The Doctrine of Jezebel — David Wilkerson

The Doctrine of Jezebel in Revelation

The Doctrine of Jezebel. Go to Revelation the second chapter and let's start reading before I pray. Revelation second chapter 18. Revelation 2. And the angel of the church in Thyatira write, these things these things saith the Lord the Son of God who hath eyes like unto a flame of fire and his feet are like fine brass.

I know thy works and charity and service and faith and thy patience and thy works and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding means nevertheless I have a few things against you 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 to idols.

I gave her space to repent of her fornication she repented not. Behold I will cast her into a bed and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation except they repent 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 the hearts and I will give 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. Verse 24. But unto you I say and unto the rest in Thyatira as many as have not this doctrine which have not known the depths of Satan as they speak I will put upon you no other burden but that which I have already hold fast till I come.

He that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end to him will I give power over the nations. He shall rule them with a rod of iron as the vessels of a potter shall be broken to shivers even as I received of my father.

And I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Heavenly Father we want to hear what the Spirit is saying to us tonight. I bind every demon spirit, every lying spirit, every prince upon in power of darkness that would hinder the Word of God from being heard.

Lord minister your life tonight. Come forth with unction and anointing of the Holy Spirit. Lord complete the work tonight. Finish the work in our hearts that you've begun. Let your word find a place. Oh God deal with this in your love.

Deal with this in your power and your authority. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Now I have read to you from the book of Revelation and this book is not the revelation of John. If you go back and look at it's called the revelation of Jesus Christ to John.

It's the revelation of Jesus Christ. It's a revelation of his heart. It's a revelation of his love for the church. It's a revelation of his wrath against sin. It's a revelation of what he is going to bring and there's a wonderful promise if you turn to verse chapter 1 look at verse 3.

A marvelous promise to those who preach it, those who read it, those who hear it. Revelation 1 3. Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand.

Now if we believe that we can understand and anticipate by the Holy Ghost a special blessing on the word tonight because we're dealing with it as God has revealed it. Now I could subtitle this message tonight the terrible danger of being seduced by a false doctrine.

Christ’s Warning Against False Doctrine

The terrible danger of being seduced by a false doctrine. Now the words I give you tonight, the words I've read to you came directly from the lips of Jesus. Now if you have a red letter Bible you see them in red letters.

Isn't that true? They're right from the very words of Jesus Christ himself and look at verse 20. Listen to what Jesus is saying. I have a few things against you because you suffer and or you permit that woman Jezebel which calls herself a prophetess to teach and seduce my servants to commit fornication and eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Now look this way please. The Greek word for Jezebel here is a synonym which means false doctrine. That's what Jesus is. In fact Jezebel the Old Testament epitomizes. She became a synonym in the New Testament for all false doctrine.

When you see Jezebel in the New Testament we're talking about false heathenish doctrines that are creeping into the church of Jesus Christ. Now in fact I read that to you in verse 24. Look at that. As many as have not this doctrine.

He's talking about Jezebel as being a false doctrine. Now here's a group of people. These are people that are children of God and the scripture says they're full of charity and good works and they're patient but you see the eyes of Jesus suddenly appearing.

Eyes like a flame of fire and his feet are like fine brass. He's walked out of a fire and his feet are brilliant brass. His eyes are ablaze. Now why are the eyes of Jesus ablaze? Now remember John is the one who wrote this.

He was the one who laid his head upon the bosom of Jesus and he was that beloved one. But now John in his vision here doesn't even recognize this man. He falls as a dead man before him. His eyes are blazing.

The very one he laid his head on, his bosom upon. Now he sees him coming to the church and his eyes are on fire. There's something terribly wrong in this church. Now listen, I'm not going to get into all the doctrine of whether these seven churches of Asia represent seven dispensations.

I'm not going to get into that because I find all these seven types live in the church today. There are Ephesians here, there are Laodiceans, we have it all today. I can't tie it down. I'm not that nail in my theology.

And I believe with all of my heart he's speaking to the church of Jesus Christ today. Jesus is not just talking to about a little group in Thyatira in Asia. He's talking about what he sees down through the church ages until his very coming.

He said there's going to be something creep into the church and it was there at the time and this is a message. He said there's something happening and I'm going to set judgment upon this church and I'm going to make an example to all the churches.

