DEFEATING JEZEBEL PART 1 | DR MIKE WOODS | 3 MAY 2026

Wonderful sight. Savior. Um, this morning we're going to talk, um, yeah, about defeating Jezebel. Somebody say that with me. Say, defeating Jezebel. I want to give you some spiritual intelligence on why, as an apostolic hub, one of our chief purposes is to defeat this spirit. If we're not careful, this spirit will not only run the region and the territory, but it'll also run the church. And we have to defeat this spirit. Say that one more time. We have to defeat— say it's not an option— Jezebel. All right, so let's go to Revelation 2:20. We're just going to jump in it. Glory to God. Revelation 2:20. I don't know, I'm just drunk. I can't see with my glasses or my eyes. I can see, but it just still looks the same. Glory to Jesus. Revelation 2:20, the Bible says, but I have this against you. And this is the Lord talking to the church. He said, I have this against you. So we don't want the Lord to have nothing against us. Let me just, let me just deal with that. You don't want God to have anything against you, but this is clear, he can. He loves you, but he can have issues with you and I when we're out of line. Are y'all hearing this? Say that with me. Say, I cannot afford to have the Lord against me. Now he tells them why he's against them. He said that you tolerate this woman Jezebel— watch this— that calls herself a prophetess. Let me just, let me just say it again, that calls herself a prophetess. Whole lot of that going on. And she teaches and leads my bondservants astray. Oh my God. So that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. So God says, I got something against my church because you're tolerating this woman that calls herself a prophetess. It's dangerous, first of all, to label yourself something you're not. And then secondly, for us as the church to be accepting of that label just because somebody said this is who they are, it's a dangerous thing. Because when you allow people into the sacred space of the kingdom who have not been qualified, who have not been called. Watch it. To whom he calls, he qualifies. So again, I, I was telling people in Vicksburg, I was saying we had a great move of God in Vicksburg. I was just telling them it's not enough for us to have good church and fall on the floor and holler and scream. But what you do has not been qualified. Are y'all hearing this? Because if God called you, he's going to make sure you're operating in the qualification. And the word qualified in the Greek there, the word lestis, means unless you become excellent. Lest you become excellent. Who he calls, he causes to become excellent. So mediocrity in the calling— watch this— many times is a sign that someone has called themself. Okay, I'm going to go back here because, yeah, y'all looking like y'all want to fight already. I just got started. But as a church, we cannot tolerate this. Are y'all hearing this? We have to deal with it. We have to confront it. I believe as a church, when we say something, it should mean something, especially as an apostolic hub. We should confront things instead of complaining about them. The church does more complaining than confronting. When we have power to confront systems, to confront structures, to confront the things that are happening in our society, but we're too silent. We tolerate it. Yeah. So we, we, we will, we'll have church every weekend, act like— there are churches in our city that operate under this spirit of Jezebel. Don't exist. We can't do it. We have to confront it. That's why we won't be the most popular ministry in Georgia, not for what we do in here. Maybe the things we erect in the marketplace when we build Rother City, that, that'll create another level of influence outside of the church, but we'll never get popular for this. Because we got to confront the systems that be and declare them powerless. Why? Because they lead servants astray. Watch this. Notice someone that was totally committed to God— this, it says, a bond slave. It can leave a slave away from their master. That's how strong the spirit is. Not from the ministry, he'll pull you from God. That's why we got to confront him. Say, I need the Lord. So you can't afford to have anything that leads you astray. So we're going to confront this this morning. We're going to— I'm going to give you some spiritual intelligence on this spirit and how we defeat it. Come on, say it again. We gotta defeat Jezebel because it caused them— watch this— it caused us to go astray when we buy in. It causes people to act in immorality. God knows that ain't God. The church, God help, should not look like the world. There should be a difference. And guess what? We should be the ones that make the difference. Leviticus 10:10, it would have been up there, but just go there. It says, that you may put difference. Are y'all hearing this? You, you, you, just, just get real rude next to someone and say, you. Yeah, that you may put difference. So God's not going to show up and make the difference for you. He says you put difference between that which is holy and unholy. So when people are outside the church, they shouldn't be looking into the church and see a stranger in the house. This is why a lot of people don't go to church, because when they look in the church, they see strange stuff. And listen, because they look in and say, oh my God, the church is doing the stuff we do. Are y'all hearing this? They're whoring in the church. Why should I go? Okay, okay, well, let me go over here. Because this side want to throw something at me. So let me stand over here until y'all get right. Y'all get saved over there, I'll come back. I'm just kidding. Listen, the reality is if the world looks in and sees a culture that looks like them, that's strange to them. Oh, they lying at the church. Well, I'm gonna go to the church. There are homosexuals at the church. Why I'm going? And watch this, it's not just that. I'm not saying— watch this, we love homosexuals, we love whores, we love, we love everybody. We hate sin because God hates sin. Yeah, just say it again then. Okay, it's all right. That's new. Okay, what kind of spirit is that? A parakeet or something? I just, I just said that. What's going on? Anyway, apparently that needed to be in the mouth of two or three, the same person. Let it be established, the same mouth said it again. Okay, so we, we love everybody, we hate sin, but the church has to put difference So that means we come here to change. We can't have the preacher being a whore. Oh, y'all not talking to me here. Y'all looking at me crazy. Normally I would say hoe. So y'all, what— I'm trying to help y'all now. Okay, we love whores, we love homosexuals, we love lesbians, but we can't— I can't be the preacher and be a whoremonger. Are y'all hearing this? I can't sleep with my daughters. That's spiritual incest. And the reason it's in the body is because it's at the helm. Watch this, it's— listen, I ain't even talking about the ones that done got caught. There are people doing this stuff that ain't even got exposed yet. They think it's okay. And that spirit— watch this— because the— watch this— the anointing, whether it's the anointing of God or the anointing of the devil flows from the head down. So you have a community of people doing the same thing the head is doing. If you ever go into a church and you see there's a bunch of people who are behaving the same way, the kingdom is always a reflection of the king. So if Jesus is not being exalted as king of the culture then people won't act like Jesus because church has become iconolistic and people come for likes and clicks and