaders were availed even more spiritual women in the other direction to neuter their spiritual responsiveness. Now just tell me who was bound to win between the explorer and the strategist? No wonder thousands fell.

Let me also mention that sex is one of the most powerful spiritual weapons whichever way we looked. Sex is actually a spiritual covenant whether we realize it or not. And it is one weapon a woman knows how to use most effectively, especially to control. Again the one who knows is the one who can take advantage of it, and I want to state that the other side is under no illusions about it. They therefore are always exploring more creative ways of using our ignorance to subjugate us with this powerful weapon. And pornography is the modern weapon in that whether in the movies or the net. No wonder it is a billion dollar industry. Another is alcohol as it weakens a man’s resistance to the sensual. And many times the two work hand in hand.

Sex is the primary weapon of the other woman. Witchcraft is a secondary one and proceeds from it. Yet it is at the point of sex that she derives her greatest power. That is the reason she will not allow the man to go back even temporarily to his wife as she knows that is where she derives her power.  She also is under no illusions about the sexual allure of the man’s official love. Then she will totally strangle him to insanity and absolute folly that he will forget that he had any other member in his family. He then will pamper children he doesn’t know whose they are even as his own children wallow in poverty and need. That also applies to prostitutes. They may appear simple sex objects but they have a great agenda from hell to destroy and destabilize families simply through the spiritual interchange of demons in the illicit sex act.

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? (Proverbs 6:26 - 28)

That is the reason God is very persistent in His warning His people against sexual sin. No sex is safe outside the boundaries God set.

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. (1Corinthians 6: 16, 18)

That is the level we take ourselves to when we cannot keep our trousers zipped. But we do not only sin against our own bodies, we sell our posterity.

But we are talking about Jezebel and the spirit of control in each woman. It is only that I realize that sex may be their ultimate weapon in that control. Therefore we may boil that control into the provision or denial of sex. Many times we will find a harassed man being one whose wife consistently denies him conjugal rights and he does not advocate violence or lacks in that direction. Then he will do anything to get that sexual release. Then the wife can further entrap him.

Another way a man can be imprisoned in the same direction is when a woman demands too much sex so that the man fails to cope. Then she will apply guilt and threaten to expose him since, ‘what kind of man are you?’ That automatically shuts his sex drive, making it easier for the woman to suffocate him. She may threaten to run off to men who can perform, eventually turning her man into jelly. Then she will be able to walk all over him.

Let us get back to Jezebel. She ties with what we have been discussing.

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. (1Kings 16:31)

This young king is brought a wife by a heathen king who I believe was mature in the worship of demons as Ahab was ignorant about the worship of God. She then becomes his mentor in all things spiritual. I believe that was the reason she was brought to him.

She was so advanced spiritually that she could practice prostitution in the palace and the king had no problem with it.

And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? (2Kings 9:22)

She might have had immense sex appeal as we see even Jehu scared to meet with her, probably fearing that he could easily come under her snare. Again look at what she does after learning of the overthrow of her husband.

And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. (2Kings 9:30)

She does not behave like someone in grief. I am sure she was planning on being Jehu’s new wife or concubine, at least from the way she decked herself. She was planning for Jehu to think that he had completely finished Ahab to the extent of capturing his wife as a trophy of war. Then she could have easily wormed herself to the kind of relationship she had with Ahab. Jehu may have realized that she was far too advanced spiritually to have around and that was the reason he ordered her killed. It is interesting that the people who threw her down were not real men but eunuchs, simply because they had no sex drive to fall under her skirts (2 Kings 9)

We see her daughter doing something similar in Judah once her son who had been the king she controlled died.

And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. (2Kings 11:1)

This was because she realized that she could no longer control the kingdom. She therefore killed anyone who may have become a king so that she was undisputed as the queen.

 Was she alone? I do not think so. She had enough men in her team and I do not think diplomacy was what she used to control them.

