REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Ten - "That Woman Jezebel"

 Jesus' fiery eyes have pierced further.   He notes something that needs immediate attention. "I do hold this against you, that you  tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and misleads  my slaves to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols." (Revelation 2:20) In the tenth century B.C.E., Queen Jezebel, the Baal worshipping wife of King Ahab of Israel, had become notorious for her murderous, adulterous, dominating ways. Jehu, as Jehovah's anointed one, had her executed.  (1 Kings 16:31; 18:4; 21:11-16; 2 Kings  9:1-7, 22, 30, 33)  The idolatrous Jezebel had no claim to being a prophetess. She was not like Miriam and Deborah, who served as faithful  prophetesses in Israel.  (Exodus 15:20, 21; Judges 4:4; 5:1-31) And Jehovah's spirit did not not move her to prophesy as it moved the Anna and the four daughters of Philip the evangelizer. - LUKE 2:36 -38; ACTS 21:9.

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