Mike Bickle addresses the end-time conflict against the spirit of Jezebel, drawing parallels between the Old Testament Jezebel, who opposed Elijah, and the New Testament Jezebel in Revelation, who seduces believers into immorality and idolatry. He emphasizes the need for the church to recognize and resist this spirit, which seeks to dull the conscience and shut down the prophetic voice through sin. Bickle warns that the spirit of Jezebel will escalate to murder and theft, and he encourages believers to stand firm in prayer and righteousness, as God will ultimately bring judgment against this spirit. The sermon highlights the importance of spiritual vigilance and the power of prayer in overcoming the challenges posed by the spirit of Jezebel in the end times.

Okay, let's go ahead and open our Bibles to 1 Kings 18. You can just have that ready. And we'll be referring to several places in Kings, so you have it ready to go. Although I do have many of the verses on the notes, but I always kind of like to be able to look them up myself. Father, we come before you in the name of Jesus, and we ask you for a spirit of impartation, a spirit of revelation. I ask you for strength in the inner man. Right now, as we receive your word, we ask you, God, for the flashes of fire from your eyes to strengthen our spirit. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, tonight I want to talk about the end time war in the body of Christ against the spirit of Jezebel. It's the war against the spirit of Jezebel. Jezebel. Paragraph A, in the Bible, there's two different women called Jezebel. There's one that is commonly referred to as the Old Testament Jezebel. That's the one who opposed Elijah. And then there's the New Testament Jezebel, two totally different people, separated by about 800 plus years. And she's the Jezebel at the Church of Thyatira that we've studied about in Revelation chapter two. And it's the Jezebel in Thyatira, the New Testament Jezebel, that really draws our attention to the significance of the spirit of Jezebel warring against the church throughout history, but particularly in the end times. Revelation chapter two, verse 20. Now, this is Jesus speaking. Now, he's speaking to a first century church, but it has its application throughout church history, and it has its full application in the generation the Lord returns. He says, I have a few things against you. Now, if you remember, this is a church in its context that is one of the, it is a church of one of the most impressive descriptions of any church in the New Testament. Jesus told them in Revelation chapter two, verse 19, the verse before, he told them how he saw their works and their love and their perseverance under persecution called patience. He goes, I see your patience. He says, I even see that the works that you're doing now are even more than the ones you used to. In other words, they were growing spiritually. And yet to this strong and growing church, not just growing numerically, but growing spiritually as well, he says, I have some things against you. You tolerate the woman Jezebel. Not that the whole church followed her teaching, but they allowed it to be tolerated in the context of the body of Christ. And Jezebel was a recognized teacher in the context of that congregation. She calls herself a prophetess. And you can be sure that if Jesus points it out at this level, that her reputation was well-known and established. Now, Jesus didn't say she was a prophetess, but the point being that she had a reputation of having accurate and powerful revelations. In other words, she was a powerful woman with a very influential teaching ministry in the church. He says, here's the essence of what she does. It's different than what the Old Testament Jezebel did, but the combination of the two gives us the picture of the war in the end times. Here's what she did. She seduced the bond servants of the Lord to do two things, to be involved in immorality and to be involved in idolatry. Now, immorality is a reference to physical pleasure outside the will of God. Obviously in the sexual arenas I'm talking about, not just all physical pleasure. But idolatry is not just a empty or a ritualistic religion is the better way to say it. It's a religion that is filled with demonic power. Now, as Westerners, we look at idolatry just looks foolish that somebody would kneel before a stone or a statue and take it serious. But if you peer into the testimonies of the people through history that have done this, many of them testify a very powerful encounters that they believe to be with the true God, but we know it to be with a demon. I don't have this verse in the notes, but in 1 Corinthians 10, verse 20 and 21, Paul said that idol worshipers are actually worshiping demons. They're interacting with real demon spirits. It's not just a empty ritualistic kind of a ceremony. There's really an encounter of power. Well, the Jezebel in the New Testament, the New Testament Jezebel, she was seducing the people. She was inspiring them to move forward in this arena of the immorality and of spiritual encounters. One touched the body, one touched the spirit. Now the Jezebel in the Old Testament, she did that for sure. But the thing that's highlighted is her fierce persecution, her murderous rage against the true prophets of God. So the Old Testament certainly makes clear that she was involved in idolatry and fornication, but the highlight or the thing that's emphasized is the persecution, the murderous spirit. And in the New Testament, we only see the introduction to the spirit of Jezebel. In the idolatry and the immorality, but I tell you in the end times, it's clear in the book of Revelation, particularly in Revelation 13, that the murderous dimension will completely come to light in due time. So you put the two pictures together, the Old Testament Jezebel, the New Testament Jezebel, we get the picture of the end time conflict with Jezebel, that for