You read it right there so that all the churches will understand. Now what's happened, there's certain members of this church that are actually, in spite of their good works, in spite of their charity, in spite of their patience, are selling out to the devil.

They're absolutely being sold out to the devil. They are under the seduction of a false doctrine. They're under the spell of a false teaching. A teaching that came to them disguised as the Holy Word of God but in fact is of Satan himself.

And this is very alarming to me and that's why God's put this on my heart. There's a seduction of the servants of God here. In fact, God himself or Christ himself is saying, my servants, seducing my servants.

This is first and foremost a seduction, first of the ministry, of pastors, teachers, and evangelists. And friends, I believe we've come to that very day in the church right now. When God or Christ is coming with his eyes ablaze, he sees what he saw in the church at Thyatira.

This Thyatira condition is in the church right now. A church doing good works. A church speaking much about faith. A church willing to give itself in charitable works. But he said, I've got something against you.

You're permitting something in your midst. You're not dealing with the seduction that's crept in. You're letting it go on. And I'm telling you, I can't do that tonight as a servant of God, having seen what I've seen in the Spirit.

I cannot stand by on the judgment day and have Jesus say, you suffered Jezebel in your church. You suffered to say nothing. You wouldn't say anything about the seduction in my house. I can't do that. Neither can Don or Brother Bob or Gary or any of our ministry staff.

These seduced teachers, the Bible said, were producing children of seduction, children of fornication. He said, I'm going to cast you and your children into a bed. And this is exactly what's happened.

The teaching of spiritual fornication has become the main attraction of the church in many sections. Now, I'm not painting this brush. I'm not painting everybody with this brush. I'm talking about what I see arising in the church.

And I want to say in no uncertain terms tonight, it's dangerous, critically dangerous to sit under false teaching. False doctrine condemn you is probably quicker than any other sin on the face of the earth.

And I believe that false doctrine by false teachers are sending more people to hell than all the drug pushers and all the booze sellers and all the atheists on the face of this earth. Did you hear what I say?

You said that's an overstatement. Not according to what I see. I'm going to say it again. False teachers and false preachers and false doctrine are sending more people to hell than all the drug pushers and all the pimps and prostitutes on the face of the earth.

Multitudes of blind Christians are going to churches and singing and shouting and praising the Lord in churches that are enslaved by false doctrine and they don't even know it. Thousands are sitting under this and they're having this gospel poured into them.

In fact, they're so blind they're going out saying, isn't it wonderful? Isn't it glorious? And they're blind that they're sitting under a false, completely false doctrine. Now, Christ doesn't take this matter lightly or otherwise his eyes wouldn't be on fire.

And he comes to warn and to expose to save his people from seduction. And you and I better get serious about it. And I'm telling you now, it is serious about where you go to church. I'm not giving a commercial for Times Square Church.

Not at all. First of all, when I'm finished, many of you may not want to come back after tonight. And I'm not being facetious. And I'll tell you why. In fact, my message will show you why you won't want to come back.

But you know, it's serious where you go to church. It's serious the kind of message that you sit under. It's serious the kind of teaching that has your heart. And selling out to Satan conjures up all kinds of thoughts about burned-out drug addicts and emaciated AIDS patients and those atheists are screaming out against God.

We say those people are sold out. No, the selling out to the devil is happening in seminars, teaching seminars. It's happening in churches where this false gospel is being preached. There are more people selling out to the devil in church than out there.

The Mark of a Mature Christian

It's happening in teaching conventions as thousands are saying, isn't it wonderful not even knowing that they're being seduced. Now the mark of a seduced Christian is that he's always carried about. He's seeking some new, different, strange kind of teaching.

He's always looking for that which tickles the ear. The Bible warns, be not carried about with different and strange doctrines. Hebrews 13 .9. Now that means in Greek, don't be driven thither and yawn.

Don't be carried place to place, from place to place. Now this means, listen very closely, now I'm not speaking of those rare times when you as a rooted, mature Christian will go with a friend to hear a man or woman of God that you know is walking in holiness.

