AHAB AND JEZEBEL

An Affair to Remember
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CONTENTS
AHAB AND JEZEBEL
An Affair to Remember
CONTENTS
Chapter One
Ahab Lost His Nation to Witchcraft
JEZEBEL WICKED PAGAN WITCH
KING AHAB ABDICATES HIS AUTHORITY
AHAB DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD
IDOLATROUS, IMMORAL PERSON ~ WITCHCRAFT AND
DEMONOLOGY
WORSHIP OF BAAL
JEZEBEL’S RECORD
MURDERESS
AHAB BUILT A TEMPLE AND ALTAR FOR BAAL
PAGAN GOD MOLECH AND CHILD SACRIFICES
AHAB WEAK, EVIL AND UNSTABLE
JEZEBEL SHREWD - MANIPULATING SPIRITS
AHAB MADE A GROVE
Chapter Two
Supernatural Battles
ELIJAH FILLED WITH GOD’S POWER
BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS
ELIJAH WARS
GREAT ELIJAH BATTLE
REBUILDING ALTAR OF JOHAVAH
HAND OF THE LORD
BONDAGE OF FEAR
UNCOVER THE SPELL
JEZEBEL RELEASES FEAR
Chapter Three
Witches use the Spirit of Fear
FEAR OF JEZEBEL OR DEMONS CONTROLLING HER
PRINCIPALITIES TOTALLY CONTROLLED JEZEBEL
MINISTERING ANGEL
UNDER JEZEBEL’S SPELL
JEZEBL’S BEWITCHING POWERFUL SPIRITS
JEZEBEL WILLING VESSEL OF EVIL
Chapter Four
Jezebel’s Demons Killed God’s Prophets
JEZEBEL’S SPIRITUAL DEFEAT
ANGELIC MESSENGERS
BAAL DESTROYED BY FIRE OF JEHOVAH
ELIJAH TRANSLATED
DEATH OF JEZEBEL
JEZEBEL SPIRIT
Chapter Five
 A Perverted Sexually Infected Fool
KING AHAB PROMOTED JEZEBELS GODS
AHABS REBELS AGAINST GOD
THE LAW
JEZEBEL’S IDOLATRY BROUGHT A NATIONAL CURSE
Chapter Six
God Judges Ahab
JUDGMENT SEAT OF GOD
JEZEBEL’S IDOLATRY
HIGH PLACES AND ALTARS OF INCENSE
DEMON GODS
AHAB JOINS JEZEBEL’S GODS
SEXUAL IDOLATRY
SOLOMON GOES GOD-GODDESS – SEX CRAZY
AHAB AND HIS CONTROLLING WIFE
ASHTORETH
ELIJAH PRONOUNCED GOD’S JUDGMENT
OBADIAH PROTECTED THE PROPHETS OF GOD
Chapter Seven
Christian Ministry Today
MODERN JEZEBEL
TRADITIONS OF MEN
BOILING POT AGAINST CHRISTIAN WOMEN
SPIRITUAL ABUSES AGAINSTWOMEN
C. S. LEWIS DISCRIMINATES AGAINSTWOMEN
ALL CHRISTIAN WOMEN UNDER SUJECTION TO MEN?
PARADIGM SHIFT
SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION
Chapter Eight
Masters of Deceit
“REPENT FOR HAVING JEZEBEL ON YOUR SHOW.”
SETTING FIRES IN THE MINDS OF WOMEN AND MEN
EVERYWHERE
MUST WOMEN OBEY?
WOMEN ARE REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE OF THE
LAW
SHOULD WOMEN CAST OUT DEMONS?
JESUS
HANDMAIDENS OF THE LORD
Chapter Nine
Challenging Women
DID JESUS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST WOMEN
WOMEN SHOULD EXPLAIN THEMSELVES
CAN WOMEN BE LIBERATED TO WORK FOR GOD?
WOMEN AND SALVATION
EARLY CHURCH WOMEN MINISTERING
WOMEN LABORED WITH PAUL
AUTHORITY OVER HER HEAD
 NEW TESTAMENT WOMEN
DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY
Chapter Ten
The Oral Law is not the Word of God
THUS SAITH THE LAW
CAPTIVITY AND THE ORAL LAW
THE TALMUD AS ALSO SAITH THE LAW
OLD TESTAMENT JUDGES
DEBORAH JOAN OF ARC OF OLD TESTAMENT
HULDAH RENOWNED PROPHETESS
Chapter Eleven
Stolen Inheritances
CHRISTIAN WOMEN’S BONDAGE
WOMEN MUST KEEP SILENCE
HEADY HIERARCHY
AUTHORITY OVER HER HEAD
NEW TESTAMENT WOMEN
WELL KNOWN WORKERS
PAUL SUPPORTS PROMINENT MISSIONAIRES
Chapter Twelve
Spirit of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel
NEW TESTAMENT FALSE PROPETESS JEZEBEL
AHAB SPIRIT
PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE AHAB SPIRIT
IMMORALITY AND IDOLATRY
SEDUCING SPIRITS
FALSE SIGNS AND WONDERS
MEANS OF SEDUCTION
Chapter Thirteen
Serving Pagan Gods
PUBLIC FESTIVALS
SERPENT FERTITILTY
COSMIC DEITIES
LORD OF THE FLY
LEVIATHAN
Chapter Fourteen
Salvation is a Free Gift from God
HOW TO BE BORN AGAIN
REGENERATION
HOW TO BE SAVED
SALVATION
GRACE
PRAY – READ THE BIBLE – AND FAST
ABOUT PAT HOLLIDAY
FOOTNOTES
 Chapter One
Ahab Lost His Nation to Witchcraft
JEZEBEL WICKED PAGAN WITCH
When so-called Christian men call God's women servants "Jezebels"
they should know what they are saying... it is more than a word... it is an
accusation of that man calling Jesus' handmaidens witches working for the
devil; a worshiper of false gods and goddesses, a prostitute, etc. Many men
should repent because Jesus is not pleased with these flagrant false charges.
Plus, you never hear these same men talk about the "Ahab spirit."
The Witch Jezebel was ruled by the god Baal which a satanic spirit
that is a territorial taking spirit. She conquered the nation (Territory for her
gods and goddesses).
KING AHAB ABDICATES HIS AUTHORITY
King Ahab was willing to give his inheritance of being ruler of the
nation by giving his wife the authority for her to promote her gods over its
religious system. She took the nation and turned it to paganism. Of course,
since everything is spiritual, it is only a matter of time before she began to
move into the secular realms to grab power.
AHAB DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD
“And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all
that were before him. 31And 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. 32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the
house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. 33And Ahab made a grove;
and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the
kings of Israel that were before him. 34In his days did Hiel the Bethelite
build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and
set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word
of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun,” (I Kin. 16:30-34).
[Ahab took to wife Jezebel] This was the head and chief of his
offending; he took to wife, not only a pagan, but one whose hostility to the
true religion was well known, and carried to the utmost extent.
1. She was the idolatrous daughter of an idolatrous king;
2. She practiced it openly;
3. She not only countenanced it in others, but protected it, and gave its
partisans honors and rewards;
4. She used every means to persecute the true religion;
5. She was hideously cruel, and put to death the prophets and priests
of God;
6. And all this she did with the most zealous perseverance and
relentless cruelty.
IDOLATROUS, IMMORAL PERSON ~ WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY
(Num. 33-32), commands the children of Israel to "destroy all their
engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their
high places who, rather than destroy the high places worshiped and served
the demonic beings that occupied them. "There is more to these stones and
images and high places than just harmless native art. Many of these had
become the literal dwelling place of demonic spirits that people worship as
gods; later in the New Testament called powers and principalities.
The Ahab spirit promotes a man to be wishy-washy and unstable in
all his ways was efficient and strong in manipulative and administrative
powers. He was weak and vacillating in the face of his powerful wife,
Jezebel. "But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work
wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. And
he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did
the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel," (1 Kin.
21:25).
He gave his authority to his wife and even when she abused it. He
remained passive. Ahab's marriage to Jezebel proved to be a major factor
in the eventual fall of the Omride dynasty.
WORSHIP OF BAAL
Worship of Baal --- Jezebel Worshiped Baal, a Phoenician god. She
approached her religion with a fanatical zeal. She came to Israel with four
hundred and fifty priests of Baal and four hundred "prophets" of Aasherah,
the mother-goddess and dined at the palace. When Ahab built his "ivory
house," he constructed a temple of Baal with quarters for the priest next to
the palace. The greater part of this sacred structure was a court, enclosed
with thick walls and open to the sky. Within the court was a small sacred
chapel containing symbols of Baal and the mother-goddess, Asherah. The
temple priest and their attendants kept an eternal flame burning in a large
dish-shaped brazier on the chapel's altar.
Since Baalist was a nature cult, worshipers joined the priests and
temple prostitutes in sacred orgies before the pagan altar, especially at the
new-year celebration. They acted out the reproductive theme so that the
gods, who control earth and water, would follow their example and improve
the fertility of agriculture, animals and man.
In time of crisis, such as famine or war, these cultists sacrificed
firstborn children in the sacred fire to summon the help of their gods. When
some Israelite prophets opposed Jezebels' policies, she had several of them
executed.
Ahab was one who "in every single city of Judah he made high places
to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God his
fathers," (II Chron. 28:23).
God had to execute judgment and punish Israel for what was frequently
referred to by the prophets as spiritual adultery. The Babylonian captivity
was one such judgment.
JEZEBEL’S RECORD
Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, a Zidonian and wife of Ahab:
“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
worshiped him,” (1 Kin. 16:31).
 Attempts to replace the worship of the true God with that of Baal and
Asherah.
450 Prophets of Ball and 400 prophets of Asherah ate at her table.
“Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel,
and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the
groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table,” (I Kin.. 18:19).
MURDERESS
A Murderess, (I Kin. 21: 5-13).
“Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets
of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifty in a
cave, and fed them with bread and water,” (I Kin. 18:13).
Killed and persecuted the prophets of God:
An idolatress and persecuted the prophets of God, (1 Kin. 18:4, 13,
19); (II Kin. 3:2, 13: 9:7, 22).
Vowed to kill Elijah, (1 Kin. 19:1-3).
“And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he
had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger
to Elijah, saying, so let the gods do to me; and more also, if I make not thy
life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time,” (1 Kin. 19:1).
Wickedly accomplishes the death of Naboth:
"But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, why is thy spirit
so sad, that thou eatest no bread? And he said unto her, because I spake
unto nabboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for
money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it;
and he answered I will not give thee my vineyard. And Jezebel his wife
said unto him, Dos’t thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and
eat bread, and let thine heart be merry; I will give thee the vineyard of
Naboth the Jezreelite. So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them
with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that
were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. And she wrote in the letters, saying
Proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high among the people: And set two
men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou
did'st blaspheme god and the king. And them carry him out, and stone him,
that he may die. And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was
stone, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the
vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money:
for Naboth is alive, but dead."
AHAB BUILT A TEMPLE AND ALTAR FOR BAAL
Notwithstanding Ahab had built a temple, and made an altar for Baal,
and set up the worship of Asherah, the Sidonian Venus, which we, (I Kin.
16:33), have transformed into a grove; yet so well-known was the hostility
of Jezebel to all good, that his marrying her was esteemed the highest pitch
of vice, and an act the most provoking to God, and destructive to the
prosperity of the kingdom. [1]
While Israel clearly was influenced by some of the traditions of her
neighbors, the Hebrew prophets and religious leaders abhorred other
aspects of these cultures. First they condemned such religious practices as
idolatry, common in Canaan and in the surrounding regions. I am the Lord
your God . . . You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make
for yourself a graven image, (Exod. 20:2-4).
PAGAN GOD MOLECH AND CHILD SACRIFICES
The Hebrews called a pagan deity to whom child sacrifices were often
made by the contemptuous title Molech. This name combines the Hebrew
consonants for a king with the vowels from the word meaning shame. The
Bible says that Ahab looked upon his marriage to Jezebel as a light thing.
Yet, this woman was a witch-idolater and was able to take the entire nation
over for her gods. She used the powers of darkness worshipping gods and
goddesses, Baal; rebellion, witchcraft, stubbornness, iniquity, idolatry,
enchantments, familiar spirits, and with wizards:
AHAB WEAK, EVIL AND UNSTABLE
Ahab is reported as a weak man unstable in all his ways. He was
efficient and strong in manipulative and administrative powers but weak
and dithering in the presence of his controlling wife, Jezebel. "But there was
none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight
of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. And he did very abominably
in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the
Lord cast out before the children of Israel, (I Kin. 21:25). He gave his
governing authority to his wife and even when she abused it, he remained
passive. Ahab's marriage to Jezebel proved to be a major factor in the
eventual fall of the Omride dynasty. [2]
JEZEBEL SHREWD - MANIPULATING SPIRITS
Jezebel was a shrewd and manipulating woman, totally devoted to the
worship of Baal and Ashtoreth and determined to substitute their worship
for that of the true God. 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 worshiped him. And he reared up an altar for Baal in the
house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. “And Ahab made a grove;
and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the
King of Israel that were before him,” (I Kin. 16:31).[3]
AHAB MADE A GROVE
Asheeraah. Astarte, or Venus; what the Syriac calls an idol, and the Arabic,
a tall tree; probably meaning, by the last, an image of Priapus, the obscene
keeper of groves, orchards, and gardens….[4]
Baal (beɪl/bayl; sometimes spelled Bael, Baël (French), Baell) is one of the
seven princes of Hell. He is mentioned widely in the Old Testament as the
primary pagan idol of the Phoenicians, often associated with the heathen
goddess Ashtaroth. [5]
 Chapter Two
Supernatural Battles
ELIJAH FILLED WITH GOD’S POWER
Jezebel, witchcraft territorial spirit ~ Elijah, a territorial taking
prophet:
“And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab,
"As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not
be dew nor rain these years, except at my word. 17 Now it happened after
these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick.
And his sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him.18 So
she said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you
come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son? 19 And
he said to her, "Give me your son." So he took him out of her arms and
carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his
own bed.:20 Then he cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God,
have You also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing
her son?" 21 And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and
cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, I pray, let this child's
soul come back to him. :22 Then the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and
the soul of the child came back to him, and he revived.:23 And Elijah took
the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and
gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, "See, your son lives!":24 Then the
woman said to Elijah, "Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and
that the word of the LORD in your mouth is the truth," (I Kin. 17:1)
BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS
The curses of rebellion and witchcraft had brought much suffering to
land. Uncontrollably, the evil power using nature had brought king Ahab
to his knees. In his desperation, he was willing to listen to Elijah=s. He
allowed him to oppose the false prophets and Jezebels= gods.
ELIJAH WARS
Elijah wars the power of Jezebels= god Baalim on the mountaintop
of mount Carmel. He boldly fought against the prophets of Baal, and the
prophets of Ashterah. There were four hundred and fifty and the prophets of
the groves, four hundred, which sat at Jezebels= table. After Ahab gathered
the prophets together and the people, Elijah said, AHow long halt ye
between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him; but if Baal, then
follow him. And the people answered him not a word.@ (I Kin. 18: 21).
GREAT ELIJAH BATTLE
(I Kin. 18:1-46):
“And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him,
Art thou he that troubleth Israel? 18 And he answered, I have not troubled
Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the
commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim. 19 Now
therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the
prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves
four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. 20 So Ahab sent unto all the
children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto Mount Carmel.
21And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, how long halt ye between
two opinions? If the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow
him. And the people answered him not a word. 22Then said Elijah unto the
people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets
are four hundred and fifty men. 23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks;
and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and
lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock,
and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: 24 And call ye on the name
of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that
answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, it
is well spoken. 25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you
one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on
the name of your gods, but put no fire under. 26 And they took the bullock
which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal
from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no
voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was
made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said,
cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is
in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. 28 And
they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and
lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And it came to pass, when
midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the
evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any
that regarded. 30 And Elijah said unto all the people, come near unto me.
And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the
LORD that was broken down. 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according
to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the
LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name: 32 And with the stones he
built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the
altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. 33 And he put the
wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood,
and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice,
and on the wood. 34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it
the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third
time. 35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench
also with water. 36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the
evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God
of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God
in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at
thy word. 37Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that
thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and
the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was
in the trench. 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces:
and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. 40
And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them
escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook
Kishon, and slew them there. 41And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up,
eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. 42 So Ahab went
up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast
himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, 43 And
said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and
looked, and said, there is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. 44
And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth
a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto
Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.
45And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heaven was black with
clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to
Jezreel, 46 and the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his
loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel,” (I Kin. 18-46).
REBUILDING ALTAR OF JOHAVAH
The Word says that after winning this great spiritual battle, all the false
prophets were killed by the people. Elijah had rebuilt the altar of God and
the people fell on their faces to worship Jehovah. In his zeal and victory,
Elijah announced the abundance of the sound of rain warning the king to
go to Zezreel before it began. The king left and Elijah went alone to pray.
He cast himself down to ground, put his face between his knees and sent
his servant to look for a cloud to form toward the sea. After the seventh
time, the servant announced to Elijah; Athat he saw a small cloud about the
size of a man’s hand. Elijah sent him to tell the king to prepare his chariot
so that he would miss the rain.”
HAND OF THE LORD
The heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great
rain. Ahab rode and went to Zezreel. And the hand of the Lord was upon
Elijah and he ran before the chariot of the king. Think about it. He actually
ran forty miles, faster than the king=s team of horses to the city. It was
miraculous that he could run thirty miles before the Ahab=s chariot. The
powerful anointing of God was still upon him.
The truth is, whenever a person has ministered under the anointing of
God, it takes a while for God=s anointing to lift. Do we see anywhere in
this account that God told Elijah to go to city to challenge Jezebel? Did
Elijah in his excitement and zeal for his victory, go before he sought God=s
next move?
I believe that this is where Elijah failed. He should have gone apart
returning to the presence of God, building himself up on the Word of God,
before attempting to face the next battle. After winning a victory, the person
is on a spiritual high, and must settle them down because they need to
discover the next part of God=s plan. The minister will begin to act in the
flesh. The person will lose spiritual strength if they push ahead before
God=s time.
It was customary to honor a king by running before his chariot (Verse
46; Exod. 12:11); II Kin. 3:29; 9:1); (Lk. 12:37; 17:8); (Acts 12:8). Ahab
made his report to Jezebel regarding the prophets of Baal being destroyed
by the fire of Jehovah. She rejected his account of the miraculous fire and
of the supernatural superior power of Elijah=s= over her pagan prophets.
