I looked up the meaning of the word 'Jezebel', and it means something like pure, virginal, chaste.
Many years ago, I started to hear this strange-sounding teaching about the "Jezebel spirit." It had little to do with the references to Jezebel in the Bible, in a lot of cases. Some Charismatic types use 'spirit' to refer, in some cases, to a kind of spiritual condition or situation and say 'spirit of religion' or 'spirit of rejection.' Other Charismatics say the same thing and mean some kind of demon and/or principality. The 'Jezebel spirit' teaching evolved into this idea of a great principality, a powerful fallen angel. Someone on a Charismatic forum was posting this fallen angel might even be more powerful than Satan.
The 'Jezebel spirit' stuff in the 1990's and early 2000's (a fad at the time) never sat well with me. It's not in the book of Revelation. The passage is about 'that woman Jezebel', someone misleading God's people, and similarities with the Old Testament Jezebel are there in the passage-- teaching God's people to fornicate and to eat meat offered to idols. Those are two aspects of Baal religion. Earlier in the passage in Revelation, the same problem is associated with the way of Baalam. He was the mastermind behind the Baal of Peor incident, where the men were enticed into idolatry with food and fornication.
My question back then was since this stuff wasn't taught in the Bible, who gave the prophecy that there was a 'Jezebel spirit' so that we can judge the prophecy. Who was the author or preacher or whoever who anounced that there was a great principality named Jezebel? To point out the problem with the fuzzy interpretation of Jezebel in Revelation, I would say I do not believe that the ghost of a dead Canaanite woman is causing all these problems.
All this seemed to coincide with a movement toward trying to solve problems in society and problems the church faced by trying to rebuke principalities out of the heavenlies. The book of Jude actually warns of not speaking evil of dignitaries, and gives Michael not harshly rebuking Satan as a counter-example. One of the methods of this method of so-called 'spiritual warfare' was to look at the problems in a city, make up a principality to be behind the problem, and to rebuke it and try to cast it down out of the heavenlies. If there is a lot of adultery, some of them would 'come against' the 'spirit of adultery.' I even heard someone speak against 'roh macet' -- the 'spirit of traffice jams' when I was in Indonesia.
I noticed in some of the Charismatic and 'prophetic movement' -the latter of which kind of morphed into 'signs and wonders' movement, a lot of the doctrine seems to come from what the preacher says or what other preachers are saying, and light use of scripture. I was raised Pentecostal, which relied heavily on the Bible. With Pentecostals and other denominations, how to interpret the Bible might be heavily influenced by how it is interpreted in the denomination.
Regarding 'Lucifer.' There is one passage that mentions the word in the KJV. The Latin word, in that passage, for the morning star was used in the KJV. Lucifer does show up elsewhere.
In the old Latin Vulgate of II Peter 2:19, the word Lucifer is used positively, the verse about the Daystar arising in your hearts, which many take to refer to Christ.
2 Peter 1:19 - et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem cui bene facitis adtendentes quasi lucernae lucenti in caliginoso loco donec dies inlucescat et lucifer oriatur in cordibus vestris
The idea that the Lucifer passage is a passage about the Devil is strongly embraced interpretive tradition. If we read the passage, it says it is about the King of Babylon.
Is it clear that Jezebel was sleeping around, or was she just promoting it by promoting Baal worship? Btw, what is folk law? Is that Irish English for folklore?
Many years ago, I started to hear this strange-sounding teaching about the "Jezebel spirit." It had little to do with the references to Jezebel in the Bible, in a lot of cases. Some Charismatic types use 'spirit' to refer, in some cases, to a kind of spiritual condition or situation and say 'spirit of religion' or 'spirit of rejection.' Other Charismatics say the same thing and mean some kind of demon and/or principality. The 'Jezebel spirit' teaching evolved into this idea of a great principality, a powerful fallen angel. Someone on a Charismatic forum was posting this fallen angel might even be more powerful than Satan.
The 'Jezebel spirit' stuff in the 1990's and early 2000's (a fad at the time) never sat well with me. It's not in the book of Revelation. The passage is about 'that woman Jezebel', someone misleading God's people, and similarities with the Old Testament Jezebel are there in the passage-- teaching God's people to fornicate and to eat meat offered to idols. Those are two aspects of Baal religion. Earlier in the passage in Revelation, the same problem is associated with the way of Baalam. He was the mastermind behind the Baal of Peor incident, where the men were enticed into idolatry with food and fornication.
My question back then was since this stuff wasn't taught in the Bible, who gave the prophecy that there was a 'Jezebel spirit' so that we can judge the prophecy. Who was the author or preacher or whoever who anounced that there was a great principality named Jezebel? To point out the problem with the fuzzy interpretation of Jezebel in Revelation, I would say I do not believe that the ghost of a dead Canaanite woman is causing all these problems.
All this seemed to coincide with a movement toward trying to solve problems in society and problems the church faced by trying to rebuke principalities out of the heavenlies. The book of Jude actually warns of not speaking evil of dignitaries, and gives Michael not harshly rebuking Satan as a counter-example. One of the methods of this method of so-called 'spiritual warfare' was to look at the problems in a city, make up a principality to be behind the problem, and to rebuke it and try to cast it down out of the heavenlies. If there is a lot of adultery, some of them would 'come against' the 'spirit of adultery.' I even heard someone speak against 'roh macet' -- the 'spirit of traffice jams' when I was in Indonesia.
I noticed in some of the Charismatic and 'prophetic movement' -the latter of which kind of morphed into 'signs and wonders' movement, a lot of the doctrine seems to come from what the preacher says or what other preachers are saying, and light use of scripture. I was raised Pentecostal, which relied heavily on the Bible. With Pentecostals and other denominations, how to interpret the Bible might be heavily influenced by how it is interpreted in the denomination.
Regarding 'Lucifer.' There is one passage that mentions the word in the KJV. The Latin word, in that passage, for the morning star was used in the KJV. Lucifer does show up elsewhere.
In the old Latin Vulgate of II Peter 2:19, the word Lucifer is used positively, the verse about the Daystar arising in your hearts, which many take to refer to Christ.
2 Peter 1:19 - et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem cui bene facitis adtendentes quasi lucernae lucenti in caliginoso loco donec dies inlucescat et lucifer oriatur in cordibus vestris
The idea that the Lucifer passage is a passage about the Devil is strongly embraced interpretive tradition. If we read the passage, it says it is about the King of Babylon.
Is it clear that Jezebel was sleeping around, or was she just promoting it by promoting Baal worship? Btw, what is folk law? Is that Irish English for folklore?
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