popularity. Amen. All right, this is why people go to church these days, but we'll show up and follow popularity and we will dismiss the need for power and real kingdom culture. So the world then will look and say, okay, I ain't going in there because they are just like us. Put difference between holy and unholy, clean and unclean. Part of the reasons we see these things, because we tolerate the spirit of Jezebel. Another reason I'm teaching this this morning is because with all of the things that are before us Yes, come on. As a church, as a body, we got a contract on a $1 million building that we have decreed we going to pay off in 12 months. And God spoke to me last night and said, if we don't defeat Jezebel and get Jezebel out of our minds, we will never accomplish the things that he's put before us. So we got to defeat this demon. We got to fight. That's why those boxing gloves are there. She don't just go away. She has to be defeated. And defeat for Jezebel is destruction. Are y'all hearing this? We're— we have to do something that is very seldom done. Where God would take a small grassroots group of people. Are y'all hearing this? And do things like build the Rother City on the 33 acres, buy a building for a million dollars with a small congregation like this. Are y'all hearing this? In order to do that, your mind's got to be free from this spirit. And we don't— you say, I ain't got no— we're gonna see in a minute. Because I'm gonna give you some intelligence because we're gonna expose it, and I really want you to look at yourself and, and ways you have been Jezebelic. Okay, all right, because we got to get this done. Are y'all hearing this? So I teach like this because I want you to actually do what we're teaching. I want to see the Jezebel. She kills vision. Are y'all hearing this? So let's get in this, let's get into it. I wish I had my notes so y'all can see, but anyway, so let's start right here. The spirit realm is more real than you think. As a matter of fact, it is more real than the natural realm. Everything that is visible comes from that which is invisible. Okay, let me just give you a prime example. In your body, you cannot see your thoughts. Okay, if you ever saw your thoughts, let's have a talk later, okay? You can't see your thoughts. We can cut open your cranium, pull your brain out. You— all you're going to see is a body part, an organ, a brain. But the brain has no significance without invisible thought. Are y'all hearing this? And of course, we do know there are some folk walking around with a brain and they still really don't have no significance because ain't no thought in there. We know there's some folk like that, we're praying for them. All right, just don't let that be you. But your brain has thoughts. The significance of that organ is what is going through it, the neurons that cause you to see images, which are called thoughts, which is how you speak, how you move, how you react to life. But it is invisible. The realm of the spirit is what makes life work. Watch this again. It's more real than the natural realm. Say that with me. Say it's more real than the natural realm. Can I teach this? We hear people say all the time, God is real. You ever met them folks and you trying to tell them about Jesus, or you trying to invite them to church? Well, I got a relationship with God. Yeah, I'm— I don't go to church, but I'm spiritual. You ain't that spiritual if you don't go to church. 'Cause how can you hear without a preacher? How can he preach except he be sent? You need faith. Come by hearing. It takes faith to have spirituality. You need to be in the church so you can grow spiritually, man. God, I was listening to Pastor Jerry. If you did not listen to that message Thursday night, if you wasn't in this building I'm going to challenge every person to go and watch that message. He taught a message about faith that is so necessary. You— and the reality is, you— he just got into that thing when he was doing like this. You, you cannot expect to receive nothing from God because you wavering, right? You just flopping all over the place. He said that person should not expect to receive nothing Are y'all hearing this? So you might as well pull your expectation down if you can't believe. So you got to tap into the invisible because faith is invisible. You cannot see it. God knows I'm not— I'm not going to teach that again because he really taught a good message. Here's the reality: most people who believe God is real Y'all ready for this? They never had encounters that proved their belief. So as a church, it's important that we make sure people have encounters. We can't do that when Jezebel is running the church, when Jezebel is in control. Because everything that happens in the experience is centered around that spirit. We're going to talk about that in a minute. So first of all, I want you to write these things down. There's a real war going on, and if we're going to win this war, you got to understand your enemy. First of all, you got to understand that every war is fought on battlegrounds. Say battlegrounds. And there are 3 battlegrounds God, I wish I had my slides, my God, so y'all can see it. There are 3 battlegrounds that this war is fought on. Number 1, the battleground of the church. Say that with me, say the battleground of the church. And when I say church, I'm not talking about this building. The church is the ecclesia. That's the Greek word for church. It's the called out ones. You and I are the church. So the warfare that's happening is being waged not against a gathering or an assembly, is being waged as individuals. Are y'all hearing this? Who have declared, I am the church, who have received the call from God to be separate from the world. Okay, this is why you're— you go through so many obstacles. This is why the enemy throws attacks at your health. He throws attacks at your children. He throws attacks at your money. He throws attacks, glory to God, at your profession. And he throws attacks at your dreams and your vision and your ministry, because at the end of the day, he does not want to see you, hallelujah, advance the kingdom. And watch this, represent the church for real. Say, I am the church. So the battle takes place in the church. The second place is the battleground of the heavenlies. So there is a war going on in the second heaven. So not the first heaven where airplanes fly, but above, and, and where you can see stars, but right above that there's something called the second heaven. Don't have time to teach about that this morning, but the reality is there are principalities and demonic forces and regional strongholds that exist in the second dimension of heaven. And there's a battle going on in the heavenlies, watch this, between the spirit of Elijah and the spirit of Jezebel. See, we don't even see this invisible battle and we don't understand why prophetic and apostolic types and churches are fought with such violence. Hear me, glory to— listen, I don't care what y'all say, the reality is you, you can— don't be a contributor to the devil's agenda. Let me just say it like that. You all on social media and you sharing this, and maybe not in here, but somebody watching, sharing this stuff about Prophet Korn. Let me tell you something, you better be very careful. That's this spirit's agenda. I— oh, he was— everybody messes up. He messed up. But the Bible gave you explicit instructions on how to deal with somebody that falls. Let me just say that right here, okay? Yeah, okay, because, because people get in there and they rejoice in that he's going to jail for 9 months. That's foolishness. The Bible says if you see your brother overtaken in a fault— here we go— you that are spiritual Okay, see, see, that's the problem right there. Pneumaticos, spiritual, who have the behavior of mature people. You, you, the immature only kill their wounded. