The One With Many Faces (2)

The Vision of the Masks

Fear

1 Kings 19:1-3 (ESV)

1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”

3 Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

Jezebel is a Spirit with Feminine Characteristics.

Although this Spirit is has feminine characteristics. This spirit is gender neutral. It can reside in both male and females.

Explain the belief of angels in ancient Judaism being “male.”

Amongst the spirt of Jezebel, there are other spirits with female characteristics.

You can find them all in the Bible.

Lilith

Delilah - Jezebel attacks the strength of men. She seeks to dismantle the anointing that’s operating is people’s lives. (Expound.)

Queen of Sheba

Athaliah

Herodias - Jezebel seeks the head of prophets.

Jezebel is an ancient fallen angel, a principality and a chief demon.

Chief demons have demons operating and functioning underneath them (explain).

She uses fear, flattery and seduction to get what she wants.

She operates in control and manipulation.

She’s extremely deceptive and will try to hide under the radar.

She’s a murderer.

She is a member of Hell’s toxic trio.

Look at how the faces change (explain).

The Faces of Jezebel.

Throughout the centuries, Jezebel has been worshiped in many forms, and has been known by many names.

“Since the fall of humanity, Satan has sought to interject a feminine demonic principle into false worship, emphasizing a matriarchal control over societies with various manifestations of female, fertility goddesses.” - Bob Larson

Ishtar (Babylonian) - ancient Babylonian and Assyrian goddess that symbolized Mother Earth in the natural cycles of fertility on earth. She was the goddess of love, so the practice of ritual prostitution became widespread in the fertility cult dedicated to her name.

Anat (Canaanite) - Baal’s mistress or lover was the goddess of war, love, and fertility. She was the virgin goddess who conceived, and was also the victor over Baal’s enemies. Her victories in battle were vicious; she is described as up to her hips in gore with heads and hands from the enemies stacked high. Anat is sometimes identified with the “queen of heaven,” to whom the Jews offered incense in Jeremiah’s day (see Jer. 7:18; 44:17–19, 25). Anat was the patroness of sex and passion; lewd figurines of this nude goddess have been discovered at various archaeological sites in Palestine.

Ashtoreth (Syrian/Phoenician) - Mentioned in First Kings 11:5, 33 and Second Kings 23:13, this deity was the ancient Syrian and Phoenician goddess of the moon, sexuality, sensual love, and fertility. In the Old Testament, Ashtoreth is often associated with the worship of Baal.

Diana (Roman)/Artemis (Greek) - Referred to in Acts 19:24, 27–28, 34–35, this goddess in Roman mythology was the deity of the moon, hunting, wild animals, and virginity. Diana is the same as the Greek goddess Artemis, virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon. When Paul preached in Ephesus, the citizens were stirred to an uproar because the gospel threatened to destroy the profit of the artisans who crafted silver shrines of Diana. The temple of Artemis at Ephesus was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The Ephesian Artemis, or Diana, was worshiped more widely by individuals than any other deity known in the Asian world. The cult obtained a sizable income from the large amount of property owned in the environs of Ephesus. Unsurpassed cosmic power was attributed to her. To those who called upon Artemis she was Savior, Lord, and Queen of the Cosmos. She could exercise her power for the benefit of the devotee in the face of other opposing “powers” and spirits. As goddess of the underworld, she possessed authority and control over the multiplicity of demons of the dead as well as the demons of nature and of everyday life.

Aphrodite/Venus (Greek) - The most commonly accepted legend concerning the birth of Aphrodite indicates that she was born of the foam of the sea, floated in a shell on the waves, and later landed on Cyprus near Paphos. The greatest festival in Cyprus in honor of Aphrodite was the Aphrodisia, held for three days each spring. Each year great crowds attended it, not only from all parts of Cyprus but also from surrounding countries. During the Aphrodisia a religious procession started at New Paphos and wound its way to Old Paphos, some ten miles away, passing through the gardens and sanctuaries of the goddess.

Isis (Egyptian) - The Egyptians believed the dead go to a territory ruled by Osiris, where a person must give an account of his good and bad deeds. Behind this was the Osiris legend, which tells how the benevolent ruler Osiris was killed by his wicked brother Set, who cut his body into pieces. His wife, and sister, Isis, searched for his dismembered body and restored it to life. Eventually Osiris descended into the underworld as the judge of the dead. His son, Horus, avenged his father’s death by killing Set. Subsequently the myth of Osiris’ death and resurrection stimulated the Egyptians’ hope for immortality. For Osiris, life won out over death; good won over evil. So the Egyptians reasoned the same could happen to them.

