We saw Elijah on the top of Mount
Carmel, this great man of God called the
fire down from heaven.
The people fell on their face and said,
I don't know who Elohim, they had started
to turn their hearts back to the true
God.
And then he prayed through seven times.
The rain came.
God had told him, confront Ahab and I'll
send the rain.
And then the hand of the Lord comes
upon him.
It says, and the hand of the Lord
came upon Elijah.
This is first Kings chapter 18, verse 46
and gird up his loins and ran ahead
of him, ran ahead of Ahab to the
entrance of Jezreel.
And this is where Jezebel stronghold was.
She had not been on the top of
the mountain.
So Jezebel threatens to kill him.
She sends a messenger to Elijah.
And the scripture said in first King 19,
verse 3, and when he saw that he
ran for his life and went to Beersheba,
Elijah, the hand of the Lord had come
upon Elijah.
That's a word that means the power of
God had come upon him and God had
sent him to Jezreel.
He'd run 25 miles across the Jezreel Valley
where Megiddo is, where the battle of Armageddon
will take place, right down below where we
are here on Mount Carmel, supernatural, supernatural power
had been on him.
And he's called to go and confront Jezebel.
And when he hears she wants to kill
him, which he'd been trying to do for
years, it says he ran for his life.
In Hebrew it says he ran on his
soul.
Our soul is our feelings, our emotions, our
thoughts.
They need to be under the consecration, the
sanctification, the authority of the Holy Spirit, those
of us that are born again of the
Spirit.
We need to operate in the realm of
the Spirit, not in the soul realm.
He fell back into his own feelings and
emotions and it was scary in the natural
that she wanted to kill him, sent a
messenger, said we're going to kill you in
the next 24 hours.
So he ran on his soul, he ran
for his life, and there in the desert
God was going to meet with him again.
Now why did he run from Jezebel?
Jezebel, who is she?
What does she represent to us today in
the 21st century?
She was the daughter of Etbaal, who was
the man of Baal, who was a priest
that was into witchcraft up in what is
today Lebanon.
She was a seductress.
She seduced Ahab.
She took over authority from a man, Ahab
the king, who should have had the authority,
who was a Jew, and she wasn't a
Jew, and she was after control.
She wanted to control and bring her false
religion in.
Jezebel hates God's authority.
She wanted to kill Elijah.
She wanted to kill all the prophets.
She had seduced Ahab and had him under
her thumb.
She had usurped authority.
She hates authority and she goes after God's
leader.
She unleashed a sexual tsunami, you might say,
all over northern Israel.
There was homosexuality and immorality and harlotry all
over the high places of Israel.
Babies, firstborn sons were being sacrificed.
There were temple prostitutes all over Israel.
Jezebel is a spirit of seduction, and rebellion
is as the spirit of witchcraft, it was
a spirit of witchcraft and intimidation.
Now Jezebel is loose in the 21st century.
All you have to do is go out
the door and see what women are wearing.
All you have to do is turn the
television on.
I go on a website every morning to
get some news and there's pornography on there.
You can't avoid it.
I'm just trying to read the news and
these things are popping up.
It is everywhere, trying to seduce men, trying
to take authority away from men.
So rebellion that she brought in can become
witchcraft.
And Jezebel had brought all this in to
northern Israel.
Now what does the New Covenant, the New
Testament say about the spirit of Jezebel?
Let's take a look.
I'm going to read from Revelations chapter 2,
verse 18.
This is the Lord Jesus speaking to a
great church at Thyatira.
The angel of the Lord of Thyatira write,
these things the Son of God, whose eyes
are like a flame of fire and his
feet like brass, says, I know your works,
your love, your service, your faith, your patience,
and as for your works, the last are
more than the first.
This sounds like a very powerful church.
Nevertheless, I have a few things against you,
he says.
Because you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls
herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my
servants to commit sexual immorality and I gave
her time to repent of her sexual immorality
and she did not repent.
Indeed, I cast her into a bed of
sickness and those who commit adultery or spiritual
adultery with her into great tribulation unless she
repents of her deeds.