Her heart was hardened and it caused her determined to kill Elijah who had
caused her idol gods to be so humiliated.
BONDAGE OF FEAR
We see in verse (I Kin. 19:1), Ahab tells Jezebel about everything
that had happened on the top of Mount Carmel. Jezebel is furious and sent
a messenger (messengers were angelic beings in the bible)
To Elijah to threaten to take his life
Then a very curious thing develops. This brave man is shown running
away in fear for his life. The Word says, Athen when he saw >that=, he
arose and ran for his life,@ (I Kin. 19:3a). He was now running to Mount
Horeb completely out of the will of God. He was no longer looking for God
to lead and direct him.
We see this thing called Athat@ evidently it released the spirit of fear
upon him. His doorway was opened for that demonic spirit to discharge fear
into him; the bondage of fear, brought spirits of self-pity, oppression and
depression. Fear is the exact opposite of faith. He had received the spirit of
fear bring hordes of demons to join him.
UNCOVER THE SPELL
Before a witch is able to be effective in sending evil spirits for
destruction, she will always send a message to the intended victim to inform
of her evil intentions. This message can come in the form of a threat or
it could come in the form of an object that is used in her blood sacrifices
such as a voodoo doll. The witch has to appease her spirits before they will
obey her request. Before conjuring her powers to cause the death, the witch
must plead with the evil spirits to go and obey her command. However,
before the spirits obey, they must be worshiped by blood sacrifices. This is
why Jezebel sent the messenger (evil angel) to Elijah. She had to open his
spirit to fear before she could penetrate his shield of faith. Remember. This
man, Elijah was a godly man that had faith to raise the dead! Then she had
to appease the demons with blood sacrifices before they would obey her
commands.
JEZEBEL RELEASES FEAR
What was Athat@ and who was the Amessenger@ that Jezebel sent
to this prophet of God? Why didn=t she just send someone to kill Elijah
without first warning him? Witchcraft always works with the spirit of fear!
Did Elijah really run in fear from the woman Jezebel, as many teach today?
Remember. Elijah had killed all of Jezebels= prophets on the mountaintop
thereby showing faith to attack her gods. Could, what was simply described
as Athat@ has been the chief evil demonic principality over Jezebels=
witchcraft power abiding in the city? Could the messenger have been a
chief evil angel that was aiding her jurisdiction over the nation? The
messenger was most definitely an evil spiritual being or a fallen angel.
And so, the messenger that was sent by Jezebel was a powerful evil
angel, or demon. Jezebel was setting Elijah up to receive a spirit of fear by
her threat of death. Witchcraft powers work with fear. Fear is the opposite
of faith and opens the spiritual doorway for entrance of evil forces to enter.
 Chapter Three
Witches use the Spirit of Fear
FEAR OF JEZEBEL OR DEMONS CONTROLLING HER
So did Elijah run in fear from the woman, Jezebels= threat or did he
run from the intimidating appearance and powers of the demons that were
controlling Jezebel?
The Bible said that Awhen he saw something called Athat,@ and then
he ran for his life. AThat@ must have been so formidable, grotesques and
startling, that the spirit of fear came upon him. This thing called Athat@
caused him to be filled with terror and he ran for in terror for life. Elijah is
seen, after he saw Athat,@ he instantly became a changed man. He received
a religious transformation. He was totally dispirited, no longer a strong
man of faith, he is shown as a man charged and filled fear. Suddenly, his
character has shifted from a man full of the power of God to a man so
weakened from the oppression of evil spirits that he just wants to sleep.
Even after an angel appears, awakens him to feed him, he goes back to
sleep. This is a picture of man being weighed down by the power of evil
spirits. The same type of serious oppression can be seen when the disciples
were sleeping in the Garden of Gethsemane while Jesus was under heavy
spiritual attack. This is why the Church is sleeping in our time.
Spiritual submission to God is important before battles can be won!
PRINCIPALITIES TOTALLY CONTROLLED JEZEBEL
Elijah had raced victoriously into Jezebel=s territory to conquer her
predominate rule over God=s people. The evil powers and principalities
were totally controlling this area through the manipulations of this powerful
witch. Elijah came under intense bewitching spirits as long as he was in
Jezebels= domain. This spirit followed him as he ran in terror. He would
have never survived Jezebels= witchcraft attack, if God had not sent a
ministering angel to strengthen and support him.
MINISTERING ANGEL
After this angel fed him and gave him drink, Elijah was able to fast and
walk for forty days, leaving Jezebels= territory. However, the effects of her
evil spirits were still present after he left her territory. She had thrown him
in spiritual confusion and many evils and troubles had befallen upon him.
He was dispirited, melancholic, and in a state of confusion, seeking God=s
presence at Mount Horeb. It seems that he was going toward Mount Horeb
without being in the direct will of God to do so. But God enabled him to
go in his own self-will. Even so, Elijah had to learn that self-made plans,
never work out. Eventually one has to go back to where to the point that he
left off following the direct will of God, if he wants Him to lead and guide.
This was not for him to go to Mount Horeb for when he arrived, he was
sent back farther north to than the place where he had started from (Verse.
15-18). Over 80 days of much hard traveling was his only reward except
for the new experience of hearing from God.
Horeb was about 180 miles south of the place where he sat under a
juniper tree. His was a slow journey, for it took him 40 days to get there
(Verse 8). Perhaps this was because of his fast. The journey north again
was over 300 miles. In (Verse 15), this question confirms the fact that God
did not tell this prophet to go to mount Horeb. However God permitted him
to go where he desired, before giving him the next assignment. It seemed
he was so moved with fear to get away, that he did not inquire of God
what to do. Fear brings doubt and blocks the voice of God. He had lost
his spiritual ears. The Lord could have protected him without going this
drawn-out distance to mount Horeb and the back north to Syria.
UNDER JEZEBEL’S SPELL
This shows the serious turmoil that Elijah found himself. He was in
a state of outright religious confusion. Why did he have to go looking for
God? Didn’t=t Elijah find God at the brook of Cherith? Didn’t=t Elijah find
Him on the mountain when he demonstrated the power of God? However
under Jezebels= witchcraft spell, he found himself in religious chaos.
Jezebels= demons had totally bound his mind by evil spirits that he seemed
to have forgotten the great spiritual battle that he had previously won.
When God spoke to him again there were three great things that God
was not in, a great wind (Verse 11); a great earthquake, a great fire. When
Elijah raced before the chariot of King Ahab, God was positively not in
Elijah=s honoring him. Remember, when he returned to Jezebel, he
returned to his weak, passive state of mind. God looks into the heart of a
person. He discerned that the King= change of heart would only last until
he returned to his wife.
Elijah discovered God was in the still small voice (Verse12). Covering
his face was a sign of reverence, in the presence of God. After his second
visit with the small still voice, (Verse 9:13), God was saying to him, I did
not ask you to come here; go right back north (Verse 13-16). He had to
face the giants of Jezebels= territory in order to finish his course for the
cause of God.
JEZEBL’S BEWITCHING POWERFUL SPIRITS
Jezebel had sent powerful bewitching spirits of mental illness,
oppression, depression, confusion, doubt, destruction, pain, suicide and
death. Elijah cried to God to die. He blamed the people to God for his
fear and defeat. He told God that the people had torn down His altar and
were not following Him. Did we see Elijah rebuild the altar of God and
the people turned and fell upon their faces in worship of the true God? His
victories had receded in the depths of his doubts and fears. Elijah was being
tormented in his mind. These powerful blocking-mind controlling spirits
seems to have caused him to misplace his memory of these things because
he repeats his charges to God. He is seen suffering from a spirit of isolation
because he believes that he is the only one left, still serving God. If spirits
can isolate a person, they become more effective.
Understand that Jezebels= demonic powers were working on his mind,
body and spirit from a distance. She had conjured up killing demons and
sent them out. It was an all-out attack for his life. Witches do not have to
present, to work their powers. They do their rituals and then send out their
evil spirits to do their craftsmanship.
JEZEBEL WILLING VESSEL OF EVIL
Jezebel was just a human being, but a willing instrument to these evil
spirits. Satan had taken the territory. He revealed himself to Elijah in his
ghastly appearance of evil. No, I believe that Elijah did not run from Jezebel
the woman. He ran from the witchcraft and idolatry gods (demons) of
Jezebel that were controlling the territory! Elijah had successfully defeated
the gods of the mountain. Evil spirits abide where people live. On the other
hand, the gods of the city were different. There were more of them. They
were stronger, more intimidating because there were more humans willing
submitting to them in sin. Notice that Jezebel=s messenger (demon spirit)
was not fearful to approach the man of God that had just defeated the gods
(demon spirits) of the mountain. These city evil spirits were more powerful.
They had successfully taken over the entire nation and murdered all the
prophets of Jehovah. Every time a religious spirit defeats a child of God,
that spirit gains strength!
 Chapter Four
Jezebel’s Demons Killed God’s Prophets
JEZEBEL’S SPIRITUAL DEFEAT
In my ministry of deliverance, I have found that every time a demon
defeats a child of God, he becomes bolder and stronger and begins to think
of itself as invincible. If a spirit that defeats= a child of God, that evil spirit
will lose his fear of God=s people.
Nonetheless, Jezebels= demons were successful because they had
killed God=s prophets. Also, they had control of a committed agreeable
vessel. They had used her witchcraft powers to take over the territory and
bring its people to the feet of Satan. The entire nation had fallen into
churlish sins of idolatry, witchcraft and goddess worship.
ANGELIC MESSENGERS
Interestingly, the word ANGEL (Hebrew mal`ak; Greek Angelos, both
meaning "messenger"). In some cases the word is applied to human beings
(Mal. 2:7); (Rev.1:20) or even figuratively to impersonal agents (Exod.
14:19); (II Sam. 24:16-17); (Psa. 104:4). The connection must determine its
force. In its most common use in Scripture the word nevertheless designates
certain spiritual and superhuman beings that are introduced to us as
messengers of God. [6]
“There is harmony between the teachings of our Lord upon this subject
and those of the apostles and other Scripture writers. Many questions that
may be raised can receive no answer whatever from the Scriptures. Of the
history of the angels we can know but little. It is clear that Satan and the
fallen angels (demons) were created sinless and later fell (Isa. 14:12-15);
(Rev. 12:3-4). Some of their number "did not keep their own domain" but
fell under divine displeasure and are reserved "for the judgment of the
great day" (Jude 6).
Aside from the teachings of Scripture there is nothing irrational, but
quite the opposite, in believing in the existence of creatures superior to man
in intelligence, as there are many inferiors. But we depend wholly upon the
Scriptures for our knowledge. The denial of the existence of angels, as that
of a personal devil and demons, springs from the materialistic, unbelieving
spirit, which in its most terrible form denies the existence of God. [7]
BAAL DESTROYED BY FIRE OF JEHOVAH
Consumed the sacrifice of Elijah
“Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and
the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was
in the trench…” (I Kin. 18:38).
Destroyed the enemies of Elijah
“And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, if I be a man
of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy
fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his
fifty,” (II Kin. 1:10).
“And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire
come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty, and the fire of God
came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty,” (II Kin. 1:12).
ELIJAH TRANSLATED
Elijah taken to heaven:
“And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven
by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal,” (II Kin. 2:1).
“And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold,
there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both
asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven,” (II Kin. 2:11).
Elijah taken up in a chariot
“And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold,
there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both
asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven,” (II Kin. 2:11).
DEATH OF JEZEBEL
“And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she
painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at window. And as
Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimripeace, who slew his master?
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, who is on my side? Who?
And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her
down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on
the wall and on the horses and he trod her under foot. And when he was
come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman,
and bury her: for she is a king's daughter. And they went to bury her: but
they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of
her hands. Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is
the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: and the
carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion
of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel,” (II Kin. 9, 30-37).
JEZEBEL SPIRIT
She is living in the hearts of many so-called Christian men today;
accusing every Christian Woman as being a “Jezebel” that God calls to
work in the harvest
Jezebel, a Witchcraft Territorial Spirit
Elijah, a Territorial Taking Prophet
Ahab Sexual Perversion Loses Territory
The Witch Jezebel was ruled by the god Baal which a satanic spirit
that is a territorial taking spirit. She conquered the nation (Territory for her
gods and goddesses).
 Chapter Five
A Perverted Sexually Infected Fool
KING AHAB PROMOTED JEZEBELS GODS
King Ahab gave his wife his power for her to endorse her gods over
Jehovah’s religious traditions. She turned the nation from a godly system
taking over the nation with her bewitchments, human sacrifices of children
to her god Moloch. Obviously, since witchcraft power comes from the
paranormal realms, it is only a matter of time before she began to move
into the secular realms to grab power and spiritually enslave the people.
She was the demonically-inspired force behind the “Mystery of Iniquity”
The Lord detests all who dabble with witchcraft; forbidding people to
seek false gods – idols. King Ahab is a tragic figure that reveals the enviable
results of following after his wife’s familiar spirits and unto wizards that
peep, and that mutter.
What does the First Commandment say? (Exod. 20:2-5), God says,
"He is the Lord our God and we are not to have any other gods before
Him." The first commandment also warns us that God is jealous and won't
tolerate our seeking power or guidance from any other god. "Thou shalt
have no other gods 7 before Me," (Deut. 5:7).
AHABS REBELS AGAINST GOD
[Ahab took to wife Jezebel against the Jehovah] he took to wife who
not only a pagan, but was angrily aggressive against true religion leading
the entire nation into false worship and religious deception. Ahab
backsliding is turning gradually, voluntarily, or insensibly from the
knowledge, faith, love, and profession of God and straying from the divine
covenant of his forefathers who having once entered into a covenant
relationship with Him. The demons of rebellion and sex drove him into
demonic oppression in its many forms changing his basic nature and
personality to display absolute evil.
THE LAW
God forbade the Israelites the practice of witchcraft
“Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use
enchantment, nor observe times,” (Lev. 19:26).
“There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son
or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an
observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter
with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer,” (Deut. 18:10-11).
Forbade seeking to wizards and witches
“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards,
to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God,” (Lev. 19:31).
“For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God
hath not suffered thee so to do,” (Deut. 18:14).
Punished with death those who used paranormal powers
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” (Exod. 22:18).
“A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard,
shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood
shall be upon them,” (Lev. 20:27).
Punished those who sought to find answers from wizards,”
“And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after
wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that
soul, and will cut him off from among his people…” (Lev. 20:6).
JEZEBEL’S IDOLATRY BROUGHT A NATIONAL CURSE
Jeremiah says that idolatry makes people such as Ahab and Jezebel
look foolish and causes them to become as worthless as the idols that they
worship. He reveals how fashionable idols made them act foolishly? He
discloses how their lives grew worthless by placing faith in something less
than God. “Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? But
my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.” (Jer.
2:11).
In Jeremiah chapter two, we see the people have raced after other gods.
We can hear in Jeremiah’s words the anger and disgust he feels at their
faithlessness. “For my people have committed two evils; they have
forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water, “(Jer. 2:13).
We hear, too, his desperate word of warning, turn back! You are
bringing destruction upon yourselves by forsaking your God! “Why
gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? Thou also shalt be ashamed
of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. Yea, thou shalt go forth from
him and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy
confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them,” (Jer. 2:36, 37).
Jeremiah uses the word in Hebrews that plays upon the name Baal, the
Canaanite fertility god. By using this particular word, he subtly underlines
Baal’s unreality and impotence. Next we find a series of metaphors
describing the depravity and the ultimate foolishness of Israel’s sin. He
described the high hills and green trees of verse 20 refer to pagan religious
practices. The fertility cults worshiped on hilltops and held trees as sacred
objects.
The wages of sin and idolatry brought absolute destruction over the
nation and Jezebel and Ahab.
“Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall
reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that
thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith
the Lord GOD of hosts. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst
thy bands; and thou sadist, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill
and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. Yet I had
planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned
into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? For though thou wash
thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before
me, saith the Lord GOD,” (Jer. 2:19-22).
Again, Jeremiah puts his finger upon the darkness that comes when
people such as Ahab and Jezebel practices serving other idolatry, demon
worship, gods and goddesses.
The Valley cited in (Jer. 2: 19- 23) is probably the valley of Hinnom
outside Jerusalem. “How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone
after Baalim? See thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art
a swift dromedary traversing her ways,” (Jer. 2:23). This valley is famous
as the scene of orgies and child sacrifice in the name of Baal.
In verse 27 he mentions stones and trees; large sacred stones and
wooden pillars were used in Baal worship. “Saying to a stock, Thou art my
father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned
their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they
will say, arise, and save us. But where are thy gods that thou hast made
thee? Let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for
according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah,” (Jer. 2:27-
28).
Then in Chapter three he continues the denunciation of Israel’s
idolatry. Here, however, Jeremiah concentrates on a single image, that of
Israel as a promiscuous woman. “They say, if a man put away his wife,
and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her
again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the
harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. Lift up
thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with.
In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and
thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness,”
(Jer. 3:12).
 Chapter Six
God Judges Ahab
JUDGMENT SEAT OF GOD
The fact is that it is not over when a person dies. The Bible clearly
shows that every person that has ever lived will stand at the Judgment Seat
of God.
At the Judgment Seat of God, Satan’s true condition is put on view
and the people of the world shown as being amazed at the lowly statute of
Satan, when they see him standing before the Throne of Jesus to be judged.
The Bible says, in (Isa. 14: 12-20), “How art thou fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which
didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend
into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also
upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14I will
ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet
thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see
thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the
man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17 That made
the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened
not the house of his prisoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of
them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out of
thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are
slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit;
as a carcass trodden under feet. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in
burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed
of evildoers shall never be renowned.”
The peoples of the world who were deceived by this fallen angel will be
