Tell us who or what that woman Jezebel refers to in Rev. 2:20. L. V. S. The book of Revelation, ever and again, refers to the past as examples and types of the future; and among the types of the past which it brings over, is the woman Jezebel and her times. Note the conditions then. Ahab was a king of Israel, and ought to have been faithful to God; but he married outside of his own people, a sun-worshiping princess, named Jezebel. She led away the people of God by that unlawful union. The one voice which was raised against that was Elijah, a type of the true teacher of God. The Revelation uses a part of those conditions as typical of the conditions of the church of God during the Dark Ages, a time when superstition ran riot, when man-made rules took the place of the word of God; when saints and angels were worshiped instead of God, and when God's word was made void by tradition. That great apostasy is referred to as the woman Jezebel, who taught and seduced God's servants to commit fornication, and the antitype in the Christian church led the church away to unite unlawfully with the world, and so commit spiritual fornication, or unlawful union with the kings of earth. Jezebel is a type of the great apostasy.