DEPARTURE OF SPIRITUAL ELDER LIKE REINHARD BONNKE?
By Isaiah-Phillips Akintola
What is the meaning or spiritual implication when a spiritual (gift) personality like Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, who literally shifts the spiritual realm of an entire continent, exits the earth? What does it mean for a man who expresses humility to the core, but carries an awesome governmental authority that many of the high and mighty in the elites of ecclesiastical leadership listens to his voice? What does the departure of this kind of spiritual representative mean to the Body of Christ? These and many more critical questions, we should be asking ourselves as spiritually minded individuals and the corporate body of Christ, if indeed, we are moving towards the ultimate maturity and the finishing of all things.
More so, we’ve prophetically entered a more accelerated realm of the nearness and the impact of the kingdom of God upon the earth; many of the things happening now carries a high-level prophetic frequency and implication that we cannot afford to ignore or trivialize.
We live in a time where it has almost become the norm to trivialize spiritual things, particularly when what is seen seem not to make sense through carnal, human understanding. Appreciation and honor are no longer defined by a deep sense of prophetic insight but through the visual lens of material possession or sensual appraisal.
The concept of engaging values by spiritual knowledge, wisdom and revelational understanding has almost become a thing of the past, especially when almost everyone now claims both intellectual and [spiritual] psychological sigh as long as they have the pulpit and altar of social media to voice the opinion or objection about any spiritual matter.
In our overt quest for information and unending knowledge, we’ve managed to raise a generation that is highly informed, but also shallow and opinionists in its expression. Many have mistaken acquired information and psychological awareness for the inflow and impartation of the Spirit of knowledge, counsel, wisdom, and understanding, which comes with the fear of God.
The relationship between Elisha and tutorship under Elijah took Elisha beyond the realm of mere awareness. When the Sons of the prophet said to Elisha, did you know that the Lord is about to take your master from the earth today? Elisha replied, yes, I know, but hold your peace.
The apprentice [Sons] prophets all know that Elijah was to be taken to heaven, but they did not understand the prophetic implication of what they knew. Yet, for the first time that Elisha was also very much aware of the departure of his master, but he will not allow such knowledge to distract him from the bigger picture of his prophetic assignment.
The implication of allowing one to be submerged in the quest of seeking to know [information] without the formation of Christ in us as brought about a disease of spiritual blindness and the inability to discern movements, seasons, and divine directive. Wisdom is when we can carefully marry the vast realm of information power, we are exposed to with the virtue of humility that comes via the school of obedience in wisdom. To pursue the narrative of the 21st century of boundless information is to expose ourselves to falsehood, shallowness, and the seduction of the wisdom of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Tracking the prophetic implication of a man of such spiritual caliber like Reinhard Bonnke is highly necessary to see what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the Church, notably when he departed on the 7th day of the month of December. Without flogging the idea of numerology, I believe his departure, on the seventh of the last month of the year, speaks to us of several things that allow us to shift our perfective as the Church.
Furthermore, there are other prophetic shifts, directions, and implications we should consider and be keenly aware of; least we underestimate his departure as just another death that happens in the Body of Christ. The passing away of such carrier of grace, wisdom, and anointing in the redemptive, prophetic program of the Father in creation is never to be taken for granted or be just another incident of old Age death.
The passing away of God’s prophetic vanguards in a generation means several things, including the closure of a prophetic season and the opening of another. The passing of the type of ministry leadership grace and voice should be highly noted. Elijah and Elisha are two different personalities with unique grace, but we see Elisha receiving a double portion of the anointing upon the life of Elisha.
The anointing is God’s prophetic voice that allows certain things to be done on behalf of the kingdom of God, especially in the objective of redemption. There are certain individuals the Lord had developed and matured in the spiritual ranking to the degree that they have been entrusted with a specific position of influence as Eldership and governmental authority at the gates of nations and continents.
Such an individual has is not just limited to how we conventionally see their gifts; these individuals have become a prince over global affairs as we see them in the book of Daniel. They’ve been shifted and positioned in the realm of spiritual administration in order to advance and execute the judgment of God in the earth. The problem of generalization of grace, gifts, and ministry office due to the abuse of charisma and leadership position has aggravated our spiritual blindness and the lack of honor in the Body of Christ.
As we begin to exit the day of Saul’s type of leadership towards the restoration of the tabernacle of David, one of the things we must learn fast is the ministry of sighting and honoring faithful Elders at the gates. The scripture speaks about 24 Elders that surround the throne of the Father and not 24 gifts.
When our gift matures into the realm of Eldership, we’ve entered into the sphere of governmental authority that can be used to shift times and seasons according to the calendar of heaven, and I firmly believe that Reinhard Bonnke functioned in this capacity even as Evangelist.
There’s no single part of the ascended ministry that is lower and less in quality than another, even though they function in accordance with divine order. Ranking in the ministry gifts is a personal reward of how we respond to the unique dealings of the Father.
The Father is the one who defines our level of obedience to and reward. It is said of our Lord Jesus Christ; this day I have begotten you as a Son. Sonship is the place where we come to in the Spirit of obedience that enhances our gifts to function in a governmental capacity. Meaning, we function in our ascended gift from various levels of spiritual authority.
When we are keenly sighted and knowledgeable and spiritual things, we are open to receive the required training that allows us to receive and function within certain leadership, administrative Spirit that engages the operations of spiritual darkness over realms, cities, and nations.
People like Reinhard Bonnke though functioned as an Evangelist but carried a much mature, governmental influence in the prophetic activity of God in the earth and within the leadership of the Body of Christ. The way the Father used this great servant to awake and further push the prophetic agenda of the Lord of the can only be seen and measured by those who have been spiritually aware.
The inability to acutely reorganize elders and kingdom accessing point [gates of authority] beyond just a functional gift or even office is one of the main weaknesses of the present spiritual knowledge of the many in the Body of Christ, and worst still, amongst professors of the current apostolic initiatives.
As we
continue to track the architect of the spirit of Jezebel so we can be prophetically
equipped in dealing with it. We have reached a critical point in understanding how
this spirit gets to infiltrate the community of God’s people and society.
There’s
no better way to unveil the mystery of a spirit or character than being able to
discover how such a spirit in the first place gets into such human space and heart.
The formation of Alliances has always been one of the most effective instruments
used for nations to prevent or stop protracted wars and battles between the two
nations.
In
most cases, this alliance is made through the payments of dowries and ransoms;
and the given away of certain key villages, cities, or territories. But the
most effective one is the giving away in marriage of the princess in most
cases, or Prince in some case from one kingdom to the other as a seal of peace.
This
idea as further been adopted by very wealthy and influential families across
nations through the centuries for the purpose of keeping their riches, name,
and fame from being corrupted by those deemed as the commoners or the ignoble
of society. In the cases of Princess, often, they are usually prepared and
groomed to be given away in marriage to other Kings or kingdom as a pawn that
might become a very powerful and influential entity in the strategy of building
or reinforcing alliance.
However,
God, in his covenant sovereignty, wisdom, and relationship with the nation of
Israel had pre-warned them never to go into any form of alliance with foreign,
gentile nations. Not even ordinary Israelis citizens are allowed to marry from
other nations under the Old Testament biblical law. They’ve been forbidden to
marrying from countries that serves and worship foreign gods.
Marrying
from nations that serves other gods outside the God of their fathers is a
serious offense that carries severe punishment. Unfortunately, this violation
has been of the greatest sins the children of Israel had committed in the sight
of God by marrying and given their children in marriage to nations that
worships Baal.
The
plan of the Father for the children of Israel as a nation of a kingdom of
priest was one of the reasons this law was promulgated. The issue of divine
separation as a nation that will reflect the standard and glory of God to the
rest of the world was and is still a major objective in the call to stand out
from the rest of the world.
The easiest way for the enemy to infiltrate the prophetic activity of the Father in the earth is through wrong connections and alliance. As powerful as relationship means to the prophetic advancement of the purposes of God, particularly, a marriage relationship, so is relationship one of Satan’s key strategies in seeking to cripple, pollute, and destroy the agenda of God.
