The Woman Jezebel in Revelation 2

Revelation 1:3 New International Version (NIV)

• ³ Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

Before explaining why the Messiah Yahushua the name “Jezebel” in Revelation 2 when referring to the woman whom the churches were allowing to teach and seduce (deceive) His servants.I like to point out that this woman is the primary subject in the fourth message to the churches, known as the “Corrupt” church (Messianic assembly),more specifically to the Church (Congregation), which was in Thyatira.

The behavior and character of the Christians (Messianic followers) in these seven messages to the seven churches are explained under the link “Seven Messages to the Seven Churches”.  These seven messages are to be understood in this context that they refer to the churches of the saints at the time of the prophecy, throughout the ages, and within each local congregation of the churches throughout the ages, and represent the behavior and character each individual within these local congregations then and now.

With that I ask this question, do you believe the Messiah and Elohim (God) uses words without any meaning spiritual or otherwise? Why would the Messiah use a name of a “woman” who defied Elohim (God) and persecuted His prophetsin the Old Testament, and did not mean to refer to this same “woman” ways in this prophecy as an example of women in the churches of the saints?

I mean, considering all Scripture concerning women and the people of Elohim (God), let us study this “Jezebel”. And beginning with the phrases in Revelation 2:20, Yahushua the Messiah says to these “Corrupt” churches (Messianic assemblies), “you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants”.

Again, Yahushua the Messiah says in Revelation 2:24, “as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan”. We must ask ourselves who were allowing this “Jezebel” to teach and mislead the Messiah’s servants?

Also, we must ask, what are the meaning of the phrases “this doctrine” and “the depths of Satan”?

Other translations in full context of Revelation 2:20-24:

• Revelation 2:20, 24 NIV…^“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…”

• Revelation 2:20, 24 Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)…”²⁰ But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and deceives My slaves so that they commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idol.
• ²¹ And I gave her time to repent, and she does not wish to repent of her sexual immorality. ²² Behold, I will throw her ^[into] on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of ^{[one early MS their]} her deeds. ²³ And I will kill her children with ^[death] pestilence, and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the ^{[Inner man; lit kidneys]} minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
• ²⁴ But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not have this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them—I place no other burden on you.”

• Revelation 2:20-24 20 The Sacred Scriptures Bethel Edition…”20 But I have this against you, that you allow the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess; and she teaches and seduces my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 And I gave her time that she should repent; and she does not want to repent of her fornication.
• 22 Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works.
• 23 And I will kill all her children with death; and all the assemblies shall know that I am he that searches the reins and the hearts: and I will give to each one of you according to your works.
• 24 But to you I say, to the rest that are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, who know not the deep things of Satan, as they are accustomed to say; I cast upon you none other burden.”

For answers to these questions and others, we must let Scripture interpret Scripture, meaning we must go to other Scripture to find the answers. As it is written:

• Romans 15:4 Christian Standard Bible (CSB)…⁴ For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

• 2 Peter 1:19-21 New Life Version (NLV)...¹⁹ All this helps us know that what the early preachers said was true. You will do well to listen to what they have said. Their words are as lights that shine in a dark place. Listen until you understand what they have said. Then it will be like the morning light which takes away the darkness. And the Morning Star (Christ) will rise to shine in your hearts. ²⁰ Understand this first: No part of the Holy Writings was ever made up by any man. ²¹ No part of the Holy Writings came long ago because of what man wanted to write. But holy men who belonged to God spoke what the Holy Spirit told them.

• Isaiah 28:9-13 The Sacred Scriptures Bethel Edition…9 Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. 11 Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people; 12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give you rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
• 13 Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

• 2 Peter 3:15-16 Christian Standard Bible (CSB)…¹⁵ Also, regard the patience of our Lord (Yahweh) as salvation, just as our dear brother Paul has written to you according to the wisdom given to him. ¹⁶ He speaks about these things in all his letters. There are some things hard to understand in them. The untaught and unstable will twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

Beginning in Isaiah 3, we see the Holy Spirit speaking by the prophet Isaiah concerning “Women”:

In Isaiah 3:12, the prophet Isaiah prophesied about the people of Elohim in these last days (that’s us as Messianic Followers yesterday and today). Yahweh is quoted as saying in verse… “12 “As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths“… The phrase “My people” refers to the people of Yahweh, the children of Israel (both physical and spiritual); however, today it refers more so to the people belonging to the Church of the Living Elohim (Rom. 9:6-7, 1 Peter 2:9-10).

