Jezebel: The End Time Queen of Heaven Demoness

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No study of demons is complete without a thorough examination of Jezebel. This demoness, who is mentioned more than any other in the New Testament, controls modern society. Indeed, I have never met a living soul who was not under her influence at some time of their life, including believers.

As a Bible-believing Christian you are bound to have heard Jezebel mentioned at some time, and usually in connection with feminism and the attempt by women to dominate men. And this is most definitely one of her chief hallmarks for one of her rôles is to overturn male headship (especially in marriage) and to establish matriarchy. Religions that specifically promote her (though mostly using different names) such as Wicca extoll the 'goddess', 'Maia' and so on, and present her as a benevolent mother earth-spirit and as the 'original' deity that pre-existed the biblical God. But Jezebel is far more than an anti-patriarchal demon as we shall see. The entire spirit of this current depraved 'age' is under her invisible government.

Jezebel (in the Hebrew, Izevel) is one of the most carefully concealed demonic powers there is, and one of Satan's Ace cards. She cannot be discerned except by the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) because her enchantment over the carnal nature or flesh is total. She cannot be seen until the flesh has been conquered by the Ruach (Spirit). Moreoever, this conquest is not automatic - you can't discern the spirit of Jezebel simply because you have 'accepted Christ' or been 'born again' - the spirit of Jezebel is the very root of the carnal nature and will remain invisible until she is dug up from the human psyche and exposed to the rays of the sun of righteousness (Malachi 4:2). And that is why the evil world system is moving forwards at such a rapid pace - even Christians interceding as prayer warriors against her are, often without realising it, cooperating with her. Jezebel not only controls the psychic 'atmosphere' in which we all operate whilst awake but controls the dream state of those who have not uprooted the carnal nature too. Millions of Bible-believing Christians are having dreams whilst they are asleep, and 'spiritual impressions' and 'inspiration' while they are awake, which they believe is the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) but which, in fact, is demonic ... the power of Jezebel. It is for this reason that so many believers will be swept away by the end-time delusion and fall for the deceptions of the end-time Antichrist when he publically manifests himself ... until he reaveals his true colours and they can see the grizzly evidence of his satanic origin for themselves. By that time, however, it will be too late - they will already have received the Mark of the Beast (Revelation 19:20-21). It should be obvious, then - if what I am saying is true (which I of course firmly maintain that it is) - that exposing the spirit of Jezebel is a major priority for deliverance ministers.

The Biblical Jezebels

Historically, as most Bible students know, there were two Jezebels. The first one was the pagan queen of apostate Israelite King Ahab who supported and promoted idolatry in the Kingdom and who came dangerously close to eliminating the true worship of Yahweh (1 Kings 16:30-33; 18:4; 22:2; 2 Kings 9:22). The queen demoness who ruled Queen Jezebel back then is now accomplishing on a global scale what she accomplished two and a half millennia ago in the northern Kingdom of Israel. If you want to know what the spiritual condition of our age is, just go back and read the accounts of this wicked queen. There were then, as there are now, only a handful of true worshippers of Yahweh. The vast bulk of the population were either raw pagans or had compromised true worship with the worship of idols - they were religious syncretists. They would have used the Name of God (Yahweh), participated in the rituals of the Mosaic Law (to varying degrees), but at the same time included the worship of pagan deities alongside Yahweh. They would, in short, have imitated the foolish ways of 'wise' King Solomon who, by gradual steps under the influence of foreign pagan wives which Torah had forbidden him to marry because of this very danger, became more and more of a pagan (1 Kings 11:1-11). How could it have happened to so blessed and wise a king, who built the most magificient temple ever which Yahweh graced with such power as has never been seen since? Though the later Queen Jezebel will give us some more concrete information about the demoness of the same name, we will begin with Solomon because his life shows us the gradual way in which most foolish people slip into apostacy.

Israel was, and is, and is always supposed to be, a 'holy', 'set apart' or 'separate' nation (Ex.19:5-6; 1 Peter 2:9). When the Bible admonishes us to be holy, it means to be separated and distinct from the surrounding pagan culture. Our homes are supposed to be miniature temples where no unclean thing can enter. These temples are, of course, more than our homes - they are our very bodies, which we are told are the "temple of the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit)" (1 Corinthians 6:19). Anyone who is not treating their bodies and homes as temples of Yahweh is under the influence of the demoness Jezebel.

Solomon's fall occurred, as we know, through women. The spirit of Jezebel is a female demon or demoness (the parallel male spirit of Ahab we shall speak of another time). In saying this, I am not singling out the women for 'special blame' for sin - sin is endemic in both genders, though each gender does tend to sin and get demonised in slightly different ways. Adam and Eve were both as guilty of sin as each other, as are our modern men and women. And the spirit of Jezebel (like the spirit of Ahab) oppresses and possesses both men and women alike. For political reasons (in other words, trusting in politics more than Yahweh), Solomon married foreign wives so that he would have peace on his frontiers and gain trade advantages. And this is how sin and demonisation always start - we make an unequal peace with our enemies either because we fear them or because we want to control them. Remember Jacob, and how he tried to bribe Esau with gifts when he returned home to Canaan, so that his cheated brother would not kill him? We likewise send presents to our flesh nature to appease it (Genesis 33). The only godly fear, however, is of Yahweh (Psalms 111:10; Proverbs 1:7; Micah 6:9; Isaiah 11:2-3), and the only way to control your enemies is by allowing Yahweh to control you. Any other method will open the door to sin and demonic influence in your life. Our part is simply to fear Yahweh (and no one else) and to yield complete control of our lives to Yahweh through His Son Yah'shua (Jesus). It sounds so simple, doesn't it? But the truth is, in order to do this, you must wage relentless war against the flesh until you have overcome it. In short, you must become an overcomer.