shocked that he had the ability to destroy their souls and nations and say, “is
this the man that made the earth to tremble and did shake kingdoms.” The
truth is that it was not Satan’s power that destroyed souls and made the earth
tremble, it was their own wickedness and in their lust for evil, they gave
their power to Satan. Friends, Satan is helpless without your agreement!
The great paradox is this: that Lucifer is, indeed, purposeful, not as an
independent sovereign entity but as a force that God uses fulfill His own
plan and for the redemption of human beings of those who choose him.
The dark was created by the rebellion of Lucifer and is allowed to exist
by God for His Sovereign purpose and actually needs God's approval and
permission to continue to exist.
JEZEBEL’S IDOLATRY
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as
iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he
hath also rejected thee from being king,” (1 Sam 15:23).
HIGH PLACES AND ALTARS OF INCENSE
(I Kin. 15:1) was set up on the high places beside the "altars of
incense" (hammanim) and the "stone pillars" (massebot). Indeed, the "stone
pillars" seem to have represented the male god Baal (cf. Judg. 6:28), while
the cult object of Asherah, probably a tree or pole, constituted a symbol
of this goddess (see W. L. Reed, The Asherah in the Old Testament). But
Asherah was only one manifestation of a chief goddess of western Asia,
regarded now as the wife, then as the sister, of the principal Canaanite god,
El. Other names of this deity were Ashtoreth (Astarte) and Anath.
Frequently represented as a nude woman bestride a lion, with a lily in one
hand and a serpent in the other, and called Qudshu "the Holiness," that is,
"the Holy One" in a perverted moral sense, she was a divine courtesan. In
the same sense the male prostitutes consecrated to the cult of the Qudshu
and prostituting themselves to her honor were called qedeshim,
"sodomites" (Deut. 23:18, marg); (I Ki. 14:24; 15:12; 22:46).
DEMON GODS
“God calls the hosts of heaven gods! “And lest thou lift up thine eyes
unto heaven and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars,
(even) all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and
serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the
whole heaven,” (Deut. 4:19).
The Word clearly shows that pagan worship was prevalent in the Old
Testament. “And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of
Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah,
and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense
unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon and to the planets and to all the
hosts of heaven,” (II Ki. 23:5).
The Scripture demonstrates that God’s people did backslide to serve
other gods. “And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God,
and made them molten images, (even) teo calves, and made a grove, and
worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal,” (2 Ki. 17:16).
Webster's definition of god: The (supreme or ultimate reality) Being
perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness, whom men worship as creator and
ruler of the universe, "a being or object believed to have more than natural
attributes and powers and to require man's worship; one controlling a
particular aspect or part of reality, (e.g. Neptune, god of the sea)."
AHAB JOINS JEZEBEL’S GODS
“Nevertheless Ahab had built a temple and made an altar for Baal,
and set up the worship of Asherah, the Sidonian Venus, which we have
transformed into a grove; yet so well-known was the hostility of Jezebel to
all good, that his marrying her was esteemed the highest pitch of vice, and
an act the most provoking to God, and destructive to the prosperity of the
kingdom,” (I Kin. 16:33). [8]
While Israel clearly was influenced by some of the traditions of her
neighbors, the Hebrew prophets and religious leaders abhorred other
aspects of these cultures. First they condemned such religious practices as
idolatry that was common in Canaan and in the surrounding regions.
AI am the Lord your God . . . You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself a graven image,@ (Exod. 20:2-4).
SEXUAL IDOLATRY
The Hebrews called a pagan deity to whom child sacrifices were often
made by the contemptuous title Molech. This name combines the Hebrew
consonants for Aking@[ with the vowels from the word meaning
shame.][9]
The Bible says that Ahab looked upon his marriage to Jezebel Aas a
light thing.@ Yet, this woman was a witch-idolater and was able to take
the entire nation over for her gods. She used the powers of darkness
worshipping gods and goddesses, Baal; rebellion, witchcraft, stubbornness,
iniquity, idolatry, enchantments, familiar spirits, and with wizards:
SOLOMON GOES GOD-GODDESS – SEX CRAZY
The Bible clearly shows the power of sexual inducements to steal
souls.
Solomon was wise; he knew better; his understanding showed him the
vanity as well as the wickedness of idolatry. God had appeared unto him
twice, and thus given him the most direct proof of his being and of his
providence. The promises of God had been fulfilled to him in the most
remarkable manner, and in such a way as to prove that they came by a divine
counsel, and not by any kind of casualty. All these were aggravations of
Solomon's crimes, as to their demerit; for the same crime has, in every case,
the same degree of moral turpitude in the sight of God; but circumstances
may so aggravate, as to require the offender to be more grievously
punished; so the punishment may be legally increased where the crime is
the same. Solomon deserved more punishment for his worship of Ashtaroth
than any of the Sidonians did, though they performed precisely the same
acts. The Sidonians had never known the true God; Solomon had been fully
acquainted with him. [10]
“For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned
away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the
LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father,” (I Kin. 11:4-6)
“Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination
of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the
abomination of the children of Ammon. [The hill that is before Jerusalem]
This was the Mount of Olives,” (I Kin. 11:7).
“And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense
and sacrificed unto their gods,” (I Kin. 11:8).[11]
Solomon did it for perversion and sex. His commitment to the pagan
gods and goddess’ was to please his harlot wives. Sexual perversions make
men and women weak.
AHAB AND HIS CONTROLLING WIFE
The Ahab is reported as a cowardly man erratic and was weak and
dithering in the presence of his controlling wife, Jezebel. [12]
"But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work
wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. And
he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did
the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel,@ (1
Kin. 21:25). He gave his governing authority to his wife and even when
she abused it, he remained passive. Ahab=s marriage to Jezebel proved to
be a major factor in the eventual fall of the Omride dynasty.” [13]
Jezebel was a shrewd and manipulating woman, totally devoted to the
worship of Baal and Ashtoreth and determined to substitute their worship
for that of the true God. AAnd 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 Ball, and worshiped him. And he reared up an altar for Baal in the
house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab made a grove;
and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the
King. of Israel that were before him,@ (I Kn. 16:31).
ASHTORETH
[Ahab made a grove]
The Bible says that witchcraft is the root of all rebellion, “For
rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and
idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also
rejected thee from being king,” (1 Sam. 15:23).
Rebellion is the taproot of witchcraft. It is the root of all human
troubles and its roots run the deepest. Notice two actions are connected to
witchcraft, stubbornness is likened to idolatry and rebellion is witchcraft.
Rebellion says, “I will do it my way and not God’s way and stubbornness
says, I won’t change”
Asheeraah, Astarte, or Venus; what the Syriac calls an idol, and the
Arabic, a tall tree; probably meaning, by the last, an image of Priapus, the
obscene keeper of groves, orchards, and gardens. [14]
Baal (/beɪl/ bayl; sometimes spelled Bael, Baël (French), Baell) is one
of the seven princes of Hell. He is mentioned widely in the Old Testament
as the primary pagan idol of the Phoenicians, often associated with the
heathen goddess Ashtaroth.[15] Solomon did for perversion and sex. His
commitment to the pagan gods and goddess’ was to please his harlot wives.
[16]
ELIJAH PRONOUNCED GOD’S JUDGMENT
Elijah was called and prepared by God to defeat the powers of darkness
of Jezebel and bring revival to the land. He boldly stood before the throne
of Ahab to prophesize God’s judgment upon the land. It was Jezebel, being
devoid of the antiauthoritarian principles which characterized the religion
of the Hebrews, who secured the vineyard of Naboth for her pouting
husband (usurpation of his authority). This deplorable offence became a
battle cry of the revolution to overthrow the house of Omri.
However, as in the case of Eve’s spiritual failure by obeying the words
of Satan to disobey God’s word, God pronounced His judgment and curse
upon Adam. Why; because Adam had been placed as the authority over
the Garden of Eden. Therefore, he was held responsible when he obeyed
his wife’s tempting words to disobey God. The exact same judgment came
when God sent Elijah to speak his judgments on the land of Ahab. Though
he had abdicated his power to his wife to rule, God held him responsible
for the spiritual breakdown of the land.
We see that Elijah appeared before King Ahab to declare the Word of
God to him concerning the subject of God=s judgment. He actually spoke
and forbid the rain. Elijah said, AAs the Lord God of Israel liveth, before
whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according
to my word.@(I Kin. 17:1).
God was going to judge Jezebel’s= capture of the nation (territory)
through the practice of witchcraft and goddess worship. Amazingly God
used the commitment and obedience of one man to provoke these powers
of darkness that had control of the entire kingdom. Elijah=s narrative is
one that when God turned His eyes on a nation to deliver it from Satan=s
hands; he moved through a human vessel to become a territorial taking
warrior. You must make note of the fact that God and one man became a
majority in the spiritual realms. Every demon shook in fear and the priest
that they inhabited became defused and helpless. The demons were unable
to perform their magical deceptions and tricks. God’s power was greater.
OBADIAH PROTECTED THE PROPHETS OF GOD
Obadiah met Elijah and told him that Jezebel had murdered the
prophets of the Lord but he hid a hundred men by fifty in a cave and fed
them.
“Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of
the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a
cave, and fed them with bread and water,” (I Kin. 18:13)?”
After God=s wrath of judgment was poured out for Ahab=s rebellion
and exposing his new religion as a fraud, Elijah returned to challenge his
wife=s Jezebel=s gods of Baal and Asherah. The Bible says, AAnd it came
to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him Art thou he that
troubleth Israel?@ (I Kn. 18: 1).
When a person is in sin, they always want to place the blame for their
sinful condition upon someone else.
The truth is, the Jezebel spirit is a territory-taking principality. People
who are totally committed and submitted to God because this devil will
come after their life can only defeat this Jezebel spirit. In the Scripture,
it took another man, Elijah with a double anointing, and a school of the
prophets taught by Elijah to accomplish God=s plan for the nation of Elijah
TO REPENT AND RETURN TO GRACE.
 Chapter Seven
Christian Ministry Today
MODERN JEZEBEL
“Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou
sufferest 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,” (Rev. 2:20).
Many Christian women feel called to the Christian ministry today and
they are met an array or grouping of Bible Twisting men whose hearts are
life frozen ice concerning holy, religious proud, men intended to be used
or considered together to stop God’s call of redeemed women of God.
These superciliousness men are calling every woman in the Christian
ministry, Handmaiden’s of the Lord, called and anointed by Him,
JEZEBELS! One can clearly detect areas of their pomposity and self-
importance that relies upon scripturally twisting the Word of God to make
it say things that just isn’t true. Their ungodly attitudes of male superiority,
arrogance, prejudice, lingering chauvinism and women hating demons are
strangely tolerated by many Christian men and women. These men are full
of pride; see themselves as superior to women simply because they are men.
TRADITIONS OF MEN
Professor Leon McBeth, Theologian, scholar writes: The historical
records confirm that women have attended our churches, prayed for our
ministries, given sacrificially to our causes, taught our Sunday Schools,
influenced the content and tone of our worship services, sung in our choirs,
cared for our nurseries, led our Vacation Bible Schools, provided and cared
for our baptismal robes, divided out the elements for the Lord’s Supper,
opened their homes for our visiting preachers, and in many cases swept and
vacuumed our church buildings. You have fed our preachers; God knows
how much fried chicken and coconut pie you have dished up for our pastors
and visiting evangelists! And through it all, you have kept a sweet spirit and
continued to model in word and deed the very best of the Christian life.[17]
You have invested your money, your time, your energy, your talents,
your very lives in Baptist service, and in these latter days, we reward you
by explaining that God made you second-class Christians and telling you
what areas in the church are off limits to you.
From the angle of service, we depend on you. We always have, and
no doubt always will.[18]
From the Angle of Ministry, We Fear You
Christian Women’s Isolation Discrimination
Notwithstanding the secular women’s movement of today, what is
going on in the Christian Church?
BOILING POT AGAINST CHRISTIAN WOMEN
When I became a Christian in the seventies, the most shocking thing
that I discovered was the fact that the Church was a boiling pot of
discrimination against women! I guess that pastors were trying to do
everything that they could to keep the secular, rebellious women’s
revolution out of the church therefore, conservative Christian women were
being told, “Just submit to your husband, no matter what kind of life he
leads and everything will work out. God will honor your obedience. It never
did and many women began to submit to ungodly men being abused by
them and used as doormats. Many were submitting to every evil thing under
the sun that was asked of them by unconverted men. According to many
pastors, every single family problem was said to be happening because
the women were rebellious. Many women grew cold, hopelessly caught in
unbalanced situations that there were simply no Christian answers for her
dilemmas.
I remember ministering in a church during the seventies and the
associate pastor made broad statements to the women to “submit to your
husbands … period.” When I asked him should a women submit totally
to unbelieving man who might ask her to go to the bar, should she submit
to him? He answered, “Yes!” What if a woman’s husband asked his wife
to submit to a wife swapping situation, should she submit to her husband?
This spiritually confused man replied, “Yes,”
I retorted back to him, “I totally disagree with your ungodly teachings.
The Bible says that women should submit to their husband, as unto the
Lord, (meaning as unto his godly behavior).” Little did I realize that many
male ministers were interpreting this Scripture as “the Lord” begins the
husband and not Jesus being the Lord!
This pastor looked at me like I was a snake and snarled. Who are you
that you should question me? The associate pastor exclaimed
authoritatively, “the woman must submit, even to a wife swapping
situation!”
Amazed, I responded, “Pastor, the Bible says that God’s people should
be holy as God is holy. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without
which no man shall see the Lord: (Heb.12:13-15) You are telling these
women to do unholy things because their unbelieving husbands tell them
to sin with him.”
“How dare you to question me!”
I was truly shocked by his disgusting self-important way of behaving,
clearly believing that he was spiritual above me because he was a man.
This egotistical associate pastor whined to the Pastor and I was judged
by these two men as being unfit to teach in that church because I disagreed
with a lying man. This was done between the two of these men without my
being present to defend myself. I was asked to leave that church because,
“I was in rebellion to the associate pastor because I disagreed with him.”
SPIRITUAL ABUSES AGAINSTWOMEN
Do these preposterous abuses still occur today? Yes! Just recently, a
certain lady went for counseling in her church. She was being beaten by her
husband. She was told to “go home and submit to her husband.” She did.
She was again beaten by her husband. Unfortunately, even secular
counselors are giving better advice than this. Nevertheless, this type of
counseling over the years has caused Christian women to become
“Christian zombies” and just try to work through their mistreatment and
also some women lose their lives in these violent monsters.
C. S. LEWIS DISCRIMINATES AGAINSTWOMEN
This is not just a modern problem. Women have invariably looked
down upon by many of the church men. For instance, in C.S. Lewis’ essay
“Priestesses in the Church” Lewis concludes: “One wearing the masculine
uniform can (provisionally, and till the Parousia) represent the Lord to the
Church: for we all, corporately and individually, feminine to Him.” He says
a priest is, “a double representative, who represents us to God and God to
us.” Women can speak “to God for us” but they cannot ‘speak to us for
God,” because “a good woman may be like God, but God is not like a good
woman.” [19]1
Where are those political correct people when we need them! The
above Lewis mindset is one example of male composition of segregation
that has caused God’s women to sit on the pews without a cause. Many
developed this type of reasoning that is spiritually dumb but has for
centuries been the popular stance of many of the men in the Christian
Church.
ALL CHRISTIAN WOMEN UNDER SUJECTION TO MEN?
Over the centuries, Satan has worked diligently to keep women in
“subjection “to all Christian men of the Church. Any contribution that she
has made has been carefully covered. Leon McBeth, says it best in his
inspiring book Women in Baptist Life, written in 1979, write, “after delving
into the history of Baptist women in the Baptist Church, writes: We have
been shaped by our history. This means if we are really to understand this
issue before us we must take a look at the way we were.” [20]
Dr. McBeth is quick to affirm an even more important premise:
Southern Baptists’ ultimate authority on every issue is not history or
tradition, but the Word of God and the lordship of Christ. However, those
who agree that the Bible is the authoritative Word of God and the Lordship
of Jesus Christ for our faith and practices do not always agree about its
interpretation. Therefore, Southern Baptists have had history of wide
diversity of opinion on “The woman question,” as some call it. The debate
does not question women’s service in the everyday work of the church, for
that level of involvement is encouraged and welcomed. The controversy
arises at this point: Is it right for women to serve in leadership, policy
making roles?”
McBeth goes on to write; “To ignore the contribution of Southeastern
Baptist women would be to read history with one eye shut.” He says that
women comprise 55 to 60 percent of most Baptist congregations. To a
surprising extent they have helped determine the shape of the programs and
practices of our churches today.
It may that many will be surprised to find that Baptist have had women
in leadership roles from the earliest days, as deacons, deaconesses, and even
occasionally as preachers. However, Dr. McBeth objectively emphasizes
that this is not proof, in itself, that in other times and places, that women
were not allowed to speak or even vote in church. This does not prove,
likewise, that we should apply such patterns today. History should instruct,
but we must not allow it to determine our decision.
 Mebeth writes: Any discussion of the role of women in the church
turns to the most controversial question of all: Should women be ordained
and/or be allowed to serve as deacons and ministers today? [21]
PARADIGM SHIFT
Paradigm Shift is a dramatic change in methodology or practice. It
often refers to a major change in thinking and planning, which ultimately
changes the way projects are implemented. For example, accessing
applications and data from the Web instead of from local servers is a
paradigm shift.[22]
An example: Traditionally thinking Christians, when proven wrong
with factual information (i.e.-Biblical moral absolutes), yield to the facts,
and admit that they are wrong, and then align themselves to those facts.
They are brought back to accountability to higher authority (the Word of
God). Because Biblical moral absolutes do not change, such traditional
thinkers, who adhere to such unchanging absolutes are labeled as "resistant
to change,” by those promoting this “new way of doing church.”
SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION
Transformation means a shift, or a qualitative change, a transfer from
the original spiritual tenets to a switch over to a new religious belief system.
“Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou
sufferest 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. 21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication;
and she repented not. 22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that
commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their
deeds. 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall
know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give
unto every one of you according to your works. 24 But unto you I say, and
unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which
have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you
none other burden, 25 but that which ye have already hold fast till I come,”
(Rev. 2:20-25 20).
 Chapter Eight
Masters of Deceit
“REPENT FOR HAVING JEZEBEL ON YOUR SHOW.”
Satan seeks to subordinate women under a master or king (male human
spirit). He hates women’s spiritual freedom and as twisted headship of men.
This is the following message sent to a radio TALK SHOW host that Dr. Pat
is invited to speak on a radio program. Another talk show host called in and
angrily said, “REPENT FOR HAVING JEZEBEL ON YOUR SHOW.”
[23]
After that this egotistical MAN, discriminating against women’s ministry
went on to quote the isolated scripture: "But I suffer not a woman to teach,
nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence," (I Tim. 2:12),
saying “[women are not allowed to preach].” Then this disgusting religious