Using other Scripture to interpret the phrase “children are their oppressors”, we find that the word “children” here refers to the immature in the faith – not yet being of full age, babes in the teachings of the Messiah; those who are without spiritual understanding – see Matthew 22:29 Messiah Yahwehshua saying “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God (Elohim)”; those who are “unskilled in the word of righteousness”; unable to discern between good and evil (Hebrews 5:12-14).

The word “children” in Webster’s dictionary is also defined as “one strongly influenced by another or by a place or state of affairs”.

The English word “children” here translated from the Hebrew original word “ll[“, transliterated word “`alal”, phonetic spelling “aw-lal’”; meaning: to act severely, deal with severely, make a fool of someone, to be severely dealt with, to busy oneself, divert oneself, deal wantonly, deal ruthlessly, abuse (by thrusting through), to practice practices, thrust forth (in wickedness), to glean, to act or play the child, to insert, thrust, and thrust upon.

Also, translated as glean, done, abuse, mock, affected, children, do, defiled, practice, thoroughly, wrought wonderfully, wrought (Strong’s 05953). As you can see the prophet Isaiah is referring to those who abuse and deal severely with the people of Elohim, these leaders are acting like children in their dealings with those who seek Yahweh their Elohim.

Some may conclude that these are literal children oppressing Elohim’s people, but the context of the verse does not support this belief.

First, Elohim is speaking of those who are His not this world. Second, if this referred to the world then you must ask the question is Elohim saying women should not rule in this world? This Scripture says no such thing as we can see women rulers are in the Scriptures (Judges 4:4; 1 Kings 10:1; Esther 5; Acts 8:27).

Finally, the very context of these verses makes it clear Elohim is speaking of “His people” (those who claim to follow His word and those who have His Holy Spirit); and the Holy Bible have many verses speaking against women ruling in the Messianic Congregations of the Living Elohim.  

The English word “oppressors” in the Hebrew is translated from “Xgn” (original word), transliterated word “Nagas”, phonetic spelling “naw-gas’ “; meaning to press, drive, oppress, exact, exert demanding pressure, to press, drive, to exact, driver, taskmaster, ruler, tyrant, lord, exactor of tribute (participle), to be hard pressed.

Also, translated as oppressor, taskmasters, exact, distressed, oppressed, driver, exactors and taxes (Strong’s 05065). The English word “oppressed” in the Hebrew means to press upon, violate, defraud, do violence, get deceitfully, wrong, extort, to be exploited, be crushed. Original word is “qX“, transliterated word “`ashaq”, phonetic spelling “aw-shak’ “ (Strong’s 06231).

Scripture speaks of those who are “oppressed” as being mistreated, abused, wronged by deceitful practices, and afflicted by those who are rich, those overseeing or shepherding them (as in the churches of this evil and adulterous world) or ruling them (Revelation 2:6, 15, Exodus 22:21, Hosea 12:7, Acts 10:36, and James 2:6).

• Matthew 20:25-27 NIV…²⁵ Jesus (Yahushua) called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.²⁶ Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, ²⁷ and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— ²⁸ just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

So, we have those who are responsible for shepherding the people of Elohim being influenced and swayed by society and the wise of this world in their teachings. Those without or choosing not to accept spiritual understanding (children in the faith or acting like children in the faith); they deal deceitfully with the flock causing them to follow the way of destruction.

The people of Elohim are exploited and defrauded out of the rest and liberty in Messiah Yahushua by leaders acting like or are children in the faith (2 Peter 2:18). Do you think Elohim want the spiritual immature to lead His people?

• Micah 3:11 NIV…¹¹ Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.”