You know that when you go there, you're going to hear the truth. There's no doubt about it. You go and you're blessed and you come back encouraged. I'm not talking about those rare times. I'm talking about the Christian getabouts, the spiritual tumbleweeds who are carried around by all the winds and waves of doctrine in the land today.

They don't land anywhere and anywhere. They're always tumbling, they're moving with every wind and wave of doctrine that comes along. They have no roots. Their ears are always striving to hear something new, something sensational, something entertaining, pleasing to the flesh.

They're like the Athenians that Paul preached to, who spent their whole time in nothing else, the Bible said, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. In fact, Paul warned Timothy, he said, the day is coming when they will not endure sound doctrine.

And brother, sister, there's not a mistake there when it says endure sound doctrine, that means just what it was. Stay with it until it finds its mark. Stay with it until it creates the fruit in your heart.

But some people don't want to stay and dig. They want to stay until God exposes them. They don't want that. They will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lust, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears.

They'll have heaps of teachers that go around just preaching their soothing message and scratching their itching ears. And the reason some of you are not going to come back here, we don't scratch ears.

We refuse to scratch any itching ear. Mark of a true mature Christian is that he is not tossed to and fro by every wind and wave of doctrine, but he has roots. He's already got his feet under the table.

He's already been led into green pasture. He or she is not fooled by all of the false doctrines that come along. In fact, if you're walking in the Holy Spirit and you've dealt with a sin in your life, the first thing God gives you back is you deserve it.

And when you walk in that purity before the Lord, you can smell it a mile away. You can sense it and you can just sit there. Within five minutes, you can turn to your husband or wife or your friend and say, something's wrong.

There's a sound that's not right. The Holy Ghost will bear it to your heart. You'll know it. You don't have to have somebody else tell you. You don't have to study books to tell you whether it's right or not.

The Holy Ghost is there and he tells you, this is wrong. It's not ring true. Have you had that experience? I was in a meeting in Texas one time a number of years ago and everybody was flocking to hear this man.

I sat in the balcony. Hundreds and hundreds were there and it looked all right, but he hadn't been speaking three minutes. I grabbed my stomach and I grabbed Gwen and she's here. She felt the same thing.

I said, honey, I'm sick. Hold me. I'm about to get up and rebuke this man. This man is full of the devil himself. This man is satanic. And all of those are somebody God. People sitting there clapping and carried up in that.

That man was telling one big lie after another. Nothing but lies. Terrible lies. Horrible lies. And I had to hold on and I got up and I was going out and I was pale and my wife was sick and everybody was raving and one of my friends came up to me and said, hello Wilkerson, what do you think?

I said, just let me out of here. Just let me out of here. I wanted to vomit. I wanted to vomit. It was so terrible. And I went on weeping that there were so many blind Christians. Blind. The mark of a mature believer is found in Ephesians.

Ephesians four. Please follow me tonight. Let's go into the word of God. Ephesians the fourth chapter. You told me you love the word, didn't you? Let's get into it. Ephesians four, verse 14. I'm going to show you the mark, show you the mark of a mature Christian who is not tossed to and fro.

Verse 14. Well let's start at verse 13. Till we all come in the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That we henceforth or from now on be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive.

But speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even to Christ. Look at me now, please. Do you see that? Do you see that? The mature are not tossed to and fro. When you hear, hey, you ought to go hear this man.

You ought to hear this woman. Ask a few questions. Are people repenting? Are people falling before God and are sins being exposed? Ask a few questions before you go. Now there are only two doctrines according to the word of God.

There's the doctrine of Jesus Christ and there's the doctrine of Jezebel. We're going to talk about both of them tonight. I want you to turn to Titus. Just keep going right. For you from Teen Challenge over here, fellas, if you find Hebrews, go back one chapter there.

Some of these boys have just been saved. I'm not being facetious. I want to help them. It's after Timothy and just before Hebrews, the book of Titus. Look at Titus. Look at verse 10 with me. Chapter 2, Titus 2, verse 10.

Not purloining with stealing, not stealing but showing all good fidelity that they may adorn, what? The doctrine of God our Savior in all things. There you have the doctrine of Jesus Christ laid before us.

The Doctrine of Christ Produces Holiness

First of all, this is a doctrine. If you want to judge doctrines now, if you want to know whether, and the whole purpose of this message is to find out whether you, now you may be a visitor here tonight, and I think if you've been coming to Titus Square Church, you have every right to judge us by the Word of God.