We today live in a world where what informs our connection to people is basically sensual and material base, and this has made it even easier for the enemy to carry out his diabolic attacks. If all we are preoccupied with is a pleasure to be derived from a relationship without considering another critical impact such a relationship will usher into our lives and space, then it means we really do not understand the effects of spiritual things around our lives.
The
life and objective of a relationship cannot be genuinely comprehended through
emotion or intelligence as highly important as they may be. We need spiritual knowledge, insight, and
wisdom in going into any kind of activity that we bind us with other people, so
we are not taking advantage of through ignorance. Humans are carriers of
spirits; these spirits can the right or wrong spirit.
Sometimes,
the issues we are trying to resolve or make sense of in marriage or in our
workplace are more of spiritual than just a position of bad attitude, and even
in cases of bad character, these characters or attitudes can be traced to
spiritual issues that seek to get us to a place of point of compromise by the
enemy. This is one of the major reasons
we should be careful regarding who we define to be it friends or relationship,
and worst still, who we finally decide to choose to be our life-partner in
marriage. These are major, life decisions that cannot be made on face value or
in the context of emotional excitement.
Marriage
is not just about two people coming to live together because they both claim to
‘love’ each other. Love is a big part of our lives we, unfortunately, know very
little about. There is great advantage to marriage when we understand its main
purpose and objective from God’s perfect ice, after all, marriage was his idea.
Unfortunately, there are also serious consequences to marriage when we
ignorantly ignore the foundational values and framework that ought be in place
before we go into a covenant of marriage.
In
Joshua chapter 6 we see a terrible mistake made by the children of Israel under
the military leadership of Joshua regarding the Gibeonite. The children
ignorantly allowed themselves to be tricked into false alliance to present the
Israelites from attacking the Gibeonite.
Marriage
is one of the highest levels of blood covenant and when it’s made ignorantly
without a precise, biblical, prophetic direction, we can directly or indirectly
bind ourselves to certain obligations, contracts, covenant, or even influence
of the powers of darkness.
In relating
to the people of God, insecurity and the lack of trust is what pushes most of
the kings to join affinity with other nations, particularly, through the medium
of marriage. In the cases of others, it’s just the issue of lust like we see in
relations to King Solomon and King Ahab.
One
of the main things that brought Solomon with his great wisdom, wealth, and
power down as the Son of one of the greatest Kings ever lived in human history,
King David, was his love for foreign women, and the scripture told us that
Solomon foreign wives turned his heart away from the love of the God of his
Father David. The bible told us that they tuned Solomon heart away from God
when he began to get old. As we begin to track the fall of great kingdoms,
empires, and ordinary people right from bible days to this present day, one can
see is clear that great men and leaders fall due to marrying the wrong person.
AHAB
MARRIED JEZEBEL.
The
marriage of princess Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal, a Phoenician empire
was a serious crime in the sight of God that brought terrible consequence to
the house of Ahab, and the entire nation of Israel. Ahab, the son of Omri did
not just marry Jezebel due to the issue of protecting his kingdom, at least,
the scripture never suggested this; Ahab took Jezebel in marriage due to
arrogance, and lust in disobedience to the command of the Lord.
As
many theologians will further confirm that Jezebel was not just a mere Princess
but in fact, she was a priestess of Baal. She was a direct worshipper of
Beelzebub, and we will later see how she turned the capital of Israel that
became Samaria to the capital of Baal worship. Beyond the sin of Jeroboam that
was committed by Ahab, he further angered God by going to join hands in
marriage to a nation that is openly committed to the worship of idols. Idolatry
is one of the highest crimes any human, family, or society can commit before
God.
Because of the leadership position and influence of Ahab, he exposed the entire nation to the spirit of Beelzebub, and this is where the judgement of God took another turn regarding the nation of Israel. As we can see the scripture that the direct judgement of God against Baal worship was is an attack on the economy and that’s because Baal worshippers believed that Baal is the provider of rain and good crops.
Another powerful strategy of the enemy which is part of the narrative of the spirit of Jezebel is the altering of words and their meaning, and I’ll like to highlight this point briefly we before begin to deal with the issue of how Jezebel infiltrate our lives, families, community and society.
Words, language, phrases are some of the most powerful tools in capturing and expressing culture. There’s absolutely no way we can capture the spirit of an Age or civilization without understanding the lingua of such society. Today, new language is be coined while old, relevant words are systematically being eroded, and this is what I’ll like us to briefly consider.
Undoubtedly
there are all sorts of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.
11 If then I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a
foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker is a foreigner to me. 1 Corinthians
14:10-11
The
more I look into the scripture in the context of what we are assigned to
represent in the 21st-century society, the more I see a lack of
preparation and almost the sense of total disconnection in terms of awareness
and understanding of the nature of the season.
Being
a sheep among wolves requires a deeper sense of the operation of the Spirit of
wisdom, and being wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove is certainly
operating from another realm of life that gives us the edge to effectively
represent the eternal intentions of the Father is an ever-increasing hustle
society.
The
nature and character of the days we’ve been brought into demand we are skilled
in all the langue of the Chaldeans, the Babylonians, and the Egyptians, and we
should stop seeing this idea as a foreign idea or unbiblical. As we know, Jesus spoke Aramaic because that
was the language of the day. The big
question we should be asking ourselves is, what is today’s language?
When
I speak of language, please note that I am not merely referring to lingua
franca but the generation ideological, operating interface within societies; a
manner of thinking that connects people, places, things and even machines in a
manner that allows a general communication and understanding. Every generation
developed and operated through this kind of language they adopted in promoting
certain values, beliefs and ideologies we sought to promote.
Cultures,
ideologies, traditions and captured within the language. Language is the total
sum of what defines our identity.
As
we can notice, the past three decades or so, the world and its philosophers
have been busy developing a new language that has almost become matured in use
to promote their ideology today but the church has been caught sleeping in
combatting the wrong ideology behind this language.
One
unique thing we witness throughout the scripture that gave the people of God
the edge to stand out even in times of captivity is their ability to quickly
learn and use the language of their captors as an advantage to advance the
purposes of God. Indeed, language is a
medium of communication. However, we are seeing various forms of communicating
today that goes way beyond two people merely talking. Communication today has
become a very powerful tool to imprint and establish a philosophy that is
weaponized to kill, steal, and destroy.
The
art of communication has become one of the most lucrative 21st-century
business that yields lots of profit. My point, however, is not just about the
profiting side of communication but to highlight the deliberate war on
destroying the meaning and definition of words, as they are today viewed to
serve the certain narratives and agendas.
Society
is being assaulted from all angles by those whose agenda is to destroy the very
fiber of society and sought to change the order of things redesign. Language
today, has transcended to the level of ideology; an ideology that should
promote certain ‘progressive beliefs’
We
live in a day where we are constantly being bombarded by various voices,
opinions, and ideologies that society seek to impress upon us regardless of our
interest or not. Unfortunately, many within the community of the Church have
not been adequately sensitized and prepared for these kinds of subtle
confrontations.
Indeed, these voices, when we face them, come across aggressively, demanding we take a side, and of cause, they want us to take their side because they’ve tried to desensitize the minds of many us using phrases the promotes their ideology of the new world order they are trying to create.
Many
spiritual leaders are yet to fully comprehend the nature and complexity of the
battle before the Church, and I do hope this few points will wake us up as we
confront the spirit of Jezebel and other powerful Satanic principalities.
While
I strongly believe the Father gave the Church the platform of social media to
propagate the gospel of Christ to the lost, and to serve as a melting point to
speak redirection to the disgruntled members of the lost sheep of God. We are yet
to understand that the social media just like other platforms is actually a 21st-century
language we must learn like Daniel and his friends learnt the language of the
Babylonians in other to carry out the mandate of the kingdom.
Those
who are masters of language will determine the direction of society, its
philosophy and economy. Everything today has a coded language that should be
learnt in order to utilize its power or influence. We, as the ecclesia is in
the midst of powerful warfare, and this war is all about influencing other
nations.