Solomon was the one person for whom women were used to literally cause him to lose his connection to God yet he had had two distinct encounters with Him. This clearly tells us that no spiritual experience is able to insure us against the power of a woman unless it is an ongoing experience, current at all times. But we see the same scenario repeated. Kings sought alliances with him by simply preparing very highly trained spiritual maidens who were able to use their sexuality to bring this man of God down, all the way to worshipping their idols.

Lest you think I am demonizing women, let me say that the gospel offers the real solution to this. I also need to add that there are women in the Bible who exemplified the right spirit and I want us to look at some of them.

I want us to realize that most women whose names appear in the Bible were the controlling type. They are marked for their aggression and ‘initiative’ which though for our times we think is positive was really not. But we have women whose mention was positive. These are some of the ones I will mention.

Abigail was married to a fool who made a foolish blinder that exposed his posterity to extermination. When she realizes what he had done, instead of going to confront him she decides to rectify the situation herself. Thus instead of his whole lineage being cleared, God just removes Nabal from the picture. Even when she joins David, we do not see her pushing and shoving to position her sons to take over from David as king as the other wives were doing. She was content to serve the king.

Leah was Jacob’s first wife who bore half of the nation of Israel. Though she had a very aggressive sister who really fought to run the show, we are able to see Leah growing in grace and trust in God as she slowly surrenders her battles to Him.

Ruth was exceptional. She was willing to obey orders that may have made no sense to her due to her upbringing because she trusted Naomi and Boaz she had directed her to. I wonder how many women would go and lie beside a man in the dark, a man one does not even know.

The Proverbs 31 woman fits the bill. Though she was very hardworking and entrepreneurial, we find her husband very safe in the city gate, probably solidifying all those deals she was making as that was where most of the trade was done. It is impossible to imagine that woman putting her husband in his place as most women nowadays pride themselves in. Her children were also proud in her instead of harassed as most of the successful women do to their children.

I said that I believe the power of the Gospel is what can make a woman a model of humility. That is what we see with the noble woman here.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30)

It is the surrender of her life to the guidance and word of God that has the capacity of producing that kind of woman.

A woman filled with the Spirit will be subject to the laws of God. It is impossible to be full of the Spirit and independent. God can never lead you contrary to His revealed word. The main purpose of the Spirit is not to give us joy, or laughter, gifts or even tongues. He fills us with the character of the Godhead. It will therefore produce the nature of God outwardly.

It is imperative that the check list of that fullness is simply the scriptures as God will never lead us to disregard His word.  I can never be led of God and break my marriage. I can never be led of God and disregard the authority of my husband.

Is it not interesting that the witnessing tool of a woman with an unsaved husband is submission?

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. (1Peter 3:1, 2)

This is because she has been transformed from the natural tendencies of her former life to a total reliance on the guidance of the Holy Spirit who is at all times consistent with the word of God in all her doings. It is deception for a woman to defy her unbelieving husband to attend a religious function, however spiritual it looks, because it isn’t. Unless it is the spirituality of the other side! I do not even want to touch on the spiritual leadership of women as the Bible is very clear on it. Exceptions do not nullify the rule, which is what I think our generation has perfected. We have made the exception the normal and the normal abnormal. Yet look at Jesus.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:17-19)

How can we celebrate the elevation of the Jezebel spirit even in our churches? Why are we like the people Christ told who want to nullify the word of God by our traditions? Why are we comfortable with a single mother leading even in church instead of being involved with dealing with that spirit causing her to seek and celebrate independence? Aren’t we better off looking for ways to help women and the unstable men avoid sexual sin that not only causes immense spiritual injury but also starts that journey? I know there are some women who were taken advantage of and some even deceived and abused. But should our ministry not be the one to sort out these issues? In any case don’t they need our healing touch instead of the release of Jezebel?

