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Is the Jezebel spirit real and how long does it follow someone	Terry	Saturday, April 4, 2009
Question: In 1997 I began helping with the youth group my children belonged to and became friends with a priest who had been ordained two years. This friendship has lasted all these years and been great for my family.. A few months after meeting this priest he came to me after morning Mass, and said he had a dream about me and my children and woke up feeling a strong presence of evil. He called out to Jesus and the evil went away. Later that evening I was having a holy Hour in the chapel and it was raining very hard, just pounding. This priest was also in the chapel having a holy hour. I prayed for God to protect my family and this priest from whatever evil there was. In an inner way I felt Jesus ask “Will you pray for this priest every day for the rest of your life?” I said “Yes” and then Jesus said “It will cause much joy and much suffering and asked again if I would pray for him The rain suddenly stopped. In the year 2000 I coordinated a large youth retreat that had 500 teens and about 8 priests including my friend. I suddenly felt very weak and dizzy and went in the chapel. Two women prayed over me. They looked at each other and one of them said “Jezebel” I did not ask what that meant. As they prayed my strength came back. A few nights later I woke up with a feeling fear and heard a voice audibly saying “I will kill you and seduce everyone you love if you keep praying for priest and working with the youth. The next day one of the women who had prayed over me came to see me. She told me that when they prayed over me she had sensed the presence of a demon named Jezebel and that is all her years of praying in deliverance ministry no entity has scared her more. She said this demon particularly targets this priest and she used to pray for him, before he came into my life but was becoming physically ill from it so she changed parishes, right before I came and right before I felt God asking me to pray for this priest. I have continued to increasing work with the youth and pray for all priests, especially my friend and God has protected us. I now work at my parish directing the youth religious education confirmation program which has 1000 kids. I had metastases breast cancer seven years ago and was completely healed after being told by Drs I had 6 months to 1 year to live. My children are grown now all practicing their faith and my husband is in RCIA. There is a woman who works at the parish who used to be very close to the pastor and in a position of power. She is very manipulative and hurt many people. For three years the pastor did not seem to see how she was manipulating him, she is extremely brilliant and had him thinking she was the only one who saw problems, and cared enough to fix them. She said he was the only one who understood her and was smart enough for her to relate to intellectually. She undermined so many good people. Finally after three years, because of persistent prayer and our pastors own faithfulness to prayer realized that she was too broken to have a friendship with him or access to that much power. He took away her power and now has her stick just to her job description. I know she is not taking this quietly no matter how humble she appears. and yet she seems so sad and like a victim. She gets many people to feel sorry for her and defend her and it causes division. I do not know if she is under the influence of this Jezebel spirit or if this thin is even real. How do you separate the person from the demon?
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM Dear Terry: Sorry about the long delay in responding. There is nearly always at least one person in every parish, usually a woman, with a Jezebel spirit. The Jezebel spirit is derived from a real Biblical person, Jezebel, wife of King Ahab, the King of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). King Ahab's marriage to Jezebel was the first time that a king of Israel married a heathen princess, which turned out disastrous. Ahab became a puppet to Jezebel's controlling and cruel ways. Jezebel is remembered as the first major persecutor of the saints of God. She had no principles and no fear of God or man. She was controlling, designing, crafty, revengeful, and cruel. She was passionate in her attachment to her heathen worship and spared nothing to encourage and maintain idolatry around her. Jezebel had 450 prophets of Baal ministering to her and another 400 prophets of Asherah (1 Kings 18:19). Her idolatry included debauchery and sexual perversion. She came to an untimely end when she was thrown out of a window, dashed to pieces in the street, trampled by horses, and eaten by dogs (2 Kings 9:7-37). From then on her name came to be used as the synonym for a wicked woman (Rev. 2:20) [information above paraphrased and quoted from the Easton Bible Dictionary] For information on how to receive help see our Help page. We suggest that before contacting us directly for help you try the Seven Steps to Self-Deliverance. These self-help steps will often resolve the problem. Also our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog contains many prayers that may be helpful. If needed you can ask for a Personal Consultation.

