The Jezebel Analogy

"She (Jezebel) soon dominated the king and ruled in the kingdom.

And when the evil that she would do was more than the king could have the heart to compass, she would do it herself in the king’s name and by the power of the kingdom and would be merry in it all. 1 Kings 21:5-16. 

---She would make her religion to be the religion of the kingdom and of every soul in the kingdom. 

She brought with her eight hundred and fifty “prophets” of her religion. She was the personal patron of them all. They all “ate at Jezebel’s table.” 1 Kings 18:19. 

---She deliberately set herself to abolish all the religion and all the worship of God, and to establish solely her own in all the kingdom. She systematically broke down all the altars of the worship of God in the land. She compelled all to conform to her form of sun-worship. 

1 Kings 19:10, 14. 

And whosoever would not do this in some way—by sacrificing, by bowing the knee in a genuflexion, or by kissing the hand to throw a kiss to Baal—was outlawed and had to find refuge in dens and holes and caves of the earth. 1 Kings 18:4, 13. 

---So thorough-going was she in this that though there were seven thousand persons who would worship God only, and serve Him alone, they were so scattered and hunted that each one thought that he was the only one left.

I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Revelation 18:7 

In the Scriptures there is another Jezebel. 

She is described in the book of Revelation. 

Her career is in Christian times. Revelation 2:20-29. 

Among the people of Christ who had left their first love and had

fallen away from the true Way and pure worship of God, there came in heathen sun-worshipers bringing with them all their native characters and dispositions and ways. There were so many of these that they became a heathen sun-worshiping church professing the Christian name. 

---This sun-worshiping church secured an alliance with the imperial Roman State.

---She would make her heathen naturalistic religion to be the religion of every kingdom and of everybody in all the kingdoms. 

---She set herself against all the true worship of God. She compelled all to conform to her worship, which was but a form of heathen sun-worship with the Sun day the grand token as “queen and chief of all the days.”
And here, by “that woman Jezebel,” “the beast,” the ultimate Antichrist accomplishes the crowning work of iniquity. 

This is brought about in the following way: It is to the people of God that there remains the “keeping of a Sabbath.” 

It was made for the man of God’s eternal purpose. 

And none but those who are the people of God in this purpose can possibly keep the Sabbath. 

And now in this time of the ultimate Antichrist he doubles up on his abominations by making both Sabbath and Sunday to be days of enforced idleness and of consequent mischief and iniquity. In this course of abomination there is yet another step to finish the mystery of iniquity.

That woman Jezebel undertakes to require her Sun day as a day of rest of all from all work and from every honest occupation, for worship. 

---Through the power of the State she makes this compulsory upon all. Thus by means of denominational, national, international, and world federation, with its “pressure” upon city, county, State and National authorities, enforcing a day of universal idleness as the means and necessity of enforcing the universal false religion and worship of the beast and his image, the ultimate Antichrist is enabled to bring all to the full reflection of his own image, and so to finish the mystery of iniquity." 

A.T. Jones