You have, you must judge us by the Word of God. I want to find out tonight, and I want you to listen closely and let the Holy Spirit speak clearly to your heart. Let's find out whether or not you're sitting under a false teacher.

Let's find out if you're sitting under a false gospel. There's no doubt about it. You don't have to be in the dark about it. Nothing can be clear in all the Word of God. First of all, the true doctrine of Jesus Christ is a doctrine that teaches the denial of all ungodliness and worldly lust in this life.

Not just in eternity, but here and now. I want you to go to, let's just go on. Verse 11. Titus 2 .11. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. And what does the doctrine of Lord Jesus Christ teach us?

Teaching us that, what? Denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from what?

All iniquity and do what? Purify himself of peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak. What does the doctrine of Jesus speak? What do true prophets of God speak? These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority.

Let no man despise thee. Is that in your Bible? Now let me ask you a question. Look at me, please. The church you go to, and I'm not running down your church, I'm not going to name it, I don't even know what church you go to.

I'm speaking Bible principles. When you go there, do you just leave feeling good? You feel happy? Has your pastor stood in all spiritual authority? And has he asked the Holy Spirit to come in and probe you to the very depths?

Has he stood there with a broken heart and said to himself, and you can hear it in his words, I'll not let you go out that door carrying your sins with you. You may get angry at me, you may leave me, but I will say to you in tears that God has called us to preach a word that brings forth a godly response.

He's here to purify himself of holy people. And the message of the grace of God is that the grace of God has been sent to teach us how to deny ungodliness and worldly lust, to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.

And I want to tell you, if you're going to church, and you can hide your sins, and you can walk out and go right to your idols without feeling uncomfortable about it, you better watch out. You better watch out, because it's going to get easier and easier to hide more sins than that.

You're going to allow it to add idol upon idol until finally you'll not feel the conviction. You'll know to hear a word that will bring the conviction. The scripture says, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

That's the teaching. And we're to rebuke with all authority. God has given me the right, as one who wants to walk before him in purity, to stand here tonight with all spiritual authority, not to lord it over you, not to beat you to the ground, but to come with a broken heart and say that God is going to have a New York City of holy people.

If he has to go out, bypass every church, and go out and get drug addicts and alcoholics off the street, God's going to raise up a holy people in this city. You say, are you mad, David? No, I'm not. Other than at the devil?

I have people call us and write to our office, and we had it this past week, and people write to us and say, and they're broken hearted, they say, Brother Dave, our pastor, and this is in Pentecostal churches, our pastor gets up and he keeps saying, I'm not here to preach against sin, I'm here to lift up Jesus.

I'll still lift up Jesus, but getting the sin out, so I can lift holy hands to him. Recently, I got a letter, a pitiful letter from a lady who attends a church and she's so burdened, she loves the church, she loves her pastor, and her children are happy in the church, and she's just praying, oh God, do something in my church, and the pastor keeps saying, none of that condemnation preaching from my pulpit, I'm here to get rid of your fears.

I'm here to get rid of your condemnation and your guilt. Well, I don't want God to get rid of the condemnation and guilt until it's done its good work. Then you have a right. And only then, after the condemnation, the guilt, has shown us the terror of sin and exceeding sinfulness of sin, then the Holy Ghost comes and cleanses.

There are two extremes, you see, you have the preacher who gets up and he thunders that sadist message at people, and he's just cutting people, it's harsh, it's cold, it's legalistic, it drives you to good works only.

That's not what God wants, that's as bad as the other side, and the other side is to stand up and preach like a coward, afraid to hurt anybody in the congregation, afraid to preach the truth because of losing some money or support in the church.

I have people write to me and say, well, Brother Dave, I hear you preach against this prosperity message, but you know, my preacher preached prosperity, but he preaches against sin, he names it every once in a while.

Every once in a while I hear him say holiness, he uses those terms, holiness, yes, the terms are there, the words are right. I'm not talking about using the terms, I'm not talking about words, I'm talking about what the Holy Ghost produces in you as a result of those words.

