DECODING JEZEBEL (Part 3 of 3)

Prologue

It was past midnight. I had prayed my prayers and retired to bed, listening to the audio Bible as I covered up. Then the words struck me: “them that commit adultery with her.” Wow, one woman in adultery with multiple men! That had never occurred to me. I understood at once that the Spirit was calling me back to my study table. But, oh, I was tired. There was work the next day. I was drowsy. I had many excuses. Still, I got up, took paper and pen, and began to write — enough for the night. Welcome to the rest of my story.

11.  The Judgment of Jezebel

God is gracious and merciful, but the window of mercy does not remain open forever. According to Proverbs 29:1, anyone who repeatedly refuses correction risks sudden destruction “without remedy.” To the New Testament Jezebel, God sent a warning, and regretted that she had refused to repent, noting also that the window of mercy was closing. Judgment was looming over her, over her accomplices, and even over her children: two categories of sinners attracting three kinds of calamity upon three potential categories of victims.

To Prophetess Jezebel and her team, God threatened three judgments: a “bed” of affliction for Jezebel, “great tribulation” to her adulterous partners, and death to her children (Revelation 2:22-23). Let’s consider each of them.

i)  Jezebel’s Bed of Affliction

Jezebel had committed her adulteries in secret beds; now another bed was coming for her – a public bed of afflictions. She had served Satan from the bed of defilement (Hebrews 13:4), God was sending her His bed of judgment. She was going to be confined to that bed, with an incurable condition, or worse, her beauty and vain attractions ravaged by disease, making her a public spectacle of reproach that should shame all her clients, until “all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts” (v.23). When the mysterious troubles of this great woman begin, everyone would wonder at her incurable embarrassment until it became the reasonable conclusion of all, that the Almighty, whom she had long defied, had finally risen against her. Yet there was still time for her to repent while she languished in her bed, before the sword should cut her off and judgment became irreversible.

The body with which she had lured and ruined men was going to be desolated; that fleshly ‘altar,’ from which she served her sensual gods, was going to be destroyed. The pride she had carried was about to cast her down to the lowest depths. Shame was going to overtake her arrogance and ugliness replace her beauty. She was going to be restricted to her bed, and her wandering legs – legs that hardly stayed in her husband’s house – restrained at last by a disease on assignment from God. Her men would find her attractive no more. God was going to “make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land” and “hedge up” her ways “with thorns” and build “a wall” around her, so that her lovers would find her no more, and she, too, “shall not find her paths” leading into those adulteries. To make no mistake, God warned: “none shall deliver her out of mine hand,” as He would cause “all her mirth to cease” and turn her pleasures and parties into tribulations, visiting “upon her the days of Baalim.”

4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

 5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers … (Hosea 2:3-23).

Jezebel is replicated in the apocalypse as Mystery Babylon, the Great Whore “which did corrupt the earth with her fornication.” She is the mystery woman guilty of “the blood of the saints”; the “mother of harlots and abominations,” whose judgment would “make her desolate,” render her isolated – as if on a bed of affliction, in that judgment that should “eat her flesh” (Revelation 19:2; 17:5-6, 16; 18:24).

ii)  Great Tribulation to Jezebel’s Partners in Crime

Lady Jezebel’s partners in crime, her men, were going to be cast into “great tribulation.”  In other words, they were going to have a foretaste of the apocalyptic Great Tribulation before the rest of the world should experience it at the end of the age: wars and rumours of wars, deaths, pestilences, earthquakes, domestic crises, economic collapses, and everything in the name of a “great tribulation.”  Financial strategies, medical insurance, careful planning, none of those would save them from their coming woes.  God had long been silent, but not forever.  All the culprits were suddenly going to experience simultaneous judgment, so that no one would be in doubt about Who had arisen at last against the nonsense in His House.

Against the apostate apostles of Prophetess Jezebel, God was sending a “great tribulation,” just as He sent the ‘tribulation’ of Captain Jehu against the priests and prophets of Baal in Samaria, in the days of the archetypal Jezebel (2 Kings 10:25).  The same patterns, both of sin and of judgment.  In all of these, God didn’t say He would kill her husband.  Although God was not happy with him, it was to Jezebel and “her children” that death was coming, and “great tribulation” to her followers.  Maybe that man was going to be free at last, after God shall have removed that woman and her men.  God said to him, “I will put upon you none other burden” (v.24).  What or who was the present “burden”?

iii)  Death to Jezebel’s Children

Finally, Jezebel’s children, of whom we are not explicitly told that they were partakers in her crimes (although they may have been beneficiaries thereof), were going to be afflicted with strange deaths supervised from the spirit realm.  God said, “I will kill her children with death” (v.23).  Was God addressing only her biological children, or also her spiritual sons and daughters?