which the Lord is preparing the church for even in this hour. We study both different Jezebels and we discern the principles that are necessary to prepare us to have victory. Roman numeral two, the Old Testament Jezebel, her persecution, her conflict with Elijah. And it's not just Elijah, but it's her persecution of all the prophets of Israel. Paragraph A, Jezebel, we first are introduced to her as the queen of Israel. That's what she is by her position, but her passion was, she was an occultist. She was a witch. Her passion was power in the spirit realm. And of course, she enjoyed power in the natural realm, but power in the spirit realm is what she was really focused on. And though the end time increase of immorality right now doesn't apparently seem to be connected to occultism or Satanism, but that's where it's going in Satan's strategy. It's not just an end in itself to just get a bunch of people interacting with a spirit of impurity. It's an order to open them up, to deaden their conscience, to defile their spirit, so they'll move to the next dimension of Satan's plan, and that is to be fully involved in the occult. People with a deadened conscience will move into the occult arena far quicker than somebody who doesn't. And there's nothing that deadens the conscience like immorality, it dulls the spirit. And not only does it provide the context for people to move to the next dimension of Satan's agenda, which is spiritual encounters with demons, it also shuts down the prophetic spirit. Immorality, the defilement of it, and the guilt that follows it produces the net result as it shuts people down in the power of God. Their spirit is dull, and they don't even wanna go there. They don't reach to move in the spirit, number one. And then the guilt that many people have, even though they know the truth, they still linger in guilt, makes them feel disqualified. So they feel out of the mood, so to speak, a dull spirit, and they feel hopeless, like what's the use anyway? And so it's a twofold victory of Satan. He dulls the spirit of the church so they don't even reach to move in the power of God, and he prepares them to move to the next level of Satan's agenda in the end times in a particular way, and that is to be involved in satanic activity. And that's not an end in itself either. Ultimately, he wants the people, once they get involved in immorality and then demons in the occult, with mind-altering substances, alcohol, as well as the many different types of drugs. The other dimension in Satan's strategy is to get them to be involved in murder. And if they're not involved in it directly, they will draw back and allow murder to happen in society. This thing begins by a global explosion of sexual immorality. That's what's on Satan's agenda, and that's what we're aiming at tonight, to expose that and to create a context of our sexuality. There's a bigger issue going on in God's kingdom, as well as Satan's kingdom, than just the pleasure of the moment. Did we give ourself to it or did we not? It prepares us to go in one direction or another in terms of the larger end time purposes of God. Paragraph B, she was raised in Sidon, which was the country just, or the region just north of Israel. She was a foreign princess and her father, the King of Sidon, gave her in marriage to King Ahab in order to create a political alliance. And then when she moved down, just it was a nation, the area next door to Israel up in the north, when she moved down to Israel, to the city of Jezreel, which was the capital, the place of King Ahab's palace, immediately she established her own religion, the religion she grew up with back home, she established it in the northern part of Israel, because at this particular time, Israel was in a civil war, they had been divided. There was the southern kingdom called Judah and the northern kingdom called Israel. And so different times in Old Testament history, or I mean, for a couple hundred years, you hear of Israel and Judah, and some that are new with their Bible, they go, what is it? Well, they had a civil war for about a 200 year period. There was the north and the south. And so Ahab was a king in the north called the King of Israel. And the King of the south was a totally different empire. What happens is that Jezebel in this new religion, she brings idol worship to the north, her own particular flavor, which was a very intense developed form of bell worship. And she, her daughter, she had her daughter marry the King in the south. And so down in Judah, she was also, she had her evil tentacles influencing the kingdom of Judah, the southern part of the kingdom of Israel. Paragraph C, now Ahab and his new wife Jezebel, they had three children. Interesting. They named all three children names that reflect the God of Israel. And Ahab even consulted the prophets of Israel. He valued them and took their word serious. He didn't fear God, but he valued them. He took their word serious. My point is this, the Ahab-Jezebel dynamics of the political power mixed with sorcery. That's the picture we get. That's where it's going, where sorcery will be officially involved at the state level. Now I have no doubt that's happening across the world, the sorcery's influencing state decisions, but this will be an open, open, well-known public policy that the occult and politics will come together. You know, the cry of the separation of religion and state, which certainly is a biblical concept, it's been being perverted in our nation, but the state and religion will be joined in many nations of the earth, but with occult. Of course, then when the Lord comes, he'll reverse it and the church and the state will be joined again through Jesus's leadership, the theocracy that he'll establish that is coming. But we have a sort of perverted theocracy here. We have a joining of the church and the state of sorts through Ahab and Jezebel, but they have this religious respectability. I mean, they