1 Timothy, go left from Titus, 1 Timothy, 6th chapter, 1 Timothy 6th chapter, the doctrine of Jesus Christ is built around the preaching of holiness and godliness. Alright, look at verse 3 and 4. If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to what?

See, you read that too fast. Let's go back to the first word of that verse again. You were reading too fast. Slow it down. If any man, if any teacher, any pastor, any evangelist, if anyone teaches otherwise and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is what?

And he knows what? Then why are you listening to him? I'm not being facetious. This is life and death. He's proud, he knows nothing, but he's doting about questions and strife of words whereby cometh envy, strife, and railings, and evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth.

Supposing that gain is godliness? From such do what? I didn't hear you. Thyself. From any teaching, any doctrine that teaches you is godliness. In other words, if you're being blessed, you're holy. You're being blessed, you're pure.

I can show you some of the most atheistic churches in America that are rich. I can show you Christians who live in total depravity who are rich. The teaching that gain is godliness from such, turn away, withdraw yourself.

The First Mark of Jezebel: Calling Evil Good

Now, let me get to the doctrine of Jezebel because that's the heart of my message, the doctrine of Jezebel, and we're going to talk about this doctrine of demons that's sweeping into the church, and there are three distinct marks of the Jezebel doctrine.

In fact, Jezebel embodies this whole thing, this doctrine embodied in what Jesus is saying in Revelation chapter 2 to the church of Thyatira. All right, give me your very good ear now. First of all, the doctrine of Jezebel is a doctrine which teaches something evil can be good.

Something evil can be good. It teaches that something profane can be sanctified and made pure, and I'm going to base my message tonight on this doctrine where it started with Jezebel in the Old Testament, so it was 1 Kings.

We're going to find the doctrine of Jezebel. Go to 1 Kings 16th chapter. 1 Kings 16th chapter. Oh, I love the Word of God, don't you? I'll tell you what, I see it there in black and white. I believe it, and it's right there.

It jumps out of the pages. Now, we're going to go back to the Old Testament to see Jezebel in her Old Testament seduction, which embodies the New Testament seduction as well. 16th chapter, 1 Kings. We're going to go to verse 30.

We're going to introduce you to two characters, Ahab and his wife Jezebel. Verse 30, and Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him. 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.

Jezebel, in Hebrew, now remember in Greek in the New Testament she represents a synonym or another name for false doctrine. In the Hebrew, her name means chaste or pure virgin. Can you imagine? The most wicked woman on earth, an adulteress, a seductress, a murderer, has a name called purity, chastity, virgin.

It's with a question mark. In the Hebrew, it has a question mark, when, where, and how. In other words, how did she become suddenly holy? How did she become pure? Why? Why would you call this woman pure?

How could you call her pure? And that's what, that's what a question I ask right now. I ask it of all these so-called Christian rock and rollers. This is holy stuff now, they say. This is godly stuff now, they say.

I'm my question, when, where, and how? It goes to put a great big question mark there. Hab in Hebrew means one just like his father. He was like his father the devil. He, this man, was bound by every power of Satan there could possibly be released on a human being.

Now Jezebel represents false doctrine, Ahab represents the victim of false doctrine. Now keep that in mind as we go on. Jezebel, the Bible states, I want you to see this very clearly. When you embrace a sin, if you're going to hold on to something in your life, the next step is to embrace a doctrine that will justify it.

Did you hear me? God said it's not enough, Ahab, that you had this sin, you had this thing in you, this secret thing in you. It's not enough that your heart was like your father. It's not enough that you're going after some desire in your heart that you won't lay down, but you've got to marry Jezebel on top of it.

No, it's not enough, and the spiritual analogy is this, it's not enough that you won't lay down that secret sin that the Holy Ghost has talked to you about. It's not enough that materialism has gripped your heart.

It's not enough that you're bound by these things that you covet. You're going to run after a doctrine, you're going to go to bed, so to speak, with a doctrine that justifies your actions. And it came to pass as he'd been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, he took to wife Jezebel.

The tendency of Christians that hold on to their lust is to run after these. Now the last thing Ahab needed in his life was a Jezebel. What Ahab needed was a Nathan. When David sinned with Bathsheba, he didn't need a happy-go-lucky positive preacher coming along and patting him on the back and saying, you can make it!

