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The Church at Thyatira
Jezebel in the Church
This is one of the first questions that I asked at the beginning of this section. Why is Jezebel the first of three named in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ? Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. Jezebel was deliberately seen first as planted in the church of God at its prime. (Back on page 14 there is an outline of the seven churches of which Thyatira became the political church in its prime in corruption and influence over the world and continued further into time than 590 A.D. as this corruption and influence is still with us in the Age of Laodicea.)
Four hundred plus years after the early church fathers had long departed from the world, the name of Jezebel came to the forefront. She had been in the church from its very beginnings, but as evil prefers to hide itself when it is growing in numbers and in influence it cannot show itself until it is sure of overcoming its enemies. And in Thyatira, the spirit of the Old Testament Jezebel was sure of its power, thus, Jezebel surfaced. Who is Jezebel? What began in one very religiously pagan woman, later surfaced as a very religious pagan organization under the banner of a false Christianity. (Now try and convince me that there is no similarity to how Communism has worked in your country to how Satan worked and works in the religious realm. Of course, it is similar because Satan is behind both: same tactics, and same instigator.) And this leads us into our current age in the Babylon of Revelation when religion and politics become united together. Religion and politics meld together as one force in the Age of Babylon the Great because they were one force in the first Babylon, in the land of Shinar, and in the first city of Nimrod called Babel. Religion and politics were one in the Dark Ages, and religion and politics have always been friends. But the difference in the End Times in this unification of politics and religion is its global power under one tyrant. See ‘what goes around comes around,’ however, I prefer how God the Holy Spirit stated this in Galatians 6:7, Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. What the first world rebel (Nimrod) began in Babel influenced all later governments and its rebels to attempt to successfully complete a one-world government scheme. This one-world government greatly advanced through a one-world religious organization under the influence of Jezebel IN the church and OVER the church.
We are about to venture into the time frame of Church History as disclosed in Revelation Chapters 2 in the church in Thyatira. So, it would be right for you to know something about this church of 425 A.D. – 590 A.D. Go ahead . . . read the following references, don’t be afraid, it can’t bite you . . . ! (If you had read the previous articles, you would know that the meaning of Thyatira is ‘an odor of affliction,’ in other words ‘It stinks,’ or ‘she stinks.’ This odor or aroma or atmosphere of this woman Thyatira is agony. The ambience of her presence is torture . . . . sounds like a narcissistic personality. This was not only the church in Thyatira, but Jezebel also embodied the character of the city of Thyatira that is one of the reasons why the Spirit of God attached Jezebel’s name to the church of Thyatira. Everything about this fourth church of Thyatira was and is repulsive to God. It was and continues today in sexual perverseness, it feasts on idolatry, and hides behind the hypocrisy of good works and service.) You may think that what I have just written cannot possibly describe a church or even a city such as the city of Thyatira. But there is a city where the citizens and leaders are exactly like Thyatira – narcissistically evil . . . . Washington, D.C. Here is a medical description of narcissism: “an exaggerated sense of self-importance, persistent need for admiration, lack of empathy for others, excessive pride in achievements, and snobbish, disdainful, or patronizing attitudes.” Add witchcraft, murderess, and Jezebel on steroids. This is Washington, D.C., this was and is the church in Thyatira, and this is Jezebel IN the church then and in the world church now.
I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. (Revelation 2:19)
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. (Revelation 2:20)
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. (Revelation 2:21)
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. (Revelation 2:22)
And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. (Revelation 2:23)
But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. (Revelation 2:24)
But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. (Revelation 2:25)
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: (Revelation 2:26)
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. (Revelation 2:27)
And I will give him the morning star. (Revelation 2:28)
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. (Revelation 2:29)
Side Note: Time and Ruin in the Church of Jezebel. This one-world religious organization became accepted as ‘The Universal Roman Syndicate,’ alias, ‘The Roman Catholic Church.’ And to this very day, this organization is accepted and viewed by thousands and thousands as the epitome and only accepted form of Christianity. Now for any Protestants still reading this, don’t get too heady because I am about to goad your ox also. (Were all those in the church era of Romanism, or in the era of Protestantism wrong? No, but this will be followed up later in this article . . . if by the time that you get to that section you are still talking to me.)
When Martin Luther nailed his divisive religious catalyst ‘Ninety-Five Theses’ to the door at the castle church in Wittenberg 505 years ago, every aspect of this world changed, every person since then has been affected in some measure to what ensued. I will not get into the details, but I will only concentrate on some very obvious happenings due to this division within the realm of religion. Five hundred plus years is an eternity in earth time, it is almost ridiculous to write that much can happen in this span of time, because as we all know so well, much can happen in a ten-year span. Think of the history of your own country through this time span of five hundred years. The United States did not exist then, early colonization was the aim of various colonizer nations, so yes, much can happen in a five-hundred-year time frame. Why am I concentrating on this time frame? Easy . . . Thyatira 425 A.D. – 590 A.D. — more than five hundred years from the infant church of the Bible.