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. The, the immature only try to destroy people. Y'all not talking here. And most of these preachers that's trying to destroy him, they're doing it because they're mad 'Cause they never had the platform, the influence that God gave him. Y'all ain't got to like— I'm telling, we gotta confront this spirit. 'Cause one thing I know, whether we trust it or believe it or not, that the man is a prophet. Y'all ain't got to say nothing to me here. And the spirit of Jezebel hates prophets. So we have to be careful because there's a war going on in the heavenlies. Jezebel is trying to silence the prophet. Jezebel is trying to kill truth. So that's why you have prophetic ministries that struggle financially. They can't keep the doors open. They don't have partners. They don't have givers. Y'all not talking to me here because at the end of the day, Jezebel is doing everything in her power to shut down the voice of the prophet. Yeah, listen, that's what I'm telling you now. This thing with Prophet Cohen is not— it's a sign to us that we need to deal with Jezebel. Okay, he broke the law. The law is for the lawless. We— but I don't want him to stay in jail 9 months. So my prayer is that he get out before then. My prayer is that just all of this have taught him something. He comes out and he be better. Are y'all hearing this? This is how we be the church. What does it profit you if you speak with tongues and men and angels and have not love? It profits you nothing. You can prophesy and speak with tongues of men and angels. The Bible said if you have not love, it's a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. You just making noise. And it's Jezebel that will fool people to believe that because they're exposing somebody, that that's what God wants them to do. No, that's the devil, because it gives the church a blow we don't need, because we already don't have the credibility we should have with the world. So we should not be publishing our business in the street. Oh, y'all ain't got to say nothing to me here. Oh, glory to God! David told the, uh, Sanhedrin, he said, listen, this happened over here, but publish this not in Gath. Don't publish this among the people Everything ain't for everybody. If it happens in the house, it should stay in the house. Okay, yeah, okay. We handle failure wrong and it hurts more people than it should. I mean, the boy— let me just get off of that, okay? Battleground of the heavens. Jezebel, Elijah. And the third battleground is the battleground of the mind. Shabba, okorian, you made up your mind that you're gonna serve God and that you're gonna live for him. And because of the greatness in you, because of who God has called you to be. Glory to God. It ought to be a sign when you fighting battles, glory to God, that you somebody great. Glory to God. The enemy ain't attacking you because you ain't carrying nothing. He's attacking you because of what you carry. He's attacking you because of who you are. He's attacking you because of where you're going. Where's the church this morning? Listen, I need you to understand, If you've been going through anything, don't take it for granted. You've been going through it because there's somewhere you're going. Hallelujah! I just touch your belly and say, I'm going somewhere. Glory to God! This thing ain't about where you are, it ain't about where you've been. The attacks are about where you're going. The devil is mad that you're progressing, that you made up your mind Oh, y'all ain't got to help me here. I dare you just look at somebody real quick and tell them, tell the devil I changed my mind. Oh, tabasa tabaya. See, you gotta get your mind off of yesterday and the things you used to do, and you gotta change your mind. I see y'all gonna make me work hard again today. I know what you're doing. I'm gonna tell you later. I know what you're doing. Y'all ain't slick. I know what you're doing. Glory to God. Watch this. So Jezebel then is not a red dress, it's not fingernail polish. Jezebel is not makeup, cuz the old church had a lack of revelation. Again, I think the preacher ran— run out of stuff to create legalism around and start telling the women, if you got on red fingernail polish— are y'all hearing this? You're Jezebel. Got on pants, that's a Jezebel spirit. Yeah, a few of y'all would be in hell this morning. Y'all was in the church I used to go to. Yeah, you be on your way right now. Sooner you walked in the door, the preacher would have changed his message. Yeah, we got some Jezebels in here today. But Jezebel is not pants. She's not jewelry. Are y'all hearing me? Jezebel is a real spirit employed by the kingdom of darkness to wreak havoc on the church. And to understand this spirit We gotta take a close look at the genesis of Jezebel and her personality in the Bible. So let's look at this, uh, 1 Kings 19, and we're going to read verses 14 through 18. Y'all stay with me this morning. 1 Kings What'd I say? 19, verses 14 and 18. We can't tolerate Jezebel. The Bible says this: He said, I have been very jealous for the the Lord of hosts, because the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, slain your prophets with the sword, and I, I only am left. They seek my life to destroy it. And this is again, this is Elijah steps into this cave, right? Because he's afraid of Jezebel. So most of his movement, he knows what Jezebel is doing. And this dude, he hid under the juniper tree, all in caves, because she killing prophets. He said, now look, I'm the only real prophet that's left. And watch this, Jehu was created to slay false prophets. He is an apostolic type in the Old Testament because he slayed 400 false prophets to prove— watch this— that God is more powerful than Jezebel. Can I submit to you right here, there is no power greater than the power of God. There's no power that can stop God's move or God's promise, including the spirit of Jezebel. That's why we cannot be afraid to confront this system. Now watch what the word of the Lord says here. And the Lord said to him, go, return to your way to the wilderness of Damascus. So get out of here. And when you arise, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. Now watch this, that's, that's a shift in government. So he says, now I want you to create a government that I have ordained in the world. Set up a king that I can rule through. Again, this shows you the power of the prophetic. We, if we don't defeat this demon, politicians will never hear us. Oh, y'all ain't got to say much. We should be able to empower senators, mayors, congressmen, presidents, and actually set them in place through our prophetic voice and our declaration of power. Watch this. We should have the power to speak what God says, and every time it shifts the vote. People go in the thing and don't even know why they voting for folk, because there's a power that'll be on them to press the button that aligns with his will. But if we don't understand the importance of putting the right people in place— oh God— and all we doing is just praying in here, laying in the floor in here, and we don't set up government that God can work through outside the church. Not one that's just talking about they believe in God. We need one that's going to yield to God. Here we go. Now here's Jehu. He says, and anoint Jehu son of Nishmai to be