angry spirit went on to further hurl charges that accused me as being a
“Jezebel,” even insinuating that Jesus Christ placed me in the very same
category as his sick mind, calling every woman that preaches Jezebels.
Actually, this deceived man believes all the New Testament handmaiden’s
of the Lord who obey the great commission to preach the gospel are nothing
more than witches!
He goes on to twist another scripture and accuse me by his low views and
religious standards, “The LORD JESUS CHRIST warns us in (Rev 2:20)
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest
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."
The above angry man represents millions of Christian men who have
carefully been taught a twisted gospel concerning women’s spiritual
status as people who have also been redeemed from the curse of the
law.
And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord
your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.28 And it
shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions:29 And also upon the servants
and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.30 And I will
shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars
of smoke.”
The above Old Testament prophecies include women handmaids
which God says “Your daughter shall prophesy”. What does God mean by
these scripture?
Stanley M. Horton writes, Your Sons and Daughters Will Prophesy,
“Did God have children in mind when He inspired the prophet Joel to
write, "Your sons and daughters will prophesy" (Joel 2:28) Looking at the
context we see the passage begins with the promise, "I will pour out my
Spirit on all people (Hebrew, kol basar, "all flesh"). Then God identifies
first, sons and daughters; then old men and young men; then His servants,
both men and women (Hebrew, ha`avadim and hashshephachoth, "the
male slaves and the female slaves"). Clearly, the intent is to show that the
promise of the Spirit and the impartation of prophetic gifts is for all people
without regard to race, sex, age, social status, or national origin. These
manifestations of prophetic gifts were important from early times, for they
were and are evidences of the presence of God in the midst of His people
(see I Cor. 14:24, 25), where prophesying will cause visitors to exclaim,
"God is really among you!"). [24]
The word "prophet" (Hebrew, navi’) comes from an old word meaning
"a speaker," but it came to mean "a person who spoke for God, or for gods,"
since there were pagans who claimed to be prophets, such as prophets of
Baal (I Kin. 18:19). In most cases in the Old Testament, those who
prophesied (spoke for God) were mature men and women. But God also
used children. Samuel is an example.[25]
SETTING FIRES IN THE MINDS OF WOMEN AND MEN EVERYWHERE
The author says, “I had a Christian woman Judge and a Christian
woman physician in our church Sunday. These women were black and
these smart women could have never achieved these positions had they
been born in my generation. We were bound by the powers of ignorant,
untrained men and misinterpretations of the Bible that simply followed
their traditional doctrines. Even today, when these classes of educated
business women go into many Christian Churches, they have to step down
to a lower cultural standard than the systems of the word. Male Doctors and
Lawyers do not treat them as if they are mindless women and their words
cannot challenge the men’s opinions. They are equal when you come into
their positions of power.
I fought together with many Christian women for the intellectual and
spiritual freedoms when I was a young woman. Today, brilliant women
have achieved their highest dreams and goals because many Christian-
Conservative women and men fought for their opportunities and their
equality because they were women. Today, both of these professional
women are wonderful, faithful mothers of two young boys. I was not a
Christian when I fought in the trenches of these discrimination wars. I ran
for the Florida State Legislation to defend my own daughters’ futures.
During these times, I was invited to the White house to Presidential and the
State house Governor’s events’ helped in Senator and Congressional races,
sat equally at tables with high level individuals in our city as an equal.
However, when I was supernaturally saved by Jesus, many Christian
Pastors tried to destroy my call into the ministry given to me by Jesus
Christ. Yes, they called me Jezebel, a prostitute, a lesbian, bewitched and
every ungodly thing you can think of but remember the religious charlatans
called Jesus the very same things. During this time, Christian women were
very discriminated as women, aside from the Muslims in the world.
Well, I pushed thru their twisting of the Word of God and simply
yielded myself to His Word and Jesus taught me the ministry… In the
American Christian Churches, I was black-balled by these twisted doctrines
but let me tell you, I was received one hundred percent on the mission fields
by Christian pastors who were searching for the supernatural anointing of
the Holy Spirit... I can tell you of thousands of miracles, conversions and
deliverances that were witnessed by those who worked with me.
Now, I am old, and many woman are being called to fulfill Joel
prophecy shown in Joel Two and Acts Two by the Spirit of God …And it
shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions:
“And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days
will I pour out my spirit. 30And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in
the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31The sun shall be turned
into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day
of the LORD come. 32And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call
on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in
Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant
whom the LORD shall call,” (Joel 2: 29-32).
And Jesus confirmed His Word in:
“But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17And it shall
come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all
flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young
men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18And on my
servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit;
and they shall prophesy: 19And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and
signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20The sun
shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and
notable day of the Lord come: 21And it shall come to pass, that whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved,” (Acts 2:16).
I feel very sorry for these religious blinded, hard hearted men that are
treating that God’s holy Christian women bought with the blood of Jesus
like second class citizens calling them Jezebels. I think that Jesus is angry
with them every single day. I would suggest that they repent before they
have to stand before the Judgment seat and hear them say…. “Forgive me
Jesus, I called every Christian woman that You washed with Your blood
and denied them their rightful positions because I hated women. I listened
to demons accusing them and believed the demons instead of Your Word.
I know now that Your blood was sufficient for them. I know now, that I
am nothing apart from You."
Many of these women, standing, arguing and agreeing with these
religious men do not understand the ramifications of their extra-biblical
doctrines. They are placing women back under the law and believing that
women have to do something more to achieve God’s grace. They teach
them to put napkins, towels and hats on their heads and without it they
are unable to minister for Jesus. They believed these twisted doctrines of
devils. Women are free and just as purified by the blood as these men
are; saved; delivered by Jesus without hats on... Women have been used in
churches only as cooks and maids and been demeaned with men twisting
of the Word of God... So they can argue about these things... But I address
them because I have walked through hell and back just to preach and fulfill
my call from Jesus... I have trudged the jungles of Africa, Third World
countries to find men and women so thankful that Jesus stood with on my
feet for hours, casting demons out and seeing Jesus do the most incredible
miracles, healing the people and saving the lost.
This is why I am so firm about this issue, it just not Biblical ladies.
MUST WOMEN OBEY?
Born Again women must obey Jesus Christ and His Word. He is our
spiritual head and freed us as surely as He did all men in His Word. He
redeemed women from the curse of the Oral Law; plus find me a curse in
the Old Testament where God has cursed women. There simply is not one!
Paul does not place women under a curse by God; or the Father making
women inferior to men, plus having no confidence in women’s ministry in
the New Testament
The word “obedience,” hupakoe, is quite different from the word
“subjection.” Its corresponding verb, from which it comes, is hupakouo,
and means literally, “to listen to,” with the derived sense of “to obey.” It
has always been translated “obey” in the New Testament excepting at one
place, Acts 12:13, where Rhoda comes “to listen to” Peter’s knocking. This
word has been used nowhere in respect to the wife’s duty to her husband,
with one safe exception, in an illustration. In (I Pet. 3:6) the Apostle points
women to the example of Sarah, who “obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord,”
or “Sir,” as the same is often translated (Matt. 13:27); (John 12:21), etc.).
So did Jacob call Esau “lord,” though it was God’s revealed will that Jacob
should hold the place of superiority; and Aaron called Moses, his younger
brother, “lord,” and Moses called the striving Egyptians “lords” (Gen.
33:8,14); (Exod. 32:22); (Acts 7:26).
There was a rabbinical saying which Peter may have known and
quoted, here: “The wife of Abraham reverenced him and called him lord.”
It is to be noted that Peter’s admonition is “subjection;” his illustration
is subjection carried to the point of obedience. When giving a pattern for
incitement we are very apt to take an extreme case, “Be unworldly; as
Francis of Assisi, a wealthy young man, who renounced all his inheritance,
and lived on alms.” By these words the spirit of Francis is the point urged,
not the literal copying of his acts. So with Peter’s words here, and that spirit
becomes all Christians alike, “In honor preferring one another.” [26]
As far as Abraham and Sarah are concerned, we are left in no doubt
as to this relation of obedience and respect being mutual and reciprocal;
God commanded Abraham to call Sarah by the very respectful name of
“Princess,” (Gen. 17:15); and the strongest passage in the Bible seeming
to enjoin obedience, as between husband and wife, is at (Gen.21:12), “And
God said unto Abraham. . . . in all that Sarah saith unto thee, obey her
voice.” The Hebrew verb used here, translated into the English, “hearken
unto,” is the same word translated “obey” at (Gen. 22:18). It means “to
listen to,” as does the Greek word “to obey,” but it has been translated
“obey” in 89 places in the Old Testament, and carries the sense “obey”
as proved by the context, in scores of other places, just as it does in this
passage, concerning which there is no doubt that Abraham was to obey in
what Sarah told him to do,–”Cast out the bondwoman and her child.”
 302. The question naturally is asked: “But in the unique relation
existing within the marriage bond, is not the wife bound to unquestioning
obedience?” We do not so read the Bible. Turn to (Lev. 20:18), where
exists a commandment to prevent unhygienic conduct within the marriage
relation. There is no question here but that God held both man and woman
equally responsible for trampling upon this hygienic law; and this could not
have been the case had the wife been bound to unquestioning obedience to
her husband in this matter.
In both the Greek and the Catholic Church, we understand that in the
marriage service the conditions laid upon the bride and bridegroom is
identical. In the United States the word “obey” is seldom used in the
marriage ceremony. If, under the Mosaic Law, the obligations and
responsibilities of the matrimonial relation were identical for man and
woman, as the passage cited from Leviticus seems to prove, it is
exceedingly difficult to believe that the Gospel message is meant to place
women on a lower plane of moral responsibility than the Mosaic Law did.
(See more on this subject in paragraphs 110, 111.)
303. To sum up: It seems clear that Jesus Christ MEANT WHAT HE
SAID in the words, “No one CAN serve two masters.” It amounts to
impossibility, and God never demands the impossible. Mutual respect,
honor, humility, meekness, forbearance, and the yielding of one’s
preferences, are incumbent upon all believers, to be exercised under all
circumstances short of making allegiance with man such as one owes to
God only.
Sarah made a greater declaration than her limited intelligence in that
age could have fully grasped, but God ordered Abraham to act in
accordance with its inexorable law: “The SON of the bondwoman shall not
inherit with the son of the free woman.” Let us pass over the circumstances
that led to that decision in the Household of Faith,–and an utterance on
Sarah’s part that has been misunderstood and misjudged, but we have not
space to enter into it now,–and learn the lesson of the words themselves.
God establishes no covenant relations with one in bondage.
Moses words to Pharaoh knew no variation: “Thus saith the Lord, Let
my people go, that they may SERVE ME.” They could not BOTH serve
the Egyptians as bondsmen, and God. “No one CAN serve two masters.”
God would not take them into full covenant relations with Himself until
they were FREE.
It is so today. Thousands of Christians, held in bondage by human
companions, are crying out for a clearer realization of covenant relations
with God, and God’s demand is ever the same: “Let my people go, that
they may serve me.” God may remember His covenant with our fathers,
but nevertheless we are NEVER in full covenant relations with Him until
FREE. And this applies to women as well as men. The freedom or bondage
of the mother, moreover, both Sarah and St. Paul declare, shall determine
the status of the son. No son of a bondwoman, because of her spirit in him,
can, as such, enter into full covenant relations with God. Fathers of sons,
who hold their wives in sensual bondage, doom those sons to a personal
sensual bondage. It is God’s own law then that one sex cannot get free
and the other sex remains in bondage. It is impossible to understand the
enormous extent to which all Christendom has been morally crippled in its
progress by the attempt to keep the female sex in bondage, especially to
the husband’s sensuality.
304. Let us remind ourselves again that when the women of apostolic
times, who labored with Paul in the Gospel, either listened to, read, or
taught others from the text, Genesis 3:16, they must have understood and
taught it as meaning, “Thou art turning away to thy husband, and he will
rule over thee,”–for this is the reading of the Septuagint version, which they
universally used, and this is the way early Church Fathers invariably quote
the verse. These women would not have read, “Thy desire shall be to thy
husband, and he shall rule over thee.” Now without this verse, translated
as we have it, and used as an index to Paul’s meaning when he talks on
the “woman question,” we may well inquire how these women would have
interpreted his words. What sense would Paul’s language about women
have conveyed to women who had not been taught “the curse of Eve?”
To women who never knew that Genesis taught (?) that God subordinated
woman to man at the time of the Fall? To women who had never heard that
the Bible taught the wife to obey the husband, because Eve brought sin into
the world? Or to a woman who had never heard that, according to the Bible,
her “desire” must be under her husband’s control? Such was the condition
of mind of the Gentile women, at least, who heard Paul’s letters read. They
knew that their heathen religions taught that woman was her husband’s
subordinate. But they did not have this teaching from Genesis 3:16, and
if not from there, then they found it nowhere in the Old Testament. How
differently they must, therefore, have construed Paul’s language!
305. In place of such teachings as this about woman’s “desire,” they
would have, rather, the recently uttered sayings of our Lord, standing out
to their minds with startling clearness, because so unlike their Gentile
teachings: “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them: and they
that exercise authority over them are called benefactors, But ye shall not be
so.” They were not to look upon this exercise of authority as a benevolent
thing, but quite the contrary. “No one can serve two masters,” then how
could a woman “serve” her husband and her God? And how could her
husband be a “benefactor” to her, while exercising authority over her? “Be
not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ . . . Neither be
ye called Masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is the
greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt
himself shall be abased.” What a totally different sense have such words
as these! And these are the teachings which would be much in the mind
and thought of those early Christians, because so recently uttered by their
Divine Master.[27]
“Subjection”/”submission” is REST/”wait upon the LORD”!
299. The Old Testament sense in which “to be in subjection” is
sometimes used is highly suggestive and instructive. (Psa. 62:1) reads in
the English, “Truly my soul waiteth upon God; from Him cometh my
salvation.” At verse 5 of the same Psalm, we read: “My soul, wait thou only
upon God.” In (Psa. 37:7) we find the words: “Rest in the Lord and wait
patiently for Him.” The words “wait” in the first passages, and the word
“rest” in the last are all three represented in the Greek version by the single
word hupotasso, “be in subjection” while the literal sense of the Hebrew
original word is “be silent unto.” Compare this with (1 Pet. 3:1, 2), where
wives are exhorted to win unbelieving husbands by “subjection.” Surely
Peter is not here exhorting wives to blindly obey unbelievers, for if heathen,
they would at once remand them back to the worship of the gods; if Jews,
back to Judaism. Rather, they are to win them away from these by their
“manner of life,” “without the word,”–actions speaking louder than words.
“Coupled with fear,”–such fear of God as would cause these women, so
gentle, quiet and patient in daily life, to be as adamant in their truth to
God; and the husbands so overawed by their quite maintenance of principle,
whereas they are so ready to yield to their husbands when principle is not
involved, that the husbands dare not try to compel their wives to violate
conscience, and thus are themselves gradually led into the Christian faith.
[28]
Where “subjection” is spoken of as a woman’s duty, without further
immediate specification, it has been too readily assumed that this means
subjection to a husband. But many women even from apostolic days, and
certainly an increasing large proportion of women in latter days, have no
husbands. In both (I Cor. 14:34), “let them be in subjection”; and in (I Tim.
2:11), “learn in all subjection,” this O. T. idea of waiting on God, or the
thought of a spirit of humility towards God, may be all that is intended.
WOMEN ARE REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW
God has holy, righteous women serving Him that are called to the great
commission just as surely as He has called men. Jesus and his blood is the
covering of on heads; woman’s LONG hair is her covering.
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is
a shame unto him,” (I Cor. 11: 14)?
“But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given
her for a covering,” (I Cor.)!
As we can clearly see, woman’s long hair is given to her by God for her
glory! This has nothing to do with a physical hat, scarf or a MacDonald’s
napkin.
This modern strange doctrine is telling women that they need something
made of physical material to enable them to worship before the Throne of
Jesus. Grace is not extended to them by Jesus Christ’s blood making them
not spiritually equal to men.
SHOULD WOMEN CAST OUT DEMONS?
Jesus Christ gave you (the Believer—women) the authority to cast out
demons! You don't have to go to anyone! There is not a special anointing
or calling into the Deliverance Ministry. JESUS SAID "ALL CHRISTIANS
CAN CAST OUT DEMONS, IN MY NAME”. (Mk. 16:17).
Deliverance is the casting out of demons using the Name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth. You can use the Name of Jesus Christ if He is your Lord and
Savior; you must also study the King James Bible and obey what Jesus
says to do.
The method of exorcism should not be used in casting out demons because
material objects are used such as women wearing hats, crosses and Holy
Water to try to free the person from demons. The practice of exorcism is
not scriptural. In the Bible Mark 16: 17 says the Name of Jesus Christ frees
a person from demons, therefore you do not need an object; only by the
power of God the demons will leave.
JESUS
Jesus Christ is our Bridegroom, our Master, our Shepherd, our Teacher,
our King! And He is the head of the Church according to scripture, “And
he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For
it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;20 And, having
made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things
unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in
heaven. 21 and you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your
mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled,” (Col. 1:18-21— 18).
Thank God that Jesus came to redeem me from the curse of the law because
He was made a curse for me.
“For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it
is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are
written in the book of the law to do them. 11 But that no man is justified
by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, the just shall live by faith.
12 And the law is not of faith: but, the man that doeth them shall live in
them. 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a
curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus
Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith,” (Gal.
3:10-14).
Meanwhile many women do not realize their liberty in Jesus Christ, Satan
knows that he has very little time. He wants to stop the Scriptures from
being fulfilled prophesied in Joel 2 and Acts 2 concerning end time women
prophesying or preaching the Word of God that will happen just before
Jesus Christ returns.
He made the man and woman equal!
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be
Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise,
(Gal 3:28-29).
HANDMAIDENS OF THE LORD
Notice the difference lifestyle of Queen Esther.
She intervenes at the risk of her life, on the Jews’ behalf to stop their
extermination.
She moved spiritually in (Est. 4:16).
“Go gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye
for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day; I also and my
maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not
according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.”
Jezebel lived in the flesh:
- Revengeful, (1 Kin. 19:2)
 - Incited her husband to evil, (1 Kin. 21:25).