The church of Thyatira WAS NOT the Church of Peter, Paul, James, John, Jude and Timothy. They prophesied about it, they warned about it, they cried over it, but they never actually lived or saw the church of Thyatira in the age of its early ascendancy. Just think how far the church of our age has fallen from 1517, and from the age of 590 A.D. Although the epistles Peter, Paul, James, John are read today, these men would be thrown out of every church today if they were to appear teaching and preaching what they taught and preached in their own age. But you may say, That’s not so because we believe what they wrote, so why would they be thrown out? Here is where the Protestant Reformation went astray! I warned you that I was going to goad your ox!
Martin Luther never thought to separate from the Roman Catholic Church, his focus was on reformation of the church as he knew it, not its removal, but a reformation. He agreed with its form, ritualism, and its hierarchical system of priesthood, he disagreed with many of its teachings and man-made doctrines. Again, let me state that I am not going into specific doctrines, and theological maneuvers, or Greek and Latin language etymology because these are all irrelevant to how we should see the state and condition of the church today. The tragedy of the Protestant Reformation is that it continued to follow what it was supposed to reform. Yes, the doctrine of the just shall live by faith was (and in a FEW churches is still) upheld from its awakening in 1517, this would be the church of Philadelphia (1500 A.D. – 1700 A.D.)
I am going to skip over the church of Sardis for now, and leap forward to the era of the Protestant Reformation. But hopefully, we will backtrack to the era between Jezebel’s appearance in Thyatira to the Roman Catholic Church in its prime in the church in Sardis.
The church in Philadelphia was the open door to the truths within the word of God, and to that which is holy. Those who separated themselves from the system of the world church were led to the truths within the word of God through the Protestant Reformation are those in the church in Philadelphia. The church in Philadelphia WAS NOT the Protestant Reformation. The Philadelphia church was a movement that came out of, or developed later, from the Protestant Reformation. As you read, understand that those in the church of Philadelphia were not of a collective church, but a moving of the Spirit of God through individuals drawn to the Center and Head of the Church in Christ Jesus. As the other churches listed in Revelation Chapters 2 and 3 seem to be sequentially arranged, they also exist side by side as they all advanced together in time. This is seen in the church in Philadelphia because AND although we are in the age of Laodicea, the overcomers in Philadelphia live in the age of Laodicea, but not IN the church of Laodicea. (Read on, so that I can confuse you more!)
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; (Revelation 3:7)
I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. (Revelation 3:8)
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. (Revelation 3:9)
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Revelation 3:10)
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. (Revelation 3:11)
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. (Revelation 3:12)
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. (Revelation 3:13)
How did this church of Philadelphia evolve into the ruined church of Laodicea? What was the tragedy of the Protestant Reformation? When Martin Luther began to question and to search the word of God, those who also sought answers to those questions did not lay hold of WHO was at the Center. Those men of religion saw only one way to follow, they only knew of one way, they could not conceive of anything outside of their familiar settings, and in their thoughts ‘proven hierarchical structure’ of clergy and laity was the only true form of church-hood. All their religious understanding lay in the past, in the Old Testament Jewish ordinances of the Law of Moses; consequently, the Protestant Reformation also built on the past, and therefore, because they built on the foundation of that which had become corrupted, the Roman Syndicate, and in doing so, they created another form of corruption. (Now that I have enraged Roman Catholics, and Protestants, let me not stop here.) The understanding of being followers of Christ only, did not exist outside of their accepted thoughts of following man. Man had to be the center of their religious existence. In order to be spiritually approved as ‘spiritual’ man had to be approved by other ‘spiritual’ men. What came out of the Protestant Reformation wasn’t total reformation, but another form of a Roman Syndicate, Protestant Syndication. But this time we have many syndicates, called denominations. (Now I’ve done it, oh, oh.) Let me encourage those still reading, if there is any left still reading. The Church of Christ, the Body of Christ is founded on The ROCK — CHRIST, and CHRIST ALONE. Neither storm nor wind can bring HIS CHURCH down.
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (Galatians 3:27) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28)
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: (Colossians 3:10) Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. (Colossians 3:11)
[There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; (Ephesians 4:4)
Placing dates on the various churches in the book of the Revelation is really not a smart thing to do, for many will place these dates in concrete. As my husband often reminds me that we could learn more from the wane and wax of the visible moon not merely as instructions on plant growth, but also through the cycles of waning and waxing of spiritual growth. That time plays an important part in this process of wane and wax that between each extreme there are small transitions that lead to the other extreme. And whenever we are dealing with a newborn Christian, or an old born Christian we have to always keep in mind where they are in their Christian cycle. Some take longer than others to develop in their growth and to act on their knowledge of the holy according to the measure of their faith.
Throughout each of the seven churches in the book of the Revelation there are and were Christians often left by the wayside in our understanding because many in the visible church see them as nothing. These are the Overcomers. In every Church age there were Overcomers. (This is a continuation of what I previously write about the Philadelphia Church.) ♦ End of Side Note of Time and Ruin in the church of Jezebel.
