Jezebel, From Thyatira to America
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· 29 viewsThe Church in America is the Compromising church of Thyatira and it is time for the church to stand up and fight back with the Full Armor of God
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Revelation 2:18-29
Revelation 2:18-29
18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
19 “ ‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
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.
21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
22 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,
23 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.
25 Only hold fast what you have until I come.
26 The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,
27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.
28 And I will give him the morning star.
29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
Prayer
Prayer
I. Introduction
I. Introduction
II. Background
II. Background
Revelation 2 & 3
Letters to the Churches
Introduction
Commendation
Rebuke
Exhortation
Promise
3 ways to read these Letters
Periodically - in their actual contexts. There are real people
Prophetically- see diff church ages
Parentally- see across the globe at any time
Thyatira
Smallest city
Longest letter
Apollo
Trade guilds - IMPORTANT
Revelation 2:18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
Revelation 2:18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
INTRODUCTION - Son of God
INTRODUCTION - Son of God
Only time in Revelation
His eyes being “like blazing fire” and the brilliant reflections of His feet emphasize the indignation and righteous judgment of Christ.
John 5:19-23:
19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
22 For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
23 that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
The eyes of Christ-like a fiery flame that can look through you.
No hiding from Jesus.
Feet like fine bronze- firmly planted.
COMMENDATION:
COMMENDATION:
works
love
faithfulness
Service
last better than first.
Opposite that of Ephesus
REBUKE - Revelation 2:220-23
REBUKE - Revelation 2:220-23
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.
21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
22 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,
23 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
III. Who is Jezebel?
III. Who is Jezebel?
A. Jezebel in the Rev.
A. Jezebel in the Rev.
False prophetess
1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
3 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
15 So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
Mark 13:22
22 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. 23 But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand.
Sexual immorality
Idolater (food sacrificed to idols)
Has had time to repent
B. Jezebel in the OT
B. Jezebel in the OT
1 & 2 Kings
Wife of Ahab
Ahab
29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him.
31 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.
32 He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.
33 And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
9 “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer
11 or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,
12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God,
14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.
1. Princess, high-priestess
2. Idolater (Baal and Asherah)
5 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—
3. Led Israel into polytheism
1 And God spoke all these words, saying,
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
4. Seductress
5. Murderer of the prophets
“You shall not murder.
Elijah
Prophesies a drought
Flies in the face of Baal
Jehu
Kills Jezebel
Eunuchs actually kill her
C. Spirit of Jezebel in America today
C. Spirit of Jezebel in America today
1. Idolatry in America
Families
Sports
Stuff
2. Sexual seduction
Porn
Stats from Michael Brown’s book Brown, Michael L.. Jezebel's War With America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide. Charisma House. Kindle Edition.
Just consider how this generation has been flooded with porn: • “Porn sites receive more regular traffic than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined each month.” • “35% of all internet downloads are porn-related.” • “34% of internet users have been exposed to unwanted porn via ads, pop-ups, etc.” • “People who admit to having extramarital affairs were over 300% more likely to admit consuming porn than those who have never had an affair.” • “At least 30% of all data transferred across the internet is porn-related.” 1
To put this in context, in December 2017 it was reported that an average of 197 million users visited Amazon.com and 127 million visited Walmart.com each month. 2 Yet a leading pornography site draws 125 million visitors per day, with roughly 5 million adult videos uploaded to the site in 2018 alone—enough for 115 years of continual viewing.
According to recent data, 90% of young men age 18 have been exposed to pornography—much ofwhich is hard-core (meaning it often involves violence and overtly explicit imagery). Of the 90%, the average age these young men were sexualized by pornography was between 8–11 years old. Similarly, 60% of young women by the age of 18 have been exposed to porn as well. Almost 80% of this exposure, which isn’t always voluntary, is happening in the perceived safety of their homes. 4
• Eight-year-olds are being exposed to hard-core pornography.
• Children as young as ten are learning [in their schools!] the relative health risks of anal vs. oral vs. vaginal intercourse.
• Thirteen-year-olds are sexting each other, sometimes committing suicide when their naked pictures circulate through their school.
• Condoms have been made available to first graders. (What, pray tell, does a six-year-old child do with a condom?)
• Healthy men in their twenties cannot perform without Viagra because of their porn addictions.
Married couples in their twenties no longer have sex because it has become so meaningless to them.
some 40 studies link porn use to poorer cognitive function and mental health problems.” 25
It is estimated that worldwide roughly one million children are sold into sex slavery or forced labor every year, including forty thousand per year in America, which amounts to 109 children per day.
Gay revolution & Transgender movement
What is a Woman?
Supreme Court Justice cannot define a woman
Yet they say you can call yourself a woman no matter what biological gender God made you as.
Ideology being pushed in schools
Families removed from the decision making and kept in the dark about transitions
Tonsillectomy vs. gender reasignment
3. Baby killing
Stats on abortion from Brown’s book (Brown, Michael L.. Jezebel's War With America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide (p. 61). Charisma House. Kindle Edition. )
we have aborted nearly 61 million babies since 1973, 10 almost equal to the combined populations of Peru and Venezuela and more than the population of England,
Burning our children on the idols of our own pleasure
English Standard Version Chapter 1
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
4. Radical feminism
Emasculating men.
Men are no longer of the household
5. War on Gender/Truth
6. Witchcraft
Fastest growing religion in America
In an article dated November 10, 2018, Linda Harvey spoke of “Witches at the Abortion Clinic ‘Blessing.’” She asked, “How deeply are abortion clinics connected to witchcraft?” Her answer: “Christians from all over Ohio who stood together to protest a ‘sacred blessing’ ceremony at a Columbus, Ohio abortion clinic on November 9 discovered the volunteers and staff may be quite involved. . . . They discovered evidence of sorcery and symbols of witchcraft rituals performed before they arrived.” 27
10 There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer
11 or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,
12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
7. Silencing of the prophets
Catholic priest in England sanctioned for teaching Catholic doctrine on abortion
Teachers being fired for exercising religious freedoms
Social media and big tech censoring conservative Christian viewpoints.
That’s why Jesus used the prophets as an example of those who were persecuted for righteousness (Matt. 5:10–12). That’s why He indicted Jerusalem for killing the prophets (Matt. 23:37). That’s why a Jewish tradition states that, when called by the
Lord, Jeremiah protested, saying, “I cannot prophesy to them [meaning the people of Israel]; what prophet went out to them whom they did not seek to kill?” 2 That’s why Jezebel waged war against the prophets of Yahweh, seeking to eradicate them from Israel.
IV. Defeating Jezebel in America
IV. Defeating Jezebel in America
A. Rid Jezebel in personal life
A. Rid Jezebel in personal life
1. Get right with God
2. Pray
6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
B. As a country speak up
1. As Christians
And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
2. As pastors
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
3. As congregations
4. Join with others who are speaking up
5. STOP being the SILENT majority
V. Put on the Full Armor of God
V. Put on the Full Armor of God
A. Spiritual battle
A. Spiritual battle
B. Put on the Armor
B. Put on the Armor
1. God’s Armor
2. Stand against the Devil
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
15 and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.
16 In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;
17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
19 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,
20 for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
3. Jesus had defeated Satan thus we don’t need to
VI. Conclusion
VI. Conclusion
A. Rev. 2:24-29 - But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. Only hold fast what you have until I come. The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
A. Rev. 2:24-29 - But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. Only hold fast what you have until I come. The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
B. Hold on to the teachings
B. Hold on to the teachings
C. Authority over the nations
C. Authority over the nations
Rule with iron scepter
Morning star
D. Be as one who has an ear to hear
D. Be as one who has an ear to hear