KNOWN AS THE WICKED QUEEN
1 & 2 KINGS
IMAGINE: Being at the top of the list, for all of eternity, as one of the most vile, evil women to have ever lived.
Jezebel is the Princess daughter of the King and Queen of Sidon. She married Ahab, King of Israel thus becoming a Queen herself.
She was a Baal worshiper. Baal was a cruel, sensuous and revolting false god whose worship involved sexual degradation and lewdness. She converted her husband, King Ahab, into worshiping her god instead of him converting her to the one true God, Jehovah. This led the nation Israel into Baal worship and into one of the darkest times in their history.
She was a text book 101 “control freak” ordering the extermination of all the prophets of the Lord. (1 Kings 18:4, 13). As a Jew, Ahab sinned against his Hebrew faith in taking as his wife a Baal worshiper, taking “unequally yoked” to a whole new level.
And they were truly unequally yoked. Whereas Ahab was a weak, spineless king she was a strong-minded idolatrous woman. She was considered beautiful and forceful, ambitious, and proud. She was also very wicked. She was savage and relentless.
She tried to drive out the true prophets of Jehovah from the land making her the first female persecutor of God’s people in history. Because of her fanatical religious enthusiasm for Baal worship, it was her goal to exterminate the wordship of the true and living God of Israel.
Enter Elijah. He suddenly appears before King Ahab and predicts three and one- half years of drought in judgment on the wickedness of the nation and its leaders. He unexpectedly reappears three years later and challenges 850 of Jezebel’s prophets of Baal to a supreme test of power on the top of Mount Carmel. The priests of Baal are slaughtered, and Ahab is completely frightened, and Jezebel is completely out to get Elijah.
Ahab determines he wants his neighbor’s vineyard but the neighbor, Naboth refuses to sell his forefather’s land. Ahab takes to his bed and refuses to eat.
Enter Jezebel. She sets up a mock trial against Naboth, pronounces him guilty, and has him and his sons stoned to death, thus Ahab gets the vineyard.
God calls Elijah out of retirement. He is to go to Ahab and pronounce the fate of these two murderous idolaters.
Ahab is killed while riding in his chariot. Jezebel is thrown out of an upstairs window of the palace where her blood splattered on the wall and the horses as they rode over her. When men went out to bury her they only found her skull, her feet and the palms of her hands.
This fulfills the Lord’s word that He
spoke through His servant Elijah the
Tishbite: “In the plot of land at
Jezreel, the dogs will eat Jezebel’s flesh.
Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure
on the surface of the field in the
plot of land at Jezreel so that no one
will be able to say: this is Jezebel.”
2 Kings 9:36, 37
So, died Jezebel, a tyrant and a murderess. A wicked queen married to a big cry baby. Both Ahab and Jezebel were leaders of God’s people who forsook the Lord and served other gods.
To be so determined to have one’s own way, no matter who is destroyed in the process, is what is called “the Jezebel spirit.” Jesus warns the church at Thyatira that they are not to be influenced or tolerate a Jezebel within their midst. A Jezebel-like spirit teaches and leads God’s people astray, is rebellion against God, and a powerful enemy of the body of Christ. This always brings forth God’s judgment in the physical and the spiritual.
To combat this attitude, we need not insist upon our own way but determine to assist God in His way, which is always the best way.
Something to consider:
Life is a boomerang.
What you give, you get.
Anonymous.
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