- Vain, (II Kin. 9:30)

- Met a terrible death, (II Kin. 9:22-35).

- Death of Jezebel foretold, (I Kin. 21:23); (II Kin. 9:10).

- Jezebel at the hand of Jehu, (II Kin. 9:30-37)

“And When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it: and she painted
her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. And as Jehu
enters in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master? And
he lifted up his face to the window, and said, who is on my side? Who?
And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said. Throw her
down. So they threw her down on the wall, and on the horses; and he trod
her under foot. And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said,
go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.
And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull,
and the feet, and the palms of her hands,” (II Kin.9:20).
 Chapter Nine
Challenging Women
DID JESUS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST WOMEN
Do you believe that Jesus discriminated against women? Did God
discriminate against women when He created them? Did He create her
inferior to men? What does the Bible teach? Did He make man superior to
women? Is her past genetic history nonredeemable? Pat Holliday’s book
“Can Women Preach?” shows that Jesus establishes His favor for woman’s
status in the Gospel account through His actions toward them and
demonstrates the fact that they do not live under “the curse.” Do you believe
there are no exceptions in Christ’s redemptive work, and redemption is
never qualified sexually, racially, or economically? Do you believe that the
Great Commission of Christ applies to women believers the same as it does
to men believers?
Do you believe that women should not exercise the Great Commission
unless her husband tells her she can do so? Do you believe that these signs
shall follow women who believe the same as men who believe? Do you
believe that women believers are authorized to heal the sick, to cast out
devils, to cleanse the lepers, to raise the dead, to preach the gospel, the same
as men? Do you believe the anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit has
the same purpose in a woman’s life as in a man’s? Do you believe that
every blessing provided by the sacrifice of Christ is for every woman for
whom He died?
In examining attitudes and teachings toward women, Jesus is shown
breaking down the cultural barriers of first-century Palestine. When he
spoke to the woman by the well, he was breaking the traditions of men
toward women. Can, what the Bible calls “salvation” be as a real and
practical experience for a woman the same as it is for a man? Is she able
to be redeemed from her past the same as a man? Do you truly believe that
the original sin of a woman is still held against her after she commits her
life to Jesus, while the original sin of a man is forgiven? Can you believe
that women are truly equal in Jesus Christ and that according to the Word;
women are more than just an appendage to the men of the church? 3[29]
It was for freedom that Christ set us free . . . do not be subject again
to a yoke of slavery
“I am persuaded that new life, joy, blessing will be experienced by the
Church when every follower of Jesus can enter the liberty to understand
whom he or she is in Christ. It is inspiring to deliver the liberation of spirit
freeing sisters in Christ to realize their equality in ministry and also, to
liberate the bands of brothers in Christ with the knowledge to enable them
to free their sisters in Christ,” (Gal. 5:1).[30]
WOMEN SHOULD EXPLAIN THEMSELVES
Author, Jesse Penn.Lewis writes a challenge to the Christian women
that reaches into our time. She writes, “Christian Women must begin to
explain themselves. They profess, as Christians, obedience to the Word of
God. They think that St. Paul forbade women in speak in public, and that
he discounted women teachers of the Bible. Yet they teach and pray and
preach; and they do not even ‘veil’ when they do these things. . .”[31]
She goes onto say, “With (women) rest the responsibility to explain the
Apostle Paul in a convincing manner, as not in opposition to their conduct.
It is not enough for a woman to say, I must leave such matters to better
scholars than I. But meanwhile, I will teach or preach, because I know the
Spirit prompts me to do so.
A woman called to “preach” is also called to an understanding of the
Word which will agree with the inward voice. It is the Word of the Spirit
by which we must be led. . .” [32]
Penn.Lewis gives the explanation regarding why women were bound
formerly to free themselves from the traditions of men. She writes: “Maybe
in days past it was impossible for women to grasp the means of solving
these problems that face Christian women. Why the Holy Spirit would seem
to move in our direction and the Bible print the other way, that day as
passed.” [33]
Penn.Lewis points out that our colleges and universities are now open
to women. They can study Greek and Hebrew, with all essential help, as
well as men. With access to education, they should be able to surmount
former mental and spiritual perplexities should keep silence in the Church.
[34]
CAN WOMEN BE LIBERATED TO WORK FOR GOD?
The burning question in Christian women’s hearts is whether they, in
their witness for Jesus, can share in the great commission of Jesus Christ?
But, the issue goes much deeper than this because it touches the authority
and infallibility of the Word of God and its divine fitness to meet the needs
of every generation?[35]
Can women of today be liberated for a full share in the work of the
world and simultaneously have restrictions placed upon them in the work
of God?” In this matter, the Bible itself is challenged. Is it “out of date” for
guidance of the women of today?
Mrs. Penn.Lewis again advises Christian women to study Divine
scholarship. She says, “Christian women shall search into this question and
“explain themselves” and their true status from the scriptures, that it may
be seen that the Bible is not an antiquated book out of harmony with the
present times.”[36]
She went on to write: “Women have always contributed in important
ways to the life of their times. Even in the Old Testament era, when pagan
gave little value to women in the conduct of human affairs. Israelite women
functioned under G d as are part of His people. The New Testament shows
them still more fully integrated into the total life and purposes of God’s
people as Jesus’ ministry proclaimed their equality. Besides; traditional
(family) roles, the Bible shows women function under God’s direction in
many more ways, according to their individual gifts and abilities. [37]
The women were even seen in the upper room, standing with the men
for the Holy Spirit to come. Acts 1:14-15 “These all continued with one
accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother
of Jesus, and with his brethren.15 And in those days Peter stood up in the
midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about
an hundred and twenty),”
WOMEN AND SALVATION
Can, “salvation” be as a real and practical experience for a woman
equal to a man? Is she redeemed from her past equally as a man? Do you
truly believe that the original sin of a woman is still held against her after
she commits her life to Jesus, while the original sin of a man is forgiven?
Can you believe that women are truly equal in Jesus Christ or just an
appendage to the men of the church? "It was for freedom that Christ set
us free ... do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery." (Gal. 5:1). I am
persuaded that new life, joy, blessing will be experienced by the Church
when every follower of Jesus can enter the liberty to understand who he
or she is in Christ.”
The story of creation in Genesis recounts, “The curse” woman’s “fall
from grace” in the eyes of God and men. Though Jesus’ redemption of
all humans, women continue to labor under such a curse throughout the
ages that has been imposed upon her by Christian men. Traditionally, the
church world has gone beyond the curse in its subjugation of women to her
husband by severely limiting the roles scripturally available to them in the
ministry and placing them under the subjection of all men.
Do you really believe that women are inferior to men? Does the
creation story imply that man, is in some sense, higher or better than
women? What biblical evidence shows that women have equality with
men? In what sense are they equal to men and they are not?
Do you believe there are no exceptions in Christ’s redemptive work;
redemption is never qualified sexually, racially, or economically? Do you
believe that the Great Commission of Christ applies to women believers as
to men believers; that women should not exercise the Great Commission
unless her husband tells her she can do so; that these signs shall follow
women who believe the same as men who believe? Do you believe that
women believers are authorized to heal the sick, to cast out devils, to
cleanse the lepers, to raise the dead, to preach the gospel, the same as men;
the anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit has the same purpose in a
woman’s life as in a man’s; that every blessing provided by the sacrifice of
Christ is for every woman for whom He died?
In examining attitudes and teachings toward women, Jesus is shown
breaking down the cultural barriers of first-century Palestine. Do you
believe the later Pauline works are found to be consistent with Jesus’
views? Paul gave women a vital place in his ministry.
The woman question will have you examine women’s roles in the
Church. Should women be placed in leadership roles in the church under
men, and if so, does her position take anything away from the men’s
leadership? Should all women be in subjection to all men in the church?
Do you believe that all men are superior to women? Do you believe in the
ordination of women; that woman’s place only in the home?
Christian women are still under a so-called curse from the Old
Testament while men enjoy the freedom of the blood of Jesus freeing
Christian men and not women; that the Apostle Paul was a sexist? Have
you searched the scriptures to see what teachings and attitude of toward
women are true? What do you think---particularly the recurring question of
whether women should be “in silence learn in all submission,” (1Timothy
2:11)? Are women to be in submission to her husband and does it extend
to all men?
EARLY CHURCH WOMEN MINISTERING
Luke shows wealthy women were converts in (Acts 17: 12), exercising
great influence in these meetings. A special prayer meeting was held in the
house of Mary, the mother of John Mark.
Junia, the name of a woman, the wife of Andronic. (Rom. 16:7) --Junia
may probably be the name of a woman, [Of note among the apostles]
The Apostle Paul greets Apphia, “Our sister,” who together with
Philemon and Archippus was a leader of a house church in Colossae (Phile.
2). A business woman Lydia from Thyatira (Acts 16:14), founded the
church at Philippi, Mympah of Laodicea also had a “church in her house,”
(Col.4:15).
Priscilla and Aquilla were mentioned by Paul as “having a church in
their house’ (I Cor. 16:19; Rom. 16: 3-5), founded the church at Philippi.
“I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, which is a servant of the
church which is at Cenchrea: 2 that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh
saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you:
for she hath been a succourer of many and of myself also,” (Rom 16:1-11).
“Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: Who have
for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give
thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. Likewise greet the
church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus,
who is the first fruits of Achaia unto Christ. Greet Mary, who
bestowed much labour on us. Salute Andronicus and Junia, my
kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the
apostles, who also were in Christ before me. Greet Amplias my
beloved in the Lord. Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and
Stachys my beloved. Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them
which are of Aristobulus' household. Salute Herodion my kinsman.
Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the
Lord,” (Rom. 16:12).
WOMEN LABORED WITH PAUL
[Tryphena and Tryphosa] Two holy women, who it seems, labored
with the apostle in his work.
Persis was another woman, who it seems excelled the preceding; for,
of her it is said, she "laboured much in the Lord."
“Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord, Salute the
beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord,” (Rom. 16:12).
We learn from this, that Christian women, as well as men, labored in
the ministry of the word.
In those times of simplicity all persons whether men or women, who
had received the knowledge of the truth, believed it to be their duty to
propagate it to the uttermost of their power; many have spent much useless
labour in endeavoring to prove that these women did not preach. That there
were some prophetesses, as well as prophets in the Christian church, we
learn; and that a woman might pray or prophesy, (Rom. 16:12).
We know; and that whoever prophesied spoke unto others to
edification, exhortation, and comfort, Paul declares in (1 Cor. 14:3). “And
that no preacher can do more, every person must acknowledge; because
to edify, exhort, and comfort, are the prime ends of the Gospel ministry. If
women thus prophesied, then women preached”. [38]
AUTHORITY OVER HER HEAD
The subject of wearing of the veil is not of great importance to
Christian women today in Western lands, except a true understanding of
Paul’s word. “Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold
fast the traditions even as I delivered them to you.”
Conybeare and Howson write this is what the church at Corinth had
said in their letter as they asked for some light on the question of the
wearing of the Jewish Tallith, or veil, in worship in the Christ Church. The
real purpose of this passage, says Dr. Lightfoot, was to stop the practice
of Jewish Christian men veiling in worship, according to the custom of the
Jews.47
It seems that the Jew veiled as “a sign of reverence before God, and
of condemnation for sin.” The Romans also veiled in worship, and the
Corinthian Church consisted largely of Roman converts. The question
arose at Corinth whether the Christian women and the Christian men should
veil. V. 3: “I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ.”
Chrysostom says: “He cannot be the Head of those who are not in the
Body.”
So, when Paul says ‘every man’ one must understand it of believers. It
is important to know the Greek word used in the entire passage for “man” is
aner - the adult male or husband, for according to the Oral Law of the Jews
the Married man alone was obliged to wear the tallith. “And the head of the
woman is man” obviously, the head of the wife is the husband. “And the
head of Christ is God.” V. 4: “Every (Christian) man praying or
prophesying, having his head-covered dishonoureth his head.”
Since the tallith was a sign of guilt and condemnation, when a
Christian covered his head with it, a sign of condemnation, he dishonored
his Head, Christ, who had atoned for his sin.
“There is . . . now no condemnation to them that are in Christ
Jesus” (Rom. 8:1 and verses 5 and 6:) “But every woman (i.e., wife, since
he who wore the tallith was a husband) praying or prophesying with her
head unveiled dishonoureth her (matrimonial) head: for it is one and the
same thing as though she were shaven. ‘For if a woman is not veiled, let
her also be shorn’: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven,
let her be veiled.”
It was customary in Greek and Eastern cities for women to cover their
heads in public, except women of immoral character. Corinth was full of
temple prostitutes. Some of the Christian Women, taking advantage of their
newfound liberty in Christ, were making bold to lay aside their veils in
Church meetings, which horrified those of more modest type. They are here
told not to defy public opinion regarding what was considered proper in
feminine decorum. Men and women are of equal value in God’s sight. But,
there are certain natural distinctions between women and men without
which society should be cautious in their innovations, lest they bring
reproach on their religion. It is bad generally when women become too
much like men. Angels are onlookers in Christian worship.
NEW TESTAMENT WOMEN
Paul takes for granted that women also act as prophets in the Christian
assembly. He insists, however, that they do it in a proper way and do not
overstep the gender difference between women and men (1 Cor. 12:2-16).
Women received the Spirit together with the men in (Acts 2:17). Both Anna
and Mary function as prophets. Mary Magdalene is mentioned in all four
Gospels as the primary witness to the Res-resurrection. She and the other
women, whose names vary, were disciples of Jesus during his ministry and
witnessed his death, burial and resurrection. Paul also refers to the four
prophetess daughters of Philip (Acts 21:90).
Eusebius says their fame was so great in the early church that the
provinces of Asia argue for their apostolic origin by referring to the burial
place of one of them in Asia Minor. Papias of Hierapolis claims to have
known them personally. House churches (Acts 46; 20:7) and preached the
Gospel (Acts 5:42). The assembly was called the “house of God,” the New
“Temple,” because the Spirit dwelt in it.
There were Wealthy women converts (Acts 17:4:12) exercised
decisive influence on these gatherings. Acts 12:12 refers to a specific prayer
meeting in the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark. Paul greets Apphia,
“our sister,” who together with Philemon and Archippus was a leader of a
house church in Colossae (Phil. 2).
The church in Philippi was from Thyatira (Acts 16:14). The author
of Colossians refers to Nympha of Laodicea and the “Church in her
house” (Col. 4:15) Paul twice mentions (Priscilla) and Aquila and “the
church in their house” (1 Cor. 16:19); (Rom. 16:3-5). He wrote the first
letter to the Corinthians in response to a report made by salves who
belonged to the household of a woman Chloe (1 Cor. 1:11).
There was no reason to assume women were excluded from the
leadership of the house churches or from presiding at worship, probably
are a later patriarchal reaction to this leadership of women within the house
churches. This assumption is supported by (1 Tim. 2), where the injunction
that women should be submissive and not teach are given in the context of
regulation for worship.
Paul mentions women as his missionary co-workers. He uses the
Greek verb, “to Labor” or “to toil,” not only for his own missionary
evangelizing and teaching but also for that of women. In (Rom. 16:6, 12),
he commends Mary, Tryphena, Tryphosa and Persis: They have
“Labored” hard in the Lord . . .” He affirms that women have worked with
him on an equal basis. (Phil 4:2), Euodia and Syntyche have “contended
side by side with him’ Paul considers the authority of both women in the
community at Philippi so great that their dissensions might be a serious
threat to the existence of this community. Priscilla, together with her
husband, Aquila was prominent co-workers of Paul. They founded and led
house churches in Corinth, Ephesus and Rome if (Rom. 16) is addressed to
that community). (1 Cor. 16:19) has greetings from Priscilla and Aquilius.
When Paul sends greetings to the couple, (Rom. 16:3), he addresses
Priscilla first, showing that she is the leading figure, (Also 2 Tim. 4:19).
Also. (Acts 18:2; 18:18,26).
Luke suggests that they were well known. They were tentmakers
which supported their evangelistic work. They were expelled from Rome
when Claudius banished the Jews from there. In Ephesus, they ministered
to Apollos (Acts 18:26). Under Priscilla Apollos learned “the way of God
more accurately.” She taught him. Paul gives the title apostles to,
Andronicus and Junia. (Rom. 16:7). Junia was a well-known name for
women then. (Rom. 16): 1 mentions another important woman, Phoebe.
She receives two titles: diakonos of the church at Cenchrae and Prostatis
“of many and of myself as well.” Whenever Paul uses the title diakonos
for himself or another male leader, scholars translate it as “Minister,”
“missionary” or “servant,” Whereas in the case of Phoebe they make it
as “deaconess.” Yet, the text does not show any limits of the office of
Phoebe by prescribed gender roles. She is not the deacon of the “women”
in the church, but of the whole church. Paul uses term diakonos together
with synergos (co-worker), as can be seen in (1 Cor. 3:5, 9); (II Cor. 6:1,
4); (ICor. 16:15). Co-workers and laborers are those who “have devoted
themselves to the diakonia of the saints.” Diakonoi appear to be not only
itinerant missionaries but leaders in local congregation.
These terms are used in the New Testament also in secular sources to
refer to preaching and teaching. Phoebe’s second title prostatis, is usually
translated as “helper” or patroness,” . . . literature of the time has the
connotation of leading officer, president, governor or superintendent. In (II
Thess. 5:12), the verb characterizes person with authority in the community
and (1 Tim. 3:4, and 5:17), it names the functions of the bishop, deacon or
elder. Like other missionaries, Phoebe received a letter of recommendation.
Paul’s letters show that women were among the prominent and leading
missionaries in the early Christian movement. They were preachers,
teachers and leaders. The prominence of women in the early Christian
movement is confirmed by examining the list of names in Romans 16. Of
the 36 persons mentioned, 16 were women and eighteen men.
In (1 Cor. 11:2-6). Paul concedes to women the gift of prophecy and
the passage however, demands that women adapt to the role definition of
their society.
“And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which
laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow
labourers, whose names are in the book of life…” (Phil. 4:3).
DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY
Your Sons and Your Daughters Shall Prophesy!
(Joel 2:28 & Acts 2:17), is one of the greatest predictions in history.
How sad to think that God's beloved daughters have been held back from
their portion in the happiest of all callings, bringing others from death into
life!
 Chapter Ten
The Oral Law is not the Word of God
THUS SAITH THE LAW
“One might compare masculine and feminine kinds of awareness to
spotlight and floodlight lighting. Man tends to focus on certain areas of
experience, while woman sees detail as part of a wider context.” Lois
Gunden Clemens, Educator [39]
CAPTIVITY AND THE ORAL LAW
The story of Deborah and Hulda happened before the Babylonian
exile. It's obvious that women's position deteriorated after the Jewish
captivity until the time of Jesus because the Word of God began to mixed
into the traditions of men. In captivity, the Israelites lost their native tongue
as a common language and they gradually accepted Aramaic, a common
commercial language. Since Hebrew had almost disappeared from daily
use, someone was needed to interpret the Hebrew Scriptures and explain
their meaning. [40]
During captivity, one group of men, the Scribes, cared for the temple
archives, especially the scrolls of the law. Ezra, the first of this order, is
credited with establishing the first rabbinical schools (Ezra 7:6, 11); (Neh.
8:1; 12-26).
The scribes, read the law in Hebrew and then explained it to the people
in Aramaic. The laymen depended entirely on these men for their
knowledge of what the Word of God really said and meant. Naturally, as
time went by, the scribes received great respect and what they said became
Halacha, or law. [41]
Jewish leaders tried to cling to their ancient tribal system where men
were supreme and women were considered property. However, the new
family structure was founded on individual and personal ties, and the
patriarchal family organization began to fade away. So, the world and
society fearfully challenged Judaism during and after their seventy year
captivity.
The Jews lost their identity, their Temple, their tongue, their nation,
and their family structure, but not their law. Ezra and other priest and
Levites read from the law of God, translating it to give the sense so that the
people understood the reading. The actions of those zealous men were the
beginnings of formative Judaism. Their original purpose was noble. Their
successors in the succeeding centuries were looked upon as possessing
special knowledge and spiritual illumination. Since the priests and scribes
explained the written law, their words soon became law.[42]
Soon the Hebrew Scriptures were reduced to a ritualistic labyrinth of
precepts, regimen, regulations and traditions, many of them contradictory.
The rabbis, the oral law, and customs replaced God's Word. When Jesus
began His ministry these Halach had become the traditions which made null
and void the commandments of God. They were the same Jewish fables
Paul resisted. [43]
Jesus said, "These people honor me with their lips but their hearts are
far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught
by men" (Matt. 15:9).
The Apostle Paul tells us of the traditions of men: "These are all
destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands
and teachings" (Col. 2:22).
The Word of God will never pass away.
THE TALMUD AS ALSO SAITH THE LAW
J. F. Schleusner, the German lexicographer, stated: "The expression
'as also saith the law' refers to the Oral Law of the Jews now called the
Talmud." [44]
Jesus renounced the Oral Law in (Matt. 15:3), when he said, "You
transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?" He
rebuked the Pharisees when they washed their hands, "for observing the
traditions of the elders, "Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold
to the tradition of men.
"
These traditions refer to the regulations handed down orally from one
generation to another; they formed the oral law of the Jews. Those laws are
now called the Talmud, an Aramaic word meaning "learning." They are a
collection of the discussions, decisions, sayings and interpretations of the
early scribe and rabbis, who were called Tannaim, on how to live according
to the Torah, the law.
These teachings and traditions of men gradually became the Judaic
law, and were accepted by the Jews to be as authoritative as the written
Word. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees when their religious traditions directly
contradicted the Word itself. The main body, written in Hebrew and called
the Mishnah is a commentary on the Torah, While the Aramaic Gemara is a
collection of additional discussions and commentaries on what the Mishnah
really means.
During the long Babylonian exile, the Israelites lost their native tongue
as a common language and they gradually accepted Aramaic, a common
commercial language. Their Temple was gone, their religious rituals were
not practiced and their priesthood was without a place to function, so
synagogues were organized as places to pray.
Throughout the time of seventy years as slaves in a pagan society, their
unique religious heritage faded. Pagan practices and philosophies were
adapted for daily Jewish life. Less and less they lived as Jews and more
and more they lived by the culture of Babylon. Since Hebrew had almost
disappeared from daily use, someone was needed to interpret the Hebrew
Scriptures and explain their meaning. The scribes filled that need, reading
the law in Hebrew and then explaining it to the people in Aramaic. The
laymen depended entirely on these men for their knowledge of what the
Word of God really said and meant. Gradually the Scriptures were reduced
to a maze of rules, regulations and traditions, many of them contradictory.
The rabbis, the Oral Law, and customs replaced God's Word. When
Jesus began His ministry this Oral law had become the traditions which
made null and void the commandments of God. They were the same Jewish
fables Paul resisted. This is what the Corinthian Judaizers meant when they
said, "as also saith the law." [45]
The Jewish Attitude; To Women All Jewish males prayed a prescribed
daily thanksgiving which accurately describes their opinion of women:
"Praise be to God he has not created me a Gentile; praise be to God that
he has not created me a women; praise be a to God that he has not created
me an ignorant man." [46]
This and many other statements are the personal opinions of the rabbis