king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of— not Snapchat— Shaphat. Someone said, oh my God, Snapchat in the Bible. No, Shaphat. Shaphat of Abel-Meholah to be prophet in your place. And him who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall slay. And him who escapes the sword of Jehu Elisha shall slay. Yet here we go, I will leave myself 7,000 in Israel and all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him. Now watch this, this created a problem for Jezebel. She was hot. Because she was the one that caused them to forsake the cup, to destroy sacred altars. Watch this. In the church, let me just give you a quick SWOT analysis. I'm just gonna give you one point on each because this will take all day, but I'm gonna give you one point, the main one. So SWOT: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. So, and this is where the church is in this hour. Strengths we have— oh my God, a prophetic edge. That's a strength. The weakness is we don't use it. We got it but don't use it. We got a prophetic edge because we can hear God. We have his voice to our ear. And we should be able to empower nations, empower generations through our prophetic voice. But it is a weakness because we do not use it. As a matter of fact, many of us are divided. Apostles and prophets must create a collaborative to work together to use prophetic power. Otherwise we'll remain weak. So one of my friends and I, Apostle Lloyd Benson and myself, we have put together a— on the National Day of Prayer, me and him got together and said we're gonna pull together 40 apostles, and on the National Day of Prayer we're gonna pray for 12 hours. Come on, Jesus! Starting at 5 in the morning and going all the way to 5 in that afternoon. We're gonna do it via Zoom so people can get on, but just to show unity. And watch this, the Bible said when the apostles prayed in the book of Acts, the place was shaken, because we need to combat that weakness where we are divided. It starts with the heads coming together, saying we can work together. You have something I don't, I have something you don't. Let's bring it together so that we can make an impact in the world. Watch this. Prophets prophesy, apostles carry the government to bring prophecy to pass. A lot of prophecy goes unfulfilled because apostolic types are not spending time with those who receive prophecy to help them strategize governmentally in the spirit to bring to pass what has been spoken over their life. Okay, that's, that's another message for another day. But Jezebel will keep you Thinking, okay, just because we got the strength of the prophetic and we use it in our space, it's not enough for us. And then watch this, me and Apostle was talking yesterday. I was on the way home when I landed. I said, Apostle, the Lord told me— because we were gonna have— I was gonna have my— because me and him been on the same page and weren't even talking. Lord told me to have a meeting, and me and Pastor Jeff was planning it for apostles only. A retreat where we pull all apostles together, we lock ourselves in the room for 3 days, and we have round tables, we pray, we have speakers, and we talk about what's going on in the earth, in the church, and we release that to the world. Are y'all hearing this? Because NATO— NATO meets the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Every nation of the world except the BRICS nations, which is Great Britain, Russia, Indonesia, and China. The reality is every nation of the world comes to NATO. The heads of the states are there talking about the world, but the church is in their corner building their own kingdom. God says, Michael, bring the heads together. So I started this alliance, the Rother Alliance of Apostolic Ministries, where we will bring apostles in this regime who operate in unity. So I told the pastor, I said, God said to me, next year, sir, we're going to go to the nation's capital and we're going to get a venue in 2027, not far from the White House. And we're going to converge 2,000 apostles from around the world on the nation's capital. I said, God told me, and I saw a vision of all these apostolic types coming together. And we having a meeting for 4 days, and all we're doing is praying and preaching and teaching in the nation's capital and dialoguing about our world. I'm telling you, it's going to shake this nation because we need the heads together. It won't be about who's popular. Yes, sir. It won't be about who's got the most likes and clicks. Who's got the most partners and followers? Who's on TV? Who's in? Who's out? Who's hot? Who's not? Is we going to allow God, the Holy Ghost, to put in the place and give the mic to who he says needs it? So strengths, weaknesses, we don't use it. Opportunities We got the greatest opportunity ever. You know why? Because we have access to the world in your hand. Y'all hearing this? Your phone, your tablet, your computer. We have— we're right now— this message has the potential to touch billions of people if everybody shared it. We're, we're on 3 different Facebook pages. YouTube, Instagram, it's going TikTok, it's everywhere right now. If all the 40,000+ people that follow me really was on here watching this and shared it— are y'all hearing this? We could touch so many. Just think of what we are if we start doing that collectively, using the opportunity to confront Jezebel. And not destroy each other. Which brings me— so strength, we have prophetic power. Say that with me, say, I got prophetic power. Weaknesses, we don't use it. Say, I got to use my prophetic power. Opportunities, we have the ability to reach the world. Matter of fact, it's absolutely free. It's free. And guess what? I don't know how long it's gonna be free. They might start charging you to use these platforms, and we better maximize it while we can. The T is threats. And the threat we have— y'all ready for this?— is everyone is a journalist. That's a threat because guess what? There's a reason there are journalism programs in college, because there are certain things about writing you should learn before you just break out and start writing a story on social media. Every— people share stuff without fact-checking it. People write things that they don't even know if true or not. Watch this. And in the day of AI, they can depend on AI to pin a whole post just to try to make them look good. And, and man, listen, I'm telling you, if I see another— because AI makes fly— all the AI flyers look just alike. I need y'all to get a graphic designer, man. You cannot replace a graphic designer. Oh, I mean, all that same orangey color. It's the same stuff. They don't change the face of the people. You don't look that young. And again, the world is making it easy for everybody to be a journalist. I was talking to one guy, he said, man, you know, I think he thought he was celebrating this as a victory. He said, Apostle, man, I wrote this book and all I did was outline each chapter. I dropped it in ChatGPT and the whole book popped out. My first question to him was, did you read what ChatGPT wrote? I said, and no offense, because I mean, we was talking about the book I had in my hand, so I just opened up a page and I said, you couldn't have read this, right? Because this ain't even Bible. It don't align with God in no way. What's it? It's, it's, it's delusion. It's Jezebel. It's manipulation. Oh God, because you're making someone believe you did it. I can't tell you how many sermons this morning are being preached because people are using the hermeneutical prowlers of ChatGPT. We need to pray to preach. Are y'all hearing this? We pray to hear word from