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. (Deuteronomy 23:2)

Why is God this ‘judgmental’ on a person who had no choice as to where he is born or raised? How can He condemn a person to spiritual uselessness due to no fault of his?

I think that the lack of a father (not through death) may be the clearest indicator of the Jezebel spirit, if not the cause. A man thus raised has therefore drunk to the dregs from that spirit all his life. He therefore lacks the spiritual capacity to approach God even for his own benefit, leave alone for ministry purposes. That he was to be excluded from the congregation of God’s people even to the tenth generation tells us how God views our normal.

Another reason may have been that God wanted family to be revered by all. The family structure was therefore the only legal way to raise children. Anything else was in direct opposition to His revelation and therefore excluded from any structure that originated from Him. Is it not then abominable in the sight of God that we not only give the bastard’s mother leadership in church but we even give that forbidden child leadership as well?

We also see widows being given advice to remarry especially if they were still young, and that in the New Testament.

But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. (1Timothy 5:11, 14)

I believe this will guard them against nurturing the Jezebel tendency in them because of that independence.

In summary let me say a few things.

In each woman’s makeup is the inborn desire to dominate men. This is due to her fallen nature and not a curse. It therefore needs for her to realize that tendency in her and to counter it by the power of the Gospel.

I believe her most powerful weapon in attaining that control is her sex appeal. That is the reason God warned about intermingling with ungodly nations in marriage. This is because the devil sends people he has thoroughly prepared to bring God’s people down even as God’s people are getting in it for the fun or taking advantage of the opportunities. Samson is one clear example.

Unless for very few exceptions, the single mother epitomizes the jezebel spirit. No wonder God blocks her sons from the congregation more or less forever.  Her independence is the wrong environment to raise any children in the spiritual.

A godly woman is submitted to her husband as she allows the word of God to take root in her spirit and the Holy Spirit takes complete charge in her life. This is because God can never lead someone contrary to His revealed will in the scriptures.

Let me conclude by saying that there is hope even for a woman with the double portion of the Jezebel spirit. The only thing I will say is that for anything to happen acknowledgement has to be made that the spirit in her charge is contrary to the spirit of Christ. Again I will give examples.

Jericho was doomed, yet the only person who was doomed even by Jericho was saved with her family, Rahab the harlot. She had lived off that spirit as it was the one that provided for her. Imagine she could turn the king away from getting the spies! Yet she was the only one in the city to connect to Jehovah even as she submitted to His revelation and leadership.

Mary Magdaline is also said to have been a harlot, which may have been the cause of her seven demons. That she was rich and formerly independent was not in doubt. Yet we see her totally submitting to Christ and the apostles after Him. It is no wonder that she was the first person to see Christ after His resurrection.

The Proverbs 31 woman was all industry but we see her husband and children not suffering under her authority because she was submitted to the rule of her husband and not independent as we like to preach.

But I will not have done my assignment if I do not say that Jezebel and all women operating in that spirit MUST be judged because that spirit is in direct opposition with God’s order and structure.

Jezebel herself was eaten by dogs. Rachael died before getting to her husband’s promise. Michal never bore the man she loved any child. Athaliah was killed.

But it is worse because as we have seen with the bastard she does not get into judgment alone. She goes down with the men she controls, the children she bears, the money she makes. It is not worth the struggle.

So before you celebrate the independent woman and the single mother let me ask you these few questions. Could she be independent from the rule of God in her life even if she looks all spiritual? Could all that spirituality be emanating from Jezebel instead of God whose structures her life stands against? Could her preaching and spiritual leadership be Jezebelic in nature?

God bless you

PS. Have you ever wondered why men who run their families like military institutions have no complications we find in loving families? Why do their wives not run away or become adulterous if as people say they are stifled? Why is divorce almost unheard of in those marriages?

On the other hand why is it that the most romantic marriages are full of drama from adultery to separation to divorce? Could it be that all that romanticism is the breeding and nurturing ground for the Jezebel spirit?

Just asking