Solomon's great weakness was women. Though Torah permitted him to have several wives, it was clearly stated that they must be virgins, of the covenant, and not in large numbers (Lev.21:14; Dt.17:14-17). Power turned Solomon's head. He realised that with his wealth and power, he could have all the women he wanted. And so he helped himself, just as the fallen Watcher Angels did in the days of Noah, coming to earth and helping themselves to the daughters of men with whom they destyoyed the gene pool by internarrying with them, and created a race of giants or nephilim, provoking Yahweh to destroy the entire corrupted world by water (Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33). And you will remember, that the Saviour said that when He returned, the earth would be exactly as it was in the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37; Luke 17:26; 1 Peter 3:20).

The fall of Solomon began when he started ignoring some of the 'less important' (so-called) commandments of Yahweh, thinking that he was somehow 'above' them or that they were 'not applicable' to him. This kind of carnal rationalisting is how all sin begins. Yah'shua (Jesus) said the very opposite - He said, in no uncertain terms, that those who break the least of the commandments, and teach others to do the same, will be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven (Mt.5:19). Find me a church or a community of believers who have decided to 'leave out' some of the commandments and I will show you the spirit of Jezebel at work. Show me a church which rejects any part of the Bible and I will show you Jezebel in action. Indeed, I know of one church which only accepts the Book of Acts! Their doctrine is so off the mark it's a wonder their church can be called Christian anymore! And what is their excuse? "We have the Spirit and so we don't need the Word any more!" Such thinking, to greater or lesser degrees, is the plague of contemporary evangelical Christianity. It's chief weakness is that it's doctrine rests on a HUGE assumption - the assumption that they have the fullness of everything and are in no need of being taught anymore (Jeremiah 31:33-34 - read this carefully). They will likely tell you that they are not sinning anymore and that they are walking in the very presence of God. The trouble is, if any of our actions contradict the moral, ethical, behavioural, or spiritual standards of Yahweh as revealed in the Word, it is evidence that we are sinning. And if we are sinning, then obviously the fullness of the Ruach (Spirit) is not in us. And if that is true, and we are believing in our minds that we have the 'fullness', then what, in fact, do we 'have´? If you haven't already guessed, then you need to read on further.

Solomon's weakness was women. He knew what Torah taught but chose to go 'beyond' it. The weakness of men in all dispensations (and let's be completely honest here) is sex. Now I am not saying there is anything wrong with sex, because Yahweh made it and proclaimed it to be 'good' - within marriage and provided certain regulations about sexual cleanliness are also observed (like not having intercourse during a woman's menstruation - Leviticus 15:19-24). This is a large subject and beyond the scope of this essay - however, if you make a careful study of sex in the Bible you will discover that there are both clean and unclean practices even within marriage. And please bear this in mind: every time you disobey a commandment, you give one or more demons legal right to oppress you. And if you sin in the matter of important doctrinal areas, that touch on salvation, then those same demons will deceive you into following a false spirit too. Obviously, then, we cannot be too careful about doing things Yahweh's way.

The trouble is, most modern Christians don't want to hear these things. Solomon didn't want to hear either. He wanted his women. So he got them and Yahweh gave him over to a strong delusion (2 Thes.2.11). When believers and unbelievers alike consciously reject them, He allows their hearts to be hardened and gives them over to "strong delusion". The key to the exposure and conquest of the spirit of Jezebel (and in principle all demons) is a choice to (a) trust in the blood of Yah'shua (Jesus) for salvation, and (b) obedience to all the commandments of Yahweh in the Bible (e.g. Rev.12:17). This, I have found, always determines whether deliverance ministry will be successful or not. I have helped many people be quit of demons by persuading them to trust in the Name and Blood of Yah'shua (Jesus) but have come up across a wall of resistance to having the other demons thrown out because they won't obey the commandments - they have swallowed one of Jezebel's lies that the commandments don't matter any more because they're just 'religion' (how that buzz word has been used to justify all manner of sinning by Christians! - and in case you have been swallowed by the 'religion' lie of Jezebel, check out what the Bible says about the two types of religion in James 1:26-27).

You all know that demonisation takes place when we believe in lies. Any lie acts as a magnet for demonic oppression. The more lies you believe, the greater the oppression until it becomes (if taken to the limit) possession. Small lies do matter in the end. Anything that would allow a demon residence rights in your body matters because that demon is a wall between you and Yahweh to some degree or another; and one 'little' demon may tell you a 'little' lie that will put you in a highly dangerous situation because you were listening to its voice instead of the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit).

Solomon had suffient wealth and power to have all the women he wanted. With the advent of cheap and even free porn on the internet, and national laws that have totally redefined or indeed eliminated adultery altogether as a criminal offence, men and women can pretty much do as they please these days. They can have as many partners as they want and not have to look over their shoulders at people holding them accountable to Yahweh's laws. So it will not surprise you to learn that the second Jezebel mentioned in the Bible was a false prophetess who was encouraging early New Testament believers to commit fornication, that is, having sex without the responsibilities and hedges of the marriage covenant. How did she do this? By injecting occultism and other demonic practices into the Messianic Community (Church) (Rev.2:20) so that they ceased to follow the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) but followed the demoness - with all her whisperings to rebellion against Torah - instead.