God. Listen, we— that's too easy, and it's a threat because it open— it's an idleness, because the idle mind is the devil's workshop. It opens the door for Jezebel to come in and manipulate and control what the people of God are hearing. Are y'all here? Okay, so Pastor Jeffrey, he's gifted. He wrote a whole— he did a whole album, but he partnered with AI the right way. Are y'all hearing this? See, it's a— it's an advantage if you use it right. You got to make AI an extension of you. Are y'all hearing this? Cuz AI is going to make a— this is the threat— it's going to make a whole lot of people extinct. True. Your real identity will go extinct when it should be an extension of who you are. You got to train it. To know you, so that when it does things for you, it does things based on you. Should be an assistant, not the CEO. Y'all hear? Okay, I'm coming quickly to a close. All right, so say we must defeat Jezebel. Must defeat Jezebel. To defeat means to win victory over someone in battle. Watch this: to overcome them or beat them down to death. That's what the real definition of defeat means. All right, so really we could call this killing Jezebel. Okay, because the only way to truly beat her is to kill her. She has no place in your life. Her name is from the Hebrew word zaval, which means where is the headship, or where is the prince or the king. Her name is boldly expressing, I'm in charge, and where is the leader that will stop me? Where is the entity that could shut me down? Are y'all here? We cannot allow that to be. Oh Jesus, help us. This is how she creeps in churches, gets in men and women as leaders, and they totally ignore Jesus and make ministry about them. And she's screaming, where is the king? If you go in many ministries today, you could propose that question. Oh God, help us. Worship is 10 minutes, the sermon is 15, and they out in 35, 40 minutes in a lot of churches because they want people to be able to get on with their day. As the— as if we are doing God a favor. Church should be Kingdom University. It should be an opportunity to soak in the presence of the King. We should never ask, where is Jesus, when we come to church. You ever been in a place and didn't feel God nowhere? Yeah, the atmosphere was jacked up, the people were doing crazy stuff. And you just like, God can't be in this. Glory. Jezebel's name also means without cohabitation, which means she needs no one. She operates on her own. God have mercy, cuz watch this. Jezebel will not dwell with anyone except she can rule the situation. True. Watch this. If something is controlling you, whether it's a person or entity, money, whatever the case may be, it comes out of the spirit because it wants to take you away from the leadership of God. Glory to God. But she must die. The Bible says that she was thrown out of a window. Yes. To her death and was eaten by dogs. Yeah. So we gotta throw her out the window. Yeah. We gotta kick her out of the church. Watch this. We gotta kick her out of the earth that belongs to God. Yeah. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, them and they that dwell therein. Glory to God. So let's, let's, let's get in. Let's look at this spiritual intelligence, because to understand this military intelligence, spiritual intelligence, they, they go hand in hand because you study your enemy, their strengths and weaknesses before you attack. Listen, we can't approach this lightly. We have to know how she operates. Are y'all here? So first, let's look— we can't understand her unless we understand who she worships. Let's go to Exodus 20. Hallelujah. Let's just lay a backdrop to this. So Exodus 20, verse 3, these are the Ten Commandments, of course. And I'm gonna read verse 5. He says, you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. Now we know she did just the opposite. She bowed down to other gods and she served them. We're gonna see that in a minute. I want you also, glory to God, to go to 2 Kings 9. Y'all getting anything so far? Believe it or not, I'm almost done. I know what y'all doing, making me teach long. I know what you're doing. I know what you're doing. Somebody just caught what I'm saying. I know what you're doing. Man, that's just come to church with agenda. We going to make Apostle go long so he won't call for service tonight. Lord, you ought to be ashamed letting Jezebel use you to try to manipulate the man of God. Glory to God. Look, Jezebel, she's labeled as a harlot, an adulteress, and she is a witch. Not a candle-burning witch. A goofy dust sprinkling witch. That stuff has no power. Listen, she's the witch that gets in systems. Watch this, that controls a president that could very well be a great president. But because he's yielded to the spirit of Jezebel— are y'all hearing this? She'll get in your husband and he won't listen to nothing you got to say. You'll lose your voice in your house. Are y'all hearing this? Because she's a witch. Yeah, I've seen the same thing. Women, he'll— she'll get in the way because watch this, Jezebel can be a man and a woman. Let me just say that this is a spirit. She just happened to be a physical woman that actually lived out the spirit, but this spirit can get on a man. But I've seen it with women so strong. I've seen times I, I've had a couple come and say, y'all give the testimony. The man will be holding the mic, she's not getting me, I'll tell it. That's not good. Man is head of the woman. Okay, Christ head of the man. Man head of the woman. I'm gonna say again, Christ head of the man. So the women in here don't like that. Man is— you ought to want a man that can lead. That'll take his role and be a leader. I ain't talking about being Jezebel, controlling, and then we don't get his way, he abuses you. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a man that really be a leader. But at the end of the day, if you get out of line as a woman— some of y'all got to deal with this while you single because maybe your husband might be delayed. Oh, y'all hearing this? Because God knows you might not submit. Are y'all hearing this now? And I get it. When I married my wife, uh, I mean, just in all transparency, this lady had been taking care of herself for a long time. Taking care of her children, raising her children. That's one of the major things that drew me to her. She knew how to be a single mom and have good success, and she was a Proverbs 31 woman. And when you marry a Proverbs 31 woman— are y'all hearing this? It's hard to get them to adjust. She ain't— listen, still, sometimes I have to say, hey, Okay, now that's enough. I said what I said now. But the reality is it took time for her to come into that place where she would just let me— I mean, just something as simple as me opening the door for her. I would find myself at the first part of the marriage just Even while we was dating, fussing about her opening the door. I'm like, why are you touching the door? I told her, I said, I'm gonna put some electricity on the door so every time you touch it— what was I talking about? Jezebel's a witch. What I'm saying is, as a single person, make sure Jezebel ain't causing a delay. Start practicing submission. And my husband asked me to do this, I'm gonna do it. I mean, there's some time my wife, she'll, she'll come and say, well, I don't know what you're gonna eat today because I'm tired. And I'll say, I'm gonna eat what you cook. Y'all heard that? And guess what she'll do? She'll go cook. And sometimes I'll say, okay, I'm just here tired, we'll figure something out. But the reality is she's submissive now. She, oh my God, just a beautiful thing. But it takes time, because if you have