don't have a genuine faith in the God of Israel, but they have a respectable embrace of religion. I mean, they named their kids after the God of Israel and she is an occultist and he is fully engaged with her in what she's doing. They even seek the advice of prophets. Of course, she put a stop to that after a while because the prophets wouldn't come at Ahab's invitation because they thought they would be killed and they would. Paragraph D, let's read this verse in 1 Kings 21. There was no one like Ahab, the King Ahab, who sold himself to do wickedness. Why? Because Jezebel stirred him up. My point is this, evil in an introductory and its beginning stages, but I'm talking about in its more developed stages, can be imparted. People can be stirred up by evil people to embrace evil. Of course, that's what the false prophet will do. He's the ultimate Jezebel, the false prophet and the antichrist joining together church and state. It's the Ahab Jezebel combination in Revelations 13. But my point is Ahab became the most wicked king of his time and he was stirred up by an occultist person. Paragraph E, she used the powers of state on a grand scale in the king's court in Jezreel. Again, Jezreel is the capital of the Northern kingdom. Jerusalem is the capital of the Southern kingdom, obviously. And she financed, look at this, 850 full-time prophets. It says that when they ate at her table, that means she fully supported them financially. Can you imagine having 850 occult prophets, Satanist prophets in the king's court? Now, there was nothing like this before Jezebel married Ahab. And this is what she insisted on. Now, the antichrist in Revelation 13, the antichrist is a spirit. It's been operating through history, but the antichrist is a real person that emerges in the generation the Lord returns. He will also join the church and the state, so to speak. Won't be the church, but I'm talking about religion and the state. And he will finance antichrist worship across the earth, which will be a fullness of what Ahab and Jezebel are doing only in part here in this passage. Paragraph F, Jezebel not only hunted down the prophets, she murdered them. Whoever opposed her, she would hunt down and she would murder. Now, we're gonna see this happen again, but I wanna emphasize the word in 1 Kings 18, verse 10, hunt down. They were hunting for the prophets everywhere. Elijah was encountering one of the prophets and he said, this prophet said, Ahab is hunting you down in every nation of the world. And this man said, we've got a hundred prophets hidden in caves that Jezebel didn't know about. When Jezebel is fully operating, what happens when things are going bad? The prophets go into caves, they go into hiding. It's in the spiritual sense, it's what happens in the introduction of the spirit of Jezebel. Again, immorality is merely the introduction of the spirit of Jezebel. It's a very powerful introduction, but it's not the full plan in Satan's heart. What happens when people get involved in immorality, they go into caves, they go into hiding spiritually. They shut down in their spirit. They don't reach for the high things of God, even though they might hang out with people they do. They may maintain the language they used to have when they were reaching for the high things of God. I mean, Ahab and Jezebel, they're naming their kids after the God of Israel. I mean, you can keep the language going and still be hiding in a cave in your spirit, in a spiritual way. But here in a literal way, in a physical way, they were hiding because there was so much fear among the prophets of God of losing their life. And it's real. The end time saints, some of them, the number will be large, but the percentage will be small. Meaning we're believing God for a billion souls. Many, many people are believing God for one or two billion souls in the great harvest. And even if a hundred million die, it's a huge number. That's still 10%. It's a small percent. Most of the church will not be martyred. It may be a hundred million. It may be a couple hundred million, who knows, but it will still be less. In my opinion, it will be less than the majority. The percentage will still be smaller instead of larger. But what's gonna happen is that the spirit of Jezebel will succeed. And we need to be ready not to cower before it. There will be supernatural protection as well, but there will be those who lose their life, just like in the days of Jezebel. John the Baptist lost his life at the hands of the spirit of Jezebel. Herod and Herodias, his wife, and the seductive daughter who did the dance and asked for the head of John the Baptist. It was clearly a spirit of immorality that was operating in Herod that made him open to kill John the Baptist. The spirit of Jezebel happening again. So you can read 1 Kings 18. That's one of the central chapters, 1 Kings 18. You wanna make sure you make that a highlight. We're not gonna go through that just for time's sake, because I wanna give a bit of an overview and then have you do your own more in-depth study and feeding on this on your own. Paragraph G. When Ahab finally stood before Elijah, because Elijah came out of hiding and he asked for a meeting with Ahab and he got it. It's interesting that Ahab in 1 Kings 18, verse 17, calls Elijah the troubler of Israel. He says, you troubler of Israel. Now, this was a serious charge. This wasn't just a small thing. But what happens in verse 18 is Elijah turns it back on him. He says, no, you're the one that's troubling Israel because of your disobedience. You're bringing the judgment of God upon the land. Now, the reason that he's calling Elijah the troubler of Israel, because there's a three and a half year drought that's happening in Israel and the people are starving and the animals are dying, the crops are failing, three and a half years drought, because Elijah prayed and shut up the sky. And so they're looking for Elijah. And Elijah is the one