. . 4:4).Moreover, the inspired songs, prayers, praises and teachings of Miriam (Exod. Because she was a wicked prophet and teacher, Jezebel cannot legitimately be used as a precedent to ban godly women from being prophets or teachers.It is important to note that there is nothing in Revelation 2:20ff which suggests Jezebel should not have been teaching because she was a woman. 16:31; 1K. Its religious deeds are done for all to see. Eve’s deception is not brought up again in the Old Testament or in the New Testament except for 2 Corinthians 11:3 and 1 Timothy 2:13-14. So infamous was Jezebel’s sexual immorality and idol worship that the Lord Jesus Himself refers to her in a warning to the church at Thyatira (Revelation 2:18-29). We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password.Conceivably there may have been a woman by that name in the local Church at Thyatira, but this is highly unlikely. To do so is to usurp a man’s authority over her and she must be condemned as having the spirit of Jezebel. More on what Paul says in 1 Timothy here:Queen Jezebel was a wicked queen, but other queens and women in the Bible led and influenced their communities in a positive and godly way. .Thank you for your article on Jezebel our son is rapt in the teaching of Pastor Steven Anderson and has sent us a few of his messages, we are not enamored with his teachings and the last one we received he called ALL WOMEN WHO PREACHED IN CHURCH wicked Jezebels.

Fasting temporarily...Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffer that woman Jezebel, which calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Yet I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and by her teaching leads astray My servants, so that they commit fornication and eat what has been sacrificed to idols. I won’t link to the sermon here, however if anyone does want to know what was said I will email you the link.I love this point, “This passage does not say that Jezebel was given time to repent of the fact that she was teaching. Nowhere in Revelation 2:20ff does it indicate that Jezebel’s gender was an issue.

9:22) was the sort of woman after whom no parent would be likely to name their child.

This passage does not say that Jezebel was given time to repent of the fact that she was teaching. he knew the idol was nothing and he could not be defiled by that which did not exist. Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’  Revelation 2:20-25,The letter to the church at Thyatira is the longest of the seven letters to the seven churches of Asia Minor. I sometimes wonder the purpose of these comments. But, society’s morals are often that of Satan’s kingdom, Babylon.Women are easily deceived? 2:20KJV).

Aside from the Baal worship, which I imagine most readers would skim over, the most relevant thing seems to be her application of makeup before her death. Miriam and Deborah were recognised and respected as both prophets and leaders (Exod. 3:28). Bottom line, he claimed that man is the head of the Christian woman; ergo, she cannot teach, etc, etc. The local situation favoured the accommodation of incompatible beliefs and practices: the letter insists on individual devotion to a Lord who searches the hearts of men and demands a consistency of life.

An example is the Lutheran Church, which was one of the first to accept Female ministry, and now they outright condone homosexuality. Do people really think that abusive or patronising “corrections” from a total stranger are going to persuade me to their way of thinking? She used her position of power to influence others to follow her wickedness. Yet, there are reasons for understanding Jezebel to be a real woman within the Thyatiran church: Many think Jezebel is a symbolic rather than real name, as the biblical Jezebel (I Kings 1K.

"You permit that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols" (Revelation 2:20). These.It would be wonderful if the contemporary church could reclaim the custom of the NT churches and trust godly and gifted women, as well as men, as prophets, teachers, and leaders. It was the content of her teaching and her immoral, idolatrous practices that she needed to repent of. 2), the unnamed woman “clothed with the sun” (Ch.