been fending for yourself, some joker coming in trying to control everything. Are y'all hearing this? All right, 2 Kings 9:22. Let's look at this. Let's confirm it in the scripture. When Joram saw Jehu He said, is it peace, Jehu? Yes, Lord. See, Jehu was such a confronter of the spirit of Jezebel that when this false prophet saw him coming, he like, oh, do you come in peace or am I about to die? This is how much power we should operate in. This spirit shouldn't feel freely just to roam around our nation, roam around our neighborhoods, and especially act up in our churches. When the, when the enemy sees you coming, the Jezebel spirit should say, are you here in peace? And this is what your answer should always be: how can peace exist Good God Almighty. As long as the fornications— see, Jezebel was a whore— of your mama Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many. I'm building up to her gods while she was doing all this stuff. See, Joram, a false prophet, was an offspring of his mama Jezebel. And he had to come to grips with the fact that there's a prophetic power greater than his mama's. Watch verse 23. He said, then Joram rained about and fled. And he said to Isaiah, treachery, Isaiah, we bout to die. He ran. So that's what the devil ought to do. Okay, come here, James, resist the devil. And he will flee from you. We be tolerating the devil too much. You come home from work every day, oh, that devil at my job just give me a headache. I'm so tired of these devil, they doing this, doing that. Well, why don't you show up in power? Are y'all hearing this? We ought to have some devil stopping by the church and said, man, That Shannon is in this office tearing up. What in the world is going on? I need to be saved. Are y'all hearing this? Because at the end of the day, we have the power. Say, we have the power. Okay, let me keep going because I want, I want you to see the gods that Jezebel served. She was, again, she controlling, manipulating, scheming, sexually promiscuous. Perverted, and an idol worshiper. That last one is how the spirit gets in the church, cuz we make men idols. Listen, there's some people that love their pastor a little too much. It's all right, it's good to love your man of man of God or your woman of God, but you cannot worship them. I don't care what God used me to do, your worship belongs to God. If God uses me to pray for your cancer and it gets healed, if your eyes go blind and I pray for you and you see, that's God's glory. Amen. Here's the problem: men love this idolatry, so they invited. And guess what happens when you idolize someone? God uncovers their manhood, their masculinity, and he shows you they're human. Okay, I won't talk about— I'll go back into history just to give you one example. People worshiped A.A. Allen, powerful man of God, a general of the faith. But A.A. Allen died of alcoholism. Him. It wasn't that God decided he didn't want to keep covering him. It was because God wanted people to know he ain't me. Are y'all hearing this? So you cannot worship men in any regard. Okay, I'm almost done. I know what y'all doing. That's why this is long. I, boy, I tell you, I had the right message today. These folk, Jesus, glory to God. One would think though, how can somebody be so evil. You're a whoremonger, you're a manipulator, you're a liar, you're a schemer, you're promiscuous, you're an idol worshiper. You know, some people got one struggle. Jezebel got a whole lot of issues. Are y'all hearing this? And this is— these are the things, watch, as you see in church. When the spirit is there, it goes all over the building. You'll start seeing people who are whoremongers, people who promiscuous, people who lie all the time. Yeah, you'll see all of the attributes of her because that spirit is crept in. I gotta get out of here, man. So here's the first idol she worshiped. This is her one, her first god. And it said that in her name It was Baal. Yeah. So Baal— glory to God— because you become like what you worship. That's why we should worship God intently. Baal promotes rebellion. So Jezebel was disobedient because she worshiped a god that built his whole platform on being rebellious. That's why the Bible said rebellion is— that's the sin of witchcraft. Watch this. Baal causes people— oh, this is such a good one— to become impatient and not wait on God's timing. When we submit to Baal, we want everything fast. And this really— we live in an age where everybody wants stuff quick. First natural, then spiritual. You look in the natural, everything you— they got apparatus where you can get things done fast. I just talked about AI, but even beyond that, just in the physical realm Glory to God. You have gas stations, Quick Trip. They got everything in there, the little grocery store got. True. Are they gonna charge you $1,000 for some toothpaste? Because you're paying to get it quick. Everybody in here probably has in their house a microwave. Y'all hear me? Put it there, bam, it's, it's ready. Everybody wants stuff quick. There are people who get called to preach on Sunday, teaching Bible study on Wednesday. Pastoring the following Sunday. They'll prophet the week after that. The apostle the next week. We can't abort processes. That's, that's the spirit of Baal. Are y'all listening? Baal— I'm gonna just give you these because I, yeah, I know what y'all doing. Baal causes people to doubt the abilities of God. Watch this, to bring deliverance and to lead them into God's promises. Are y'all hearing this? Baal wants you to believe God is not real. Baal also causes people to sin, turn from God, and bow to false idols. Baal causes, number 5, people to eat, drink, rise up, and play. I'm telling you right now, I hear that, God. God said to tell you and those that's watching, recess is over. We come against the spirit of Baal and we declare there's no time for recess and playing games anymore. We decree and declare that we will be about the Father's business. We will occupy until he comes. We will take territory. We will do what God has called us to do. See, we gotta stop playing. This is what the spirit of Baal does. It causes us to play church. It's easy to come to church and play church and not have consecration at home. Listen, you— if you do it in public, let it be what you do in private. That's that deception and manipulation. Watch this, it's deception and manipulation to make these prophets believe. That people that can see for real can see them when they're up in church prophesying, calling folk name out, calling the address and tell them how— what color their carpet is. The Bible said we prophesy in part. Oh, y'all ain't got to say nothing to me here. And, and, and I have seen prophets looking at their iPad on Facebook, been sitting on the stage while prophet was up, saw him pulling up the church's Facebook page looking at different names in the comments and then proceed to call out names, and these people scream like they was on The Price Is Right when their name was called. Why are you so happy about that? You know your name. Prophecy should edify me. Yeah. To something I don't know. Yeah, I know my name. You know your address. You know what color your carpet is. But you tell somebody that stuff— now truly, as a prophet prophesying for almost 40 years God has done that to me on a few occasions, but he's done it for somebody that wasn't saved, and he did it when there was no social media, so I had no way of knowing this person's name. Are y'all hearing this? But it caused that person to believe in God. It was no brownie points toward me. Most of these prophets do it because they want you to think