THE
POWER OF LANGUAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT CIVILIZATION
One
of the main reasons countries like America and China are fighting what is
termed as economic war is for the single reason of language. As I said,
languages, which the scripture also refers to as voices, has gone beyond voice
communication to an ideological war that is playing out on every form of system
that made has created to establish his dominance.
In
other words, those who are skilled in computer language have the edge of power
and influence. Introducing computer program language from early childhood is
necessary and highly critical for any nation or society to service.
Someone
of the wealthiest companies today is those dealing with computer language and
pregaming. I have used these points to further stress the point I am making.
The
world of social media has become a tool to increase the volumes of the voices
and noises to distract many away from the pathway of sound moral
judgement. There is all kind of voices
today that have been empowered and indeed, amplified through the tool of social
media that has brought more confusion and challenges regarding being able to
ascertain what the Spirit of the Lord will have many knows.
When
we talk about information overload, we are dealing with a reality that has come
to define the culture and structural fabric of today’s society. We are at the
twilight of a new sociocultural revolution; a revolution that is not fought
with guns and sword but with language and what I define as New Age opinions.
In
the last three decades or so, the English language has dramatically revolved to
the point that the meanings of certain key words that defines our social
lifestyle have been forced to change their meaning, or in some cases have been
reduced to obsolescence. Words are losing
their true meaning, and this is a deliberate act in reconfiguring how we
process thoughts, meaning, intentions, and actions.
The
agenda of the powers of darkness in this season carries various faces of
expression as we have earlier discussed, all depending on the position of the
battle line they find themselves and the objective they seek to achieve. As we continue to witness the systematic
introduction of certain phrases and words into the society the idea is to
reprogram how we see, process and accept meanings. One of the keyways the enemy can infiltrate
any heart or space is to change the meaning of words, particularly, if those
words expresses certain sense of morality, accountability and demand to
correctness.
The American society and a larger part of Europe have lost a major ground during the first battle around language in the last three decades, and the loss opened the door for certain ideologies and philosophy to be introduced their society to the point that an average teen or adult today are struggling to comprehend or appreciate the meaning of certain words that ought to give them moral definition and a deep sense of correctness.
Right from the beginning of time, language has played a major role in the development of humans and the desire to build a strong, shared community, and we saw this greatly impressed during the building of the tower of Babel. Every time there’s a need to build a tower of [Babel] rebellion, human always seeks for a common language to implement such a task, even if they have nothing in common with each other. The enemy also play behind the call and support for
[global]
unity for as long as such call play towards its diabolic agenda.
Principle of spiritual warfare and kingdom authority over the high places
By Isaiah-Phillips Akintola
Continuation…
WHY
JEZEBEL ATTACKS THE PROPHETIC
As
we have noticed, this is a spirit that is not afraid to charge against the
gift, ministry, and office of the prophet. Arguably, the office of the prophet
is one of the highest governmental position of spiritual authority,
representing the activities of God’s affairs within the church and around the
realms of societal affairs across earth.
We
are in a day of the awakening of some dark, ancient, governmental spiritual
activities within the realms of men that need urgent, but bold, courageous and
strategic intervention. Let me highlight
at this point that all that is unfolding from the powers of darkness,
assaulting the very nature and identity of both the Church and the nations,
specifically, today from the house of Ahab with his wife, Jezebel is a direct
response or confrontation to the prophetic awakening and engagement of God’s
Saints across the earth.
Mount Carmel, a type of the gathering of the nation under the false leadership of Jezebel will be the very place and point where the power of God will finally judge this evil spirit of Jezebel and the male prophets who have yielded their authority and ministry under her illegitimate authority due to her financial economic influence. Jehu reflects the personification character the Lord will employ to finally destroy this character or entity that has sought to capture, incarcerate, and change the desired order of God for man and the society but it will take a courageous spirit of Elijah to stand instead of running from her.
When
Jezebel had that prophet, Elijah had commanded the execution of her false
prophets on Mount Carmel, she sent words to the prophet of God that by this
time tomorrow, your head will be given to the vulture to feed. This was a
direct confrontation to intimidate and neutralize the authority and the
position [influence] of the prophet of God in the land.
The
Spirit of Elijah.
The
Spirit of Elijah is shifting things back to the Father’s ordained program for
the earth. The Spirit of the two witnesses is being released to prepare the
ecclesia for the great showdown. The Spirit of Exodus is characterized through
the anointed grace of Moses while the Spirit of Elijah is the Spirit that
breaks the hold of identity bondage from the illegitimate power of Jezebel;
this is also known as the Spirit of fire.
The
Lord is restoring his wind and fire in this third day. We are told that before
the dreadful day of the Lord, the Lord will send Elijah who will turn the
hearts of the Father’s back to their sons, and the hearts of sons back to their
Father. This prophetic activity in the earth is activating the closer proximity
and visibility of their kingdom of God.
The
coming or emerging reality of God’s presence and glory to the earth is shaking
the foundations, ideologies, beliefs, philosophy and the dominant political
cultures that have ruled and reign in the minds of men for centuries. The day
of the Lord is emerging with great noise and the rolling away of everything
that can be shaken.
Prophetic
Perspective
God
said to Jeremiah, this day, I have made you a prophet over nations…the
jurisdictional matron authority of a prophet in most cases, especially, a
seasoned, well-matured prophet reaches far beyond his or her place of
geographical location.
A
prophet based on one end of the continent can speak authoritatively, of course,
according to the directives, guidance and wisdom of the Spirit into another
city or nation. This is often carried according to the prophetic seasons and
initiatives of the Father around realms and continents. We saw Samuel,
Jeremiah, and many of whom we call minor prophets, operated in the apostolic,
governmental grace over nations. The
seven churches in the book of Revelation were all positioned prophetic across
Asia minor to spiritually influence the realms as we shall later examine
regarding the church of Thyatira.
The
governmental authority of prophets always creates a deep panic in the camp of
the enemy, and therefore, the assigned, principalities, powers, and wicked spirits,
over such realms gets agitated and therefore, tries to shut down or frustrate
the influence of the prophetic voice within such regions.
The
Spirit and operation of Jezebel are primarily assigned as a corrupt,
illegitimate, governmental spirit assigned to attack and frighten the prophets,
and their prophetic position and authority over cities and nations. The enemy is quite aware that if they can
stop or frustrate the operational initiatives and assignment of the prophet
over any community, city or region, such a region is already captured, it’s
only a matter of time.
Jezebel
and the fight for the Soul of America
Societies,
cities, nations, and regions carry or wear certain unique character or
personality traits that heaven identifies, relates to, and engage in judgement
accordingly to such persons. It is critically important that the Saints,
particularly, those called and grace with the spirit of intercession to
identify the image and personality each city or nation wear, so that when they
are praying, they can address such personality.
Every
city or nation in the Bible can be related to in particular name character.
Some cities, however, exhibit more than one character just as ordinary humans
can have more than one name or character expression. Most times in the
scriptures, the Lord addresses, cities by their predominant character
personality. In other words, the name of Israel can be exhibiting the character
of Sodom, therefore, when the Lord is addressing Israel in a context of a
certain issue, he will rather address Israel in the appropriate name that
captures the spirit he is addressing amongst is people.
Every
nation has got a soul that allows certain inflow or outflows of values,
beliefs, and philosophy. This is one of the reasons we are called to war for
the soul of cities and nation. To effectively address the predominant spirit
over an atmosphere, you need to identify the spiritual personality, such city
or nation is operating, and in most cases, not always, such spirit can be found
within the character framework of the founding fathers of such society.
This
character trait that defines the image-soul of the nation is then passed down
the ages through those thoroughly vetted and initiated into key leadership
positions of such society. This is one of the reasons why we need to understand
that there’s another election behind the so-called democratic election citizens
carry out.
Our
votes are important, but not as important as the vote of those who are
following the agenda and narrative of what has been covenanted by the dedication
of what such city or nation should maintain.
An alliance is formed on behalf of cities and nations through certain
foreknowledge agreements that are sealed by blood, and this is where compromise
is reached regarding how such cities or nations should express themselves in
all manners of policies and values.