and not the Word of God. These are not the correct way the Bible should
be interpreted.
OLD TESTAMENT JUDGES
Most Christian churches for centuries have confined women to an
inferior, passive role in church leadership. What does the Bible actually say
about God's plan for women and Jesus' view of them? Do you really believe
that Jesus Christ discriminated against women? Does the Old Testament
give males a superior position to domination over women through a so-
called curse?
DEBORAH JOAN OF ARC OF OLD TESTAMENT
Five Judges of Israel happened between the 12th and 11th century.
Deborah, the Prophetess, was a Judge on whom God anointed for
leadership in the Old Testament. God used her to transmit His knowledge
and divine will to people; the things sacred and civil to the Israelites, (Judg.
4: 4-11).[47]
This is the first record of female government on record. Deborah had
supreme power in both civil and religious affairs; and Lapidoth, her
husband, had no hand in the government. She sent for and directed Barak
to be a leader of her plans for the nation. She appointed him to be general of
the armies on this occasion, which shows that she possessed the supreme
power in the State. [48]
It was only after Deborah agreed to go with Barak would he consent.
Deborah seemed to stress the cowardice of Barak and the entire nation
when she reminded Barak that a woman, not he, would receive credit for the
victory (v. 9). This would show that in the democratic social organization
of early Israel, women occupied, if not an equal position with men, at least a
higher one than among other pagan nations. Deborah is described as being
both a prophetess and a judge.
The term prophet (Hebrew, nabhi) emphasizes the prophetic office and
shows a person who received a message directly from God and conveyed it
to the people. That person was a spokesman for God. God revealed through
Deborah that he would lure Sisera and his troops to the Kishon River, ten
miles west of Mount Tabor. In ordinary circumstances the Kishon was only
a trickle; however, following a rainstorm the river became a swollen
torrent. The statement "I will . . . give him into your hands" (Judg. 4:7)
foresees the result. (Judg. 5:21).[49]
The Book of Judges recounts how for twenty years the tribes of Israel
groaned under the yoke of the Canaanite king, Jabin. His general Sisera,
had subdued them in a series of clashes. And so King Jabin had extorted
enormous tribute from them year after year. However, Israel's desperate
need created a natural leader to win back its independence: Deborah the
Prophetess.
Though greatly outnumbered, Deborah lead the army while The Lord
confounded, threw them all into confusion, drove them pell-mell caused
chariots to break and overthrow chariots, and threw universal disorder into
all their ranks. In this cause Barak and his men had little to do but kill and
pursue, and Sisera, to escape, was obliged to abandon his chariot. There is
no doubt all this was done by supernatural agency; God sent His angel and
confounded them .. . . .
Several tribes would not support her, not because she was a woman,
but for the reason that they stood in mortal fear of the Canaanite military
prowess, especially of their "chariots of iron." In other weapons as well, the
Israelites felt their inferiority to the enemy. Sisera had assembled a great
host and nine hundred chariots against Deborah and Barak.
Lifted by Deborah into a heroic mood, the Israelites poured down the
slopes of Mount Tabor upon the enemy and routed them. Sisera fled on
foot with Barak in pursuit of him. As he passed the tent of Jael, the wife
of Heber the Kenite who was not an Israelite, he asked her to hide him in
her tent. Jael with a work-men's hammer and nail; and smote Sisera in the
temple and killed him. Deborah and Jael were surely the heroines of the
great victory in the Old Testament. [50]
HULDAH RENOWNED PROPHETESS
Huldah is another interesting story of equality of the spirit shown in (II
Kin. 22:14); (II Chron. 34:22). She was a renowned as a prophetess, wife
of Shallum, keeper of the wardrobe in Jerusalem in King Josiah's reign in
Judah. The king began to reign when he was eight years old. When he was
16, he began to seek after the God of David. When he was 20, he began his
reforms. When he was 26, the finding of the Book of the Law gave great
impetus to his reforms. This was the most through reformation Judah had
known. However, the people were idolaters; for the wicked long reign of
Manasseh. They had nearly obliterated God from their thinking. There were
delays in Josiah's re-forms, but he could not aver the, the fast approaching
doom of Judah. [51]
Though forbidden to build the Temple by God, David laid the plans
for it. He devoted a large part of his reign to collecting vast stores of gold
and silver, and all kinds of building materials. These objects are estimated,
variously, to value in our money between two and five billions of dollars.
It was to be "exceeding magnificent of fame and glory in all the earth,” (II
Kin.22:5).
When the scroll containing, what we call Deuteronomy, was found
by the high priest Hilkiah during the repairs of the Temple was taken to
King Josiah, Josiah immediately had it sent Huldah. She returned the book
with the dire warning that God's day of reckoning for the nation was fast
approaching, but would be temporarily delayed because of King Josiah's
piety and wish for reform. It is interesting that the King James Version of
the Bible makes note that Hulda was the wife of a wardrobe keeper and the
she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college. Hulda was a prophetess but she was
educated also. The king also sent Hilkiah and the priest, Ahikam the son
of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and
Asahiah a servant of the king saying: "Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me,
and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book
that is found . . . ." (II Ki. 22:12, 13).
Notice the stature of the men sent to ask of a woman what the Spirit
of God was saying to the nation! Hulda began, "Thus saith the Lord . . . ."
giving them a sure word from God concerning His wrath and calling for
repentance because of the nation seeking other gods.[52]
 Chapter Eleven
Stolen Inheritances
CHRISTIAN WOMEN’S BONDAGE
Christian women have been robbed of their true status in the Church of
Christ because translators and many expositors, have failed to perceive the
true setting of the Apostle Paul words. But, God is giving the true light on
this subject when it is most needed for women's service in the world. Some
are beginning to see the key of "quotations" from letter of the Corinthian
Church to Paul unlocks some problems regarding the meaning as some
statements in his epistles, statements which have hitherto been beyond
solution.[53]
Professor Sr. William Ramsay, an accepted authority on St. Paul, his
epistle, and journeys, says: "We should be ready to suspect Paul is making
a quotation from the letter addressed him by the Corinthians, whenever
he alludes to their knowledge, or when any statement stands in marked
contrast either with the immediate context, or with Paul's known views."
[54]
Dr. Bushnell observes that this "marked contrast" is obvious when (I
Cor. 14:34, 35), is placed alongside (I Cor. 11:5), for Paul must have written
the words in chapter 14, not more than half an hour after the previous ones,
which show clearly that women were accustomed both to pray and to
preach in public.
Moreover, that (I Cor. 14:34, 35), contained "quotation" of the
Judaizers' words is confirmed when it is considered in detail. "It is not
permitted," says someone, for women "to speak . . . as also saith the Law . . .
"(v.34). But, this cannot refer to the Old Testament Scriptures, for there
is not one trace, from Genesis to Malachi, of any such prohibition, nor is
there a single word in the whole "law of Moses" dealing with the subject.
"Therefore, the words "it is not permitted" and "As also saith the law" must
refer to some "rule" outside Scripture. [55]
There was no other but the Oral Law of the Jews, appealed to be the
Judaizers in the church in their efforts then to bring Christianity back within
the confines of Judaism. That the words "as saith the law" called the Oral
Law of the Jews is recognized by some scholars, for a well-known
Lexicographer, in his Greek-Latin Lexicon, says that "as saith the Law"
refers to the Jewish Oral Law, which did teach the silencing of women. [56]
The Talmud also taught that it was "a shame for a woman to let her
voice be heard among men" - almost the very words used in the language
quoted by the Apostle. Again, the reference to the "Law" is, of itself,
sufficient to show that the Apostle, who labored so earnestly to free the
Christian Church from the very shadow of Judaism, as his epistles show,
was not expressing his own conviction in the language attributed to him.
Paul never appealed to the "law" for the guidance of the Church of Christ.
But, on the contrary, declared that believers were "dead to the law by the
body of Christ" (Rom. 7:4) That they might serve in newness of spirit and
not the oldness of the letter (v.6). Then how could he say consistently, "Let
the women keep silence . . . as also saith the law," even were such a
prohibition to be found in the law of Moses? [57]
Many were "as false brethren" to destroy the church (II Cor. 10:12);
(Gal. 2:4). None of them could hope to influence the Christians to return
to . . . the traditions of the Jews by attacking things that were regular . . .
The only opportunity lay in something irregular and this they found in the
public prophesying of women.
WOMEN MUST KEEP SILENCE
The Oral law had said, "It is a shame," and the Judaizer took up the
cry that, "The women must keep silence," They must ask their husbands
at home," "It is a shame for a woman to speak in the assembly," the Oral
Law of the Jews says so etc. All this was written to Paul from Corinth. Paul
then repeats it from their document for his text. He skillfully points out the
fallacies these public teachers were trying to introduce into the new faith.
Paul responds by exhorting his converts to be jealous of their gift of
prophecy in the church . . . "Regarding the women asking questions of their
husbands at home,” Dr. Busnell points out that it is not known that even
men asked questions in church as the Jews did in the synagogue.
If Paul said these words as a command, in the condition of the
Corinthian and other churches of that time, he would be sending some
women back to heathenism or Judaism for spiritual help or sometimes, to
no help: since many might be without husbands.
In chapter 13, Paul approached the subject of "preaching" or as it was
termed by Paul, "prophesying.” The primary gift was prophecy, power to
declare God's message either by the prophetic gift or speaking to education
and "exhortation" and "comfort." This was necessity for the growth of
God's children (II Cor.13: 2, 12, 19), as well for the conviction of those
"without" the church (II Cor. 24, 25). [58]
"Ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may
exhorted" v 31. "God is not a God of confusion, but of peace; as in the
churches of the saints." ALL MIGHT PROPHESY, said the Apostle, that
ALL MAY LEARN, as God gave the word of wisdom the word of knowledge
to one and the other -“Surely women and men - both "alls" obviously
including all who might be in the assembly.” [59]
(Acts 21:9), about Philip's "four daughters which did prophesy." Dr.
Bushnell observes that "not even a year after (the) Corinthian epistle was
written were women yet silenced."
Dr. Adam Clarke writes about (I Cor. 14:35), "The only one in the
whole Book of God which even by a false translation can be made
prohibitory of female speaking in the Church. How could it be, that by
this one isolated passage, which according to our best Greek authorities,
is wrongly render and wrongly applied, woman's lips have been sealed for
centuries, and the testimony of Jesus, which is the spirit of prophecy'
silenced, when bestowed on her?" [60]
Dr. Clarke inquires, "How it is, that this solitary text has been allowed
to stand unexamined and unexplained, nay, that learned commentators,
who have known its true meaning, as perfectly as either Robinson,
Bloomfield, Greenfield, Scott, Parkhurst, or Locke, have uphold the
delusion, and enforced it as a Divine precept binding on all female disciples
through all time?"
Clarke goes as far to charge, "Surely, there must have been some
unfaithfulness, craftiness,' and 'handling the word of life deceitfully'
somewhere. Surely the love of caste system has had something to do with
this anomaly. By this course, divines and commentators have involved
themselves in all sorts of inconsistencies and contradictions. Worse, they
have nullified some of the most precious promises of God Word."
Concluding, Clarke tells of the great significance of overlooking God's
mind for women in the Word of God. "They have set the most explicit
predictions of prophecy at a variance with apostolic injunction, and the
most immediate and wonderful operations of the Holy Ghost, in direct
opposition to (supposed) positive, explicit, and universal rules." [61]
HEADY HIERARCHY
The Jehovah’s Witness believe in and practice the total submission of
women to men under a strict hierarchy. In their Aid to Bible Understanding,
a Commentary dictionary containing their interpretation of the Bible, under
the article “Headship” they quote (I Cor. 11:3), to support their version of
male supremacy and female submission. “The apostle Paul drawing on the
principle of primary headship of God, the head of Christ, and the relative
headship of man over woman, set forth the principle governing the Christ
congregation.”[62]
Jehovah Witnesses teach that Jehovah God Created Jesus as His first
and only direct acts of creation. To them there isn’t any doubt Jehovah God
is unquestionably Christ’s head, (since to them) He created Him. In like
manner, they regard man as woman’s head since she was made from his
side. In this sense, he was her source of being, the same way the Logos
(Jesus) they believe, came out of God. Jesus, the Word. Naturally, that
which is created is subservient to the One who created it.
If Christ had a beginning, God the Father would really be His Lord.
Christians cannot use this line of reasoning. Christians believe the Godhead
consists of three coequal and coeternal person ruling as co-regents. [63]
Christians believe that Jesus is God!
Jehovah Witnesses goes on to say, “How was God Christ’s Head? We
know that the Son proceed from the Father, (Jn. 1:14), and that the man
Jesus had His origin in the godhead, (Lk. 1:35). He was conceived by a
virgin and called the Son of God, (Lk. 1;32). God was the source, origin
and nourishes of His Life.” And the Word was a God,” (Jn. 1:1). Jesus is
equal to the Source and God the Father is his Source, Jesus and God the
Father are equal to each other!
There never was a time when any person in the Godhead was greater
than others except during the brief time Jesus was a man on earth.
The Jehovah Witness explains their doctrine. “In the very beginning
Jesus, the Logos, was eternal God. In the Godhead there is mutual
submission, mutual authority, mutual unity and oneness beyond Human
comprehension.”[64]
How is the man the Head of a Woman? John Chrysostom, second
century scholar, said, “He cannot be the Head of those who are not in the
Body. So, when he says ‘of every man’ one must understand it is of
believers. When Paul called the man as “head of not “women” but “a
woman” (Gunaikos), The word changed from andros to aner, meaning
adult male or husband. The Oral Law state at best, the husband is the head
of his wife; this excludes other women in the congregation. [65]
How is the man the head of a woman?
His headship is not achieved by exercising final authority over, making
her decisions, giving her permission to pray and prophesy, or insisting on
“headship” as his scriptural position, (Mk. 10:42,43). [66]
He assumes his headship by encouraging his wife’s talents and gifts.
AUTHORITY OVER HER HEAD
The subject of wearing of the veil is not of great importance to
Christian women today in Western lands, except a true understanding of
Paul's word. "Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold
fast the traditions even as I delivered them to you."
Conybeare and Howson write this is what the church at Corinth had
said in their letter as they asked for some light on the question of the
wearing of the Jewish Tallith, or veil, in worship in the Christ Church. The
real purpose of this passage, says Dr. Lightfoot, was to stop the practice
of Jewish Christian men veiling in worship, according to the custom of the
Jews.[67]
It seems that the Jew veiled as "a sign of reverence before God, and
of condemnation for sin." The Romans also veiled in worship, and the
Corinthian Church consisted largely of Roman converts. The question
arose at Corinth whether the Christian women and the Christian men should
veil. Verse 3: "I would have you know, that the head of every man is
Christ." Chrysostom says: "He cannot be the Head of those not in the
Body."[68]
So, when Paul says 'every man' one must understand it of believers. It
is important to know the Greek word used in the entire passage for "man" is
aner, the adult male or husband, for according to the Oral Law of the Jews
the Married man alone was obliged to wear the tallith. "And the head of the
woman is man" obviously, the head of the wife is the husband. And the head
of Christ is God." (Vs. 4): "Every (Christian) man praying or prophesying,
having his head covered dishonoureth his head."
Since the tallith was a sign of guilt and condemnation, when a Christian
covered his head with it, a sign of condemnation, he dishonored his Head,
Christ, who had atoned for his sin.
"There is . . . now no condemnation to them that are in Christ
Jesus," (Rom. 8:1-. Vs. 5 and 6): "But every woman (i.e. wife, since he
who wore the tallith was a husband) praying or prophesying with her head
unveiled dishonoureth her (matrimonial) head: for it is one and the same
thing as though she were shaven. 'For if a woman is not veiled, let her also
be shorn': but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her
be veiled."
 It was customary in Creek and Eastern cities for women to cover their
heads in public, except women of immoral character. Corinth was full of
temple prostitutes. Some of the Christian Women, taking advantage of their
new-found liberty in Christ, were making bold to lay aside their veils in
Church meetings, which horrified those of more modest type.[69]
They are here told not to defy public opinion regarding what was
considered proper in feminine decorum. Men and women are of equal value
in God's sight. But, there are certain natural distinctions between women
and men without which society should be cautious in their innovations,
lest they bring reproach on their religion. It is bad generally when women
become too much like men. Angels are onlookers in Christian worship.[70]
NEW TESTAMENT WOMEN
While in Asia Minor, on his second missionary journey, Paul was
given. a vision from the Lord calling him to Macedonia. He came to
Philippi and began his ministry there by speaking to a group of Jewish
women. A woman in this group named Lydia was the first person in Europe
to receive Christ through Paul's preaching (Acts 16:6-15, 40). She likely
remained a leader of the church in Philippi.
Priscilla was a special friend and colleague of Paul. He met Priscilla
and her husband, Aquila, in Corinth on his second missionary journey.
They, like Paul, were tent makers. They had come to Corinth from Italy
Acts (18:1-3). We are told that they traveled with Paul to Ephesus where he
left them to teach the believers there (15:18, 19). Apollos was among their
students (Acts 18:24-25). Four of the six New Testament references to this
couple list Priscilla's name first (Acts 18: 18.26); (Rom. 16:3); (II Timothy
4:19). This suggests that her part of their ministry was at the forefront.
After Priscilla and Aquila had returned to Rome from Ephesus, Paul sent
greetings to the church that was in their house (Romans 16:5). It is likely
that they co-pastored this fellowship.
Finally, mention should be made of chapter 16 of Paul's letter to the
Romans. This chapter is a unique and personal view into the church at
Rome and its diverse composition. Many women were prominent in this
church. There was Phoebe, the newcomer whom Paul commends to them
(1.2). Phoebe was identified as a deacon of the church at Cenchrea. (Phoebe
was likely the bearer of the letter). Then there was Prisca (3), or Priscilla,
who has already been introduced to the reader. Paul also spoke of Mary (6),
Junia (7, though this name could also be masculine), Tryphaena. Tryphosa
and Persis (12), the mother of Rufus (13). Julia and Nereus …[71]
Paul takes for granted that women also act as prophets in the Christian
assembly. He insists, however, that they do it in a proper way and do not
overstep the gender difference between women and men (I Cor. 12:2-16).
Women received the Spirit together with the men in (Acts 2:17). Both Anna
and Mary function as prophets. Mary Magdalene is mentioned in all four
Gospels as the primary witness to the Resurrection. She and the other
women, whose names vary, were disciples of Jesus during his ministry and
witnessed his death, burial and resurrection.[72]
Paul also refers to the four prophetess daughters of Philip (Acts 21:90).
Eusebius tells us their fame was so great in the early church that the
provinces of Asia argue for their apostolic origin by referring to the burial
place of one of them in Asia Minor. Papias of Hierapolis claims to have
known them personally. [73]
House churches Acts: (46; 20:7) and preached the Gospel (Acts 5:42).
The assembly was called the "house of God," the New "Temple," because
the Spirit dwelt in it.
There were wealthy women converts (Acts 17:4:12) exercised decisive
influence on these gatherings. (Acts 12:12), refers to a specific prayer
meeting in the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark. Paul greets Apphia,
"our sister," who together with Philemon and Archippus was a leader of
a house church in Colossae (Phile. 2). The church in Philippi was from
Thyatira (Acts 16:14). The author of Colossians refers to Nympha of
Laodicea and the "Church in her house" (Col.4:15). [74]
Paul twice mentions the missionary couple (Priscilla) and Aquila and
"the church in their house" (I Cor. 16:19); (Rom. 16:3-5). He wrote the
first letter to the Corinthians in response to a report made by salves who
belonged to the household of a woman Chloe (I Cor.[ 1:11).37]
There was no reason to assume women were excluded from the
leadership of the house churches or from presiding at worship probably
are later patriarchal reactions to this leadership of women within the house
churches. This assumption is supported by (I Tim. 2), where the injunction
that women should be submissive and not teach are given in the context of
regulation for worship.
Paul mentions women as his missionary co-workers. He uses the Greek
verb, "to Labor" or "to toil," not only for his own missionary evangelizing
and teaching but also for that of women. In (Rom. 16:6, 12), he commends
Mary, Tryphena, Tryphosa and Persis: They have "Labored" hard in the
Lord . . . "He affirms that women have worked with him on an equal basis.
(Phil. 4:2), Euodia and Syntyche have "contended side by side with him'
Paul considers the authority of both women in the community at Philippi
so great that their dissensions might be a serious threat to the existence of
this community.
Priscilla, together with her husband, Aquila was prominent co-workers
of Paul. They founded and led house churches in Corinth, Ephesus and
Rome if (Rom. 16) is addressed to that community. (I Cor. 16:19) has
greetings from Priscilla and Aquilius; when Paul sends greetings to the
couple (Rom. 16:3); he addresses Priscilla first showing that she is the
leading figure, Also (II Tim. 4:19); also (Acts 18:2; 18:18, 26).
WELL KNOWN WORKERS
Luke suggests that they were well known. They were tent makers
which supported their evangelistic work. They were expelled from Rome
when Claudius banished the Jews from there. In Ephesus, they ministered
to Apollos (18:26). Under Priscilla Apollos learned "the way of God more
accurately." Another words she taught him. Paul gives the title apostles
to, Andronicus and Junia. (Rom. 16:7). Junia was a well-known name for
women then. (Rom. 16: 1) mentions another important woman, Phoebe.
She receives two titles: diakonos of the church at Cenchrae and Prostatis
"of many and of myself as well." Whenever Paul uses the title diakonos
for himself or another male leader, scholars translate it as "Minister,"
"missionary" or "servant," Whereas in the case of Phoebe they make it as
"deaconess."
Yet, the text does not show any limits of the office of Phoebe by
prescribed gender roles. She is not the deacon of the "women" in the church,
but of the whole church. Paul uses term diakonos together with synergos
(co-worker), as can be seen in (I Cor. 3:5, 9); (II Cor. 6:1, 4); (I Cor. 16:15).
Co-workers and laborers are those who "have devoted themselves to the
diakonia of the saints." Diakonoi appear to be not only itinerant
missionaries but leaders in local congregation.
These terms are used in the New Testament also in secular sources to
refer to preaching and teaching. Phoebe's second title prostatis, is usually
translated as "helper" or “patroness," . . . literature of the time has the
connotation of leading officer, president, governor or superintendent. In (I
Thess. 5:12, the verb characterizes person with authority in the community
and (I Tim. 3:4 and 5:17), it names the functions of the bishop, deacon or
elder. Like other missionaries, Phoebe received a letter of recommendation.
PAUL SUPPORTS PROMINENT MISSIONAIRES
Paul's letters show that women were among the prominent and leading
missionaries in the early Christian movement. They were preachers,
teachers and leaders. [75]
The prominence of women in the early Christian movement is
confirmed by examining the list of names in (Rom. 16). Of the 36 persons
mentioned, 16 were women and eighteen men. In (I Cor. 11:2-6), Paul
concedes to women the gift of prophecy and the passage however, demands
that women adapt to the role definition of their society.
Signs are exploding everywhere that Jesus Christ is coming back soon.
Apostasy and the great falling away is a key sign.
 Chapter Twelve
Spirit of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel
NEW TESTAMENT FALSE PROPETESS JEZEBEL
The opposite demonic spirit of Jezebel is the spirit of Ahab, which
primarily affects men. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel are the most noted
couple with these 2 spirits working in them, (I Kin.16:29-33); (I Kin. 18:
19:1-2, 21:1-25). [76]
New Testament Church of the False Prophetess Thyatira:
“Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest
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. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented
not. Behold I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with
her into great tribulation, except they repented of their deeds And I will kill
her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which
searcheth the reins and hearts and I will unto every one of you according
to your works. But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many
as have not this doctrine and which have not known the depths of Satan,
as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden,” (Rev. 2:18-24).
AHAB SPIRIT
Who was Jesus rebuking concerning the activities of the woman that
was preaching and leading the men into idolatry and sexual perversion? I
see that the Lord reprimanded the elders of the Church of Thyatira. They
were the leaders of the church, yet they allowed this false prophetess to
bring witchcraft and perverse sexual activates to the congregation.
Many Christian men who misinterpret Apostle Paul’s writings as
condemning women use the scriptures concerning Jezebel to accuse God’s
spiritually strong holy women as witches. These men seem to hate women
and totally ignore Paul’s teachings concerning women who were active and
coworkers with him working as evangelists and heads of home churches.
Paul’s authority and leadership was never threatened by women’s
spirituality and ministries.
When you see a Jezebel spirit, you’ll always discover the Ahab spirit. How
will you discern the character of Ahab?
Here are some examples of how Ahab works:
- has lightness towards sin

