2739.-Jezebel by J. A. H.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 17, 1909

2739.—Jezebel.

By J. A. H.

Who is Jezebel in Rev. 2:20?

The prophecy comes in the Thyatiran church, and the Thyatiran church was the church of the Dark Ages, of the long period of persecution through which God's children passed. The woman Jezebel was the apostate church that was leading astray God's children. It carries us back to the original Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, who led the children of Israel astray, who brought false prophets, and who induced her husband, and through him Israel, to become a persecutor of the true worshippers of God. She became a fitting type of that apostate church which, connected with the kings of the earth, brought persecution in the Christian dispensation upon the true worshippers of God.