• Isaiah 3:13-15 World English Bible (WEB)…¹³ Yahweh stands up to contend and stands to judge the peoples. ¹⁴ Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses. ¹⁵ What do you mean that you crush my people and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

The phrase “women rule over them” refers to women ministers and preachers who are allowed to teach in the Church of the Living Elohim causing Yahweh’s people to error in the way of Elohim (Ezek. 13:17-23 and Rev. 2:18-29). These women and “children (immature leaders)” ruling over Elohim’s people have caused those who are slipping away from the faith (Laodicean Followers/ Assembly) to be influenced by others in mainstream Christianity, called spiritual in Scriptures “the synagogues of Satan” (those who are swayed by this world’s customs more than by the word of Elohim – see Revelation 2:9, 13, 24; Rev. 3:9).

Now, I ask these questions for those who wish to discern Elohim’s will concerning women ruling over them. Why would Elohim say His people have women ruling over them, if it was okay? Are women ministers considered rulers in this world churches (Hebrews 13:7,13)? Is Elohim saying women should not rule over Messianic followers men? Remembering if women (Elohim did not say some women) lead Elohim people astray then its understood that no woman should lead the people of Elohim.

Why did Elohim say these women are leading His people into error? Does Elohim always mean what He say (I ask this question as one of the foolish one – seeing how we are denying this plainly written Scripture apply to us today)?

Is Elohim saying women and the spiritual immature are leading us into error? I ask these questions for your spiritual discernment. In Isaiah 3:12, God shows us as Christians that women should not rule over His people, yet today we still have those who lead Elohim people debating what the inspired Apostle Paul (who was speaking by the Holy Spirit) meant in 1 Corinthians 14:33-40 and 1 Timothy 2:11-15.

Please let us rightly divide the word, “and this we will do if God permits” (Hebrews 5:3).

In Ecclesiastes 7:26 (NIV), The Preacher of wisdom speaks of a “woman who is a snare” to men seeking to do Elohim will. Notice what he says here concerning those men who escapes these women…”26 I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God (Elohim) will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare” …

Here the Holy Spirit says “the man who pleases God (Elohim) will escape” from this type of woman. Am I saying all women fall in this category? No! But the Scripture is giving us this warning.

How then can we allow women to control an entire flock of Messianic Followers? If you want to please God (Elohim) then do not allow women to ensnare you with “smooth and persuasive words” saying, why can’t I teach if I’m capable?

In Isaiah 3 (NIV), who are these “women of Zion” the Prophet speaks of in verses 16 and 17? We know the word “Zion” refers to the city of David, the heavenly Jerusalem (the spiritual Church of Elohim), the city of the living Elohim (1 Kings 8:1, Ps. 51:18, Heb. 12:22 and Rev. 14:1). This is where we as Christians currently reside spiritual (by the Spirit of the Messiah and the Father Yahweh in us). When Elohim speaks of the “haughty” women in Zion, He speaks of the women in the Church of Elohim…

• Isaiah 3:16-17(NIV)… “16 The LORD (Elohim) says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, tripping along with mincing steps, with ornaments jingling on their ankles. 17 Therefore the Lord (Yahweh) will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion; the LORD (Elohim) will make their scalps bald.” …

The word “haughty” means to be “blatantly and disdainfully proud” (Webster’s definition). Are the women who claim to be teachers of men today described here? Why did Elohim say this about these women? Can women be submissive as the law says, and disdainfully proud at the same time? I think not. These women are those who have given up their place in Elohim order of authority in the Church of the Living Elohim.

• 1 Corinthians 11:3 Tree of Life Version (TLV)…³ But I want you to know that the head of every man is Messiah, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Messiah is God (Elohim).

Now, let us move to the woman name Jezebel in the Holy Bible, according to the below listed Scriptures we get a background on another woman with the name Jezebel. In Revelations 2:20, our Master and Sovereign Messiah Yahushua refers to a woman name Jezebel, as one who “calls herself a prophetess”.

Question, does this mean Messiah Yahushua do not consider this woman a prophetess? Most of the “wise of this world” would claim this does not refer to a woman in the Old Testament with this same name. They like to have you believe and think that Messiah Yahushua just used this name without any historical reference or spiritual or symbolic meanings.

Questions: Is this a leap from sound logic and doctrine? Do not other Scripture use names of those in the Old Testament to describe a behavior of those today? (See Romans 15:4 above).