Kali (Hindu) - In Hinduism, Kali is depicted in as an idol painted completely black with demonically bulging eyes. In one hand she holds a sword, and the other hand holds the head of her decapitated lover. Around her neck is a necklace of the human skulls of her victims. She stands with one foot triumphantly placed on back of the corpse of her murdered paramour. She is infamous for seducing her lovers and then, at the moment of orgasm, taking their lives. In India, where the cult of Kali originated, she is revered and feared by those who tremble at her sexual powers and bloodthirsty prowess.

Lilith (Witchcraft and Occult Judaism) - Mystical, Kabbalistic, and occult Judaism has taught that Adam’s first wife was Lilith. She was supplanted by Eve, and consequently became an evil spirit. As Adam’s true wife she seeks restoration to her rightful position. In Babylonian mythology and medieval demonology she morphed into an infamous witch and sorceress, the ultimate power of womanhood with unequaled powers of sexual deception and persuasion. These forms of Jezebel, the permutations of evil rooted ultimately in Lilith and now known as variations on the biblical Jezebel, are certainly not the only modalities of female corruption.

The diabolical ingenuity of evil often develops a matrix of wickedness that displays itself in many contingencies. Each image of the ultimate feminine evil varies according to the epoch of history, the particulars of a civilization, the unique religious instincts of that civilization, the willingness of any people to be corrupted, and the extent to which that corruption can be accomplished.

She has also been known as the “queen of heaven,” or the “queen of the coast.”

All of these spirit’s are Jezebel.

You Cannot Control the Anointing.

Human hands can sustain it.

God is WILD! (EXPLAIN).

You must depend on him.

It’s out of your control!!!

John the baptist lived in the wilderness!

The Israelites were not able to touch the ark (anointing) of God!

Jezebel counter-fits the anointing.

2 Kings 9:35 ESV

35 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

Her hands and her feet not only represented her evils works (hands) and wicked (feet) ways. They were left to identify her remains as the one who would attempt to creep into the church again.

Talk about the palm of her hands (control, false anointings.)

The feet represents a desire to sin. To run to idolatry.

Isaiah 59:7 ESV

7 Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

The skull of Jezebel housed her wicked scheming planning center. In this book, we have lifted her devious thoughts from her leftover strategies. Like convicting evidence left behind at a crime scene we have examined her motives, and we have diagnosed her plots through the carefully placed pieces strewn over the scene of her exploitations.

The Dogs of Hell.

The Bible says in 2 Kings 9 that Jezebel was eaten by dogs.

“Dogs in relation to Jewish terminology were equated with Gentiles.”

Anubis - an Egyptian god that had the head of a jackal,

He was known as the god of dead.

He was also son of the demonic god Set.

Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Jezebel’s gruesome end is paralled in the Egyptian tale “The Two Brothers,” in which the elder brother killed his wife, casts her to the dogs, and then sits mourning for his young brother.

Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary. (2 Kings 9:10). No one will bury her. It was considered a terrible thing in Israel not to be afforded a proper burial (see Deut. 28:25–26; Jer. 16:4, which capture the horror well). A similar view of burial is reflected in a curse that concludes the inscription on a ninth-century B.C. boundary stone found at Sippar in Mesopotamia:Sippar boundary stone with curse inscription.

Michael Greenhalgh/Art Serve, courtesy of the British Museum May his name perish, may his seed be gathered up; In hunger and starvation may his life come to an end; May his corpse fall down, and may it not have someone to bury it! Certainly in Mesopotamia the importance of the burial of the body was connected with a belief that otherwise the etemmu or ghost of the deceased would not find its natural place among the community of the dead and would therefore have no rest. In addition, the lack of a burial prevented the ongoing care of the dead at the burial site in the form of mortuary rites—it dissolved community between the living and the dead.

One way to ensure that a dead individual did indeed lose his or her individual and social identity was, as 2 Kings 9:10 implies, to feed the body to animals—a reality envisaged in the following text containing an anti-witchcraft ritual:

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May eagle and vulture prey on your corpse, May silence and shivering fall upon you, May dog and bitch tear you apart, May dog and bitch tear apart your flesh. In such a case, some Mesopotamian texts suggest, the dead person was consigned to a formless and chaotic reality and perhaps even to the world of demons.

Talk about the John Ramirez Train Story.

Symptoms of a Jezebelic Attack:

Isolation

Hopelessness

Comparison

Exhaustion

It’s Time to Destroy Fear!!!

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV

7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Romans 8:15–16 ESV

15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

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