Most Christians who are under the influence of Jezebel have no idea that they are under the control of occult power. They assume that just because they believe in "God" or "Jesus" and the "Bible" that they cannot possibly be occultists. But belief, as we have seen, is not mere passive assent. Biblical belief is always active and it is active because it is coupled to commandment-keeping and a lifestyle that clearly marks Christians out as being 'holy', 'set apart' and 'separated' from the non-believing and nominal Christian communities. So different is their lifestyle, in fact, that they appear to be "peculiar" to outsiders (1 Peter 2:9; Titus 2:14; Deuteronomy 14:2, KJV). That lifestyle, which comes about as a result of commandment-keeping, is the fruit or evidence of true faith in Christ. That which is false or untrue faith leads to a life which ignores the commandments and a lifetsyle that is either similar to, or identical with, the surrounding pagan culture.

Those who have compromised with the truth will become as Solomon became - an admirer and imitater of things pagan. Those who have moved out of salvation and into a false spirit will like the same behaviour, music, sexual tastes, partying spirit, etc., of the pagan world. It does not seem to occur to most believers that the gulf between the Ruach Elohim (Spirit of God) and the spirit of the world is so enormous that the two might as well be metaphorically standing on opposite sides of the Grand Canyon! True Christianity and paganism are as water and oil - they can by no means mix. And if they do mix, it is only because you have moved out of Christianity and into paganism even if you continue using the words and rituals of Christianity. Paganism can absorb Christianity, but Christianity cannot absorb paganism - ever - without first becoming tainted by it, and finally, destroyed by it. That is how Satan has consistently overwhelmed Yahweh's people ... by gradual compromise leading eventually to a flood that drowns out every last vestige of true faith and practice.

Solomon was spiritually seduced by his pagan wives. They turned his heart away from true worship by leading him into occultism. All false religion (and that means, everything that is not Biblical Christianity), is occultism. And all occultism is ruled by demonic powers. Western Christianity has largely become occultic. It is using typical occultic, Wiccan and Satanic practices whilst using all the terminology of the Bible. You only have to look at 'New Age Christianity' to see how the Bible is co-opted (and perverted) into serving the occult. Only the other day I came across a website for 'Christian witches'. They do all the occult crafts (like casting spells, etc.) whilst talking about Christian 'love' and 'tolerance'. These witches have simply seized (knowingly or unknowingly) upon what is basically an already occultised Christianity (mostly Roman Catholicism) and slightly modified it. Wiccans and othjer occultists know that these 'Christians' are simply 'working magick' under a false spirit and therefore respresent no threat to them. The true Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) they hate and loathe because their demons are disturbed and agitated in the Ruach's (Spirit's) presence. These witches are also at home in the 'name it and claim it' charismatic churches which employ exactly the same visualisation techniques of witches themselves. Witches like to imagine in their mind's eye that (for example) they are surrounded by an invisible psychic force field which they can use to ward of hostile spirits. What they are doing is simply usiing a demonic power. When Christians 'visualise' that they are surrounded by 'God's love', for instance, they are doing exactly the same thing, only they are not aware that it is the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) which is not empowering them but something else.

"But I hold against you that you allow that woman Izebel (Jezebel) who calls herself a prophetess, to lead and lead My servants astray to commit whoring and to eat food offered to idols. And I have her time to repent of her whoring, and she did not repent. See, I am throwing her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their works. And I shall slay her children with death. And all the assemblies (churches) shall know that I am the One searching the kidneys [minds] and hearts. And I shall give to each one of you according to your works" (Revelation 2:20-23, ISRV).

I have highlighted some key words so that you can know what to expect when the spirit of Jezebel is at work. It all begins when we 'allow' or 'permit' iniquity in our midst and do nothing about it. The Gospel of Yah'shua (Jesus) is about love but also truth and obedience. Love does not equal compromise with truth or obedience! Ever! We are commanded most strictly to excommunicate and disfellowship all those who bring the spirit of Jezebel into the churches and will not repent (1 Corinthians 5:11-13). Such people should be isolated and ministered to by the Elders and other mature members who possess the true spirit of prophecy (in order to discern) and are equipped as deliverance ministers to expell the demonic influence. Without this kind of ministry in place, churches will be destroyed. They already are being destroyed. Indeed I know of very few who do not have a Jezebel problem of one sort of another.

When the scriptures speak of 'whoring' and 'eating food offered to idols' it is not just talking about sexual fornication and adultery, and eating meat offered of demons in pagan temples. We spiritually fornicate and commit adultery with Yahweh when we believe and embrace occultic doctrines and practices. We 'eat food offered to idols' when we partake of the Jezebel spirit in place of the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) and enter into the fellowship of those who are deceived and led by demons. That is why there are no eccumenicals in heaven, only those who adhere closely to the truth where demons cannot come.

A couple of weeks ago a man came to me for deliverance ministry. He had been married to a woman who had dominated and controlled him, and had become her victim because he had himself been the victim of abuse by his own mother. I annointed his head with oil and layed my hand on him and began to command various demons to come out of him after we had been through a long interview and various prayers. When I mentioned the demoness Jezebel, his body began to violently contort in pain. The chances are that were you to do the same with most people - believer and unbeliever alike - you would get a similar reaction.