For example, in the New Testament, the name “Balaam” is used twice by the Holy Spirit and once by Messiah Yahushua; it is used to describe a prophet (man of Elohim gone mad with greed) in the Old Testament with the same named behavior; that is he whose peddling the word of Elohim to gain a dishonest profit, and practiced deceit to sway the people of Elohim from serving the true Living Elohim in heaven (see 2 Peter 2:15, Jude 1:11 and Revelation 2:14).

Now, considering this, is it logical for us to believe that Messiah Yahushua used a woman name Jezebel to describe a sinful behavior of both men and women? Would not this Jezebel in Revelation represent only women who displayed the behavior of this same Jezebel in the Old Testament?

I say to you, that Messiah Yahushua referred to this woman by the name “Jezebel” and her teaching His followers for a reason. In Galatians 4:22-26, we have Scripture using the names of women (Hagar and Sarah the mothers are Abraham sons Ishmael and Isaac) to symbolic represent the two covenants, the old and new covenants. What Hagar and Sarah did in history help us to understand this symbolic representation?

So, I ask this question how is it that wise of this world (Bible scholars) can honestly say Messiah Yahushua used the name “Jezebel” without referring to the only woman in the whole Bible by this name? This for this Ministry is a true example of those who wish to deceive and those who are being deceived using unsound doctrine and refusing to receive sound doctrine.

There are basic two ways words are used in the Holy Scriptures when referring to prophecy or the character of someone or something; and that is this the person or things referred to have the behavior and / or meaning of the words used. Using this kind of logic in understanding Scripture is practicing sound doctrine; for as the name “Egypt” represent sin, as the name “Babel or Babylon” represent confusion (which is the meaning of the word), deceit and mystery in religion and this world’s society, and the name “Jerusalem” represent the mother of all Elohim people.

Therefore, we must conclude the name “Jezebel” represent all the women who “usurp man’s authority” and “calls herself a prophetess” in the churches of this world (for she is allowed to teach by the men in the Churches) and all these women who “teach and lead” Elohim servants into error (I Kings 21:7-8, Isaiah 3:12 and Rev. 2:20). Well, you decide for yourself, and trust Elohim to say what He mean and do what He says.

Let us first go to the Old Testament, and see what this woman name “Jezebel” did and what she represented. Going to 1 Kings 16:31, we see king Ahab is said to have married a woman name Jezebel, which was against Elohim command to Israel and later Judah under the old covenant, and that is not to marry foreign women, the women of the nations’ Elohim would drive out of the land for them (Deut. 7:1-11). As we see here in 1 Kings 16:31…

• 1 Kings 16:30-31(NKJV)… “30 Now, Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD (ELOHIM), more than all who were before him.
• 31 And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him”…

Notice what’s said here that Ahab considered it “a trivial thing” to sin as his evil father Omri as reported in 1 Kings 16:25-29, who also followed in the ways of Jeroboam where the Spirit tells us in 1 Kings 12:26-33, that he set up another religion by placing two golden calves one in Bethel and one in Dan, along with an eight day holiday similar to Elohim feast days in Judah when the nation of Israel separated into two nations (1 Kings 12).

The sins of the leader king Ahab caused all Israel to sin against Elohim, as did king Jeroboam (1 Kings 16:25-33). King Ahab willingly submitted to the Baal worship of the Sidonians and his wife Jezebel because he did not care about nor did he fear Elohim. Ahab through the teachings of Jezebel’s Baal worship caused the people of Israel (the physical people of Elohim) to sin against Elohim.

Here, the Holy Spirit informs us that Ahab ‘let’ and ‘allowed’ his wife Jezebel to teach and seduce the people of Israel with the Baal worship of the Sidonians. This is the behavior of the men in the churches today, having allowed women to teach and rule over men in the churches of this world. This is one reason Messiah Yahushua used the name Jezebel in Revelation 2.

These men fear men (this society) more than Elohim by willingly making it “a trivial thing” to sin against Elohim by allowing women to declare with a “blatantly and disdainfully proud” attitude that they have a divine right to preach in the churches. These women and men who support them openly attack the apostle Paul and the Holy Spirit and the teachings of the Word of Elohim.