As I
have said, my main objective in is article is to unmask the subtle, but a
powerful operational spirit of Jezebel within the current global affairs which
is unfortunately now shaping the narrative of most political debates and
discussions as the battle for the position of power in the new world order
plays out.
The
reality is, the sociocultural ideologies of societies, including many, who
today claimed to be Christ-followers unfortunately has almost been eroded by
this wicked spirit of Jezebel to the degree that if what you think and say
don’t fit into the narrative of political correctness, then you’re labelled as
the enemy of God or enemy of the state.
This
powerful Satanic system has almost capture, crippled, and redefine the
identity, culture, and authority given by God to men to be responsible in presenting
themselves, families and communities at large before the Lord as kingdom
priests. As we shall later study, we
will highlight the main purpose of the spirit of Jezebel which is to mainly to
emasculate, frustrate, and neutralize the identity and authority of manhood
within society, and that is the current agenda across most countries in the
name of democracy but in particular, in Europe and America.
Jezebel,
the institutionalized power of governance
We
are today seeing one of the greatest, satanic assault against the church and
the lives of ordinary Americans. There are various ancient, demonic stronghold
with being awaken today with the objective to disrupt, capture, and change the
very prophetic identity of the people of America and the rest of the world as
the Jezebel spirit leads this campaign.
This
assault should be worrisome to all awakened sons of God, particularly, those
with an advanced intercessory, leadership spirits, and elders within the order
of the fivefold ministry. America is a strategic nation that plays a role in
shaping the cultural and socioeconomic status of many continents. Whatever is
birth, established and accepted within the context of the America society, it’s
only a matter of times before such in adopted. The influence of America,
globally, is a two-way stream; it all depends on the school of thought or
agenda that is sought to be promoted from the political leadership class.
Every
political party is an ideology that seeks to promote an ideological belief.
these beliefs are systematically integrated into the political process that
shapes and forms the policies that inform society. Therefore, we need to adjust
our understanding and narratives about economic struggle. Behind the agenda of
fighting for equality and prosperity, there are invisible key players that seek
to manipulate the outcome of things. [Rev 18:} speaks about global trade and
whom the world trades with.
Trade
is not just about goods and services; the heart of global trade is about the
influence of lives, territories and mineral resource, and no doubt America is a
key player in this global trade as we can with the current trade war between
the two parties biggest economy-China and America.
The
nation of America has never been so divisive on almost everything, and there’s
a reason for this. The election of Donald Trump as the president of America was
a game-changer. His appointment was a statement that will shake the very
foundation of certain narrative that seeks to utter and change the prophetic
program of God not only for America but for the world at large.
The
war between the nation of America and China is far beyond the idea of goods and
service; the is about the control of power, and it’s important we have precise
prophetic insight into what is going on. We have always taken the stand that
God has a definite, prophetic program for each nation. No nation exists by
their own effort or plan; God has set nations and regions where they are for
his prophetic mandate. Just like Egypt, Mali empire, Rome, and Greece to
mention a few, were a powerful trade route in the early century, United
Kingdom, America, China and Russia are today, some of the most powerful economies,
and this is translated to global influence or power.
America
is currently being invaded by the spirit of Jezebel, and it’s critical for us
to study what’s going on as we reexamine the word of God in finding the
prophetic weapon to paralyze this spirit. What makes this study important is
the fact that Jezebel operate under a false, illegitimate authority. Therefore,
it is highly important we understand what leadership and spiritual authority
mean, and how it’s designed to function, so we are not captured by false spirit
in the name of leadership influence.
At
this point, I’ll like to highlight some concerns I believe needs to be
addressed in the context of the revelation of the spirit of Jezebel in relating
to what is today known as political correctness, which is my strongest point
has almost crippled the leadership authority ordained to guide and protect
families and individuals from the assault of the forces of darkness.
One
of the things that have become almost the trademark of the current political
landscape of the European society and of cause, the larger American political
narrative is the subjects on the accuracy of truth definition and other concepts
around moral values, issues relating to biblical position of sociocultural and
institutional development. These important fabrics of strong, family and
institutional structures are almost no longer accepted, nor is room given to
teach and debate on these subjects due to what is now known as gender
sensitivity.
So,
we are increasingly seeing certain important subject that speaks to the issue
of moral correctness, faith, identity, the natural definition and
characteristics of the male species, and the concept of womanhood from a sound,
biblical perspective are today seen as unaccepted In the promotion of the idea
of progressive beliefs.
The
push for humanist value has almost eroded the right order of human existence
and this is being promoted by the ideology of the new world order global
narrative. Therefore, the idea of gender-sensitive has become a weapon the
powers of darkness are today using to short down the voice of truth that needs
to be had regarding the current distortion of the identity and structure of
human values within society.
Today,
many within the Church are almost crippled to speak out regarding certain laws
and institutional practices that are contrary to their faith and believe due to
the fear of powerful political backlash against their organization, this is
totally unaccepted. Issues that deals with order, leadership and correctness
regarding homes, family, marriage, manhood, and womanhood are all today left untouched.
Our
children are becoming more and more confused and dysfunctional without the
right leadership identity and authority to bring nurturing, correction,
direction, and affirmation to them because the authority of father has almost
been stripped from them through the Satanic influence of the spirit of Jezebel
controlling the state powers.
The
promotion of feminist power is destroying the very structure and order of
family and societal values, and this is presenting feeding into how many now
view the principle of God’s word. Many are now interpreting the word of God
with the humanist and feminist lens view and this totally unaccepted.
The
perversion of sexuality and the right order of identity, which speaks into who
we are as the male man or a female, are almost now known existence. The moment
you begin to deal with subject that points to certain wrong values connected to
the female entity, suddenly it becomes an issue of the lack of gender
insensitivity.
Many
spiritual leaders are increasingly become frustrated due to the fact that they
are not able to exercise the spiritual authority God has given to them in
dealing with issues as they should be because they are afraid of not being
politically correct. The idea of political correctness or gender equality is an
idea that was systematically introduced into the political space through a
Satanic agenda to create a false narrative of inequality on issue of gender so
that the feminist agenda can use such a platform to promote the various program
they desire to push to society and the various institutions of society.
The
truth is, this has been the plan of Satanic agenda in promoting Jezebel
influence as the economic system, empowered by state and global institutions to
silence the voice of truth and to discredit and neutralize the authority of
faith and God’s word in their so-called New Age, progressive society.
Revelation
18:1-3
After
this, I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and
the earth was illuminated by his splendour. 2With a mighty voice he shouted: “‘Fallen!
Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ a She has become a dwelling for demons and a
haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for
every unclean and detestable animal. 3 For all the nations have drunk the
maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery
with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive
luxuries.”
The spirit of Jezebel which today has taken the form of political and economic authority and has infiltrated almost every arm of government institutions and sociocultural view.
32 And
what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson
and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, 33 who through faith
conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who
shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the
edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became
powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.
35
Women received back their dead, raised to life again.
There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. 36 Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were put to death by stoning; e they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.
This
highlighted scripture above defines the spiritual framework and character
posture the ecclesia must assume as a kingdom priestly regents Heaven is
empowering and releasing in this season of engaging the ongoing, complex issues
and challenges the nation’s and creation is faced with under the insidious influence
of the activity of Jezebel.
Divine
upgrade
it
is important to note that there’s a current, general update and upgrading of
our spiritual base and the apostolic resources at our disposal in order to be
effectively and efficiently prepared to
engage; this is to prevent us from being trapped by the same religious
web of division and extremism that entangled many in the past who tried
representing the purposes of God from a very shallow, narrow, and myopic
perspective.
What
is Gods agenda for the earth in this new day?
The
Father’s agenda is to fill the earth {people} with the knowledge of his glory
through a company of priesthood, emerging with the ascended revelatory reality
of the son, but functions from an ascended, eternal realm of representation,
the pattern of our ministry priesthood must change from the obsolete first and
second day reality of representation; we must come into the ascended ministry
lifestyle of Melchizedek.
Functioning
within the framework authority and power of this priesthood is highly important
if we must effectively move and function within the current Satanic activity
challenging our position and identity in Christ.