they're deep. I'm like, bruh, if you could see that clear And if you can hear like that, I need the Powerball numbers, cuz if you give me Powerball, it ain't gambling if you give me the numbers. Okay, I'm in the wrong church. Y'all acting deep and wonderful, but listen, it— I'm telling you now, if God give you the Powerball, please bring them to me. Share the blessing. Glory to God. Bible said the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just. And if God want to give it to us like that, we going to take it. Amen. Or better yet, if you can see like that, let's get on a plane. I'm going to buy your ticket. Let's go to Vegas. Let's sit at the blackjack table. And brother, you tell me every card that's coming out of there, and I'm going to bet $10,000 a hand on the ones that going to win. We got to advance the kingdom. Let's break this casino if you can see like that. Okay, it's Jezebel, it's manipulation trying to make you believe that they're somewhere they're That's why I'm gonna tell you the butt naked truth. I'm telling you, if God start talking to you like that, we going to Vegas, baby. Glory to God. I'm gonna fund the whole trip. I'm gonna have the money. We gonna put that $10,000 a hand on the table. We gonna come back, we're gonna build everything on them 33 acres. It's gonna be all on the news. Preacher came to Vegas and shut down Bally's. They gonna be trying to figure out, they reading cards and— no, no, baby, God's talking. Lord help us today. So we got to stop playing, man. This thing is real. We have to end the recess period. It. Recess is over. The world needs a power prophet, a power apostle, a power people that will show up in the world and bring about change. Glory to God. Baal causes people to mock God. Baal causes people to reject God's direction. Baal causes people to be stiff-necked and stubborn. Are y'all with me? These are the gods Jezebel serves. Baal uses false accusations and lies to kill credibility. My God. Baal tries to seize authority illegitimately. Always looking for how they can overthrow somebody. Baal promotes the religious spirit. Let me say this: I am not a religious man. I'm gonna say it again: I am not a religious man. The root of the word religion is rel, which means to search. So religious people are still looking for God. Baal releases a spirit to make people believe God is yet to be found and he cannot be found. So they keep going through all these systems and cycles as if God cannot be located. That's the spirit of Baal, the spirit of Jezebel. 75-minute church. That's Jezebel, man. Okay, I'm just saying, they've created that as a seeker-sensitive model to get people in church, get them out so that they're comfortable with 75 minutes. Are y'all hearing this? You need more than 75 minutes. Can I submit to you, ministry take time. I say one more time, ministry, real ministry takes time. So when we show up in the house of God, watch this, in, in the, in the Old Testament when they went to temple, first of all it was a 3-day journey. Ah, they couldn't even get to the temple unless they travel on foot 3 days. It's hard to get some folk to come 15 minutes. Are y'all— y'all, they travel for 3 days, say we going to the house of the Lord. That's why they had Psalms and that were designed for the journey. They were— oh my God, these particular songs were sung in worship while they was on their way to the temple. And then they would get to the temple and say, I enter his gates with thanksgiving, because we finally made it. We've been walking for 3 days. That's something to praise God for. You finally get there. Listen, we cannot afford to be religious. See, watch this. People would think that Because on first Sundays, whenever the Lord leads, we do communion and we put on our clergy attire. Then we're religious. This ain't a religious act. This is called uniformity. It's called continuity. It's called— and listen, we can operate in the power with this stuff on. Yeah. Are y'all hearing this? But I know some people that don't wear it and think they're charismatic and they lay on the floor every Sunday, and they are the most religious people I know because when they get up out the floor and get slain in the spirit, nothing in their life changes. We— you pushing folk down and they in the floor and ain't none of these Negroes changing. Are y'all hearing this? Ain't nobody showing up in the world. That's the— that's the spirit of Baal. Watch this, because here's the next one. Baal promotes performance. It makes leaders feel obligated to perform. Just because you're in the room, I got to pray for you and push you down to make you feel like you had an encounter. The devil is a liar. If you're gonna have an encounter, you're gonna have an encounter, and God's gonna show up and give you that encounter. Only thing we're gonna do is what God leads us to do. Are y'all hearing me? My God, today. Go to 1 Kings again, 18. I want to just show you that. 18, where I want to start, 28. 18:28, 1 Kings 18. He said, and they cried aloud. Watch this. And cut themselves after their custom with knives and lances until blood gushed out upon them. Now what kind of demonic— this is some demonic foolishness, right? But this is Baal requiring this of people that follow him, and they are performing to show we are followers of Baal. What we cannot do is let that become— even though we may not cut ourselves, but the church is not designed to be an entertainment center. I see these people casting out demons, they sitting there having whole conversations with demons. God never told me to converse with the devil. He told me to cast the devil out. I'm not going to sit there and ask you what's your name, who you are, where you went to school. I'm not doing that. We need to assert authority over that spirit and cast it out and keep— ain't no need playing games with the demon. But demons like attention, so a lot of times they'll perform. So you have to bring that demon in subjection. So look, this ain't no performance. Either you coming out— are y'all hearing this— or you're not coming out. Whatever we doing today, what you ain't gonna have no performance. Are y'all hearing this? Verse 29, midday passed and they played the part of prophets. Played the part of prophets. This is back to tolerating the spirit. Watch this. It amazes me that everybody wants to be a prophetic type. Sometimes I wish God didn't let me see some of the things that I see and then give me the responsibility to say them, because this is a lonely walk. There's so many people that's playing this role, like here in Hollywood on Sunday, or when they do meetings. But my wife will tell you, I'm a prophet all the time. It's unfortunate, I can be at a restaurant and she just puts her head down. Shabbat katamasia. Blessing, Jesus. Because if God give me a word for the waitress or somebody at another table, because I'm a prophet at all times. I'm not— I didn't audition for the role. There are people who are playing this role, and that's the spirit of Baal. They played a part of prophets. What? Guess what? Until the offering. They played the part of a prophet until the offering so that they can appear prophetic. This is a true story. When I first went full-time in ministry, the one of the ladies that opened the door for me— this is this year I celebrate 37 years years of full-time ministry. My first time I preached in a conference where there was some notable people there, and she had me doing a day session. She said, you could preach, young man, and I want you to preach and let the Lord use you, and when you get finished, receive the offering. I said, okay. I preached, prophesied