- is a workaholic or alcoholic

- enjoys childish things, sulking, temper tantrums, drinking

- may call his wife Mom, Mama. May want to a like a

“little boy”
 may be attracted to a Jezebel type wife, giving him excuses to
commit adultery, get drunk, act irresponsibly and rationalize
situations.

- views parenting as playing with the children but avoiding

the unpleasant

- puts “being out with the boys” above his family duties

- doubts his own abilities

- dislikes using his God-given authority to decision making

- unable to cope with his wife’s problems, tunes her out

- attempt to please his Jezebel wife by letting her have her

way

- may have a “competitive” spirit. Goals are wealth,

success, status, greed

- plays the guessing game: What did I do, how can I please
her

- definitely does not want to lead but to criticize those who

do. Passive.

- feels inadequate to support his family, gets frustrated, and

leaves the house. [77]

What can you do, as a man, to counter this Ahab spirit in you? First
of all ADMIT you are an Ahab and that it begins with the head, the man,
it begins with YOU. Don’t sit back, nothing will happen till you move out
and take action.
Throw yourself on the mercy of God and say “Jesus, I need You.
Deliver me from the curses on me and my family. Deliver me that I may be
a man again, the man you planned for me to be since before the beginning.”
After calling upon Jesus renounce the spirits, break the curses by your own
words. Speak the prayers of deliverance. Pray in front of your wife and
family. Speak the name of God. Do not be fearful under any circumstances.
Here are a few things to recognize in yourself as you deal with the
Ahab spirit at work in your life:
- Men who won’t pray with their family

- Men who will not say the blessing at the table

- Men who will not read the Bible out loud at home

- Men who will not speak the Name of Jesus

- Men who will not raise their hands

These men are AHABS.

PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE AHAB SPIRIT
Father in Heaven, I come to You in the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, my Savior and Lord. Father, it is my desire to see Your Kingdom
come into my lie and into my family. Right now I make a decision to forgive
any and everyone who has had influence in my life to cause me to be less
than the man of God You want me to be. Father, I forgive the following
persons (name anyone who comes to mind).
I repent of being like an Ahab and ask You to forgive me. I confess
the sin of abdication of headship in my marriage and family and now take
back the authority and responsibility You have given to me. Lord, forgive
me for allowing disorder in my life and disobedience to Your Word. By the
power that works in me according to Your strength and anointing, I will
watch over and minister to my wife and children. Father, I ask for wisdom
and guidance as I do this.
In the Name of Jesus, I break every curse that has come upon me and
my family because of my sins and the sins of my ancestors. I command
every demon spirit that has come in through curses to leave me. Go out of
me, now, in the name of Jesus Christ! You must also loose my wife and
family. I say to you demons, GO!
Thank You, Father, for deliverance and healing, now and in the days
to come. Praise Your Holy Name. AMEN! [78]
IMMORALITY AND IDOLATRY
The Jezebel Prophetess led church members into practices of
immorality and idolatry.
The things of Satan: Twice we read of “the synagogue of Satan” (Rev.
2:9; 3; 9) at Pergamum was “The throne of Satan” (Rev. 2:13);
In the letter to Thyatira mention is made the “deep things of
Satan” (Rev. 2:24).
She teaches a different Gospel, different Jesus, a different spirit.
- Inspired witchcraft

- False signs and wonders

- False Prophecies

- Desires control of people’s lives

- Ambitious for power

- Usurps authority

- Serves other gods

- Seducing Spirits (I Tim. 4:1, 2); (II Tim. 3:1-9).

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils: Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a
hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats,
which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which
believe and know the truth," (I Tim. 4:13).
SEDUCING SPIRITS
- Seducing Spirits:

- Bewitches from truth

“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not

obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,
crucified among you,” (Gal. 3:1).
- Moves people to another gospel, (Gal. 1: 6)

- Preaches error, (Gal. 1:8-12)

- Hypocritical lies (I Tim. 4:1)

- Turns you to the works of the flesh with deception,

(Gal.5:19- 21).

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revelings, and such like; of the which I tell you before, as I
have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God,” (Gal. 5:19).
FALSE SIGNS AND WONDERS
Attractions Fascination by false prophets, false, signs and wonders, etc.,
(Mk. 13:22):
- Seared Conscience, (I Tim. 4:1).

- Deceived, (I Jn. 2:18-26); (II Tim. 3:13).

- Wander from truth, (I Jn. 2:18, 26); (II Tim. 3:13).

- Fascination to evil ways, objects, or persons, (Prov. 12:25)

- Seduced, enticed, (I Tim. 4:1); (II Tim. 3:13)

- Brings strong delusions

MEANS OF SEDUCTION
- Divination

- Psychology

- New Age

Means of operation

- Spirit of the Antichrist

- Personal ambition
 Chapter Thirteen
Serving Pagan Gods
PUBLIC FESTIVALS
(Acts 19:35), Images claiming so loftily an origin were to be found in
cities other than Ephesus. Once in the year there was a public festival
in honor of the goddess at Ephesus, to which all the Ionians who could
do so came with their wives and children, bringing costly offerings
to Artemis and rich presents for the priests. Great gain came to the
silversmiths in making and selling small images of the goddess (Acts
19:23-40).
Ashe'rah (a-she'ra). Plural, Asherim, a pagan goddess who is found in
the Ras Shamra epic religious texts discovered at Ugarit in N Syria
(1929-37) as Asherat, "Lady of the Sea," and consort of El. She was the
chief goddess of Tyre in the fifteenth century B.C. with the appellation
Qudshu, "holiness." In the Old Testament Asherah appears as a
goddess by the side of Baal, whose consort she evidently came to be,
at least among the Canaanites of the south. However, most biblical
references to the name point clearly to some cult object of wood, which
might be worshiped or cut down and burned and which was certainly
the goddess' image (I Kin. 15:13); (II Kin. 21:7).[79]
Her prophets are mentioned (I Kin. 18:19) and the vessels used in her
service are referred to (II Kin. 23:4). Her cult object, whatever it was,
was utterly detestable to faithful worshipers of Yahweh
SERPENT FERTITILTY
Characteristically Canaanite, the lily symbolizes grace and sex appeal
and the serpent fertility. 14 At Byblos (Biblical Gebal) on the
Mediterranean, of Sidon, a center dedicated to this goddess (Qudshu)
has been excavated. She and her colleagues specialized in sex and war,
and her shrines were temples of legalized vice. Her degraded cult
offered a perpetual danger of pollution to Israel and must have sunk
to sordid depths as lust and murder were glamorized in Canaanite
religion.
On a fragment of the Baal Epic, Anath (‘Anat) appears in an incredibly
bloody orgy of destruction. For some unknown reason she fiendishly
butchers mankind, young as well as old, in a most horrible and
wholesale fashion, wading ecstatically in human gore up to her knees-
even up to her throat-all the while exulting sadistically.
In Canaan there was a tendency to employ the plural forms of deities
Ashtoreth (Ashtoroth), Asherah (Asherim), and Anath (Anathoth) to
summarize all the various manifestations of this deity. In like fashion
the Canaanite plural Elohim ("gods") was adopted by the Hebrews to
express the excellences and attributes of the one true God. See also
Ashtoreth.
Ash'ima (ash'ima). The god of Hamath, introduced by the colonists
settled in Samaria by Shalmaneser (II Kin. 17:30).
Ash'toreth (ash'to-reth). Astarte, a Canaanite goddess. In S Arabia the
name is found as 'Athtar (apparently from `Athara, "to be fertile, to
irrigate"), a god identified with the planet Venus. The name is cognate
with Babylonian Ishtar, the goddess of sensual love, maternity, and
fertility. Licentious worship was conducted in honor of her. As
Asherah and Anat of Ras Shamra, she was the patroness of war as well
as sex and is sometimes identified with these goddesses. The Amarna
Letters present Ashtoreth as Ashtartu. In the Ras Shamra Tablets are
found both the masculine form 'Athtar and the feminine 'Athtart.
Ashtoreth worship was entrenched early at Sidon (I Kin. 11:5- 33); (II
Ki. 23:13).
Her cult even presented a danger of pollution to early Israel (Judg.
2:13; 10:6); Solomon succumbed to her voluptuous worship (II Kin.
11:5); (II Ki. 23:13). The peculiar vocalization Ashtoreth, instead of
the more primitive Ashtaroth, is evidently a deliberate alteration by
the Hebrews to express their abhorrence for her cult by giving her the
vowels of their word for "shame" (boshet). See also ANAT; Ashera;
DIANA.
Astaroth. See Asherah; Ashtoreth.
Astar'te. The Greek name for Ashtoreth.
Atar'gatis (a-tar'ga-tis; from Greek, atargatis from the Aram. `Atar or
`Attar (Astarte) plus `Atah. Probably the same form of the Phrygian
Atis, a god of vegetation). A Syrian divinity, the great goddess of
fertility among the Aramaeans. The worship of this goddess is not
alluded to in the OT, but 2 Macc. 12:26 mentions her temple at Carnion
in Gilead. She was also worshiped at Ashkelon, and the concomitants
of her cult were those of the mother goddess of the Semite.
Ba'al (ba'al). The common Canaanite word for "master lord." Baal was
one of the chief male deities of the Canaanite pantheon, now well-
known from the religious epic literature discovered at Ras Shamra
(ancient Ugarit of the Amarna Letters) from 1929 to 1937). [80]
Baal was the son of El, the father of the gods and the head of the
Canaanite pantheon, according to the tablets from Ugarit. He is also
designated as "the son of Dagon" (Heb. dagan, "grain"), an ancient
Canaanite and Mesopotamian deity associated with agriculture. Baal
was thus the farm god who gave increase to family and field, flocks and
herds. He was likewise identified with the storm god Hadad, whose
voice could be heard in the reverberating thunder that accompanied
rain, so necessary for the success of the crops.
In time an elaborate system of beliefs in such natural forces was
developed into mythology. Each civilization and culture had its own
mythological structure, but these structures were often quite similar.
The names of the gods may have been different, but their functions and
actions were often the same. The most prominent myth to cross cultural
lines was that of the fertility cycle. Many pagan cultures believed that
the god of fertility died each year during the winter but was reborn
each year in the spring. The details differed among cultures, but the
main idea was the same.
The prominent gods in Mesopotamia were those over heaven, air, and
earth, personified by Anu, Enlil, and Enki (Ea). Another group was
made up of those that controlled the heavenly bodies: the sun, the
moon, and the planet Venus (the "morning star"). In fact, Ur, the city
from which Abraham came, was the center for worship of the moon
god Sin. As Mesopotamian religion developed, each god had his own
star, and the worship of the stars became popular with the development
of ASTROLOGY. Many of the astrological texts and charts of the
ancient Babylonians read like modern horoscopes.
The worship of the sun, moon, and stars eventually spread across the
entire ancient world. The Egyptians, Canaanites, and Phoenicians all
incorporated features of this form of worship. Place names in pre-
Israelite Canaan reflect the practice. Beth Shemesh (Josh. 15:10)
means house of the sun [god]. Jericho (Num. 22:1) probably means
moon city. Joshua's miracle of the sun and the moon standing still takes
on greater significance in light of this fact. It was a demonstration of
the sovereign power of the Lord God of Israel over the pagan gods
identified as the sun and the moon, worshiped in pagan cities (Josh.
10:12-13).
Another god of ancient Mesopotamia was Adad, who represented the
storm, either the beneficial rains for the crops or the destructive storms
with hurricanes. Identical with Adad, or Hadad, was Rimmon or
Ramman, the Assyrian god of rain and storm, thunder and lightning.
The two names, Hadad and Rimmon, were combined in one name,
Hadad Rimmon, in one Old Testament reference (Zech. 12:11). In the
Old Testament Rimmon was an Aramean (Syrian) god who had a
temple at Damascus. Naaman and his royal master worshiped this
pagan god (II Kin. 5:18).
The worship of the sun, moon, and stars eventually spread across the
entire ancient world. The Egyptians, Canaanites, and Phoenicians all
incorporated features of this form of worship. Place names in pre-
Israelite Canaan reflect the practice. Beth Shemesh (Josh. 15:10)
means house of the sun [god]. Jericho (Num. 22:1) probably means
moon city. Joshua's miracle of the sun and the moon standing still takes
on greater significance in light of this fact. It was a demonstration of
the sovereign power of the Lord God of Israel over the pagan gods
identified as the sun and the moon, worshiped in pagan cities (Josh
10:12-13).
Another god of ancient Mesopotamia was Adad, who represented the
storm, either the beneficial rains for the crops or the destructive storms
with hurricanes. Identical with Adad, or Hadad, was Rimmon or
Ramman, the Assyrian god of rain and storm, thunder and lightning.
The two names, Hadad and Rimmon, were combined in one name,
Hadad Rimmon, in one Old Testament reference (Zech. 12:11). In the
Old Testament Rimmon was an Aramean (Syrian) god who had a
temple at Damascus. Naaman and his royal master worshiped this
pagan god (II Kin. 5:18).
The ancient Babylonian and Assyrian goddess Ishtar symbolized
Mother Earth in the natural cycles of fertility on earth. Many myths
grew up around this female deity. She was the goddess of love, so
the practice of ritual prostitution became widespread in the fertility
cult dedicated to her name. Temples to Ishtar had many priestesses, or
sacred prostitutes, who symbolically acted out the fertility rites of the
cycle of nature. Ishtar has been identified with the Phoenician Astarte,
the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna. Strong similarities
also exist between Ishtar and the Egyptian Isis, the Greek Aphrodite,
and the Roman Venus.
Associated with Ishtar was the young god Tammuz, considered both
divine and mortal (Ezek. 8:14). In Babylonian mythology Tammuz
died annually and was reborn year after year, representing the yearly
cycle of the seasons and the crops. This pagan belief later was
identified with the pagan gods Baal and Anat in Canaan.[81]
Another kind of god in both Babylonia and Assyria was a national god
connected with politics. In Assyria it was Ashur, and in Babylonia it
was Marduk, who became prominent at the time of HAMMURABI
(about 1800 B.C)... The ancient ideas about the ordering and governing
of the universe were taken over by these two gods. Marduk, for
example, achieved his prominence by victory over Tiamat, goddess
of the sea. This cosmic conflict, described also in ancient Sumerian,
Indian and Canaanite myths, was believed to have established order.
Marduk established order by destroying the goddess Tiamat.
In contrast, the Bible makes it clear that the forces of nature are not
pagan gods that war with one another annually to bring about an
established order of the universe. They are part of the Lord's creation
(Gen 1).
Nebo (I Sam. 46:1) was the Babylonian god of education, literature,
writing, wisdom, the arts, and sciences. The special seat of his worship
was at Borsippa, near Babylon. The Akkadian form of this name is
Nabu.
Nisroch (II Ki. 19:37; Isa .37:38) was an Assyrian god with a temple
in Nineveh. The idol representing this pagan god had a human form
with an eagle's head.
Sikkuth (Amos 5:26; Sakkuth, RSV) was a name given by the
Babylonians to the planet Saturn.
Succoth Benoth (II Kin. 17:30) was a Babylonian goddess, identified
by some scholars with Zarpanitum, the mistress of Marduk. Other
scholars believe this god is a designation of Marduk himself as Sakkut
Binuti, the supreme judge of the world.
When SHALMANESER, king of Assyria, deported the inhabitants of
Samaria to far-flung regions of his empire, he also imported into
Samaria settlers from afar to colonize this area of Palestine. These
people brought their religion and their pagan gods with them.
Among these gods were: Adrammelech (II Kin. 17:31), an idol of the
Sepharvites worshiped by child sacrifice; Anammelech (II Kin. 17:31),
 another god revered by the Sepharvites; Ashima (II Kin. 17:30), an idol
worshiped by the people of Hamath; Nergal (II Kin. 17:30), the war
god of the men of Cuth; Nibhaz (II Kin. 17:31), an idol of the Avites;
and Tartak (II Kin. 17:31), an idol also worshiped by the Avites.[82]
COSMIC DEITIES
The Egyptians portrayed many of their gods with animal images. But
they also had their cosmic deities. The Egyptians envisioned the earth
as in the shape of a dish with their fertile region (Egypt) in the center.
The Nile River flowed from under the earth, bringing fertility to the
land. These elements of nature were personified as gods. Geb, earth,
was portrayed as a god lying down. Nut, heaven, was a goddess who
arched her body across from mountain to mountain. Shu, the air, stood
erect, holding up the sky.
The Egyptians also worshiped the sun, moon, and stars. Ra (also Re),
the sun god, was the supreme deity of the ancient Egyptians. He was
represented as a man with the head of a hawk or a falcon, crowned
with a solar disk and the figure of the sacred asp or cobra. Ra appears
in the Old Testament in the name of Joseph's father-in-law, PotiPherah
(Gen 41:45, 50; 46:20), priest of On, and a city called Heliopolis ("city
of the sun") by the Greeks-the principal seat of the worship of the sun.
When Ra is absent, Thoth, the moon, is prominent. But the moon is
definitely inferior to the sun.
The Egyptians had many other pagan gods. Notable among them was
Maat, representing the abstract idea of truth, and Bes, a grotesque god
who watched over childbirth. The worship of all the gods also involved
magic and superstition. The purpose of these gods apparently was to
explain the cycle and forces of life and to insure stability and fertility.
[83]
LORD OF THE FLY
Baal-Zebub, which means "lord of the fly," was "the god of Ekron" (II
Kin. 1:2-3, 6, 16)-the name under which Baal was worshiped at the
Philistine city of Ekron. This god was worshiped as the producer of
flies, and consequently as the god that was able to defend against this
pest. In the New Testament, reference is made to Beelzebub, a heathen
god considered the chief evil spirit by the Jewish people (Matt. 10:25;
12:27); (Lk. 11:18-19). The Pharisees called him "the ruler of the
demons" (Matt. 12:24); (Mk. 3:22); (Lk. 11:15), and Jesus identified
him with Satan.
This word Baal was also used in personal names, but when the worship
of Baal became a problem in Israel, Baal was replaced by Bosheth,
which means "shame" (probably because it was shameful to have the
name of a pagan god as part of one's name and because Baal was a
shameful god). For instance, Merib-Baal (I Chron. 8:34; 9:40), the
name of the son of Jonathan, became Mephibosheth (II Sam. 9:6-13),
and Esh-Baal (I Chron. 9:39) became Ishbosheth (II Sam. 2:8).
The Canaanite god Baal was known as Zebel Baal ("Prince Baal") or
Aliyan Baal ("Baal the strong"), as well as by a number of other titles.
Baal was considered the god who brought rain and fertility (especially
 good harvests and animal reproduction). In a number of passages in
Canaanite literature he is identified as Hadad, another god believed to
bring the rains, storms, and fertility. This god Hadad is the god Adad
of Assyria.[84]
Archaeologists have discovered rock carvings that show Baal holding
a club in his right hand and a lightning flash with a spearhead in his
left. These symbols identify him as the god of rain and storm. Baal is
also known as the "rider of the clouds," a term showing his power over
the heavens. (Psa. 68:4,)"Extol Him who rides on the clouds," gives
this title to the God of Israel- a declaration that the Lord, and not the
false god Baal, is ruler over the heavens.[85]
Baal and related deities are also portrayed as a mating bull,
symbolizing fertility. It is no surprise that while Moses was on Mount
Sinai, receiving the Ten Commandments from the Lord, the
disobedient Israelites fashioned a golden calf to worship (Exod. 32).
Jeroboam I, king of Israel, acted in accordance with this pagan idea
by making two calves of gold, setting up one at Bethel and the other
at Dan, (I Kin. 12:26-30).
During the history of the Israelites, a rivalry developed between
Baalism and the true worship of the Lord (Jer. 23:27). Perhaps the
best example of this rivalry was the conflict between Elijah and the
prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel (I Kin. 18). Elijah's challenge to
them to bring down fire from heaven was appropriate, because the
Canaanites believed that Baal could shoot lightning flashes from the
sky. Elijah's mocking of Baal struck at the heart of their claims; he
knew that Baal was powerless, that the prophets of Baal had misled
the people, and that only the Lord God of Israel was alive and able
to answer. In the struggle to the death between true religion and false
religion, Elijah knew that Baalism and its prophets had to be destroyed.
In Canaanite mythological texts Baal is sometimes called the son of
Dagon. Dagon (Judg. 16:23); (I Sam. 5:2-7); (I Chron. 10:10), was the
chief god of the ancient Philistines, a grain and fertility god whose
most famous temples were at Gaza and Ashdod. With the recent
discovery of documents at ancient EBLA in Syria, it is clear that
Dagon, or Dagan, was a much more ancient and prominent god. These
texts show that Dagon was being worshiped before Abraham entered
Canaan about 2000 B.C. Dagon continued to be worshiped by the
Canaanites up to the time of Christ. In the APOCRYPHA mention is
made of a temple of Dagon at Azotus in 147 B.C. (I Macc. 10:83-84).
Azotus was a later name for Ashdod, one of the five chief Philistine
cities.
Like the myths of so many pagan religions, Canaanite stories claim
that Baal came to prominence by defeating other gods. One of Baal's
enemies was the sea monster known as Lotan.[86]
LEVIATHAN
The Old Testament's reference to Leviathan (Job 3:8; 41:1);) Psa.
104:26); (I Sam. 27:1) corresponds to this word. But in the Bible
Leviathan is simply a powerful creature in the sea that man cannot
control, and not like Lotan-a pagan god in the form of a twisting
serpent.
In both the Old Testament and the New Testament the people of God
were surrounded by pagan gods.
The apostle Paul declared to the philosophers of Athens, "I perceive
that in all things you are very religious," (Acts 17:22). In the city of
Athens, idols of pagan gods stood on every street corner. The
Athenians, perhaps fearing that they had slighted some deity, had even
erected an altar "to the unknown god," (Acts 17:23).
"The One whom you worship without knowing," said Paul, "Him I
proclaim to you: God, who made the world and everything in it, since
He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with
handS," (Acts 17:23-24). [87]
Only the sovereign Lord God has the power to rule the world; only the
Lord Jesus Christ has the power to rise from the dead as the conqueror,
establishing once and for all our everlasting life with Him. [88]
There are spiritual beings behind these gods. The idols are made of
stones, wood but the devils behind them inhabit them to draw worship
from humans. How God hates idolatry—stupid people worshiping
things that they make with their own hands!
 Chapter Fourteen
Salvation is a Free Gift from God
HOW TO BE BORN AGAIN
“Ye must be born again." (Jn. 3:7).
Unless you are born again, you have no hope of enjoying the glories
of heaven or escaping the terrors of Hell. "Except a man be born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God," (Jn. 3:3).
Salvation is a free gift of God granted to lost and undeserving men who
trust in the righteousness of Christ and humble themselves in submission
to his will.
Accept God's Word that He loves you and wants to give you an
abundant life.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life,"
(Jn. 3:16).
"I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more
abundantly," (Jn. 10:10).
REGENERATION
Regeneration is a subject which lies at the very basis of salvation, and
we should be very diligent to take heed that we really are "born again," for
there are many who fancy they are, who are not. Be assured that the name
of a Christian is not the nature of a Christian. Also that being born in a
Christian land, and being recognized as professing the Christian religion is
of no avail whatever, unless there is something more added to it--the being
"born again," is a matter so mysterious, that human words cannot describe
it.
“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that
is born of the Spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can
these things be? 10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of
Israel, and knowest not these things? 11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, we
speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our
witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall
ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 13 And no man hath ascended
up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man
which is in heaven.14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into
the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be
saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth
not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the
only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is
come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their
deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither
cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth
truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they
are wrought in God,” (Jn. 3:8-21)
HOW TO BE SAVED
The most important questions of life concerns your well-being or your
sorrow throughout eternity depends upon your answer to the questions: Are
you saved? Are you sure you will go to heaven when you die? This matter
has nothing to do with how good you are, but are you saved?
No one can enjoy the blessings of God or go to Heaven without being
saved. Jesus said, to Nicodemus in (Jn. 3:7). Ye must be born again.” God
gives us in His Word the only plan for Salvation! You can be saved today.
First, you must realize that you are a sinner. “There is none righteous
no not one: for there is no difference. For all have sinned and come short
of the glory of God…” (Rom. 3:10:22, 23).
There is no chance to be saved unless you come to realize that you are
a sinner. Pray for God is eager to save you.
“Sin bringeth forth death,” (Jam. 1:15). This is spiritual death,
separation from God forever and spending your eternal life in Hell. How
terrible! Yes, my friend, but it is true. However, God loved you so much
that he gave his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, as your substitute, who
bore your sins and died in your place. “He hath made Him (Jesus) to be
sin for us who knew sin that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him,” (II Cor. 5:21).
Jesus said, “For whosoever, that includes you, shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved (shall be, not might or can but shall be
saved,” (Rom. 10:12).
Jesus Christ died for you! “Who His own self bore our sins in His own
body on the tree that we being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness
by whose stripes ye were healed,” (1 Pet. 2:24).
SALVATION
The Philippian jailer asked the Apostle Paul and Silas, “What must I
do to be saved and they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved and thy house,” (Acts 16:31).
You simply believe on Him as the One who bore your sin, died in your
place, was buried and was raised for your justification.
What is salvation? It is the act, plan, or result of deliverance or
protection from danger, bondage, or sin.
Man is seen as universally in need of salvation which he is unable
of himself to bring about. His lost condition may be variously described
as corruption, disease, death, fall short of the glory of God, bondage to
sin and its consequences, alienation from one’s fellow men and from God,
rebellion against God, guilt, anxiety, etc. His own unaided efforts to solve
his problems through intellectual, economic, political, social, or
psychological skills and techniques are doomed to futility.
Be sure you are saved. You need salvation above everything else in
your life. If you lose your soul you miss Heaven and lose all. “If thou shall
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that
God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved,” (Rom. 10:9).
GRACE
Do not trust your feelings. Thy change. Stand on God’s promises in
the Bible. They never change! “All that the Father giveth me shall come
to me and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out,” (Jn. 6:37).
The supreme manifestation of God’s grace, the focal point in the
history of salvation, is the cross of Jesus Christ. The significance of this
act is viewed under several figures of speech in the New Testament (see
Atonement); whether it is spoken of as a ransom paid to redeem enslaved
man, an acquittal before the divine bar of justice, or a victory over sin and
death, it is clear throughout the effective powers in salvation belongs to
God and not to man. Salvation is a free gift of God granted to lost and
undeserving men who trust in the righteousness of Christ and humble
themselves in submission to his will.
Just pray, “O Lord, I am a sinner, I am sorry, and repent for my all my
sin. Have mercy on me and save me for Jesus’ sake. I ask You to forgive
me and come into my heart and be my personal Savior. Help me Jesus to
forsake my sin life. Please Lord Jesus, increase my faith and confidence
in You.
- Now that you are saved, there are four things to practice
daily for spiritual growth.