Side Note of a Side Note: The Overcomers have been in every church since the first church of Ephesus.
EPHESUS – He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7)
SMYRNA – He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. (Revelation 2:11)
PERGAMOS – He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it]. (Revelation 2:17)
THYATIRA – And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: (Revelation 2:26)
SARDIA – He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. (Revelation 3:5)
PHILADELPHIA – Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [which is] new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my new name. (Revelation 3:12)
LAODICEA – To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (Revelation 3:21)
Just in case you have continued reading up to this point of this article in spite of your anger that I have written things contrary to the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant church, and to denominationalism, I offer these thoughts to you. Within EVERY church, regardless of its spiritual state and condition, and regardless of its corruption and evilness God, through His mercy, informs us of OVERCOMERS. They overcame the system that they were in, they OVERCAME the evil that surrounded them, and surrounds them. They OVERCAME. And there are still today OVERCOMERS.
The word ‘overcometh‘ is recorded only in the New Testament, and of the ten (10) times that it is mentioned, seven refer to each of the seven churches. Every church from Ephesus to Laodicea had and has OVERCOMERS.
In the epistle of 1st John, Chapter 5, verses 4 and 5 the OVERCOMER is victorious. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith. (1st John 5:4) Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? (1st John 5:5) Notice that three (3) times victory over the world is mentioned. The world came into the church at its very beginning. The world with all of its pretensions of godliness in its delusions of self-righteousness and unrepentant state of sin never ceases to attempt to gain ground into every sphere of Christian spirituality. But understand, beloved, and know that He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (Revelation 21:7) God did not leave the overcomer outside of His grace and mercy throughout the ages of church history. No matter how low the church fell and continues to fall in sin and pride and worldly power and fame . . . . God has given the victory to the OVERCOMERS. ♦ End of Side Note of a Side Note.
Back to this first question that I asked at the beginning of this article. Why is Jezebel the first of three named in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ? Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. What began with Jezebel and all of her acts of wickedness, witchcraft, sexual perversions and murders were brought into the church until at its apex in the age of Laodicea ends with the church being spewed out of the mouth of Christ. The professing church is good for nothing and becomes a place that the Spirit of God can no longer tolerate. As Israel fell in its rejection of God, so also the church fell away from Christ as the Head of His own church in its rejection of the Spirit of Christ. The message of sin and how sin eats away at everything that it touches is the story of man that in man is no-good thing. Man is good for nothing, his religion is good for nothing, his society is good for nothing, his goodness is good for nothing.
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. (Jeremiah 13:10)
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. (Matthew 5:13) It is the OVERCOMER who overcomes the world who fellowships with Christ. It is the OVERCOMER who overcomes the world within the visible church who fellowships with Christ. There is only ONE CHURCH and THAT IS CHRIST ONLY.
The Spirit of God began with Jezebel in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ through the introduction of the first of the three women written in this book because Jezebel contains the seeds of evil, and its growth until the spirit of Jezebel swallowed up the professing church, until there was nothing left in it that even resembles true Christianity. MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH is the heart, spirit and soulless work of Baal (Satan), through a woman, a mother, a harlot, a priestess at work. As we get to this section of MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH we will be writing about motherhood and harlots at the end times. But, for now, Jezebel exemplified how motherhood is used to train daughters to become whores and harlots. Tell me, have you not heard and seen the vileness spewing out of the mouths of young women, and mothers, demanding what they claim to be their right as a woman and as a mother to kill their own children before birth, during birth, at birth, and AFTER birth? They are proud of their promiscuity; they unhesitatingly and vehemently defend their wanton sexual acts. They are liars and haters of men because they want to rule OVER man, any man, and every man. (This is the culmination of the Eve syndrome.) THIS WAS JEZEBEL and THIS IS JEZEBEL.
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH not only found a home in the church, but every form of religion (pagan and Christianity) was her breeding ground as Jezebel of the Old Testament exemplified. Therefore, God enforced this spiritual truth to us through the first woman mentioned in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Remember that the oldest historical book of Job instructs us that when the sons of God came to worship God that Satan came among them, he was in their midst. In any form or point of worship Satan will be there. (Religion is not Christianity and Christianity is not a religion. I have written many times of the differences between Christianity and religion). Satan is a religious creature. Scripture informs us of this in Isaiah 14:12-14 and Ezekiel 28:13-15. Whenever and wherever a visible collective church opens its door, the first one through the door will be Satan.
We are at page 34 in this article, and yet, there is much more that can be written, but as with all things, that is with all good things, we should end this article at this point. I know that this was a difficult article to digest for many, and I pray that you would take all that has been written (especially the points that you hated) and pray over any of the points that you wish you had not read. However, if you are still here with me, congratulations, you must have a strong pain level of tolerance.
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All Scripture references are from the King James Bible. (KJV)