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NASB | Revelation 2:20 'But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 2:20 'But I have this [charge] against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess [claiming to be inspired], and she teaches and misleads My bond-servants so that they commit [acts of sexual] immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols. [1 Kin 16:31; 2 Kin 9:22, 30] |
Subject: Is Jezebel part of the church? |
Bible Note: EdB, I totally agree with what you are saying...our flesh is part of what influences our decisions. But if I may make a couple of points, because what may be the point of discussion is whether or not humans can be influenced by demons. I say yes they can. When the devil sees weaknesses in our lives he will try to use those places in our lives to bring destruction to us. For an example, Immediately following Jesus being baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus was lead by the Holy Spirit out into the desert where He was tempted. How was He tempted? Well the devil talked to Him, Right? But because Jesus had complete self control and knew the word of God he was able to resist and thus overcome the temptations of the devil. Perfect example of how we too can overcome what the devil tries to speak to us. Jesus said that we would have trials and temptations also. He showed us how we can overcome those battles with the enemy. Most of our battles are in our minds and come as thoughts that is why we must take every thought captive and discern is this the voice of God, my flesh, or the enemy? I have tried to clarify this point in my other comments, may be this will be clearer...I did not say Jezebel's spirit was influencing people in the church today, I said the spirit that influenced Jezebel is still influencing people today. I think people name it a Jezebel spirit because we can read our bibles and see what kind of person Jezebel was...her character is really obvious, it is not wrong to assume that her life demonstrated a lack of Godliness due to her opening herself up to much darkness. I believe it is biblical to assume that she followed a voice of her flesh that was influenced by voices of darkness. I believe this is biblical to conclued because of Jesus experience in the desert and also again we see in the story of "The Demoniac" Jesus again talked with the devil. The devil had a voice. Jesus asked him what his name was, it replied Legion. So here we can see that the spirits had a name. So when we refer to the Jezebel spirit it is to identify the character and type of influence based on what we can evidently see in Jezebel. But I will agree again in saying yes to everything you said EdB but I would have to add to that the biblical support that does indicate that humans can be influenced by domonic voices even if they are as subtle as thoughts in our own minds. If Jesus had to battle this then it was to give us the assurance and game plan to also overcome. Thanks for letting me share. God Bless. |