Some of the deaths could come through a crash, some through sicknesses, others through judicial processes, like hanging or a firing squad. Some children would die at home, others abroad, some in a war they had no hand in.  Some children might go by suicide, and others by stray bullets.  Some would die young, and others much older.  Still, some of the children would die at the hands of their own household through bloody family crises – rivalry feuds with the arrogant DNA of Mama Jezebel (2 Kings 11:1).  God did not specify how He was going to execute the killing. He simply warned, “I will kill.”

The deaths could become a transgenerational crisis, like the leprosy of Naaman that Gehazi acquired upon himself and his descendants forever (2 Kings 5:27). God pronounced a sentence of strange deaths that could continue long after Jezebel, reaching down to several generations with little knowledge of how their crisis began.

When God Himself threatens to kill, no mortal can advocate, unless He is appeased by repentance. God is a blesser, but He is also a Judge, and He was finally introducing Himself in more fearful ways to Jezebel, proclaiming, “I will kill …” (v.23).

Alas, the troubles that a bad wife brings upon the children of a good pastor!  Her children were his children, too, but she was the one bringing upon them a death that his goodness alone could not avert, without her repentance, while time still lasted.

Queen Jezebel in the Old Testament, with her children, was judged no less with death than God pronounced upon her counterpart in the New Testament.  As to Prophetess Jezebel in the New Testament, Queen Jezebel’s judgment was proclaimed long before it came upon her, which for her was also enough “time to repent.”   Unfortunately, like her stubborn New Testament counterpart, that daughter of Eth-Baal did not repent, or would not.  Her husband was unlike her, milder, but unfortunately “stirred up” into sin by her, like a diabolical driver (1 Kings 21:25).  Unlike her, when the judgment alarm sounded in his ears, King Ahab took advantage of the window of mercy and turned to God, and he found mercy (1 Kings 21:22-23, 27-29).

12.  A Prayer Against Jezebel

God anointed Captain Jehu against Jezebel. When he arrived at her place on Judgment Day, that grandmother and widow, apparently fighting ageing with her arsenal of makeups and costumes, like a harlot looking out for a client, “put on eye shadow, arranged her hair, and stood looking down at the street from a window in the palace” (2 Kings 9:30, Good News Translation). According to The Message Bible, she “posed seductively at the window.” Age had merely matured the methods of the grandmother harlot. From her proud palace heights, she looked “down” disdainfully at everyone, even the new ruler in the land. The cup of the pride that would eventually destroy her had begun to overflow.  She spoke arrogantly to Jehu. He was not there to bandy words with her. He simply made a declaration: “Who is on my side?” He must have been recalling the words of Moses when Israel stood at the crossroads of similar idolatry and fornication, when Moses cried out, “Who is on the LORD’S side?” (Exodus 32:26).

As soon as Jehu spoke, commotion broke out in Jezebel’s once-trusted camp. She had surrounded herself with castrated men. Those men looked through the same window, but they saw differently from the way she had seen. Deliverance had come for them at last. They were on the Lord’s side. Next, Jehu gave a command: “Throw her down.” At that, the same hands that used to protect her, the same men that used to prostrate before her, “threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses,” and she was trampled “under foot.” Jezebel crashed to her death from the proud heights she had built for herself and her security, and the wild dogs ate her up. Prophecy was fulfilled at last on a day she was not expecting, or maybe she knew, and had dressed up to die (2 Kings 9:30-36).

In both Old and New Testaments as well as in the apocalypse – the End Times, the patterns of her judgments are similar.  God judged her as well as “her children” and her prophets, to “avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD” (2 Kings 9:7).  Thus did Jezebel end in the Old Testament, while a bed awaits her sister in the New.  God not only judged her but took out her helpers in both Testaments, for “ALL her helpers shall be DESTROYED” (Ezekiel 30:8).

Mind whom you help.  God is watching.  He’s opened a file: “a few things AGAINST thee … THAT woman.”  And solemnly, He warns, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” (Revelation 2:20, 29).

The Prayer

In the name of Jesus, we judge you, proud Jezebel. We turn against you the men you have made eunuchs. We take from you your strength, your weapons, your men, and your eunuchs. We call forth the Jehu of the Lord. We hasten the day of your great tribulation. From your lofty podium, from the proud heights where you stand to look down disdainfully upon all, we command you to be thrown down now, cast into a bed of affliction, dashed against the rocks of Jezreel. Ye dogs of prophecy, appear now and devour, devour, devour, according to the word of the Lord, that the land may have rest. We call upon the blood of the Lamb to wash away her blood from our walls, so that our land, our homes, and the sanctuary of the Lord, shall be healed, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

This is not another epistle.  This is prophecy, “to whom it may concern,” and the days that remain are few.  Amen.

From The Preacher’s diary,

July 3, 2026.