that prayed that opened the sky too. It's that Moses dynamic before God where the end time prophets will pray and release the judgment and they'll pray and stop the judgment and they'll pray and release it. They'll pray and stop it. It will be in the hands of the prayer movement. And so because of the drought, he called him a troubler of Israel. And he said, no, the drought's because of you. He goes, the judgments that are coming from heaven, yes, I prayed and released them and I prophesied them, yes, but the judgment that's coming from heaven is because of the sin that's in the land. He goes, we can break the drought if the people will repent. That's exactly what happened. At the end of 1 Kings 18, the people repented because of the great showdown at Mount Carmel. And then the rain came, because the rain came and the land was healed. The passage we know so well, 2 Chronicles 7, if my people who are called by name will humble themselves and pray, I will heal their land. And if 2 Chronicles 7 is about sending rain and breaking the drought and healing the land, and that's what happened right here in 1 Kings 18 and 19. But the point I wanna make here is that the king who was well-respected and very influential, I mean, we look at Ahab now as a guy we have no respect for, but in his day, he was highly respected, very influential. This is a public relations war that's going on. And it's gonna happen again too, that the heads of state will say to the church, you're the ones causing the problems. And the multitudes will believe it. This is not an insignificant reality. This is part of the war of Jezebel against the end time church. But Elijah didn't back away, he held his ground. He goes, no, you are responsible. And if the people repent, which they did, the rain will come, which it did. Paragraph H, 1 Kings 18, verse 19 to 40. We're not gonna read it all. I just wanted to give it to you though, on the handout, just to kind of look over what's happening. Kind of we'll do this abbreviated, verse 19. All the, everybody gathers at Mount Carmel, which incidentally is right next to the valley or the area of Armageddon. It's right there, from Mount Carmel, you can look down and see the valley of Jezreel or the area of Armageddon. So that great conflict is gonna raise up there again. So they gathered together at Mount Carmel, the 850 false prophets. Now again, they didn't just give false prophecies. It's much more serious. They were actively and deeply involved with demons. And they had prophecies that really came to pass, but it was demonic information and they really had power. This was not a small thing. Elijah got all the people of Israel, many of them gathered for the big showdown. And he said, how long will you falter, waver between two opinions? Will you obey God or will you obey the Antichrist? Will be the great question of the day. So verse 22, Elijah said, oh, here's what we'll do. We're gonna have a prayer meeting and we're gonna offer sacrifice to God. You 850, you offer your sacrifice to Baal and have a prayer meeting. Call on him, cry out in your prayer and worship, do what you wanna do. And then I'll do it. So what happens? It said here, verse 24, the God who answers by fire is the real God. The God who answers by fire is the real God. And you know the story, most of you. Verse 38, when Elijah prays, the fire fell, the fire fell. Verse 39, all the people saw it, fell on their face and said, and they repented. The repentance didn't end up going very deep, but it was sufficient enough to where God sent the rain. I mean, the Lord is so kind. I mean, this repentance was not very deep, but God allowed Elijah through prayer to release the rain after this revival. This was a, I mean, when you look at it in its bigger context, you say, Lord, surely this isn't Elijah that turned the nation back to God. The Lord says, yes, he did in a portion, in a measure, a portion. I mean, when you look and receive the historical perspective, I believe John the Baptist, we know, and I don't have the verse here, but Luke 117, when the angel Gabriel appeared to John the Baptist, his father in Luke 117, the famous passage of John the Baptist and the angels, Gabriel said, this boy of yours, this child that's going to be born, you'll have a son. Your wife will conceive and have a son. The spirit of Elijah will rest on him. And that means the power and the purpose of Elijah. In other words, the purpose is to call the nation back to God. That's the purpose. And the power would be a supernatural power would be a part of his life. The angel Gabriel appears and says this, it's like, wow. I mean, what do you imagine? What is Zachariah, John the Baptist's father supposed to think? Wow, the power of Elijah, that's cool. Supernatural dimension, the purpose of Elijah, turn a nation back to God. Well, Zachariah read the text real clear because though the nation turned back, it wasn't a deep turning. It wasn't even a long lasting turning, but the Lord counted it and it mattered in that generation. It served the purpose of the Lord and the Lord's good came out of it in terms of his larger purposes. Now look at John the Baptist. Did John the Baptist turn Israel back to God or did Gabriel give a false prophecy? Well, we know Gabriel didn't give a false prophecy, but the nation rose up and rejected John the Baptist at the end. Matthew 11, verse 17 and 18, Jesus said, you talking to the people say John has a demon. They rejoiced in his light for a while, but they turned on him and the nation rose up and killed Jesus. Of course, along with all the nations, we're all in that together. But you know what the fruit of it was? 120 people in an upper room. That little seed in upper room caused the new covenant purposes to flower to this day and it will end in the second coming of Christ. So from the Lord's perspective, the Lord could say 120 fervent believers stayed steady. Yes, the seed is in the ground. Elijah turned a nation