In the next essay I shall be looking in greater depth at this demoness so that you can see the extent to which she has the West under her control. But before I do, let me offer those who have a Jezebel problem some words of comfort - powerful though this demoness is, she is nothing before the blood of Yah'shua (Jesus). Once you have understood how she works and how she has deceived you, you will not only want to be rid of her but will be able to be rid of her. But first you need to understand. In the Book of Revelation we read:

"And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh" (Revelation 19:21, ISRV).

This grizzly end-time scene occurs just before Satan is bound in chains and cast into the pit for a thousand years (Revelation 20:1-3). Of interest to us, however, is the fact that these birds are eating human flesh. In the Scriptures, the honoured dead are always buried, and not to be buried is a disgrace (2 Kings 9:34) and being given over to be eaten by dogs and buzzards is the ultimate disgrace (Mt.24:28). And the demoness Jezebel is about to suffer the ultimate disgrace, just as the historical queen did centuries ago.

The prophet Elijah, you will remember, was the one sent by Yahweh to challenge the authority and power of Jezebel and her prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18). Everyone knows the story of the contest on Mount Carmel when Elijah invoked the power of Yahweh to burn up his water-drenched offering. The pagan prophets tried the same thing, yelling and screaming to Baal and cutting themselves in the process (cutting, as every deliverance minister knows, demonises a person). Yahweh was vindicated and the prophets of Baal were executed for leading millions of souls astray. Now you would have thought that Elijah would have been buoyed up with confidence after so dramatic a display by Yahweh but he turned tail and fled, afraid of the wrath of Jezebel. The wrath of a woman can be fierce, and enough to terrify any man, but Elijah ran nevertheless. We must be lenient with him because if the truth be known the threats of the spirit of Jezebel have cowered us in the past. Her bark, however, is worse than her bite.

Once he had come to his right senses, Elijah prophesied the end of Ahab and Jezebel. He declared, through the Ruach (Spirit), that the dogs would eat the flesh of Jezebel by the walls of Jizreel. He also said that any of Ahab's people that died in the city would be eaten by the dogs and those who died in the field would be devoured by the birds (1 Kings 21:23-24). A gruesome end indeed for the most wicked of couples and their supporters.

Well, the prophecy was fulfilled sure enough. Jehu had Jezebel thrown to her death from a high window in her castle. She even had the nerve to make herself up with cosmetics and put on her finest clothes before her undigified execution. After she had died from her fall, Jehu - who was to become king - wanted to accord her a proper burial - but by the time the attempt to recover the body was made it had been eaten by the dogs (2 Kings 9:32-37).

Jezebel met her deserved end - in utter disgrace. Which brings me to a final remark about demons which they will never let on because they have been deceived themselves: demons are mortal. They think they're immortal because of the lies Satan has told them about himself but there is no immortality apart from a life in Yahweh, because only Yahweh-Elohim is immortal.

In the next essay we shall examine the way the West was hijacked by the Spirit of Jezebel and how she controls nearly all the political and social institutions. In the meantime, be assured that Yah'shua loves you and wants you delivered if you will but believe His promises and pursue the battle plans He has given. So we will end today with the admonition of the apostle James who wrote:

"Submit yourselves, then, to Elohim (God). Resist the devil [Satan], and he will flee from you. Come near to Elohim (God) and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before Yahweh, and he will lift you up" (James 4:7-10, NIV).

To be free of Jezebel, the partying with sin must end, and that requires a major change in attitude and a brief period of mourning and contrition. Then - and only then - "He will lift you up" off the ground and into the spiritual heights where the true joy of the Father may be found.

Of all the major leaders at the Third Reich put on trial in Nuremberg at the end of the last world war, only one - Albert Speer, Hitler's Chief Architect and Minister of Armaments - pleaded guilty to war crimes. The others had swallowed so many lies and in the process progressively dulled their consciences, that they ceased being sensitive to the difference between good and evil. The blood of millions of men, women and children were on them, and with it, strong satanic legal grounds for demonisation. When a person goes deep into satanism - and nazism was just another variation on the occult - it is hard to come out of it again. With every chain that the Adversary wraps around you because you have conceeded power over you to him, the harder it becomes to get out. Most of the chief nazis were defiant until the end, offering paltry excuses for their evil deeds. They loved Satan more than God. And so they perished.

We are talking for the second week running about the demoness Jezebel. We have seen the two historical characters and how the demoness of the same name lures men and women into her snare. We saw that she empitomised the spirit of harlotry and idolatry. However, she is much more that that. In the Book of Revelation principally, she has a much wider rôle than leading dupes like Solomon into paganism. Her influence, as I hinted last time, is global and works as much on nations as a whole as on individuals. Here is how she is described by the apostle John:

No doubt you have read, or have heard much, about "Babylon the Great". She is a favourite theme of many end-time writers and commentators. Like the original Jezebel who was a queen and a false prophetess, so the original Babylon was a city, also known as Babel, famous for its abortive tower and the division of the universal language of man into many. The original city fell years before John penned this revelation. This one, however, is a "city" that exists at the end-time just before Yah'shua (Jesus) returns. She is described here as demonised with every type of evil spirit there is. Moreover, she has such wealth and influence over all nations that she clearly has a position of prominence in the world. Not only is she the source of the world's wealth but of every other nation's wealth by virtue of their trading with her. She is a "city" that lives in luxury.