The
remnant of individuals who will live and function within the framework of the
ongoing complex, false order off the earth must have shift from the house of
Saul to the present, restored {house} tabernacle of David, and that is because
only David carries the ascended insight of the authority of the kingdom to face
and behead the giant, evil system challenging us today.
Beyond
this, these company of men and woman will carry and operate in the iconic
spirit of the patriarchs. Each of the Patriarchs represent a dimension of
grace, wisdom, strategy, and capacity that must function in the power of
corporate unity in dislodging the spirit of Darkness before us.
These are days where Enoch, Noah, Abraham,
Moses, Joseph, Esther, Ruth, Elizabeth, Mary, and the rest are all being awaken
within the hearts of the saints, emerging in their various respectable position
in defeating the spirit of humanist, Satanic activity distorting the prophetic
mandate of God for creation.
There’s
no doubt that the Spirit of the Lord is forcefully leading the Body of Christ
to a new position of more advanced, governmental engagement which requires we
shift from our old position towards a more accurate, matured reality of the
prophetic requirement of the Spirit for the season.
The
nature of spiritual resistance and opposition we are faced with today, demands
the finest of the Spirit of wisdom and faith. There’s a need we redefine and
update our prophetic insight in order to be strategically repositioned with
maximum, sustained capacity to advance.
The
mandate of entering to repossess our lost spiritual space and heritage as
legitimate, custodians of the earth has become an assignment that cannot be
neglected nor defer to the future, yet, we have to advance with caution due to
the kind of subtle but powerful enemy we are contending with.
The
prophetic objective of rebuilding and restoring the architectural structure of
the burnt gates and broken walls of lives, families, institutions, and the
society at large, will certainly demand we move towards a more advanced,
prophetic engagement towards all illegitimate spirits and entities at the
gates.
Maintaining
a biblically sound and balanced spiritual [perspective] neutrality in
responding and representing the eternal agenda of the kingdom of God within a
sharply, racially charged, and divided society is highly critical, if we are to
truly manifest the spirit of redemption, healing and restoration to creation,
and ultimately, reign with Christ in his millennial kingdom Age.
We
cannot afford to be found biased, religious, and denominational in our
prophetic philosophy and perspective as we advance in this season. Every form
of charismatic, blind spot and misconceptions regarding the ascended,
operational pattern and direction of the kingdom and its initiatives in this
season must be thoroughly examined and addressed before we step out again in
divine representation.
The
position of our utilization of kingdom authority and power in warfare should be
strictly built on the apostolic template of Christ nature and character which
must not be compromised by any form of religious assumption, humanist beliefs,
or some form of an overt, nationalistic, prejudicial attitudes.
This
is the day of the operation of the kingdom values and principle, meaning, we
have to test whatever we’ve been taught to believe in our various church
community within the principles of the kingdom so we are not found to be
misrepresenting Christ out there in the name of our own traditional,
charismatic Church believes or expectations.
The
standard is, if any man be in Christ and not in a church, such a person is a
new creation, behold, old [ways, patterns, culture, ideologies, and philosophy]
things have passed away, observe, all things have become new. The operational
position of those in Christ is a spiritual value and posture of an ever-increasing
newness. Newness should reflect the position of advanced spiritual development,
perception, interaction, and engagement with all humans and creation regardless
of how hateful or bitter they may be to us.
When
Joshua met the captain of the Lord of host standing, he asked him if he was for
them or against them, the captain of the Lord of the host said, am neither for
both sides. This is an important truth and attitude we need to understand and
embrace in a day where polarization has become the order of political
engagement.
Religious
bias and other forms of humanist prejudice will not only blind our insight from
seeing the intention and direction of the Lord in this hour, but will in fact,
cripple our ability and capacity to effectively engage in the arts of advance
prophetic initiatives, even as we are called to charge in warfare against the
spirit of Jezebel and the high places of our communities, cities and
generation.
Laying
this foundational narrative is crucial, because many are still divided behind
some charismatic, religious ideological differences, fueled on racial grounds,
depending on which side of the fence they find themselves. To develop a
biblically sound world view in dealing with the socio-cultural and economic
divides is to allow the Spirit of the Lord to first strip us of our presumptive
ideas and knowledge, gathered under the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil.
Secondly, is to allow the Father to enlighten
and broaden our spiritual standpoint regarding the current political or
socioeconomic realities of our time, which I usually term as a position of
prophetic spectrum.
As
we know, when a ray of light passes through a fraction prism, what we
experience is a spectrum of colors. This truth is the same when considering the
idea of allowing the light of God’s truth to pass through and permeate our
spiritman, what happens is, we effectively see and identify the various,
glorious, unique beauty and identity of the Father for each person, family,
community, nation, continent, and of course, this generation as a whole.
PROPHETIC
PRISM AND THE POSITION OF ELIJAH
To
understand and effectively Administrate the justice system of the kingdom of
God on earth, which is totally different in view and value from the humanist
and religious viewpoint, is to be ready to prophetically represent the
priestly, governmental authority of the kingdom of God according to Isaiah
chapter 11.
A
prophetic student will be keenly aware that one of the manifest Spirit of the
last days and before the final coming of Christ is the spirit of Elijah, and we
are told that this spirit, or, the posture of life if you will, carries the
authority of reformation and restoration in the earth. We’ve seen the
progressive released of this spirit in a dimension, right from the days of John
the Baptist and throughout church history. Today, we are witnessing a greater
outpour and the release of this spirit as we confront one of the deadliest,
Satanic assault, unleashed upon this generation.
The
restorative, prophetic capacity of the spirit and ministry of Elijah in this
season is a clear sign of the accelerated nature of kingdom activity that is
currently taking place across the earth. The emergence of the spirit of Elijah
amongst other apostolic governmental grace being restored to the ecclesia is a
high watermark in the call to the arena of divine representation, even as the
day of the Lord becomes more eminent.
The
kingdom of God is suffering violence, and the violence we must be ready to take
by divine enforcement of kingdom truth. We shall further consider the relevant
position and influence of the spirit of Elijah as we track the position of
divine confrontation.
THE
NATURE OF THE ENEMIE’S ATTACK
Therefore,
in the context of this apostolic framework, our war gear of readiness and
engagement must totally reflect what we see in Isaiah 11. Elijah which is a
type of the Carmel skin we should wear in this season must be dressed in these
qualities of spirit of Christ described as the full armor of God according to
Ephesians chapter 6. Having brought this into perspective, we
then need to begin to understand the nature of the common enemy of the kingdom
we are assigned and dressed to deal with as a type of a Davidic generation,
assigned to watch our father’s sheep.
Our
position as watchmen requires that we are truly positioned with the capacity to
watch the Lord’s sheep which is way beyond the walls of our local churches and
families. We must be prepared to watch and guard the sheep against the humanist
and religious lions and bears of our time. The spirits and assigned wicked
systems out there now charging against the vulnerability and identity of the
sheep of the Father out there must be protected across the nations.
THE
VARIOUS FACES AND OBJECTIVE OF SATANIC ATTACK
Unmasking
these lions and bears are a critical aspect of the current prophetic upgrade,
so we can effectively channel our Strategic attack. There are several types of
enemies with their unique focus of attack against the children of Israel as we
see in the scripture. Each character manifested by the enemy reflects a
specific objective of result in the mission to destroy the redemptive mandate
of God for his people and the nations.
A
significant number of the enemy’s attacks on the people of God are carried out
through their own acts of rebellion and disobedience, and in some cases, their
ignorance to the values and demand of the Lord as they are being led to their
Promised Land. It is critical we take
time to study and carefully examine the various character, focus, methods, and
objectives the enemy applies in launching its assault against the children of
Israel.
This
is important in unveiling the systematic idea of attack against the current
Church and society in general. When the enemy, through a particular nation like
the Philistine launches an attack, and decides to produce a key figure like the
giant, Goliath of Gath, behind such an attack is an objective which is more
stronger than the very confrontation itself which is to send a message to the
nation of Israel and the next generation, and this message is fear and
intimidation.