to everybody in the place. God moved. Then I took up the offer, and I didn't take it up like I guess she wanted me to take it up. She said, man of God, got me in that office, you're a great preacher. She said, but you going to starve out here cuz you don't know how to raise money. And I sat back in my chair and I remember what God told me. He said, if you go in the vineyard and work what's right, I'll pay. So my gift is not to manipulate the people. But she said, she said, you prophesy to everybody before you ask for a dime. She said, let me teach you how to raise an offering. She said, you prophesy to the first two. And then you call for what you want. She said, after you prophesy to them, they gonna know you a real prophet. And then if you wanna— you know what you need, if you need $1,000, if you need $5,000, ask for what you want and ask them to give it. And then when the first one come up with the money, take their money and prophesy to them. Now they're going to equate the giving to the prophecy. I'm just trying to tell you something now. The spirit of Jezebel was at work in that office, and God immediately began to convict me and said, son, I told you, if you go into VR and work what's right, I'll pay. Now, who you want to pay you? Your manipulation or me? He said, there's a penalty for manipulating. It's temporary satisfaction. Now I'm young, wet behind the ears, and I got 2 more days to preach there for her. The next day I went out, I tried it. My prophetic gift would not work. I could not hear. And God said, I told you this ain't what you are to do. But it's just— notice, this is Bible. Prophets do this. And, and that lady taught me. And if I called her name, many of you would know who she was. That lady was teaching me that in that office, and I honor her because she opened that door and she was helpful in other ways, but that proves you can learn what not to do from people too. Yes, sir. That's why if I ever tell you to give something, it— you better know God told me to tell you do it, cuz I'm not playing no games with God and money. Are y'all hearing They did it. They played prophets till the offering. Almost done, y'all. I know what y'all doing, man. Jesus Christ. Somebody say, keep teaching, Apostle. Devil is a liar, I tell you. All right, here's the second god she worshiped, and I'm gonna bring this to a close. She worshiped Astaroth. Astaroth is known as the Queen of Heaven. We know that's a lie because God ain't married. She's known as the goddess of good fortune. Watch this, watch the deception in it. She's known as the goddess of holiness, the goddess of sex, the goddess of war. She is an Aphrodite. She got both parts. Are y'all hearing this? She's perverted. So Jezebel finds her character from Baal and Astaroth. There's a few points about Astaroth. Astaroth— watch this, man— causes confusion and perversion to prevail. Because let's, let's deal with confusion first. The Bible said the devil is the author of confusion. So whenever you're confused, that didn't come from God. When you don't have clarity, that came from the devil. And that's the spirit of Jezebel that has people confused. Because that comes out of her worship to Astaroth, where people are following strange gods. Watch this, people are following seducing spirits because Astaroth was a seducer. Okay, here we go. Be careful of seducers. A seducer pulls you into themselves. Or to their agenda. I'm gonna say that one more time. A seducer's whole goal is to pull you into themselves or their agenda, and they'll do anything— lie, scheme, watch this, have sex. That's why in corporate America you have it on both sides, men and women who sleep their way to the top. That's the spirit of Jezebel. Oh God, it's the spirit of Jezebel when a wife uses her body to manipulate her husband. I've heard women say, oh, I'm gonna just take care of him real good, he gonna buy me this fur coat. That's Jezebel. Come on, y'all hearing this? Listen, ain't that much sex in the world make me buy nothing I don't want to buy. True. Glory. Just going to tell you now, I, I been back in my past, I done had people, women who thought their womb was a treasure chest, and if I just give him some I can control him. They found out real quick he ain't that dude. Y'all ain't got to say nothing to me. I, I know I'm saved, cuz I would knock you down and keep going. I'm not the dude that even had to call you back. Okay, I'm just saying. So, but some women think they can control men with that. That's ashtaroth. They use sex and sexuality to control. There's a church in this city called the Vision Church, and I hope you're listening, Bishop O.C. Allen. Your church is ruled by the Jezebel spirit. I'm here to— and I'll make sure we clip this out and post it and tag him in it because we got to confront this demon. There's 6,000 people that gather in this church. He is an open homosexual. He has a first gentleman. They're over there operating familiar spirits, speaking in tongues, laying on hands, dancing, bucking, going through all of the religious motions, but it is sex and the god of Ashtaroth that have drawn people to that camp. And I serve notice in the name of Jesus. I stand today— hold on, Pastor Jeffrey— as an apostle in this region, and I decree and declare, if Sir O.C. Allen, you and your first gentleman do do not repent and get delivered. First, I decree and declare that the hell you declare does not exist. I declare your body and your soul will burn in hell, and I decree and declare your ministry will be shut down because you're leading people astray. He got these homosexuals and is thinking that it's okay to be that way. I'm telling you, we got to confront this crap. It's not okay. Please make me viral with that, because at the end of the day, somebody's got to say something. And we sit here and act like it's okay. It's a problem. Them. And the world looks at that, say, I ain't going to church, what they doing? That's— that world even know that ain't God. Are y'all hearing this? It's Astaroth. I just wanted to show you a living example of Astaroth. If you walk in there, there are couples, and I've been in there, and the only reason I went, cuz one of my daughters from Charlotte, about 7 years ago, she preached a revival for them. They had the audacity to bring— she called me, she said, Dad, they invited me, should I go? I said, go, tell the truth, speak the word. And I told her, I said, I'm gonna come one night because I come on one, yeah, yeah, I'll be compelled to lay hands on folk and I'll be out of order. Are y'all hearing this? So I went one night, I prayed, prayed over her, supported her, and she ended up having the meetings. Deliverance happened. People that heard her— are y'all hearing this? They changed their life, found them another place to worship, because that's wrong. Perversion is this: And this is what Astaroth represents. It means to create another version, perversion of the authentic. So they've created a version of the authentic that's a lie, and that's what Jezebel does. And they say, oh, God loves us. He does love you, but he hates sin. Whether it's homosexuality, lesbianism, being a whoremonger, whatever it is, he hates sin. And, and we, we can't have a tolerance. So we got to become a generation that's intolerant, and we got to decide what we're going to stand for and what we're not going to stand for. Who's body we on? I mean, what are we on the side of truth, or do we want to compromise so we can get what we want? No way this guy has 5,000 people if he's just a regular preacher. They're attracted to the perversion. Okay, y'all stand. I'm gonna stop. I ain't done.