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Ethbaal’s name, the people of Sidon were Baal worshipers. The first of the ten
commandments condemns the worship of Baal, or any other false deity.

Deuteronomy 5:6-9
“I am Yahweh your God... You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not
make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth
beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them;
for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God...”

Jezebel was a citizen of an idolatrous nation. She was also an ardent promoter of this
idolatry. When Ahab, the king of Israel, took Jezebel to be his wife, she immediately
induced the king to embrace the worship of false deities.

I Kings 16:31-33
[Ahab] married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to
serve Baal and worshiped him. So he erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal
which he built in Samaria. Ahab also made the Asherah. Thus Ahab did more to
provoke Yahweh God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

I Kings 21:25-26
Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of Yahweh,
because Jezebel his wife incited him. He acted very abominably in following idols,
according to all that the Amorites had done, whom Yahweh cast out before the sons
of Israel.

Alongside Baal, the Sidonians worshiped Asherah. Asherah was a fertility goddess. The
following historical information is provided that you might be able to discern the
continuation of the Jezebel spirit in the church today, and thereby separate yourself from
all that Yahweh detests.
Jezebel induced her husband Ahab, king of the ten northern tribes of Israel, to
embrace the worship of Baal and Asherah. As Ahab embraced this idolatry, the citizens
under his rule followed. The vast majority of the nation entered into idolatry, but Yahweh
reserved a remnant unto Himself.

Romans 11:2-5
Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God
against Israel, saying, "Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your
altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life"? But what does the divine response
say to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the
knee to Baal." Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the
election of grace.

The passage just cited is written in the New Testament, yet it is referring to events in
the Old Testament. The apostle Paul is revealing that the same spirit that was at work
among the natural people of Israel in the days of the kings is still at work today in the
church age. In a parallel truth, Yahweh is still at work to reserve a remnant unto Himself
who have separated themselves from the rampant idolatry embraced by His people. In the