Fear
was a powerful, effective weapon the Philistine and the Midianites used in
trying to cripple the entire army of Israel from fighting until a young
teenager who had conquered the spirit of fear, through the abiding presence of
the Father in his life charged against Goliath.
We
noticed the same concept of engagement about Giedion when he was called to lead
his people to fight the Midianites and see to the freedom of the economic siege
the Midianites waged against his people.
[Judges 6]
You’ll
notice that the moment little David killed Goliath, the entire army of the
Philistine fled, and the army of Israel that was once crippled by fear suddenly
got bold and courageous as they chase after the army of the Philistine and
defeated them. This is a powerful, strategic concept of tactical warfare
playing out in our own very eyes today.
The
enemy is using fear and intimidation against the Church, and many churches and
its leadership have gone hiding. The spirit of Jezebel and the Midianites has
pushed many into some holes and cave to hide; we’ve lost our voices on issues
that truly matter. We are afraid to speak out against things we know we should
not defend.
There’s but one enemy in the kingdom of darkness and we all know his name, but this enemy wear different faces; manifest different characters, expresses itself through various philosophical beliefs and uses different methods of attacks depending on what he desires to achieve in the battle.
The
launch and objective of an attack, using culture or religion, seeks to creates
a different objective and impact from the launch of attack, using slavery,
racism, sexual perversion, and it certainly different from an attack that comes
through poverty, sickness, or even some other forms of freedom and liberty,
without a true sense of respect, responsibility or accountability to mention a
few.
The
enemy is a Strategist, master planner in launching his attack on humans, and
where there’s no clear, prophetic, governmental oversight, societies, which
includes, the church, becomes highly vulnerable and victims of such attack
unfortunately. As we understand this
natural phenomenon, we Begin to gain keen insight into the nature of spiritual
warfare, and the various methods the powers of darkness employ in attacking the
church’s position and identity as the nation of God in the earth.
This
understanding I’ve tried to lay down as a foundational framework of what we are
trying to track through this message gives us the context of why I’ll like us
to carefully examine the spirit of Jezebel as one of the most advance, Satanic,
method of attacks in this season of kingdom warfare.
4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.
By Isaiah-Phillips Akintola
Part
3
Unmasking the architecture of Jezebel
WHO DEFINES YOUR RIGHT AND WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF JEZEBEL?
In
this part three we are going to be defining the spirit of Jezebel, but before
we do that, lets conclude the thought of line we’ve established in our former article
on part 2
Continuation
The enemy the Church is confronting today is not interested in fighting a random battle; he is very deliberate, precise, and strategic in his use of weaponry and the nature of how the battle should play out.
Therefore, we must never put ourselves in a situation where the enemy can define the battleground or the weapon of warfare.
When we allow the enemy to use his narrative of weapons known as gender inequality, gender insensitivity, feminism, gay right, child right, human right, social justice, and the so many ideas of reasons, defined through its own paradigm narratives, values, and belief system, we will eventually become entrapped and defeated.
The enemy has mastered the art of using State machinaries in circumventing legitimate reasons for specific laws and policies of the land.
The devil today is using sensual, humanist, ideologies, and wisdom as an effective tool in trying to frustrate and prevent the values and standard of the kingdom of God from being established in society.
Giving
our rights to another definition of rights and false advocacy is the most foolish
thing we can do, and am afraid, we have done.
By giving
our rights to some advocacy with a different agenda that refuses to acknowledge
the values and moral identity of God’s definition is indirectly abdicating our authority
to the lies of the enemy who is entering our gardens again to challenge the authority
and influence of heaven’s values over our space.
We cannot
afford to make the same mistake the first man-made in the Garden. We cannot afford
to get into slumber as women again; we cannot allow the enemy to use our inherent
power of influence persuasion to manipulate things against the order of God.
You cannot
allow the enemy to pervert and corrupt your administrative capacity to destroy what
we are called to build and protect, and lastly, women, you cannot afford to offer
your Bodies to fallen [spirits] angels’ knowns as sons of God to birth illegitimate,
rebellious sons in the earth again. Genesis chapter 6
We are
today is women today engaging in sexual intercourse with demonic spirits to gain
influence, power, authority to push their agenda of male dominance.
Then
one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and told me, “Come, I will show
you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. 2The kings
of the earth were sexually immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were
intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” … Revelation 17:1-2
Spirits
carry no gender
When
we deal with a Satanic force like Goliath, we should know that we are dealing with
in terms of the spiritual character that would manifest on the battleground. In
most cases, we might find ourselves dealing with an intimidating, domineering male
figure kind of character, that takes advantage of our lack of spiritual covering,
insecurity, fear, and of course, the lack of the assurance of the presence of God.
Spiritual
things are not limited, or necessarily defined by the gender they dress to manifest
themselves. I shall further explain is concept
later, because I do think it’s highly important we deal with this misconception
the enemy has often used to shut down certain important issues and teachings we
need to carry out in the Body of Christ or even in the society because we don’t
want to sound to be offending the opposite sex.
There’s
no room for ignorance or sentiment in this season of advanced warfare. There’s a reason why the Father sent his Son to
die for humanity as a male man and not a woman, and there’s a reason why wisdom
is often referred to as a figure of a woman. If you study the book of revelation,
you’ll immediately notice that the ultimate battle is between two women and not
two men. In fact, the battle of creation right from the book of Genesis to the book
of the end-revelation is about two women, two kinds of wisdom, and two types of
knowledge.
God did
not create the woman as the man’s competitor; no. Elohim, in his sovereign wisdom,
authority, and power created the woman as man’s [complement] completion. If this
perspective is not clear, we will always embrace the humanist narrative of the New
Age which has almost succeeded in putting the woman against the man, and this is
the number one reason many Churches, marriages and families are imploding and collapsing
today.
Everything
the Father does, carries a unique, prophetic, fingerprint objective, and we should
carefully seek to understand his ways and arrangements of life in the light of these
objectives, including the role and position of the female and male, man, so we don’t
fall into the deception of the New Age spirit that is pushing certain feminist narrative
that is painting God as bias or sexist. We must track and unravel the nature of
spirit manifesting through an antagonistic, feminist and humanist character.
If we
neglect to address this important aspect, am afraid that we have bought into the
very narrative the enemy wants the Church and the nations to accept. Both the beautiful
image, character, and inherent administrative value of women is currently under
relentless assault, and many of our sisters, particularly, our church women have
not yet truly identified this attack, even though we all can see these devastating
assaults against our homes and family institutions. So, let us attempt to define what the spirit of
Jezebel is as we continue to unravel the operation of this evil spirit.
DEFINING
THE SPIRIT OF JEZEBEL
And you
know what is now restraining him, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains
it will continue until he is taken out of the way. 8And then the lawless one will
be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate
by the majesty of His arrival.… 2 Thessalonians 2:6-8
Revelation
2:18
From
the points we’ve highlighted we can begin to have a vivid image of this entity anointed
to fight and resist the plan and purposes of God for a nation, society, family,
and individuals. We must make it plain again that while the default operational
framework of this spirit function through the persona of a female character, it
is, however, not a female spirit as we have explained, nor is the spirit limited
to a woman character as much as it prefers a woman character to operate.
Jezebel
is an operational, governmental principality that is set up from the powers of darkness
to frustrate the redemptive and prophetic initiatives of God over nations. To effectively
identify the image and character of this spirit we will have to go to the book of
Revelation. Any spirit we see in the Old Testament that shows up again in the book
of revelation is worthy of note because there’s every likelihood that we are dealing
with a territorial and generational principality.
Like
I’ve said earlier, Jezebel is a principality assigned over realms that seeks to
control, corrupt, hinder, frustrate and destroy in order and pattern of God’s intent.
When our Lord Jesus Christ described Satan as a thief that has come to steal, kill,
and destroy, this description perfectly fit into the character of Jezebel.
Beyond
the fact that Jezebel kills the prophets of God and send the Saints into hiding,
she is in fact, a thief that forcefully takes want doesn’t belong to her and kills
the owner as we see in the case of Naboth [1 Kings 21:5-6]. This spirit goes further to destroy men’s identity
by emasculating their manhood by destroying the entire family order and system of
existence. Further still, Jezebel turns the hearts of a whole nation from serving
the true God according to the biblical pattern of worship to serving Baal which
is her primary objective.