In 1 Kings 18:12-13, Obadiah who feared Elohim had hid 100 prophets of Yahweh when Jezebel was killing them (1 Kings 18:3-4) …

• 1 Kings 18:12-13… “12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD (ELOHIM) will carry you to a place I do not know; so when I go and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he will kill me. But I your servant have feared the LORD (ELOHIM) from my youth.
• 13 Was it not reported to my lord (master) what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD (ELOHIM), how I hid one hundred men of the LORD’s (ELOHIM’s) prophets, fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?”…

Notice what’s being said here, Jezebel was so bold that she even killed the prophets of the Living Elohim. This is pure direct rebellion against Elohim, which is witchcraft – see 1 Samuel 22:9-23 even king Saul men refused to killed Elohim priests, the Edomite Doeg killed them instead. Here’s another reason why Christ used the name Jezebel in Revelation 2, for there are some who realize they are sinning against Elohim but refuse to repent (Rev. 2:21).

These women ministers are bold in their rebellion against Elohim, and openly speak against the Holy Spirit by claiming the inspired apostle Paul was not inspired by the Spirit when he wrote the teachings concerning women in the churches. These women ministers are spiritually killing those who are following their teachings which of the depths of Satan (Rev. 2:23-24).

Now in 1 Kings 18:17-40, Elijah challenged the children of Israel to choose the Living Yahweh in heaven or Baal the god of Jezebel and the Sidonians. After Yahweh sent fire from heaven to consume the burnt sacrifice of Elijah including the water, Elijah killed the prophets of Baal. The people of Israel all proclaimed the Living Elohim in heaven as their Sovereign Master and Elohim, and Ahab went and told Jezebel in 1 Kings 19:1-3…

• 1 Kings 19:1-3, 18… “1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
• 3 And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life…18 Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”…

Please note that Jezebel showed no fear of the Living Elohim in heaven even after Ahab had told her what Elohim had did through His servant Elijah. No, Jezebel was so aroused with hatred for Elijah and the Living Elohim that she sent a letter saying she was going to kill Elijah. Elijah, fearing death ran for his life.

This is an example for us as Messianic followers today that fear can cause us not to trust Elohim, yet Elohim will sustain us and show Himself to be faithful – see 1 John 4:18 The Voice…”Perfect love expels fear…”

Again, this wicked and evil woman Jezebel 1 Kings 21 (NKJV) devised a scheme to kill an innocent man for his vineyard. This is another behavior trait of these women spoken of by Messiah Yahushua in Revelation 2 and called by the spiritual name Jezebel.

The elders and nobles men of the city of Jezreel carried out this evil scheme for Jezebel…

• 1 Kings 21:5-24 NKJV… “5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sullen that you eat no food?” 6 He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, “Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ And he answered, “I will not give you my vineyard.”‘
• 7 Then Jezebel his wife said to him, “You now exercise authority over Israel! Arise, eat food, and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” 8 And she wrote letters in Ahab’s name…
• 10 and seat two men, scoundrels, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You have blasphemed God (Elohim) and the king. Then take him out, and stone him, that he may die.
• 11 So the men of his city, the elders and nobles who were inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them…
• 23 And concerning Jezebel the LORD (ELOHIM) also spoke, saying, “The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’ 24 The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Ahab and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field.”
• 25 But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the LORD (ELOHIM), because Jezebel his wife stirred him up”…

When ELOHIM pronounced judgment on Jezebel, notice what He says about Ahab, “there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness” whom the woman “name” Jezebel his wife stirred up.

Elohim says in 1 Kings 21 (NIV), that Ahab sold himself to do evil (he sold himself to his wife and the evil one). Yahweh further says that Ahab behaved “in the vilest manner” causing Israel to sin, and Ahab did all this by the urging of his wife, Jezebel…

• 1 Kings 21:20-26(NIV)… “20 Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!” “I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD (ELOHIM). 21 ‘I am going to bring disaster on you. I will consume your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel-slave or free.
• 22 I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked me to anger and have caused Israel to sin.’
• 23 “And also concerning Jezebel the LORD (ELOHIM) says: ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’
• 24 “Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds of the air will feed on those who die in the country.”
• 25 (There was never a man like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD (ELOHIM), urged on by Jezebel his wife. 26 He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the LORD (ELOHIM) drove out before Israel.)”…

Ahab was more willing to follow his wife Jezebel than Elohim, and he refused to hear the servants and prophets of Elohim allowing his wife Jezebel to persecute and kill them at will.

