God predicted that the spirit of the Old Testament woman Jezabel would be alive toward the end of time. Find out how it runs the modern dating world and how it has infiltrated even God’s remnant church.

<p>God predicted that the spirit of the Old Testament woman Jezabel would be alive toward the end of time. Find out how it runs the modern dating world and how it has infiltrated even God’s remnant church.</p>

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Singleness, Dating, and Relationships in the Church

Gabriel Arruda

The Jezebel Spirit & Modern Dating

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So we're going to be doing a series on singleness, dating and courtship in the church.

We're also going to be doing a three-part series on dating apps versus godly dating.

And there are many people who are single because they're making serious errors in their personal and dating lives.

And we're going to cover these things in these talks and we're going to cover 1 big 1 in this talk.

1 of the serious errors that causes people to be single probably much longer than they need to be.

And the last part of this series is going to be how to pray in a way that makes you actually truly ready to meet your special person.

There's a form of prayer that is what I call smart prayer.

It's a prayer that truly prepares you for the reality of marriage and not the fantasy of marriage.

And the more ready you are for the reality, the sooner God's probably gonna bring it to you.

So the title of this message is the Jezebel Spirit and Modern Dating in the Church.

So what is the Jezebel Spirit And how is it affecting dating in the world and in the church?

And we're going to find the answer to this question in this message And I was shocked as I started researching this topic God brought it to my mind and I started delving into it and as I looked into it, I realized it is in most of the churches in Protestant Western culture, even the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

And I was even shocked when I realized it was even in the history of my own life.

This has been a personal journey for me as well.

And so in Christian circles there's a term that has been trending the last few years called the Jezebel spirit.

I was fascinated by this concept So I started researching into it and it's used in many different ways it's not a theological term like sin or righteousness that Theologians are concerned with defining or that churches are trying to develop an official statement on so there's no official consensus on it but there's a lot of common features in how it's used.

And so it's often used to refer to a demon spirit that specializes in certain things that Jezebel, the Bible character, was known for.

And we're gonna get into that, We're gonna see all this.

And 1 thing that's really clear is this spirit runs rampant in the world.

But as I studied the topic, I realized the truest manifestation of the Jezebel spirit is in the church.

And we're gonna see why that is in a minute.

Of course, the best definitions of Bible concepts come from the Bible itself.

You have to understand first and foremost, some context.

Who was Jezebel And what does it have to do with Christians and modern dating in the Christian Church today?

But before we could see what this modern day spirit is, we first have to learn who the Old Testament character was.

Well Jezebel was the daughter of of Ethbal, who was king of the Zidonians.

And the Zidonians of course were pagan neighbors to Israel.

And the Zidonians were very dedicated worshippers of the deity Baal.

Baal was a cruel false god whose worship very often included very lewd sexual practices.

Baal was a very disturbing idol in antiquity.

Now the Bible never says the spirit of Jezebel or the Jezebel spirit, but because we see her mentioned in the book of Revelation in the prophetic context being attributed to a future power, we can understand that this Old Testament woman represents a spirit that actually manifests itself throughout history.

So there's a greater context to this than just the local historical figure of Jezebel.

And we're gonna look at a New Testament verse right now that's going to show us this.

It says, Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols." There's a lot in that verse there.

We've just learned a lot about the Old Testament character of Jezebel and the New Testament antitype.

First of all, something to notice, it says, thou sufferest.

All unholy control in your life, all unholy control in the church is allowed and it stops when you don't allow it anymore.

That's 1 thing this verse brings out, thou sufferest that woman Jezebel.

Now, Also notice it says she calls herself a prophet.

Jezebel, the true Jezebel spirit, always operates within a religious context.

And this is the difference between the Jezebel spirit and the other evil spirits, The Jezebel spirit always wears a religious garb.

Now all the Bible prophets were called by God, but we see this 1, this woman, calls herself a prophet.

So evidence that this is a church thing is further established by the fact that you look, and this is written to the church of Thyatira, and the history of the 7 churches teaches us that prophetically we know this to be the Roman Catholic Church of the Middle Ages, or the Antichrist power.

And really, as you look at it, you could even say that the Old Testament Jezebel prefigures the woman of Revelation 17, the great whore of Revelation 17.

Jezebel killed the prophets of God and God's people.

It says in Revelation 17, she was drunk with the blood of the saints and the martyrs.

Jezebel decked herself with jewels and fine arraignment.

Revelation 17 woman, decked with gold and jewels and fine arraignment.

They both operate in a religious setting.

They both had an illicit relationship with kings, and they both had manipulative control over the kings.

In Revelation 17, it says the woman sits on the beast, which means she's the 1 in control.

And 2 Kings 9 tells us that Jezebel was into witchcraft.

In Revelation 18, it says Babylon has sorceries.

God condemns her for her sorceries, Revelation 18.23.

And so we see that the woman of Revelation 17 is an end-time global manifestation of the Old Testament Jezebel.

And notice 1 of the things that she did in this passage.

It says that she was to teach and to seduce my servants.

It said that she called herself a prophet.

So that key word that we're looking at is seduce.

The Jezebel spirit is a spirit of seduction.

Seduction, which you could also call manipulation and control.

She seduces my servants to commit fornication.

So this verse actually confirms our suspicions that the Old Testament Jezebel was a very promiscuous woman.

And this is a spiritual verse, this Revelation passage, and the fornication here is to be understood spiritually, but it's capitalizing on the literal events of this Old Testament character.

You know, there's no anti-type without type, right?

And so the Old Testament Jezebel was a promiscuous woman.

And not just that, not only did she seduce them into fornication, but to eat things sacrificed to idols.

The Old Testament Jezebel was a woman who used her influence to bring people into idolatry.

The Jezebel spirit will make you an idolater.

We're going to look at more verses as well, but from here right now, we could even ask the question, so what's the modern day manifestation of the Jezebel spirit?

And so what is this Jezebel spirit and what does it have to do with dating in the church?

Now remember the key things we just looked at.

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Singleness, Dating, and Relationships in the Church

The Jezebel Spirit & Modern Dating

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