To help you identify who the end-time Babylon is, let me point out that in the Bible a "city" can either be a small village or a whole state. Anciently cities were states in themselves which grew in power and influence to dominate and control other city-states to form empires. Babylon itself began in this way. Therefore cities - be they small villages or large empires - had their own "kings" - kings who were either local sheiks or mighty rulers of large dominions such as the Babylonian empire. Thus our end-time city is both a city and a state, that state being defined by its capital-city. When we speak of Berlin or London we are also speaking of Germany and the United Kingdom since these are the capital cities of these nations. Likewise Jerusalem, as capital city, also represents the whole of Judah or of unified Israel.

Concerning latter-day Babylon, Yah'shua (Jesus) goes on to warn through the apostle John:

We are reminded in reading this of the warning given to Lot and his family to leave the city of Sodom. Though Abraham pleaded that the city be spared, he had to prove to Yahweh that there were enough righteous people living within her walls. Only four people left that city, and one perished on the way. In that city, we are told, "the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against Yahweh" (Genesis 13:13, NIV).

This city is later used as a model by Yahweh to describe what it will be like for Israel if she ever departs from her covenants:

"When such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and therefore thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way." This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. Yahweh will never be willing to forgive him; his wrath and zeal will burn against that man. All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven. Yahweh will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law (Torah). Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which Yahweh has afflicted it. The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur -- nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in fierce anger. All the nations will ask: "Why has Yahweh done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?" And the answer will be: "It is because this people abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt. They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. Therefore Yahweh's anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book. In furious anger and in great wrath Yahweh uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now" (Deuteronomy 29:19-28, NIV).

When the notthern Kingdom of Israel was expelled from Canaan by the Assyrians, she never returned. Only Judah remained until suffering the same fate, first at the hands of the Babylonians, and then finally at the hands of the Romans. The Israelite tribes for the most migrated north over the Caucasus Mountains and then West into Europe and finally into the Americas, Australasia, and Southern Africa. Others went elsewhere. All the Bible prophecies following the division of the Kingdom of Solomon into Israel and Judah refer to two distinct tribal groups and nations which are not to be joined together until the very end time as a single national called "Israel". The little country in the Middle East which styles itself as the "Republic of Israel" is not biblical Israel but a Khazar entity set up by the satanist Roschschild family. It is something else which is beyond the scope of this essay (see Is Israel Israel? and other links). To cut a long story short, the Israelite tribes have not yet been joined together in the Holy Land but remain in their places of diaspora in the world.

Those of you familiar with the history of the northern and southern Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, respectively, will remember that these were people who tended to descend into idolatry, harlotry and depravity. We saw last time what Queen Jezebel did to the northern Kingdom under Ahab. This northern Kingdom and Sodom are types of the end-time "Babylon the Great" and all three are ruled by the spirit of Jezebel. There are still ten Israelite tribes in dispersion but only one has the power and the wealth to influence and thus control every nation in the world today. Speaking of Jerusalem and by extension Judah, which fell for the same demonic spirit, Isaiah speaks descriptive words of any nation under Jezebel's influence, no less "Babylon the Great" today:

"The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves" (Isaiah3:9, NIV)

You all know what the principal sin of Sodom and Gemorah was so I do not need to go into that here. Suffice to say, as any deliverance minister will tell you, the demons associated with it are amongst the toughest to get rid of.

The destruction of Babylon the Great is as swift as the destruction of the original Sodom:

"When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry:

"'Woe! Woe, O great city, O Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come!'

"The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes any more - cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men" (Revelation 18:9-13, NIV).

The end of this great city and nation spells disaster for international commerce. It represents the end of the economic system as we know it today. Without going into all the why's and wherefore's, we may say that the end of this great end-time apostate Israelite nation is one of the signs that the return of Yah'shua (Jesus) is just round the corner. And though we, like Abraham, may wish to spare her destruction because of the righteous within her, the fact of the matter is that Yahweh will gather out the righteous from her as he did Lot and his family. When they have been gathered out, the city and nation will perish.

Now this is not just "any old nation" - this is an Israelite nation, and the fact that it may have forgotten its identity and the covenants it entered into with Yahweh centuries before is entirely besides the point - for the children of Israel are not only held to stricter account than non-Israelite nations but also enjoy blessings that alone belong to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and to no other nation. And if Yahweh did not spare ancient Israel and Judah when they entered into the self-same sins and forgot their covenant with the Almighty, then, being that He is a God of consistency whose Word never returns to Him void, Yahweh will pass sentence on modern Israel today. And remember, we are not talking about the little Talmudic Jewish state in Palestine! "How could Yahweh ever associate Israel with Babylon?" you may ask. The same way that he called Jerusalem "Sodom" (Jeremiah 23:14).

This great nation - this "Babylon the Great" - is not the only Israelite nation but is the most powerful of them all, and therefore its leader in the end-times. She is allied with other Israelite nations too all of whom share not only the same noble ancestry but also the same tendency to feud amongst each other, the same tendency to descend into paganism, idolatry and harlotry, yet sharing strong commercial links. Thus she and her allies are possessed of the same spirit, and that spirit happens to be the demoness JEZEBEL.

I am hoping that by now you have linked what I said last time with what I am telling you today. You will not find many people preaching these things. They are critically important and if you miss them you will remain ignorant of end-time events that will spell either salvation or doom for you.

Perhaps some of you caught these words in the last citation I gave you - if you missed them, pay close attention now:

"The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their ... bodies and souls of men" (ibid.).