The bony finger of Nathan said, you're the man! You've got sin in your heart and covetousness. What you need is not some positive thinker coming along telling you you can make it and go for it. You need a Holy Ghost prophet that says, stop!

The Bible says there was none like Ahab who did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel, his wife, stirred up. Here's the message. Here it is. You will find a doctrine that will stir up these longings.

Doctrine along that will magnify every sin in your heart. If it's there, you will finally move around, toss to and fro, following every wind and wave of doctrine until you sit down and say, aha! That sounds good!

Those who preach the doctrine of Christ have called to show people the difference between the evil and the good. You don't have to turn there, but Ezekiel 44, 23 says, and they, speaking of the Holy Prophets of God, and they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the profane and will cause them to discern between the clean and the unclean.

Wouldn't you say that's the job of a true shepherd? To show the people in the congregation, first have the Holy Ghost show it to him and then show it to the congregation, the difference between what is clean and what is unclean.

That's why we have a whole generation of kids today that don't know the difference. They can go out and park in an automobile and have sex anytime they want as teenagers, and we have preachers who stand in the pulpit even now or counsel them privately saying it's alright as long as you respect her, as long as you respect him.

It's okay as long as you have a real relationship. And do you know who is pushing, do you know where the so-called Christian rock and now they've got punk rock and now the slammer rock is coming in, slamming against the stage, slamming their bodies against the stage and against each other.

I tell you it's already happening at Christian concerts. We're getting letters about it. Slammer rock now even in the church. I got a letter this past week from a lady heartbroken because in every backslidden church there's a small remnant of holy people that are trying to pray down God's glory.

And brother, sister, that only lasts so long and then it's time to move on. The Bible says withdraw yourself. No matter where you go, withdraw yourself from that. Got a letter from this lady and she said, Brother Wilkinson, I am so shocked, I'm so heartbroken I can hardly write this letter.

And it was a tear-stained letter. She said, I just came from our Assembly of God church. And she said on our stage we had a bunch of kids with purple, pink hair, dressed as clowns. And she said they were doing sexual contortions all over the platform.

The pastor justifies it and he finds fault with anybody who would stand against it. It's happening folks in our pulpits. No wonder a whole generation of young people don't know what is right and what is wrong.

There have not been shepherds there to show them the difference between the clean and unclean, the profane and the holy. So few. Thank God he's raising up more though, hallelujah. Jezebel denounces the false prophets, or rather Ezekiel denounces the false prophets who enrich themselves by bringing a message that excuses sin.

False Prophecy and the Corruption of the Holy

You must turn to Ezekiel with me. Keep your, keep marked here at First Kings. Mark that if you will please. And go to Ezekiel, please. 22nd chapter of Ezekiel. Ezekiel 22. You don't think there's a conspiracy in the church today?

Oh brother, sister, you better hear the word of the Lord. Ezekiel 22, verse 25. There's a what? There's a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring, what's, what's the New American Standard say?

There's a roaring lion. Same thing. That's the devil. There's a roaring lion. There's a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls.

They've taken the treasure and precious things, and they've made her many widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law and have profaned my holy things. They put no difference between the unclean and the clean, and they've hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I'm profaned among them.

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and to destroy souls to get dishonest gain. Verse 28, her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, saying vanity and divining lies unto them, saying, thus saith the Lord, when the Lord hath not spoken.

Isn't that frightening? Listen to the doctrine very closely now. The doctrine of Jezebel, secondly. First of all, it calls evil good, and good evil. It's got it all mixed up. Secondly, the doctrine of Jezebel promotes covetousness.

The Second Mark of Jezebel: Covetousness and Prosperity Teaching

I'm going to do something that I'd ask God that maybe I would never have to do again, but I'm going to do it tonight, and I feel I must. This tape goes out all over the world, and I've got to say it, and I want to say it with all the love Jesus can give me, but I want you to look at 1st Kings 21st chapter, 1st Kings 21, and I'm going to read the first seven verses, and I'm going to show you this doctrine of covetousness.

Yes, and I'm going to take the strongest stand I've ever taken in my life against the prosperity preaching right here now, in the next five minutes, and you can't get mad at me. I'm going to give you the word, and I tell you, I say it in broken heart.