Jesus Speaks to Churches Tolerating the Demon Jezebel

Jesus was disgusted with the Church at Thyatira as recorded in the book of Revelation Chapter Two. His disgust was with toleration of the Demon Jezebel. This demon spirit is alive and well in many churches in America today. Jesus was upset and said this:

To the Church in Thyatira

¹⁸ "To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:

These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze. ¹⁹ I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.

²⁰ Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. ²¹ I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. ²² So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. ²³ I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds. ²⁴ Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets, 'I will not impose any other burden on you, ²⁵ except to hold on to what you have until I come.'

²⁶ To those who are victorious and do my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— ²⁷ they 'will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery' —just as I have received authority from my Father. ²⁸ I will also give them the morning star. ²⁹ Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

So, what does the demon of the Jezebel Spirit look like in a church? It's pretty ugly. It is self centered, power seeking and controlling. When it comes up if it's not crushed as Jesus says He will do, it will destroy a church from the inside.

From a book on the Spirit of Jezebel I have reviewed here are some excerpts:

First, the Jezebel spirit has a huge ego and wants to meet its desire and need for power. The Jezebel spirit does this by assuming false authority by any means possible. With this false authority the Jezebel spirit not only fulfills its need for power, but also gets tremendous ego satisfaction as it continually maneuvers for a high position on any hierarchical totem pole — either real or imaginary.

Second, the Jezebel spirit will continue and continue and continue to proclaim their authority. The Jezebel spirit has to do this because it has no real authority. So they have to continue to remind others that they have authority.

Third, the Jezebel spirit is quick to attribute any “problems” others point out to them as being caused by the person who brought it up. Remember, the Jezebel spirit “leader” claims self-proclaimed “speciality” and you don’t. Again, a variation of the “false authority” theme.

The tactics of the Jezebel spirit are these:

A. Approval, appreciation, acceptance and recognition are a basic desire of every human being. Controlling spirits of Jezebel are more than willing to accommodate that desire and will verbally praise you publicly and privately. The Jezebel spirit will appear to be a loving and gracious person, oozing and dripping with flattery on those occasions when it best serves their purposes. They will woo and win you over to their “cause” by their insincere flattery — if you let them.

B. The Jezebel spirit is skilled at endorsing your (sometimes repressed or hidden) personal desires to be an authoritarian leader. Having toyed with the idea of perhaps eventually becoming a great leader and servant for God this type of false prophecy is very heady, exhilarating, influential and motivating. This is really an extension of all that false verbal praise and flattery.

C. Eventually they will use the verbal praise and flattery they built you up with as a reference point to measure your expected performance. You will now be found to be lacking in some or all areas of such performance. This is another aspect of the praise and flattery, the purpose of which is to manipulate and intimidate you by expressing the disappointment that the Jezebel spirit now feels in you having disappointed God by your failure to conduct yourself as an up and coming powerful religious leader. The purpose of this semantical nonsense is to motivate you to do only what they tell you to do.

The controlling spirits of Jezebel are experts in giving and withholding flattery to continue to exercise their false authority over you.

D. You will begin to notice that there are “unspoken rules” which are constantly changing. Knowing that you will be labeled as “the problem” if you ask any questions you subconsciously adjust your thinking to keep in step with that of your “leader.”

E. Their walk won’t match their talk. Contradictory statements will be made that sound like they violently oppose what they are, in fact, doing. They try extremely hard to paint a beautiful verbal picture of their ugly behavior, not them.

If you are the Leader of a Church or Fellowship you owe it to people for whom you are responsible as shepherd to not let this infection in your midst and if it is, you must remove it. The worst is, this is often a person who you rely on greatly. One who works hard. One who is in "Authority".

It would be OK except this demon carries death.

It's a choice you must make.