Finally, Jezebel in 2 Kings 9 is said to be the one responsible for the blood of Elohim prophets and servants (Remember Revelation 17:5-6 Mystery Babylon drunk with the blood of Elohim people)…

• 2 Kings 9:1-22(NKJV)… “1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, … 5… Jehu …6 …he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “Thus says the LORD (Yahweh) God (Elohim) of Israel: “I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD (ELOHIM), over Israel. 7 You shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD (ELOHIM), at the hand of Jezebel…10 The dogs shall eat Jezebel on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her.”‘ …
• 22 Now it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” So he answered, “What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are so many?”…

Again, please note what Elohim says here that Jezebel practiced witchcraft – see 1 Samuel 15:23 (remember rebellion against Elohim is the same as witchcraft) and played the harlotries with her gods Baals.

Do you think these harlotries of Jezebel were sexual in nature? Or was Jezebel committing these harlotries with other gods?

Summary of Jezebel’s behavior and character:

1. She killed Elohim’s prophets.
2. Directly opposed Elohim and His people.
3. She was “blatantly and disdainfully proud”.
4. She exercised authority over Ahab, the king of Israel and the people in Ahab place (usurp his authority).
5. She was rebellious and blasphemous against Elohim.
6. Jezebel urged on and stirred up Ahab to do wickedness, she was a snare to Ahab.
7. Jezebel committed harlotry by serving other gods, and taught the nation of Israel to do the same.
8. Jezebel practiced witchcraft, the sin of divination.

This leads us to Messiah Yahushua words in Revelation 2:20 where He says a woman called by the name “Jezebel” teaches and misleads His “servants to commit sexual immorality”. I ask the question do you believe all Messiah Yahushua servants are committing sexual (physical) immorality with this “Jezebel”?

No! For, Messiah Yahushua is speaking spiritual, that this woman Jezebel is causing His servants to serve other gods.

Looking at the meaning of the word ‘prophetess’ in the original Greek is ‘profetiB’; transliterated word ‘Prophetis’, a woman whom future events or things hidden from others are at times revealed, either by inspiration or by dreams and visions; female who declares or interprets oracles. Translated as prophetess twice in the KJV / NAS Luke 2:36 about Anna a true prophetess and Revelation 2:20 concerning Jezebel the false prophetess (Strong’s definition).

The Hebrew word ‘Ieza/bel’ transliterated word ‘Iezabel, ee-ed-zab-ale’ a noun feminine Jezebel = ‘chaste’. Since, her name means “chaste” this rules out the sound doctrine of interpreting Messiah Yahushua meaning that the meaning of her name describes the behavior He describes.

The next sound doctrinal interpretation would be to look for a person in biblical history with this name and see what her character was. When we look at Jezebel in biblical history, we see she was the wife of king Ahab, a brutal and cruel woman who ruled over Ahab, the king of Israel and the people.

She seduced the people causing the people of Israel to commit idolatry (spiritual harlotry) with other gods. She also persecuted and killed the prophets of Elohim.

Now, we see that Messiah Yahushua used her name symbolic in Revelation 2:20, as a woman in the churches of the saints who was and is “allowed” to teach in the churches, and she pretends to be and / or “calls herself a prophetess” in the churches of the Living Elohim meaning she is a false prophet as this phrase represents. This Jezebel represents all the women of today who are teaching and prophesying in the churches of this evil and adulterous world.

Jezebel was the daughter of a king of Sidon, one of the nations Elohim told the Israelites not to give their sons or daughters to marry (Nehemiah 13:26-27; Malachi 2:11). Ahab, the king of Israel is said to have taken, “as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him” (1 Kings 16:30-32).

Jezebel’s name in history became to represent those “women who called themselves ministers”, those women who are deceitful, persuasive, and non-submissive to their husbands. These women are not willing to submit to sound doctrine, the law of Elohim, and His Messiah.