In other
words, the pursuit of idol worship [the worship of self, feminism] and sexual perversion
is the trademark of the spirit of Jezebel when she is unleashed upon society. The
scripture informs us that when Jehu was sent to carry out the final judgment of
God upon Jezebel that she beautifies her face and dressed her heir, postured herself
by the window to entice Jehu.
If Jehu
was never (empowered by the Spirit) anointed by the prophet of God for this high-level
assignment, I believe that Jehu would have been seduced by Jezebel’s charm, and
he would have been able to carry out the execution against her. All the Spirit of the Lord is highlighting regarding
this evil spirit has a direct implication and lesson for us today, so, we are not
entrapped by the seductive, destructive spirit of Jezebel.
Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that
day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness a is revealed,
the man doomed to destruction. 4He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything
that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple,
proclaiming himself to be God. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
The spirit
of Jezebel is one of the major high places that demands we collaborate our God-given
governmental grace, resources, and capacity to effectively deal with, less, our
children and the next generation continue to suffer her attack. It took a three-generational
anointing to finally destroy this spiritual entity wearing the persona of a woman.
My prophetic
mandate is to unmask the architectural structure of this powerful Satanic spirit
that has crawled into the very framework of society and is now expressing false
prophetic and teaching spirit within the Body of Christ.
As we
can see according to the book of Revelation chapter two that this Satanic spirit
took upon herself a persona of a prophet and claimed the position of a teacher.
These are two profound areas that shape the minds and believe system of the people
of God, and the society we are assigned to disciple, and if we allow this spirit
to capture the office and ministry of the prophet and that of the teacher, our apostolic
thrust is as good as being compromised. It’s important we state this point clear
that there’s no bias in the Father; he does not choose sides.
To limit
our acceptance or rejection of the spirit of Jezebel on the premise of gender indeed,
reflects our immaturity and the lack of spiritual understanding regarding the ministry
of redemption, of cause, to live in some form of self-denial in the operation of
this spirit within individuals, families, community and nations is to have bought
the lies and deception of the enemy. The
Enemy throughout history as used the card of race, gender, religion, culture, and
inequality to mention a few, to perpetuate his destructive agenda, but the church
itself, in her spiritual blindness, has exacerbated this evil.
God in
his wisdom, created male and female as part of his eternal prophetic plan and governmental
administrative executives on earth. The structure of community which begins from
the family unit is a powerful expression of the Father’s wisdom and creativeness
in growing and developing humanity. These two organs of government called man and
woman carries a unique assignment in the support and execution of the Father’s eternal
program on earth. We shall later expand on this thought as we continue to develop
the foundational framework of this subject.
The first
time I did an intensive teaching on this subject was in the year 2001, and in fact,
I found one of the notes I wrote back then on this subject recently, and the truth
is, there’s still a great sense of relevancy and coherency to what the Spirit of
the Lord said back then to the current emphasis of the Spirit of the Lord. The only
difference is that my understanding of interpreting what was written then is now
broadened and clearer as the spirit of wisdom has brought perspective and maturity
in the arts of prophetic insight and interpretation.
The nature
of spiritual activity today has drastically changed at an accelerated level since
2001 yet, the problems back then, are as vicious and complex as they are today.
But as we can see, these challenges, particularly, the attack on race, morality,
truth, justice, and religious rights have become more hostile to the point of polarizing
society. It’s as if the stage is being set for the anti-Christ, the man of sin to
take the stage openly.
The manifestation
of Satanic forces of the earth has been so unprecedented, and therefore, it will
be right for us to begin to contextualize the present prophetic activity of God,
particularly when we examine what is currently playing out within the political
ideology of the nations around the world but in particular, the United State of
America due to its power and influence globally. It is important we thoroughly
examine the present battle taking place in America, to appreciate the degree of
the influence and impact of the spirit of Jezebel.
4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.
By Isaiah-Phillips Akintola
CONTINUATION
{2 Kings 9:30-35}
SEASONS OF INCREASED TRUTH INCREASES SPIRITUAL COMPETENCE
Revelation 17:1-2
One of the seven angels who had
poured out the seven bowls came over and spoke to me. “Come with me,” he said,
“and I will show you the judgment that is going to come on the great
prostitute, who rules over many waters. 2The kings of the world have committed
adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk
by the wine of her immorality.”
Our [kings] political and
spiritual leaders have falsely joined themselves in sexual intercourse with the
spirit of the harlot to pervert the holy seed; Churches within the nations are
today infested with a familiar spirit, occultic practices has almost replaced
authentic worship; ministry born through the influence of fallen angelic beings
with the daughters of men are replacing the voice of true apostolic ministry.
Strangers have become a legitimate voice within the house of God demanding the
worship of the Saints.
A different believe the system
has become the accepted culture and ideology that rules and guide the
leadership within the walls of the Church. Idolatry has replaced the worship of
the true God. The worship of mammon, [charm] beauty, gifts, talents,
personality drive, have all been exchanged for the position of truth and the
values of kingdom validation.
Our paradigms have been
distracted and shifted from the journey to Zion, to now turning back to the way
to Egypt. We have been invaded; we have been captured, and we are now being led
into captivity within the unregenerated minds of our soul. [Exodus 32:1-5] Many
have now gathered for themselves teachers that only tells them what they want
to hear. If what they hear does not suit their narrative of political
correctness and religious tolerance, they discard such truth, and claim, we
don’t have love. [2 Timothy 4:1-5]
Jezebel’s high places have almost
replaced true worship centers across the nations. We are not only seeing high
places being built for the worship of Baal and other foreign gods within our
societies and its various government institutions, but these high places are
also powerfully being built within our homes and various communities.
Behind the so-called worship,
praise, sermons, teachings, training, and programs we offer, are unbelievable
spirits of compromise found. Many of our leaders have dedicated themselves to
the worship of foreign gods; Satanic and demonic activities are taking place
behind the cotton walls of our worship center to stir the heart of the Father
to jealousy. Read Ezekiel chapter 8.
They’ve been numerous teachings,
books, and materials released from time to time in the Body of Christ regarding
the spirit and character nature of Jezebel, which I believed were quite
interesting and helpful in many ways to the Body of Christ, particularly,
amongst those graced in the spirit of intercession and spiritual warfare.
We have, however, witnessed in
the past two decades, an increase in the ascended, revelation of Christ, and
the use of advanced, prophetic tools within the context of the ministry of
wisdom, even as the light of the kingdom of God becomes more visible in our
day.
These two inputs have
exponentially increased our position of light within the systemic darkness of
the day and have also accelerated our understanding regarding the subtle
operations of the forces of darkness, both within the Church and across the
shifting sociocultural identity battle within the nations. Indeed, only in the
ever-increasing light of Christ do we have increased light to recognize and
uncover the various systemic, Satanic activity of darkness in this Age.
Both the operation and weapons of
darkness in our day have changed from how we used to be able to identify them
in the past, to a more vicious, but subtle form of an attack playing out on the
platforms of what defines our identity, faith, morality, family values, and
economic provision.
However, the deadliest attack of
this New Age Jazebelic attack is directly targeted toward disfiguring human
identity and destroying the biblical spiritual foundation and framework of
godliness. The mystery of iniquity is viciously attacking anyone who desire to
live by the mystery of godliness, but we know that the mystery of godliness at
the long run will overcome these forces of darkness.
I do not believe that the
challenge regarding this subject is merely around the exposure of the spirit of
Jezebel as a present-day Satanic, operating system, as important as this is. I,
however, believe that the Church’s focus should be more about developing the
required leadership, governmental wisdom, courage, and attitude, willing to
precisely identify, confront, and uproot the systemic architectural layout of
the spirit of Jezebel within the Church and in the society.
The Saints needs to be resourced
on around sound, biblically governmental, intercessory maturity and authority
in confronting this wicked, territorial, spirit, and this is what I hope to
achieve through these series of teachings.