back to God or at least he turned the hearts of the children back. Now we would have thought it would have been thousands and thousands. It ends up it's 120 who were steady. We look at that. John was happy, but Zachariah was already with the Lord. So he wasn't disappointed, but surely it would have meant more than 120, the seed. But the seed took and it's 2000 years later and the end time worship movement is gonna call Jesus back to the earth. And it all came out of that seed in that upper room that John the Baptist was the one that touched the apostles and prepared just a small number of them for Jesus to take them to the next dimension. I mean, talking about a day of small beginnings, but John loved it. He was called the greatest man ever born of a woman. You know, the thing that bothers me about the 120 in the upper room, I always say this because it just bugs me. Is that Jesus appeared to 500 people. It says in 1 Corinthians 15, he appeared to 500, but only 120 made it to the prayer meeting. 380 people who saw the resurrected Christ didn't make it to the prayer room. They got busy then. So while I'm real busy, you know, maybe later, wait, he's God and he's man. He's standing before you in the resurrection and you got too busy to be involved in the prayer movement. I just, when I meet those 380, you know, I'm gonna say, what were you thinking? Ah, it was more complex than you think. I mean, you know, things were really intense and people were bad and I was gonna lose this and I was gonna get there. Anyway, that got that off my chest. That always bugs me. Verse 38, the fire fell, the people fell. The fire fell and then the people fell. The fire fell and the people fell before the Lord. And again, it leads to the releasing of the rain, the healing of the land. And look what happened. Elijah seized all 850 prophets. He said, don't let one of them escape. He killed them all. I mean, Jezebel is so mad. All 850 of her full-time staff prophets are now dead in one day. There will be great, great reversals of evil that will happen even in one day. And it says that Elijah did it by the sword. We will not do it by a physical sword, but we will do it by loosing the end time judgments. Like Moses, when he reached forth his rod in prayer, when he stood before Pharaoh, judgments fell and many were killed in the wake of the judgments when they're all added up together. We will be praying, I'm talking about the prophetic church when the generation Lord returns, releasing the judgments that's causing fire to fall from heaven to kill the prophets of Baal. They literally will die. We won't touch them with a physical sword, but the sword of the Lord will in relationship to the end time prayer movement. But my point is this, even in their fierceness of confronting Jezebel, there will be great sudden victories like the one here in 1 Kings 18. The story's not over. I mean, the drama's not finished in 1 Kings 18, but Elijah has a tremendous reversal and we will have many victories before the Lord returns. So it's not like Elijah's coming, meaning Jezebel's raising up and we're gonna kind of go hide in caves and tell Jesus comes. We're not. We're gonna be involved on the front lines, believing God, some will die, but others will release the activity of God that turns evil around and it will release judgment and even physical death on some of the enemy, the enemies of God. And there's a lot of principles that are here in this passage, 1 Kings 18. But Elijah, he, I mean, what a grand moment. Now it's interesting here, verse 38 says the fire fell or even more specific here in verse 24, Elijah said, the God who enters by fire, that's the Lord. Now here's the problem. In Revelation 13, 13, the false prophet will call fire down from heaven. And in Revelation 11, five, the first one is Revelation 13, 13. I don't have it on the notes. The first one is the false prophet, the bad guys will call fire down, but Revelation 11, five, the two witnesses will call fire too. They'll release fire too. So fire won't be the highest level. It was the highest level in Elijah's generation, but it's gonna go to a whole nother level. It's gonna be the sun and the moon and the stars being affected dynamically by the prophets on the earth. It's gonna go beyond the manifestation of fire. I just wanted to throw that in there. That Elijah was only at the introductory stages of this historic drama that's going to escalate in the generation the Lord returns. Paragraph I, Elijah kills these prophets. I mean, all 850. We're talking about powerful, revelatory demonic men. Revelatory meaning they had real information that Jezebel and Ahab counted on. I mean, real helpful information about things that would happen. And undoubtedly some of them happened because demons can operate in terms of giving information and manipulating things. They can't foretell the future, but they can give information then manipulate things. And it looks like they're telling the future. They can't tell the future, but to a darkened mind king, it looks like they are. So here's what happens. First Kings 19, it's the next chapter. Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done. Now, the question I have is why wasn't Jezebel? I mean, she's a pretty intense gal. Why wasn't she at the showdown? That's something I've never understood. She's back at home. I would have thought she'd have been up there, you know, with her new outfit on, you know, with her sword out, you know, really leading the charge or something. Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he executed all the prophets with the sword. Again, we won't use the sword of the physical sword. We'll use the sword of the spirit, which is the prayer movement. Then Jezebel sent a message. She made a vow to demons. She said, let the gods do so to me and more. If I don't kill you by this time tomorrow, when she said that she was making a vow to the demons that she was funding 880, I mean, 850 priests. But here's the part I want you to see. When Eli, verse three, when Elijah saw this, when he heard the story, he ran for his life. Like how could a guy stand before the nation and call fire down, kill 850 guys? And then later on, several hours later, day or two later, whatever, he runs for his life in fear. How does that work? Because James gives us the key, James chapter five. I think it's verse 17. It says, Elijah, a man of like passion like us. That's the answer. The reason Elijah ran, because he's just like you and me. So we have this idea that the Old Testament heroes of faith are called sometimes they operate in another level. It's not true. They're guys, they're gals. I mean, I say this to Alan Hood. He doesn't like this. When I say this to him, I go, Alan, when we get to heaven, I said, we're gonna meet these guys. And the part he didn't like is I give different names of personalities. I go, I think David may be like this guy or that guy. He goes, oh, no way. He goes, no possible. I go, I don't think he'll be Charlton Heston with a perfect voice. I, you know, and here's the word of the Lord. I think David and Elijah, when we meet him, we're gonna say, no way. They're like one of our guys. You're kidding. That's why Elijah ran, because he's like one of our guys. But the point of that, the point of that story is that his prayer called fire down and his prayer released the rain. And he's like one of our guys. He's like one of us. That's the power of that story. Paragraph J, we're gonna move to a different scene in Jezebel's life. It's in 1 Kings 21. Won't go into the details just for time's sake, but what happens in 1 Kings 21, her husband Ahab wants to buy a field right next to his palace. And the guy says, no. So Jezebel kills him. Says, here, you got the land, and stole the land from him by murdering him in order to steal his land. So not only is she a murderer, not just in a religious context, she murdered in order to steal. It's a very important point that we'll look at in just a moment. Top of page three. Jezebel lived for 14 years after Ahab. And the point I'm making here is that she influenced Israel in the north and Judah in the south. Again, they're both in the big picture, the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Israel. From God's point of view, it's one people. She influenced both of these kingdoms for 14 years after her husband dies. She's still pulling the strings and creating the evil influence that established the direction of the nation. Even through her daughter, who married the king in the south, she's still influencing Judah down in the south for evil. This woman is. I just wanted you to see this. But the point I wanna make here is that her children are killed by the judgment of God. And the reason I wanna point that out, because we're familiar with the passage when Jesus said, in Revelation 2, he said, and Jezebel, I will kill her and I will kill her children. That's exactly what happened in the Old Testament, Jezebel, is what Jesus was warning the New Testament, Jezebel, is what will happen in the end time, Jezebel. The same dynamics will take place. That's the point I'm making. In one day, paragraph L, Jehu killed Jezebel's two sons in one day and then killed her that same day. He was operating under a prophetic word from the Lord. He was operating under the anointing of the Lord. So it was the direct effect of the anointing of God that killed them. And that's what Jesus was warning the church at Thyatira about in Revelation 2. He said, I will kill Jezebel. I will do it and I will kill her children. I will do it. Now, notice verse 33. Well, look at verse 22. She has harlotries and witchcraft. That's what Jehu says. Well, because her son, Jezebel's son, saw Jehu and said, hey, are you coming in peace? They don't know Jehu's gonna kill him. You know, this king of Israel, because his dad Ahab had already died and he took over the kingship of the northern tribes. And he saw Jehu, one of the commanders in the army, and he said, hey, are you coming in peace? And Jehu said, how can I be in peace as long as the harlotries of your mother and her witchcraft are abounding in the land? How can I be in peace? And that's a little bit off my subject here, but I just wanted to throw that out to the preachers. That is a great passage to develop. How can we be in peace when harlotry and witchcraft is abounding in the land? How can we live business as usual as we're approaching the time of the coming of the Lord in the next two, three, four, five decades, maybe? I don't know. How can we be in peace when harlotry and witchcraft is abounding? There's the twins, immorality and sorcery. Verse 33, Jezebel was thrown out of a window. It's a very intense story, we don't have time for. And Jehu trampled her under his feet. Well, I said it wrong, under the feet of the horse that he was on. The horse trampled her. The reason I want to put that phrase, the trampling, because in Revelation chapter two, when Jesus tells the church of Thyatira, I am the one with the feet like fine brass. I am coming to trample Jezebel. It's a direct reference to this passage. The point is this, not just that we might be trampled. That's one point if we engage ourself in the sins of Jezebel. There's another point I'm making. The enemies that are withstanding us as we stand with God against Jezebel, God will trample them. But Jesus with feet like fine brass is listening to our prayers. And even like the 850 prophets of Baal were killed in one day, that was the brass feet of Jesus trampling the enemy. And now on this day, it happens in a direct way. The horse tramples Jezebel. The prayer movement, the end time prayer movement, we will say, Jesus, eyes of fire, Jesus, feet like fine brass, break in with your eyes of fire, awaken my heart in passion and with your feet of brass, come in judgment against that which is rising up and filling the land with harlotry and witchcraft. And