Some translations render this last part as "slaves" and that is indeed one sense of the original. However, we will under stand this amazing portion of scripture if we simply translate it literally:

"The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their ... bodies/flesh and psyches of men"

Babylon the Great is the world's leading merchant of flesh and of psychic energy. The selling of flesh - whilst it includes slavery - also includes harlotry, pornography, body parts for surgery, and so forth ... anything to do with the flesh of humans. This will also be the country that offers the most human sacrifices to Satan both in terms of aborted babies and Satanic ritual murders.

Satanism is in the business of, amongst other things, setting up satanic blood-lines and exporting them abroad as part of their plan for world domination. The leaders of the world are, for the most part, related just as the kings and queens of old were, and are. Babylon the Great is not only in the business of trading sex but also soul power or psychic enegy. The illegal (in Yahweh's eyes) release of psychic energy through commandment-breaking and devilish practices empowers Satan, the demons, and his end-time human slaves for the purpose of deceiving as many as possible and dragging them down to hell before Yah'shua (Jesus) returns.

The destruction of this great Jezebel nation causes worldwide consternation. We read further:

"They [the merchants] will say, 'The fruit you longed for is gone from you. All your riches and splendor have vanished, never to be recovered.' The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand far off, terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn and cry out:

"'Woe! Woe, O great city, dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls! In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!'

"Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off. When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, 'Was there ever a city like this great city?' They will throw dust on their heads, and with weeping and mourning cry out:

"'Woe! Woe, O great city, where all who had ships on the sea became rich through her wealth! In one hour she has been brought to ruin!

Rejoice over her, O heaven! Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets! Elohim (God) has judged her for the way she treated you'" (Revelation 18:14-20, NIV).

Whatever our national, allegiances may be, the true children of God will rejoice when this happens. Do not be deceived by false appeals to patriotism! Every despot has appealed to patriotism. Napoleon did, Hitler did - but it was not true patriotism - but an allegiance to a demonised despot and his demonised cronies who became the substitutes for the actual people. An appeal to nationalism and patriotism is always made by tyrants who commit murder with one hand and praise the people with the other. Our allegiance is to our country under Yahweh.

The end of this nation - this Babylon the Great - is final - she will never be rebuilt again, just like the original Babylon. John's account ends in this way:

"Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said:

With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again. The music of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again. No workman of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again. The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. Your merchants were the world's great men. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray. In her was found the blood of prophets and of the saints, and of all who have been killed on the earth" (Revelation 18:21-24, NIV)

Notice that this Great Babylon will be famous for its music too. Which nation is the greatest exporter of modern music? It is a music, like everything else she exports, that carries a "magic spell" - sorcery.

There are many who say that Babylon the Great is the Roman Catholic Church. Well, she is one part of it, and has played a major rôle in the corruption of Christianity by being a syncretism of the religion of Christ with occultism. Babylon is also, by extension, all nations that come under her influence, and thus "the blood of the prophets and of the saints, and of all who have been killed on the earth" is the fruit of the spirit of Babylon - which is Jezebel - working on all nations. Just as one city is the head of this nation, so this nation is the head of all the other nations in the world - first through her direct alliances and second those whom she influences with her power and wealth.

The following chapter in the Book of Revelation describes the rejoicing of the children of Yahweh. The end of this nation is good news not only for the world, however, but her people also - those who have been saved out of her. Her devastation will mean the devastation - like a dominoes effect - of her chief Israelite allies, and of all the other nations in the world too. The only ones who will not be affected will be those who have been gathered out of the world to the Cities of Refuge.

I think everyone hearing what I had said today knows who that Great City is, but in case there is anyone with lingering doubts, I will say it clearly: Babylon the Great is Washington D.C. and the United States of America and her Israelite allies are the principal nations of Europe like Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, France, Italy, and the other nations that will form the European Union (EU), but principally the United Kingdom who has the closest ties with the USA. These are the Jezebel nations.

Next time we shall see how the spirit of Jezebel is competing for world domination and examine her chief rival, the spirit of Allah which controls the Muslim world. For now be aware that the whole cultural and spiritual milieu of the West, led by the United States, is the spirit of Jezebel - all of it. We here in Europe are as much a part of it as our brethren in north America. Also next time I will attempt to map out what is probably going to happen in the days leading up to this apocalyptic end of America and the West. This message is not popular and will be rejected by the vast majority of Christians, just as the Israelites and Judahaites rejected similar messages delivered to their nations from Yahweh centuries ago. History repeats itself - painfully and predictably.

Our part is to get on our knees and repent both for our own seduction by, and involvement in, the Jezebel system, and to petition Yahweh to deliver his people to the places of refuge which He has designated. We at the very least are required to "get out" of Babylon and, like those living in Judah at that time, head for the mountains (Matthew 24:16; Mark 13:14; Luke 21:21). Amen.

We end our study of Jezebel today by looking at her chief endtime rival whom she is destined to defeat before she is herself taken out of the way by the armies of Yahweh upon the second advent of His Son, Yah'shua (Jesus). That demons and demonic principalities rival or even fight one another comes as a surprise to many Christians who assume that the satanic hosts are completely united and work in concert against the Truth. They don't. Indeed there is great competition between different demonic hierarchies which have built up great power bases over the centuries.

I mentioned last time how of all the major nazi leaders only Albert Speer pleaded guilty at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. Nazism is a perfect example of a demonic system. The leaders were often great rivals and hated each others' guts. Goebbels and Göring loathed each other and given the chance would have murdered each other too. Indeed, on one occasion - when Hitler decided to purge his brown-shirted stormtroopers called the SA and had its leaders like Röhm shot to death, Goebbels came precariously close to being numbered with them when Goering ordered the Berlin SS into murderous action. Hitler cunningly played the suspicions and hatreds of these nazi lords off against one another and got them to do his bidding. He was, as we have seen, prepared to kill some of his own people to further his own quest for power.

