JEZEBEL from the Bible and Life Lessons from her!

GOOD from the BAD!



According to 1 Kings 16:31, we learn the following about Jezebel:

And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for [King Ahab] to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.

Jezebel’s father was not only a king, but also a “high priest of Baal". So, with that kind of background information, we could conclude that Jezebel grew up in a very devout Baal-worshiping home. We could conclude that Jezebel most likely LOVED Baal, and that her sinful love for pagan idolatry caused a flood of nationwide religious and spiritual corruption across Israel.

✨Jezebel’s Atmosphere✨

Shortly after marrying Jezebel, King Ahab began to “set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab made a wooden image. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him” (1 Kings 16:32-33).
How in the world did Ahab leap into all this crazy idolatry? 

It was Jezebel’s INFLUENCE that caused all of Israel to be pushed down into spiritual and religious corruption.

How does this apply to us as Christians in our modern 21st century lives?

If Jezebel’s chilling “atmosphere” of idolatry could shove a whole nation into deep dark spiritual corruption, what about you and me? Is your influence and mine causing some friend or family member to fall into some corrupting sin? Into some sinful addiction? Or is your influence and mine doing the complete opposite and causing friends and family members to love God more and spend more time with Him?

✨Jezebel’s Attitude✨

This we can learn about Jezebel from 1 Kings 18:4 - "For so it was, while Jezebel massacred the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water."

Jezebel utterly refused to recognize the drought as a judgment from God. Unyielding in her determination to defy the God of heaven, she, with nearly the whole of Israel, united in denouncing Elijah as the cause of all their misery. Failing in her efforts against Elijah - to kill him, Jezebel determined to avenge herself by slaying all the prophets of the Most High in Israel. Not one should be left alive. The infuriated woman carried out her purpose in the massacre of many of God’s servants.

This was in plain words - ANGER and BLAME GAME. 

Never forget that ANGER is the gravest of the grave sins!

Okay! So what?

Never throw blame on the people who've consecrated their lives to God - "without proper knowledge of the happenings!" Every story has two sides. So the next time you get angry with your Parish Priest or any religious person for that matter - pause and think twice, if your anger is valid. If not, then reconsider! We need to ask God to give us new hearts!

All of us, atleast at one point in our lives would have been a Jezebel! So we ought to ask the Lord forgiveness and the grace to be more charitable and holy unlike Jezebel - irritable and sinful! 

Yes, that's possible! With fervent prayers storm the heaven and the door will be opened for the graces to overflow! You've got this!




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