the Lord says, that's the God that I am. And I want you to relate to me on this basis according to this revelation. Paragraph M, so the summary is Jezebel, she promoted immorality, harlotry, you can call that sorcery or witchcraft, idolatry. She murdered and she stole property. The reason it's important to mention the stealing of property, because in paragraph N, the four primary spiritual strongholds, there's four main sins, there's many other sins that will be manifest, four main spiritual strongholds that will fill the nations of the earth. And these are the four sins that Jezebel was involved with, Old Testament Jezebel. And New Testament Jezebel highlights two of them, but the end time Jezebel, all four of these will come to fullness, murder, sorcery, immorality and theft. Note the progression. Immorality numbs the spirit and causes the conscience to be seared. And it opens the door for sorcery. And then people involved in witchcraft or idolatry or sorcery, I'm using those all synonymous. It's the same meaning of the same thing. The demonic realm and a direct interaction with spirits, it emboldens them for murder and theft. And this is what's going to happen to the church and to Israel in the end times. An Antichrist army will rise up with millions emboldened with murder and theft. And the way they're emboldened by murder and theft is through immorality and sorcery. And the first line of appeal is not sorcery, it's immorality. That's what Satan is doing right now. This global explosion of pornography is setting up the nations for sorcery unto murder and theft of the people of God. That's where this thing is going. And God's raising up a people as we found in Revelation chapter two. He says, if you will rule your spirit in these issues, you will be prepared to rule the nations with me. I will give you the government of the nations. If you will meet me and encounter me on a daily basis to where you rule your spirit, I promise you, he told him in Revelation two, I will give you authority to rule the nations just one step down the road in time when I return. So not only is Satan wanting us to go into sorcery and murder, he wants to shut down the prophetic church in this age because you can't flow in power with a defiled spirit. Not because God wouldn't still use people who have defiled spirit, he does. But the people with a defiled spirit more times than not, they don't have the reach in their spirit to move in the spirit. And their heart, they just draw back and go hide in a cave. And maybe next week or next month when I'm not messed up, I'll do it. You know, there's a few of those guys out there that are still moving in power. They're so used to their defiled spirit and the gifts and callings of God are without repentance and the gifts still operate. And that gets confusing because the guy's moving in power. We think he must be right with God. He's moving with power. And the Lord says, not necessarily, not necessarily. He'll never move in the fullness of power, but he can still move in the introductory dimensions of power, even with a defiled spirit. So it's not, when I say defiled spirit, I'm not saying so much that the Lord won't even use them because the Lord will still use people. It's just the people shut down and they draw back and they go hide in a cave. But also what the devil wants to do is us to lose our inheritance in the age to come as well. Part of it. I mean, we stay out, we have Jesus. That's good. We have the eternal city. That's good. But we each have an individual inheritance in the age to come that the enemy wants to shut it down by yielding to the spirit of immorality in this age. Beloved, we just don't wanna do that. We wanna move in power. We wanna be able to lose the sword of the spirit against Jezebel in this generation. And we want to be able to operate in our full inheritance. I mean, our main heritage is Jesus in the kingdom, but there's a secondary inheritance we have, and that's our assignment and our reward in the age to come. We will lose that by yielding to the spirit of Jezebel. It's a secondary inheritance, but it's still important. Paragraph O, the spirit of Jezebel versus the spirit of Elijah. It's the war of two prayer movements. Because at Mount Carmel, that was a prayer meeting. That was a prayer movement. 850 men with a false anointing crying out for 12 hours. It was a 12 hour prayer. I mean, they went from morning to night. They cried out in prayer and the prayer of Elijah. It was a war of two prayer movements going on. It's gonna happen again. Paragraph P, the spirit of Elijah. It's the operation of immorality and sorcery for the purpose of stopping people from worshiping Jesus and partnering with him and his prophetic power to release his end time purposes. That's what the spirit of Jezebel. To get us to operate in immorality introductory and then to lead us to sorcery so he shuts us down from worshiping Jesus, the devil does, and that he stops us from operating in power in the end times to shut down Jezebel. That's what's on Satan's mind. And then of course, as we said in a moment here, paragraph, let's go to paragraph Q. The introduction of the spirit of Jezebel is most clearly seen today as the spirit that operates behind pornography. And as I said last night when we were talking about this subject, the spirit of Jezebel is not an issue of women with a strong personality that maybe have need of some relational tools, confronting pastors who struggle with insecurity. That's not what Jezebel is. Insecure pastors confront woman with strong personality who needs a few little blind spots in her, just be a little nicer when you say it and don't wag your finger at them when you prophesy. Just a couple of things and the thing will be a lot easier. That's not what the spirit of Jezebel is. And I hear that all the time. I go, guys, it's way more serious than this. The spirit of Jezebel is most promoted by men that are in the