The demonic hierarchy is no different. Satan exploits rivalries and channels them down the path he wants them to go. Because demons are a wild bunch there are often major clashes between them. For Satan it matters little, especially when the instruments of these battles are human hosts. Thus for Satan the outcome of the titanic clash between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia was irrelevent because the chief aim was always the creation of us much death and destruction possible and create the anarchistic conditions that would favour the rise of Illuminism. The Soviet victors in their turn had to stand aside for the Jezebel-conrolled West. Today, however, Jezebel has two rivals - a demonic lord called Allah, the god of the Muslims, and another demonic lord who rules over the Khazar Jews, though this one is actually an underling of Jezebel.

We all know about the war between the West and the fundamentalist Muslims .. supposedly. Many have said that this is a "clash of civilizations" - the 'Christian West' and the 'Muslim Arab East'. It is nothing of the sort. Firstly, the West is far from being 'Christian' but is in truth now pagan. Secondly, it is not a West vs. Arabs war either. It is a war between the queen of demons, Jezebel, and a powerful demonic heirarch called Allah - a rivalry for territorial control. And behind both is Satan whose purpose is the extermination and blood-letting of as many people as he can.

The rivalry is an unequal contest. Jezebel is the greater of the two powers. Nevertheless, just as Hitler was unwilling to conceed an inch of German territory, so neither is Allah: the fundamentalist Muslims intend to wage a war of extermination even if it means annihilating the Arab and Muslim peoples in the process. Such is the blood-lust of the demons that they ordered Hitler to order the total destruction of every facility in Germany in the last weeks of the war - water, food, everything. This Speer refused to do, enabling Germany to recover after the holocaust was over.

This demonic trait to destroy everything rather than surrender must never be forgotten. The promises made by demons or their human dupes can never be believed. Thus it is written into Muslim law that Muslims cannot make treaties with infidels (non-Muslims) unless it is to enable them to survive. Such treaties are understood to be short-term and, moreoever, it remains the duty of Muslims to break them at the first posible opportunity. That is demonic thinking.

What we have witnessed in the Middle East and in the last Iraqi war is just play-acting. It is all stage-managed. Indeed we learned in the news earlier this week that President Bush had planned the invasion of Iraq even before the September 11th terrorist attacks. We all know that the excuse that Saddam Hussein had mass weapons of destruction was a lie in order to justify the attack. The Soviet attack on Finland in 1940 was justified by the presence a 17th century cannon on the Finnish side of the border that was supposedly threatening the security of Leningrad! You know the kinds of pretexts and excuses that demonic warlords use to get what they want and wage war. It is a consistent pattern.

Demons, and their human slaves, are prodigious liars. They always have been and always will be. Of Satan, Yah'shua (Jesus) said:

Even the truth-statements he makes are always embedded in a matrix of lies, and so ultimately even these are lies.

Last time I told you what would probably happen in the war against terrorism. The fundamentalist Muslims are in the pay of the West and are being directed by them - by the very spirit of Jezebel which we saw last time described as a "whore". A whore, prostitute or harlot sells her own body to be abused by those who have no right of access to it. September 11th was all masterminded by Western agents. The goal of Jezebel is world control - she wants to be the undisputed ruler. Indeed, Scripture even tells us that she comes to rule over Satan as well for a while! Things don't always work our for Lucifer!

So what does the so-called "queen of heaven" intend to do? She intends to recruit Muslim fundamentalists to perpetrate more attrocities on Western soil but this time on such a huge scale that the West will have the excuse they have wanted to retaliate against the Islamic nations and wipe them out, eliminating the rivalry of the Muslim territorial demons. A dirty nuclear suitcase bomb in some American metropolis like Houston, for instance, in which hundreds of thousands are either killed or maimed, would be enough to awaken such fierce indignation in the American people who would not only want revenge but be willing to surrender more of their freedoms in order to supposedly protect themselves in the future ... from their own government! An immediate response might be a nuclear strike against the major centres of Islam like Mecca, Medina, Damascus, Cairo, and Tehran. The destruction of the Muslim holy shrines would mean the effective end of Islam. Another scenario is some incident in the middle east to provoke a massive Israeli-Arab conflict using nuclear weapons. There are many possible scripts.

What is certain, however, is that Jezebel does not not intend to eradicate just the fundamentalist Muslims, who are mercenaries (knowing or unknowing) in her wicked schemes. She means to wipe out Islam altogether and thus displace her chief endtime rival, Allah. And she will accomplish it.

The Muslims, Khazar Jews and Christians are slated for extermination. The extermination of Muslims and Khazar Jews is merely a prelude to the main goal, which is the elimination of Christianity, the consistent objective of the Illuminati conspirators over the centuries. Hitler and Stalin, as we both know, played major rôles. Both considered religion the "opium of the people" and both knew how to persecute it.

The Roman Catholic Church plays a major rôle in the Jezebel conspiracy. She birthed not only Islam (as a means to counter true Christianity in the Middle East and North Africa) but also nazism and communism. Sometimes her creations have turned on her, however (the same dog-eat-dog code of the demons). She has certainly played the whore - we all know what she did to the first Protestants. The current pople, John Paul II, is seriously ill as I speak to you, and many are wondering who will replace him. He has certainly paved the way in making the Catholic Church even more compliant with Illuminist goals. Whilst pretending to be very "conservative" on the other hand (by speaking out against abortion, homosexuality, and birth control), with the other he has qualified himself as a One World Religionist by declaring that there are many paths to salvation and that all religions are equally valid ... like a good Wiccan or Satanist. Satan has always had a forked tongue.