The biblical spiritual quality
standard that will uncover and neutralize the operation of Jezebel today will
have to carry a more advanced, governmental position of authority than what was
exercised under the Old covenant for several reasons we must identify.
In other words, our current
apostolic position of hindsight, insight, and foresight of biblical history,
doctrinal balance, and the discerning knowledge of the present ecclesia
position us in a better spiritual location to proceed and maneuver our
strategies in confronting this high-power principality of a spirit called
Jezebel.
The abdication of leadership
position
Read Genesis chapter 6
The only reason why we are
seeking to deal with this issue today is due to the rebellion and the
abdication of leadership position and authority from Church leaders just as we
saw in the Garden. When Adam abdicated his governmental position and influence
over the space heaven authorized him to dress and watch, Satan came in to displayed
and dispossessed him of his identity as a man, as a husband, and of course, as
a father.
“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way”.
[Mathews 13:25]
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one. The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels [Mathews 13:38,39]
And I will keep on doing what I
am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to
be considered equal with us in the things they boast about. 13 For such people
are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not
surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness.
Their end will be what their actions deserve. 2 Corinthians 11: 12-15
IMAGE OF THE BEAST AND THE
BATTLE OF
THE WOMAN’S IDENTITY IN UNCOVERING
JEZEBEL.
There’s no doubt that we are
dealing with the same spirit that showed up during the days of Elijah, but the
current operation and manifestation of this spirit has become even more
advanced, systematic, and governmental in appearance according to our text
scripture in Revelation 2:18-23
Arguably, this topic is one of
the most sensitive subjects, and to an extent, divisive in many parts of
Christian communities. However, the relevancy and timing of this subject are
extremely important to the present emphasis of the Spirit, if the mandate of
the kingdom must become a true, effective reality in our day and generation.
Due to the Immature mishandling
and the imbalance approach to the doctrinal and prophetic teaching around the
understanding of this subject, many, particularly, women, have become offended,
resistant, and in some cases have outrightly rejected the notions around the
spirit of Jezebel because they deem it as a direct attack on their gender, and
to a large extent, they are right.
The point however is, the lack of
understanding regarding how to precisely diagnose and interpret what the Lord
is showing us through this character that took the woman’s persona to manifest
its atrocious evil on humanity is what needs to be dealt with in this season of
increased hate, division, and destruction.
Accurate biblical kingdom
principle, values and interpretation of truth relating to this subject are
critical, especially when the false narrative behind the character and
authority of women has almost been accepted as the truth. The fact is, they’ve
been many instances where men, in political and spiritual leadership, have
sought to use inaccurate interpretation of the word of God to promote their own
religious, traditional beliefs, bias, and false, masculine agendas against
women.
We should never forget that most
of what we claim to be biblical in terms of beliefs and practices are nothing
more than the extension of our ancient, cultural beliefs and values. Many are
still practicing what I term as environmental Christianity. This Christianity
accepts the predominant societal values and practices, embraces ancestral
rites, beliefs and practice, it imports humanist values, racial prejudice,
gender superiority, and other forms of biases that are totally misrepresenting
the ordained order, value and standard of God for his creation, and of course,
against the established apostolic framework of the function of the Ecclesia’s
community.
The Church of the Lord is not the
extension of our culture, tradition or even patriotic national identity; the
Church has been called out of such values, and it should be related to from
such ascended, perspective regarding any matter or subject we are dealing
with. The Church was assigned to set a
better quality of lifestyle and relationship in society.
How ideologies that shaped
societal practice.
Often, when dealing with certain
issues in society or even within the context of the Bible, we forget that the
world we live in today has been shaped by various beliefs, values, ideologies
that were embraced by those who ruled and reign during the ancient
civilizations. These philosophies were approved on the backdrop of imperial
decrees, political status and influence, which are products of powerful men in
the society with economic advantage who often occupy high religious positions.
These beliefs and wrong values established by
men were centered around state security and the power of family and business succession.
It was a general belief that the male child will be in a better position to
secure the name and wealth of the family, and this belief filtered into the
extended society.
These nations divide society into
compartments, of Royal born, The high class, low class, and slaves. Men were
defined and seen as instrument of strength, war, and political rulers. The
woman on the other hand were also classified into Royal born, high class,
priestess, middle class [those born into the home of merchants, servant of
Royal born or military generals] and slaves.
It is almost seen as a curse if a
family doesn’t have a male child. The two most powerful and influential
civilizations which were the Roman and Greek reconfigured how the human being
is to be examined, valued and defined.
God’s word and its precise
interpretation should always define where we stand in our personal or
worldview. Taking one aspect of biblical truth like the popular one, where Paul
said that women should be quiet in the house of God, and if they have any
question regarding what was preached, they should discuss it with their husband
when they get home.
Unfortunately, scripture like
this has been extremely abused due to the lack of doctrinal knowledge, historic
background, and what could be defined as the practice of tradition imported
into the community of the Saints. This was a statement that was made to curtail
an increase of wrong attitude, arguments, subordination, confusions, and
disorderliness that was publicly playing out between husbands and wives who had
been once culture by the general believe system and practice of the dominant
philosophy of their day.
The freedom and liberty these new
converts were beginning to enjoy in the community of the Saints were being
perverted to the degree of almost creating anarchy in the household of God, and
Paul had to step in as the Apostle of God in bringing judgement and correction.
Apparently, this was a growing
problem amongst the new converts who were joining the community of the early
Church. The liberty many enjoyed when they came into the assembly of the Saints
were being taken for granted to the point the Church became an open ground to
settle personal, domestic issues.
The liberty and recognition
ordinary women were never given in the society to express their spiritual or
political opinion under the Roman law and the Greek culture was something new
they had in the community of the Body of Christ when the joined. Unfortunately,
these liberties were being abused and misused as wives challenge their husbands
openly without respect and regards to the sanctity of the house of God.
Both the Greek and the Roman culture, and of cause, the Rabbinic Jewish tradition, impact a great deal on the belief and character ideologies of the people while they were being integrated into the early Church community just as it is today.
The point here is, Apostle Paul
was establishing a different order and pattern for the Saints lifestyle; a
community whose domestic expression should reflect the value, order,
discipline, respect and honor in place of the compromised, prevalent culture of
the environment of the day which was categorized in dominance, disrespect and
lawlessness.
Ephesians 5
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22, Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing b her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 1 Corinthians 14:34
Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. Anyone who have studied the book of Corinthians one would appreciate the depth of confusion and factionist attitude in the Church while they boast of their individual gifts and preferred ministers.
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Luke 8:
1 After this, Jesus traveled
about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the
kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, 2 and also some women who had been
cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven
demons had come out; 3 Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s
household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them
out of their own means.
The position of defining and
understanding spiritual authority is still very vague today in the Church
unfortunately. Many of the things we are doing in terms of ministry
functionality and their administrations are unfortunately carried out either
through some passed down denominational traditions, religious bias, or a total
resistance, and defiance of the former set rules. This is what has fueled many
of the breakaway in the Body of Christ, and the feminist narrative agenda even
within the church space today.
My intention
My intention however on this
critical subject is not one with bias, or with the agenda to offend any person,
especially women, after all, we are all sons of God, assigned to address every
high place and strongholds of darkness, position to exalt themselves above the
knowledge and wisdom of God over the nations.
Dealing with spiritual high
places cuts across gender, race, social status, age, and spiritual rankings.
Everyone must understand the role we have to play in bringing down this
towering spirit of a principality by the name Jezebel. We know that the manifestation of certain
spirits or demonic character uses either a male or female gender to express a
peculiarity objective within the context of an assault that is launched by the
enemy.
2 Corinthians 10
4 The weapons of our warfare are
not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish [high
places] strongholds. 5 We tear down arguments, and every presumption set up
against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it
obedient to Christ. 6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience,
as soon as your obedience is complete.
One of the things that make the spirit of Jezebel more threatening and dangerous than the other forms of Satanic operatives is for the fact she has the power to alter what you think, see, believe, and ultimately worship. She has the capacity to multiply herself through her seed and the altars she builds in places known as the high places across societies. We shall later examine the characteristics of the spirit.
