The New Testament

Jezebel

Role: prophetess · First appears: Revelation 2

Life events

  • Jezebel taught and seduced Jesus’s servants into fornication and idolatry.(Revelation 2 · 📍 Thyatira)
    • “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”
  • Jesus gave Jezebel time to repent, but she refused to repent.(Revelation 2 · 📍 Thyatira)
    • With: Jesus
    • “And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.”
  • Jesus threatened Jezebel and her adulterous partners with great tribulation unless they repented.(Revelation 2 · 📍 Thyatira)
    • With: Jesus
    • “Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.”
  • Jesus declared that he would kill Jezebel’s children with death.(Revelation 2 · 📍 Thyatira)
    • With: Jesus
    • “And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts”

Revelation 2

  • judge: Jesus (Jesus pronounces judgment against Jezebel and those associated with her.) “And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding 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. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.”

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