In the New Testament the name “Jezebel” means those women who are dominating in the churches of the saints of Elohim. Jezebel caused the persecution and death of the servants and prophets of Elohim (1 Kings 18:3-4,12-13). She ruled over Ahab the king of Israel and many false prophets who served the false god Baal (1 Kings 18:19).

Our Sovereign Master and Savior Messiah Yahushua in Revelation 2:20 used her name to represent all the rebellious women who are teaching in the churches of the churches of this world today (calling themselves apostles, pastors, ministers and prophetesses).

The Greek word ‘plana/w’ translated as seduce, (also notice this word is most commonly translated as ‘deceive’, in other parts of the KJV and other translations uses ‘lead astray’ or ‘misleads’); its from the transliterated word ‘Planao, plan-ah’-o’ meaning: to cause to stray, to lead astray, lead aside from the right way, to go astray, wander, roam about, “to lead away from the truth, to lead into error, to deceive, to be led into error, to be led aside from the path of virtue, to go astray, sin, to sever or fall away from the truth, of heretics, to be led away into error and sin” (see Strongs’ definition).

In Revelation 2 verses 18-29, Messiah Yahushua speaks of a woman referred to as “Jezebel”. The name “Jezebel” occurs only twice in the Scriptures (once in the Old Testament and once in the New Testament).

In the Old Testament, Jezebel was a very wicked and evil woman who killed and persecuted Elohim’s prophets and people of Elohim, and she caused the people of Israel to commit harlotry (sexual immorality with other gods) against Elohim…

• Revelation 2:18-29(NKJV)… “18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, “These things says the Son of God (Elohim), who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass:
• 19 “I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first. 20 Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
• 21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.
• 22 Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. 23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.
• 24 “Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden.
• 25 But hold fast what you have till I come. 26 And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations–27 “He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’ — as I also have received from My Father; 28 and I will give him the morning star. 29 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches”.

First, I ask these questions for your spiritual discernment. Do you believe Messiah Yahushua used a woman here for no reason other than giving us an example of a person defying Elohim?

Are there other examples where Messiah Yahushua used a woman’s name to show someone teaching error in the Church of the Living Elohim, just because or for no reason?

Why did Messiah Yahushua say in verse 20 the Churches “allowed” this woman Jezebel to teach?

Why did Messiah Yahushua say this woman “calls herself a prophetess”?

Have the Holy Scripture used this phrase called “herself a prophetess” before this time? I mean think about what I am saying here.

In Isaiah 3:12, which I spoke on above, there Elohim says these women were ruling over His people and leading them into error. These women were destroying the way of His people, leading them away from His word; Revelation 2 when speaking of a symbolically woman called by the name “Jezebel” agrees with other Scriptures concerning women leading and teaching men in spiritual matters.

In Nehemiah, speaking about king Solomon whom Elohim loved…

• Nehemiah 13:23-28(NKJV)… 23 Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah.
• 25 I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God’s (Elohim) name and said: “You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves.
• 26 Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God (Elohim), and God (Elohim) made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women.
• 27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God (Elohim) by marrying foreign women?” 28 One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.

In Ezekiel, Elohim speaks “Woe to the women…will you ensnare the lives of My People…

• Ezekiel 13:17-23… 17 “Now, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them 18 and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD (ELOHIM) says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on all their wrists and make veils of various lengths for their heads in order to ensnare people. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own?
• 19 You have profaned me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.
• 20 ” ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD (ELOHIM) says: I am against your magic charms with which you ensnare people like birds and I will tear them from your arms; I will set free the people that you ensnare like birds.
• 21 I will tear off your veils and save my people from your hands, and they will no longer fall prey to your power. Then you will know that I am the LORD (ELOHIM).
• 22 Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies, when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,
• 23 therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination.
• I will save my people from your hands. And then you will know that I am the LORD (ELOHIM).’ “

In Nehemiah 6:14, we have the false prophetess Noadiah trying to intimidate Nehemiah… “14 Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God (Elohim), because of what they have done; remember also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who have been trying to intimidate me”.

This message was given in part on WJRO 1590AM coming out of Glen Burnie / Baltimore, Maryland area. Send your comments to Evangelist Ron Davis, of the Kush Edifying Ministries.

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May Elohim bless and continue to bless you and your household until we speak again. Amen. Praise Yahweh.