AHAB AND JEZEBEL SPIRITS
The world is peppered with people who knowingly
or unknowingly let themselves be infiltrated by Jezebel and Ahab spirits, then
controlled by them. I’ll show you some of their characteristics from the Bible
so that you can make your own conclusions from a Biblical standpoint. The names
of these two evil spirits come from where we first see them. Jezebel was the
manipulative wife of King Ahab. She coerced over ten million Hebrews to bow to
Baal, practicing human sacrifice and killing God’s prophets. This one spirit
was responsible for corrupting an entire nation. It is intensely ambitious and
keeps secret alliances ready for use whenever it wants something. Jezebel is a
master of enticement and blackmail. Their story is found in 1 Kings
chapter 16 to 21 and 2 Kings chapter 9.
The Hebrew word for “Jezebel” means “unmarried, uncommitted,
unrestricted.” A Jezebel spirit is always looking for control. The Ahab spirit
is a willing client, Jezebel’s perfect companion. The Ahab spirit makes its
host person weak and easily manipulated. Jezebels never commit to anyone but
use people with Ahab spirits to carry out their plans. In psychology, the
relationship between Ahab and Jezebel is called co-dependency. Jezebel needs a
weak person, and Ahab, who hates confrontation, needs a strong one.
1 Kings 16:30 reads: “Ahab did evil in the sight of the Lord above
all that were before him.” And 1 Kings 21:25: “But there was none like unto
Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his
wife stirred up.”
People with an Ahab spirit fear confrontation and will do just
about anything to avoid it. They value peace more than honesty, making truces
rather than righteous agreements. Ahabs like the position of authority but look
for someone else to make the confrontational and difficult decisions. That’s
where the Jezebel comes in. A Jezebel will instantly take over acting command.
Ahab, an Israelite, allowed Jezebel to practice and perpetuate her
witchcraft and her sacrifices to Satan. He allowed her to gather other Satanic
followers, and he sat by idly while Jezebel openly murdered the true prophets
of God.
Jezebel is a charmer, sexy, funny, engaging, and even delightful,
but once in control, severely vicious.
Proverbs 5:3 tells us: “The lips of a strange woman drop as a
honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil.” And Proverbs 7:5: “Keep thee
from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.” In
these two verses, the word “stranger” is a Hebrew word meaning “a stranger to
the truth, an alien, an enemy.”
Deuteronomy 13:6 tells us about the Jezebel spirit: “If thy
brother, or thy son or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend,
which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve
other gods, which thou hast not known.” A Jezebel entices people to stray
away from the true God.
Proverbs 23:27 tells us: “A strange woman is a narrow pit.” In
other words, a tough one to get out of. First Corinthians puts it another way:
“What? Know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? For two,
saith he, shall be one flesh.” When Ahab got connected to Jezebel, he became an
enabler with her. They became an odd but powerful team.
MORE ABOUT JEZEBEL AND AHAB SPIRITS
The person who embodies a
Jezebel spirit is usually charming and very persuasive. Jezebel, in the Bible,
turned a whole nation against God by persuading her husband, Ahab, the king, to
do as she wished. The nature of the Jezebel spirit is to coerce others into
joining it in performing illegal and immoral acts against good people. Remember,
Jezebel is a spirit sent by Satan to ruin people’s lives and can dwell in men as
well as women. When Jezebel gets someone to do something wrong, that same
Jezebel has ammunition to use as blackmail at any time. The Jezebel
spirit loves to have power and control over people. That’s why one of the main
things God says about a Jezebel spirit, is to stay far away from it!
“Let not thine heart
decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many
wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to
hell, going down to the chambers of death” (Prov. 7:25-27).
Proverbs 2:10-11 and 16
tell us: “When wisdom entereth into thine heart and knowledge is pleasant unto
thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee, to deliver thee
from the strange woman [or man], even from the stranger which flattereth with
her [or his] words.” “Discretion” is translated from a Hebrew word that
means “a plan, craftiness.” Jezebels are all around us. We need to beware and
be smart and have a God-given plan of how to maneuver ourselves as far away
from a Jezebel’s notice as possible.
Jesus tells us: “Behold, I send
you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as
serpents and harmless as doves” (Matt. 10:16).
Proverbs 5:8 tells us: “Remove thy way far from
her, and come not nigh the door of her house.”
Second Corinthians 6:17 corroborates what Proverbs
says: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.”
Second Corinthians says:
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with
darkness?” Just one hook-up with evil can take us down a long dark snake hole!
There’s another vital point God gives us about
handling the Jezebel spirit. Deuteronomy 13:8 tells us: “Neither shall thine
eye pity him.” This demon elicits pity from its prey. Because the person
exhibiting the Jezebel spirit talks so nicely and seems like such a gentle and
pleasant person, we are tempted to feel sorry for them and be nicer toward
them, but God says don’t do it.
Another thing about both
the Jezebel spirit and the Ahab spirit is that both are flighty—they effortlessly
flit in and out, and both spirits can operate in the same person. Don’t let
that confuse you.
God made a way for people
infused with these spirits to get rid of them: exposure and embarrassment. I’ve
seen this myself. I had to do a face-to-face with a woman who tried to pull a
Jezebel on me. I had to tell her outright that I wouldn’t do it, and I told her
to stop trying to involve anyone else in plans that weren’t right. She stopped,
and I never saw the Jezebel in her again. The first step is exposure, and the
Jezebel doesn’t like to be caught out; it likes to be hidden in most cases.
God can work with a person
who still feels ashamed about sinful acts. God says that some will be so
ashamed, they will turn back to Him, and of course, He will have mercy and
compassion for the person or nation, and help them. Hosea, chapter 2, and
Ezekiel chapters 16 and 32, give us records of this kind of thing.
But some Jezebel spirits
grow so powerful, and some Ahab spirits make people so weak that the people who
have them don’t want anything to do with getting rid of them. The end for these
people is not pretty.
In the Bible, Ahab got killed in a freak accident
(See 1 Kings 22). Jezebel’s death was much worse. Jezebel was powerful and
prideful. God’s man, Jehu, came to where Jezebel was: “And when Jehu was come
to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head,
and looked out at a window” (v. 30). She probably thought she’d get all decked
out and try to entice Jehu, but it was way too late. She’d murdered many of
God’s prophets, and Jehu was here to take care of her for good.
“And he lifted up his face
to the window, and said, ‘Who is on my side? who?’ And there looked out to him
two or three eunuchs. And he said, ‘Throw her
down’. So they threw her down” (vv. 32-33). It was people in her own household,
people close to her, who threw her down.
“And some of her blood was
sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. And when
he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, ‘Go, see now this cursed woman,
and bury her: for she is a king’s daughter.’ And they
went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet,
and the palms of her hands.
“Wherefore they came
again, and told him. And he said, ‘This is the word of the Lord, which he spake
by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the portion of Jezreel shall
dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: And the carcass of
Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel;
so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.”
Jezebel was thrown down,
and her body was so destroyed that she was unrecognizable.
Our God is merciful. He
has given us instructions on how we should avoid being around Jezebel spirits
if at all possible. He has also given us a way to deliver those who want to get
free – by exposing and even shaming them (Hosea 2 and Ezekiel 16 and 32). If
they want to change, they can. But if a Jezebel has been allowed to take over
and invited into a person, and that person likes who they’ve become, then God
has His limits. You just can’t keep doing evil against God’s people and think
God will not stand up and exert His Godly right to intervene. The results don’t
always look pretty, but God will always protect and save those who turn to Him.
Love, Carolyn
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