Jezebel, we are told in the Bible, painted her face (2 Kings 9:22). Jeremiah and Ezekiel both refer to it as the art of seduction, employed by harlots to lure men into immorality (Jeremiah 4:30; Ez.23:40-44). Jezebel was a pagan, practiced witchcraft, and worshipped Baal. Indeed, wicked and immoral women have for a long time been called "Jezebels". Nils Pederson in an article, The Painted Face, relates this interesting story:

"In this connection (of "Jezebels") I should like to share an incident. About 25 years ago, a returned missionary from China spoke at our church and related the following. He had been to China for 7 years, and upon returning to this country for furlough [leave] he immediately noticed something different about the American women. In the 7 years that he had been gone, many of the women had adopted the popular fad of painting their faces [makeup]. In China, the prostitutes were the only women who painted their faces, wore earrings, and had long painted fingernails. This was their means of identifying themselves to their men-partners in sin. The shocking thing to the missionary was that American women had taken on the custom of the heathen harlot" (The Satisfying Portion, March/April 1991, Vol.18, No.1, p.5).

Today we don't even think twice about women's makeup. Indeed, even men are doing it now. To suggest that something might be 'wrong' about it would provoke a predictable reaction. Now I am not saying that wearing makeup necessarily makes a woman a sinner - however, a question has to be asked: what is the ground cause for wearing makeup in the first place? People wear it in public. One can understand some old people wearing it to cover up their wrinkles but what is the principal purpose? Is it not to lure? To capture people's attention? Is it not frequently to sexually attract? Do people really wear makeup at all times just to "look nice"? And if so, what for?

The wearing of makeup transforms a face into a mask or an illusion. And you will remember from last time how Babylon the Great was able to make herself look stunningly beautiful, to the point that even the Apostle John was awed ... yet the beauty was only skin-deep. Underneath was a harlot and a murderess.

Evil has always made itself up to look attractive. It is a carnal drive even in man. The apostle Peter reminds Christian women that they are to seek after a different kind of makeup, one that is genuine and cosmetic-free, that will clearly distinguish them from the women of Jezbel:

"Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear" (1 Peter 3:1-6, NIV).

When women present a mask - a Jezebelic illusion - men will respond in kind, the opposite to what Peter went on to write:

"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers" (1 Peter 3:7, NIV).

The Islamic world detests the West for its hypocrisy and carnality. They regard the West as a harlot. And she is - like her misstress, Jezebel. She allures with wealth and outward beauty. The West, in its turn, detests the Islamic world for its harshness and cruelty, especially to women, but also its intolerance of everyone else and its mediaeval drive to enslave non-Muslims. The two civiliations represent the opposite of the ideal, heaven-blessed attitude of the genders described by Peter. The West and the East detest each other (all the political correctness notwithstanding) - and in Yahweh's eyes they are equally detestable. The East detests the falseness and spiritual shallowness of the West, and the West detests the harshness and cruelty of the East. The solution is that both must repent - both must cast out the spirits of Jezebel and Allah!

We all know, however, what is going to happen. The harlot will win ... for a while, until she is herself destroyed. The question is - will you get out of her allure? Will you cease imitating her ways? Will you seek to be like Sarah of old or Jezebel? And if you are under the influence of Jezebel, what is preventing you from becoming like Sarah - either as a Christian woman to her husband or as a believer to Christ the allegorical Bridegroom? Well, Peter tells us what the problem is, doesn't he? "You are [Sarah's] daughters if you do not give way to fear"!

Believing that there is no sin, believing that truth is relative, believing that you can come back reincarnated and try again at a time more convenient to your lusts, believing that the majority is always right, believing that you aren't beautiful enough, believing that to be successful you must lie and deceive, believing that being submissive and gentle is old-fasioned and a sign of weakness, believing ... well, what do you believe? How are you in truth resisting the the way of Yahweh? How are you fighting against the Truth? These and other questions are the ones those who want to resist and be free of the spirit of Jezebel have to ask themselves. And the list is probably quite long.

The alternative is to swing to the opposite end of the spectrum and embrace the spirit of Allah. Many Westerners are doing that. I sympathise with many of the views that Muslims have of the West. They rightly see it as decadent and corrupt ... as a harlot. They rightly resent the power being weilded over them by the West. But the hatred, fanaticism and harshness of Islam is not the solution. Killing the "infidel" will create nothing but more resentment and hostility. And in the end Jezebel will crush it by brutal force.

The solution is Yahweh through His Son Yah'shua (Jesus). Are you waiting for your enemy to yield? He won't. Instead, you have to yield to the Creator, to the Way of Truth, Love and Salvation. The enchantment of harlotry and idolatry is powerful and it does require a struggle to be rid of it. However, the struggle is better than spiritual slavery or annihilation.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Yah'shua, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from Yahweh, who reconciled us to himself through Yah'shua and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that Yahweh was reconciling the world to himself in Yah'shua, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Yah'shua's ambassadors, as though Yahweh were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Yah'shua's behalf: Be reconciled to Yahweh. Yahweh made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of Yahweh" (2 Corinthians5:17-21).

Yah'shua (Jesus) said:

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls" (Matthew 11:28-29, NIV)