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Is the Jezebel spirit real and how long does it follow someone

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Saturday, April 4, 2009

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In 1997 I began helping with the youth group my children belonged to and became friends with a priest who had been ordained two years. This friendship has lasted all these years and been great for my family.. A few months after meeting this priest he came to me after morning Mass, and said he had a dream about me and my children and woke up feeling a strong presence of evil. He called out to Jesus and the evil went away. Later that evening I was having a holy Hour in the chapel and it was raining very hard, just pounding. This priest was also in the chapel having a holy hour. I prayed for God to protect my family and this priest from whatever evil there was. In an inner way I felt Jesus ask “Will you pray for this priest every day for the rest of your life?” I said “Yes” and then Jesus said “It will cause much joy and much suffering and asked again if I would pray for him The rain suddenly stopped.

In the year 2000 I coordinated a large youth retreat that had 500 teens and about 8 priests including my friend. I suddenly felt very weak and dizzy and went in the chapel. Two women prayed over me. They looked at each other and one of them said “Jezebel” I did not ask what that meant. As they prayed my strength came back.

A few nights later I woke up with a feeling fear and heard a voice audibly saying “I will kill you and seduce everyone you love if you keep praying for priest and working with the youth. The next day one of the women who had prayed over me came to see me. She told me that when they prayed over me she had sensed the presence of a demon named Jezebel and that is all her years of praying in deliverance ministry no entity has scared her more. She said this demon particularly targets this priest and she used to pray for him, before he came into my life but was becoming physically ill from it so she changed parishes, right before I came and right before I felt God asking me to pray for this priest.

I have continued to increasing work with the youth and pray for all priests, especially my friend and God has protected us. I now work at my parish directing the youth religious education confirmation program which has 1000 kids. I had metastases breast cancer seven years ago and was completely healed after being told by Drs I had 6 months to 1 year to live. My children are grown now all practicing their faith and my husband is in RCIA.

There is a woman who works at the parish who used to be very close to the pastor and in a position of power. She is very manipulative and hurt many people. For three years the pastor did not seem to see how she was manipulating him, she is extremely brilliant and had him thinking she was the only one who saw problems, and cared enough to fix them. She said he was the only one who understood her and was smart enough for her to relate to intellectually. She undermined so many good people. Finally after three years, because of persistent prayer and our pastors own faithfulness to prayer realized that she was too broken to have a friendship with him or access to that much power. He took away her power and now has her stick just to her job description. I know she is not taking this quietly no matter how humble she appears. and yet she seems so sad and like a victim. She gets many people to feel sorry for her and defend her and it causes division. I do not know if she is under the influence of this Jezebel spirit or if this thin is even real. How do you separate the person from the demon?

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM

Dear Terry:

Sorry about the long delay in responding.

There is nearly always at least one person in every parish, usually a woman, with a Jezebel spirit.

The Jezebel spirit is derived from a real Biblical person, Jezebel, wife of King Ahab, the King of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). King Ahab's marriage to Jezebel was the first time that a king of Israel married a heathen princess, which turned out disastrous. Ahab became a puppet to Jezebel's controlling and cruel ways.

Jezebel is remembered as the first major persecutor of the saints of God. She had no principles and no fear of God or man. She was controlling, designing, crafty, revengeful, and cruel. She was passionate in her attachment to her heathen worship and spared nothing to encourage and maintain idolatry around her.

Jezebel had 450 prophets of Baal ministering to her and another 400 prophets of Asherah (1 Kings 18:19). Her idolatry included debauchery and sexual perversion.

She came to an untimely end when she was thrown out of a window, dashed to pieces in the street, trampled by horses, and eaten by dogs (2 Kings 9:7-37).

From then on her name came to be used as the synonym for a wicked woman (Rev. 2:20)

[information above paraphrased and quoted from the Easton Bible Dictionary]

For information on how to receive help see our Help page. We suggest that before contacting us directly for help you try the Seven Steps to Self-Deliverance. These self-help steps will often resolve the problem. Also our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog contains many prayers that may be helpful. If needed you can ask for a Personal Consultation.