production, the promotion and partaking of the immorality industry. The spirit of Jezebel in the nations is being led by men. They're the ones filling the earth with the technology and the financing. And they're the ones that are the customers that keep the thing going to the next level. Now the women are involved as well, but we don't wanna think of the spirit of Jezebel and think of a woman with a strong personality and a pastor with an insecure problem. That is not what this is about. It's so trivializes the weight of what is coming before us. I've heard that for 30 years. I think, man, we've got to bring this thing to another level of understanding so we can get prepared. It's a far more serious issue than people having a personality conflict in the prophecy rooms. It's a lot bigger thing going on than that. Amen. Paragraph R, the spirit of Jezebel is gonna escalate, I've already said it, to wholesale murder. That's where it's going. Jezebel was far more than a pushy person. She was a murderer. She murdered all the prophets of Israel, except for the hundred hiding in the cave in Elijah. She murdered them all. I mean, this woman's a murderer. Top of page four. We won't, we'll just go through this real quick. We touched some of this last night anyway. The two faces, S of the spirit of the Antichrist, is the spirit of Babylon and the spirit of Jezebel. Now notice in Revelation 19. Look where, why verse two, why the judgments are coming. Because of the corruption of the earth with immorality and because of bloodshed. That's where Babylon and Jezebel are taking the nations of the earth. The fornication opens the door for the murderous spirit to become normalized. You think, well, I don't know how they're connected. I mean, just one of the clearest examples is in Nazi Germany. One of the most civilized cultures in the earth in a very short amount of time. Thrust into immorality and into a cult became one of the most murderous nations in a short period of time in history. Because, and most of what was happening in the Holocaust, in the killing of the Jews, most of it was not hatred of Israel. It was at the top. Most of it was theft. The little captain, he wanted the guy's house. So he threw him into the prison camps, the death camps. He wanted his house. It was motivated by theft. Much, much a crime at that level. Murder even is motivated by theft. It wasn't even a deep hatred of the person. He goes, yeah, I don't even know the guy. I love his house though. So I'll put him in the death camp to take his house. And theft is not a small thing. It will be one of the primary four things that operate with murder, theft, sorcery, and immorality. They all operate together. But immorality dulls the spirit to open the way for this. Paragraph T. So Jesus, when he says, I'm talking to the church at Thyatira, he says, I'm the son of God. What's he saying? I'm the God of Elijah. I'm the first Kings 18 God of power. I will win and you will win. I mean, the revelation, I am the son of God is a huge statement in this context. He goes, I got eyes of fire. I can set your heart on fire with supernatural power. Because there's a positive dimension to the people that open their heart, the fire of grace. And there's the negative dimension of the fire of judgment to the people that say no. But it's the eyes of fire that will awaken our hearts and empower us. And then he says, I've got feet like fine brass. I will destroy those prophets of Bill that are coming against you. We saw the feet of fine brass there. And we saw it when Jezebel was taken down. Let's, one more phrase. And then we'll end with this. Paragraph U. The passage there, verse 22. Indeed, I will cast Jezebel into a sick bed and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation. Now, in that context, it was talking about trouble in that generation. We're talking about the end time great tribulation. That was 2000 years ago. Jesus didn't give a false prophecy. That's not what he meant to them. He meant you'll be in trouble. But what we understand is the people in whom the, I believe we will see the events of the book of Revelation unfold in this generation is that the judgment from Revelation 19, that God's gonna pour out upon those that are corrupting the earth with fornication. We just read the verse, Revelation 19 too. That judgment that God will corrupt. I mean, judge the earth for the people that corrupt the earth with immorality. That judgment in the great tribulation will come to an all time high. And if the saints are participating, they will come under that judgment. They will come under that judgment. And the Lord is saying in a parallel way here, he says to the saints of Thyatira, I'm talking about tribulation for your hour, but he's saying to those that have an ear to hear, note this, there will not be protection for you in that hour if you're participating with Jezebel. The judgments of Jezebel will touch you as well because I'm gonna cleanse the earth. But my eyes of fire are there sufficient to prepare you. And then he gives the great promise in Kay, give us power of the nations, but it's this idea of the morning star. I'm gonna have the worship team come up here. Jesus is the morning star. And there's a lot to this issue of the morning star, but he's the one with a bright spirit that when we encounter him, he makes our spirit bright. Jesus is the morning star. Part of this promise is the fact that they would have a nearness, a fellowship with the bright morning star, the one that would exhilarate their spirit with his brightness and make their spirit bright. Beloved, we don't have to be swept away by the darkness of Jezebel. There's eyes of fire and there's a bright morning star that are sufficient for the human heart. If we would give ourself to it and we can be sure that the powers of darkness, they will come under the trampling of those brass feet of judgment. We will win, it's for sure. Amen and amen, let's stand. Amen.