- Pray. You talk to God in Jesus Name.

- Bible. God talks to you!

- Witness. You talk for God to your family and friends.

“Whosoever, therefore shall confess me before men, him will I

confess also before my Father which is in Heaven,” (Matt. 10:32).

You should unite yourself with a Bible believing church and be baptized.

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY OF GOD!

PRAY – READ THE BIBLE – AND FAST
"Father be merciful to me a sinner and receive me now for Jesus
Christ's sake; cleanse me from my sin by Your precious blood that was
shed on the cross for me; fill me with Your Holy Spirit. Teach me to pray
each day; to read Your will for my life from your word, the Bible; and help
me to worship and serve You in the fellowship of your church. I thank you
Lord Jesus Christ. AMEN!
ABOUT PAT HOLLIDAY
Patricia Holliday PhD was called into the ministry in 1975 and has
ministered worldwide. She received her Ph.D. at Southeastern Theology
Seminary, 1993. She is the President of Miracle Outreach Ministry in
Jacksonville, Florida. She appears on many international television and
radio shows. She hosts an international radio program, Miracle Internet
Café, blogtalkradio and a local television program, The Pat Holliday Show.
Miracle Outreach Ministries is an international ministry. Miracles,
signs and wonders, healing, and deliverance follow this ministry. Her latest
evangelistic trips include Ghana West Africa, Italy and Jamaica where
many miracles happened.
Among her many political activities, she ran for the Florida State
House of Representatives In 1972. She was elected State Committee
Woman for her part and is a lobbyist in Tallahassee.
She was a founding member and has officiated in many women’s
groups; Minute women of Florida; the Ponte Vedra Woman's Club; and the
Four Foundation Inc., a home for non-delinquent girls in Duval County.
She helped to organize two women's interdenominational fellowships. She
has ministered World-wide in foreign lands. Dr. Holliday is listed in
“Who's Who of the Woman of the World”; “Who's Who in America
Politics”; “Dictionary of International Biography”; “Marquis Who's Who
in the South and Southwest” – “Marquis Who's Who of American Women”
and “Who's Who in American Religion”; “Who’s Who in America and
Who’s Who in the World”.
Dr. Holliday is a member of the International Platform Committee as
a noted lecturer.
She founded Miracle Outreach Ministries, a street church that feeds
and clothes the poor.
She is the author of the following books; Holliday for the King; Be
Free; Born Anew; The Walking Dead; Signs Wonders & Reactions; The
Solitary Satanist ; Marriage Answers; New World Aftershock; New Age
Humanism”; and Entertaining Angels of Light; Can Women Preach?
Spiritual Warfare Armor; Spiritual Warfare Amour; Spiritual Warfare
Weapons; Battling Territorial Spirits; Transference of Spirits; Transference
of Spirits; Devils Believe and Tremble”; Experiencing Jesus; The Witch
Doctor and the Man — City under the Sea! Deliverance, Manual Vol. I
& 2; Family Deliverance Manual; Steps to Fasting; Spirit of Idolatry; Is
Halloween Pagan?; New Creation; From Curses to Blessing Vol. 1, 2 &
3; Angel Fire; New Age Messiah; Baptism of the Holy Spirit; Women
Messengers of Jesus Christ; Gods of the Stars; Healing is for Today; How
To Be Born Again; Living on the Edge of Hell. Can Witches be Saved?
and Born Anew.
Pat Holliday, PhD
Miracle Outreach Ministries
9252 San Jose Blvd., 2804
Jacksonville, FL 32257
(904) 733-8318
FOOTNOTES

[1] ] (from Adam Clarke's Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright © 1996,

2003, 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
[2] Ibid
[3] (from Adam Clarke's Commentary, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 1996, 2003, 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
[4] ibid
[5] ibid
[6] (From The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Originally published by Moody Press
of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (c) 1988.)
[7] ibid
[8] ibid
[ with the vowels from the word meaning shame.]
[9] Ibid
[10] (from Adam Clarke's Commentary, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 1996, 2003, 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
[11] ibid
[12] ibid
[13] (from Adam Clarke's Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright © 1996, 2003,
2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
[14] ibid
[15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_(demon)
[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_(demon)
[17] http://www.baptisthistory.org/womeninbaptistlife.htm
[18] Ibid
[19] in C.S. Lewis’ essay “Priestesses in the Church”
[20] http://www.amazon.com/Women-Baptist-Life-Leon-McBeth/dp/0805469257
[21] Ibid
[22] http://www.answers.com/topic/paradigm-shift
[23] Dr. Pat Holliday, http://www.miracleinternetchurch.com
[24] http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/200103/084_sonsdaughtsproph.cfm Stanley
M. Horton, Th.D., is professor emeritus, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, and former
project coordinator for the Pentecostal Textbook Project, Springfield, Missouri.
[25] Ibid
[26] LESSON 39. MUST WOMEN OBEY?
[27] ibid
[28] June 21, 2008 by Charis , Posted in GWTW Lesson39 | Tagged calling him Lord", hupakoe,
hupakouo, Sarah "obeyed Abraham |
[29] Pat Holliday, Can Women Preach? Miracleinternetchurch.com
[30] ibid
[31] Penn.Lewis, Jessie, The Magna Charta of Woman, Bethany, House
Publisher, Minn. Minnesota, 35438.

[32] ibid
[33] ibid
[34] ibid
[35] ibid
[36] ibid
[37] ibid
[38] (from Adam Clarke's Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright
© 1996, 2003, 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.
[39] Lois Gunden Clemens, Educator
http://www.mhep.org/files/PDF/inventories/manuscript/HM1-255inventory.pdf
[40] ibid
[41] Tombley, Charles, “Who Said That Women Can’t Teach?
Bridge Publishing Co, Plainsville, N. J

[42] ibid
[43] Cit. Op. Penn.Lewis, The Magna Carta of Women, cit. Katherine Bushnell, God’s
Word to Women, 1923.
[44] Schleusner, J. F. German Lexicographer, Oral Law.
[45] ibid
[46] Cit. op. Trombley
[47] Penns, Paul Bible Study Commentary, Judges, Zondervan Books, Grand Rapids,
Mich. 49506, p. 5.
[48] ibid
[49] (From The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Originally published by Moody Press of
Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (c) 1988).
[50] ibid
[51] Haley Handbook, II Chronicles 34, II Kings 33:14, pp. 227l
[52] ibid
[53] ibid
[54] Professor Sr. William Ramsay, an accepted authority on St. Paul, his epistle, and
journeys
[55] Katherine Bushnell
[56] ibid
[57] ibid
[58] ibid
[59] ibid
[60] Dr. Adam Clarke Commentators
[61] ibid
[62] 75.Aid to Bible Understanding (Brooklyn, N. Y; Watch Tower Tract and Bible
Society, 1971, p. 724.
[63] ibid
[64] ibid
[65] ibid
[66] ibid
[67] Conybeare and Howson Commentators
[68] Chrysostom
[69] Salvation Army, Its Origin and Development (London; Salvationist Publishing and
Supplies, 1951), p. 63.
[70] ibid
[71].. ibid
[72] Strachey, Ray Francis Willard, Her Life and Work, New York Re. Vol. 191 3), p. 208.
[73] Ibid,209
[74] Cit. Op. Strachey, p. 305.
 [ 1:11).37]37. Gordan, Anna A. The Life of Francis E. Williard,
Chicago: Women’s Temperance Publishing Association, 1898, .p.
406.

[75] ibid
[76] http://freeinthelordministries.com/Ahab-WhatisanAhab.htm
[77] ibid
[78] ibid
[79] L. W. King, “Babylonian Religion and Mythology” (1976)….
[80] ancient Ugarit of the Amarna Letters) from 1929 to 1937
[81] C. Gordon, The Loves and Wars of Anat. (1943).
[82] E. O. James, Concept of Deity (1951); J. Finnegan, Archaeology of World Religions
(1952); A. Capered, Baal in the Ras Shamra Texts (1952); B. Branston, Gods of the North
(1955);
[83] T. H. Gaster, Thespis (1961); S. N. Kramer, Mythologies of the
Ancient World (1961)….
[84] id., Sumerian Mythology (1961); E. G. Parrinder, Worship in the
World's Religions (1961).
[85] S. Kapelrud, The Violent Goddess: Anat in the Ras Shamra Texts
(1969); S. N. Kramer, The Sacred
[86] (1966); W. F. Albright, Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan (1966); S. Piggott, The Druids
(1968); A.
[87] Butterfield, “The Tree at the Navel of the Earth” (1970); L. Campbell, Religion in Greek
Literature
[88] L. Spence,” Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria” (1975); T. Jacobsen, The
Treasures of Darkness (1976);
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