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Jesus or Jezebel
Revelation 2:18-29
If you have your Bible, you can open it to the second chapter of the book of Revelation.
Is it nice to be narrow?
Is it okay to be intolerant?
Could those things sometimes be a virtue?
The truth is that sometimes it is nice to be narrow and sometimes it is wise to be intolerant.
But depending on how narrow you are, it might be good or bad.
I guess it depends on what kind of narrowness you’re talking about.
When you go to the doctor, you want him to be narrow when he is writing out a prescription, don’t you?
You go to the doctor and he asks, “What’s wrong?”
And you say, “Well, I hurt.”
And he asks, “Where?” and you say, “Pretty much all over.”
And the doctor says, “Well, all right.
I’ll write you out a prescription.
Let me see.
I’ll give you some of the really big red pills, some of the green pills, some pink ones, and let’s try the little yellow ones this time.
The yellow ones match your shirt so they might work.
Just try all of them and hopefully you’ll feel better,”
What would you say? “Doctor, can you be a little narrower than that?
Could you be more specific than that?”
When you fly on an airplane, you want the pilot to be very narrow, don’t you?
You don’t want to get on a flight for Florida and wind up in Idaho, do you?
Nothing against Idaho…
When you go to the bank, you want the teller to be narrow when you withdraw money from your account.
You want $100 not $62.
You want your accountant to be very narrow when he does your taxes because if he isn’t, it can cause all kinds of problems.
How much more important it is to be narrow about the things that deal with our eternal destiny.
It is important that we learn to be narrow about those particular things.
Now, the church in Thyatira was a wonderful church, as we’re going to see but it was making a tragic mistake.
It was tolerating something that it should not tolerate.
It was putting up with something that it ought to put out.
Maybe people were saying that they were being too narrow or intolerant of others.
Maybe they thought that were broadening their minds, trying to include everyone.
Let’s see what Jesus has to say to the church in Thyatira.
We’ll pray and read the fourth letter to the Seven Churches.
Pray!
In this passage, we see Jesus described in a way that takes us back to Daniel 10:6.
The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire…
Jesus has that penetrating sight that can see right through you.
He sees and knows everything.
Nothing escapes His sight or knowledge.
Nothing is hidden from Him.
He knows everything about you today.
There is nothing you could tell Him that He doesn’t already know.
He has eyes like a flame of fire.
…and whose feet are like burnished bronze
Bronze speaks of strength.
Together we get the idea that He is coming in judgment.
The picture is that Jesus knows all.
He knows what’s right and He knows what’s wrong.
And He is coming in strength to judge what is wrong.
And in verse 19, He says that there are some good things about this church:
19 “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
This is a going church.
They are working, loving, enduring and serving.
But even more importantly, the church in Thyatira is a growing church.
They are doing more now than they did at first.
They are increasing.
Jesus says some good things about the church but then mentions a flaw.
He uses one of those words that we hate to hear at the beginning of verse 20, “but.”
It’s little word but it says so much.
20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
There was a fatal flaw in the life of this church.
There was the beginning of something that could destroy the life of this church.
They were tolerating a woman who was teaching theological and moral error.
They were allowing her to.
And if you had told them that they shouldn’t let her to do that, they would have said, “Well, we don’t want to be narrow.
We believe in being nice, and we want to be nice to everyone.
And, after all, she seems quite sincere.
We may not agree with her in everything, but everybody doesn’t have to cross every ‘t’ and dot every ‘i’ just alike.”
They didn’t want to be narrow, and they didn’t want to be intolerant; and so they tolerated this woman, Jezebel, to teach error in the church.
Now, let’s get right into how we ought to deal with theological and moral error.
The first thing we see is the source of the error:
The Source
Verse 20
you tolerate that woman Jezebel
Now, there was a woman in the church of Thyatira, and she had poisoned the church.
Look at her character.
Her Character
She is called Jezebel.
Now, I don’t think that was her real name; I think that was her symbolic name.
To call this woman Jezebel would be like calling a man Judas.
It was the worst thing that could be said about her, because Jezebel was an Old Testament character.
She was a strong but wicked woman.
Anybody who got in her way (even her husband) better watch out!
She was the daughter of a pagan king, and she brought her pagan ideas into Israel.
The Old Testament Jezebel followed Baal and the worship of this god was immoral and unspeakable.
She was a very clever woman and very dangerous woman.
She introduced pagan worship into Israel.
But she didn’t come out-and-out against God.
She did something sneakty.
She mixed the altar of Baal with the altar of God.
That’s what Elijah said when he came against Jezebel and Ahab:
1 Kings 18:21
“How long will you go limping between two different opinions?”
The woman teaching this error in the New Testament was so much like the Old Testament Jezebel that it’s the name given to her.
They both had the same desire to lead the people away from God.
We not only see her character, but her call.
Her Call
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