Now to you, I say, and to the
rest of Thyatira, as many who do not
have this doctrine, who have not known the
depths of Satan, you see, it's a satanic
spirit, as they say, I will put on
you no other burdens.
In the 21st century, this spirit of Jezebel
is not only rampant in the world, in
show business and in dress and fashion and
everywhere you look where seduction has just been
released all over the airwaves, but it is
also operating in the church of Jesus Christ,
especially in congregations who are on cutting edge,
who are preaching the word of God, who
have a prophetic impact.
She hates the prophetic.
She hates churches that are moving forward and
so she will come in and try to
wreck things from the inside.
Now when we first came to Mount Carmel
in 1989, before we came here, we were
attacked by this spirit.
It was incredible.
Somebody started giving my wife words and we
went to the Lord, we got on our
knees, we sought the Lord, we talked to
a couple of pastors that we are close
with and we realized this was not the
Lord so we dealt with it, we confronted
this.
And there were two people that were doing
this and one time I happened to be
looking at the two people, they happened to
be women, and as I looked at them,
before my very eyes they turned into black,
big, slimy pythons.
Pythons are those huge snakes that squeeze the
life out of you.
I got on my knees and prayed and
took authority over that.
When the spirit of Jezebel comes against God's
appointed leaders, you need to deal with it
in the spirit.
Here on Mount Carmel, we ran into the
spirit again, over and over again as a
matter of fact.
One time there was a woman who showed
up with her husband, she never stopped talking,
that was a tip-off right away.
She said she had a ministry to tell
famous men of God what was wrong with
them.
She asked me to pray for her, she
had some injury or some kind of feeling,
some pain, I shouldn't have laid hands on
her, I laid hands on her, when I
laid hands on her, something got on me.
I ended up on the floor later that
night in agony and pain, we didn't know
what it was, I had to go to
the hospital, I went to the hospital, they
couldn't find me for 24 hours, they were
doing tests on me, there was nothing wrong
with me.
In the meantime, she and her husband were
trying to steal people out of the congregation
that had just been born.
We confronted this, they left the nation, one
of them converted to Judaism, they came back,
we confronted it again, I don't know where
they are now.
But God sweeps people like that out of
the land.
It is a spirit of Jezebel who will
come in and try to attack God's people.
Somebody was out here, it happened to be
a woman, said, there are no pastors anymore.
And started giving false words to people, we
had to confront that, those people aren't here
anymore.
Other people came, they had a religious spirit,
they wore religious stuff, and started giving false
words to people.
One was a savage false word to a
woman that devastated her, and it was a
total lie.
We confronted it, the people didn't accept it,
and they said, that man was supposed to
be the pastor, not me.
And so they're after God's authority, they're not
in the land anymore.
And I could tell you story after story
after story.
Many times they're sick, many times they have
wounds, and you can find, the root usually
is they have a problem with authority, they've
been hurt by a man, they're divorced, a
man committed adultery on them, their father was
an authoritarian, it's usually some kind of problem
with authority.
They bring confusion, they cause church splits, I've
seen it happen in different places.
And this spirit is a demon of control,
it's a demon of seduction, and it's a
demon of destruction.
Now how do we deal with Jezebel?
You take authority in the spirit.
Elijah finally prophesied that she would be thrown
down, that she would be trampled, that the
blood of her would be in the ground,
and that's exactly what happened.
When Jehu came and met her, she put
on makeup, she was an old lady, they
threw her out the window, he said, throw
Jezebel down, brothers and sisters, throw the spirit
down in the power of the Holy Spirit,
in prayer, in fasting, praying, praying that they'll
repent, if they don't, just pray them out,
that they'll repent somewhere else.
And let it be said, here lies Jezebel,
which is what Jehu said when she was
destroyed.
I ask you right now in the power
of the Holy Spirit, Yeshua, Jesus, you'll give
us wisdom and anointing to deal with this
spirit, that it won't affect people watching this,
hearing this, and it won't infect congregations and
churches, in the mighty name of Jesus, who
is the King of Kings and the Lord
of Lords.