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actually realize how pervasive the Jezebel spirit is.
By looking at the promotion of idolatry, and specifically those practices associated
with Baal and Asherah, it is possible to discern more accurately the influence of this spirit.
If I were to ask you how many churches celebrate Christmas and Easter, it becomes obvious
that the influence of the Jezebel spirit is much greater than most have understood. Rare is
the voice today that will declare the uncleanness of these practices. Can you imagine the
response in most congregations today if the minister would preach from the pulpit the truth
of these things? Jezebel’s influence has slain, or forced into hiding, the true prophets of
Yahweh. As was the condition of Israel in the days of king Ahab and his wicked queen, so
too is the condition of the church today. The majority have bowed to Baal.
Such success in leading the people of God into idolatry was achievable because it
appealed to the desires of the natural man. Is there not in the celebration of Christmas and
Easter that which is very attractive to the soul? Do not even the lost members of society,
those with no profession of faith in Christ, enjoy these celebrations?
Christmastime has become a period when the world goes mad with a lust for
consumer goods. It is a time when the love of the world, and the things in it, reaches its
highest peak of the year. Merchants count on an orgy of consumer spending at
Christmastime to achieve profitability. They can count on people everywhere spending
inordinate amounts of money on every imaginable product. The church under the influence
of Jezebel drives this process, for they have claimed Christmas to be a Christian holiday.
Even as Jezebel induced Israel to adopt the idols of Sidon, she has led the church to adopt
the idols of this fallen world system. The saints of God are feeding on the doctrines of
demons.
Let me interject at this time, a definition of idolatry. You do not have to bow before
a statue, or make a sacrifice to a false deity, or pray to a god other than Yahweh to be an
idolater. Idolatry is an issue of the heart. It is setting anything next to God that commands
your devotion, love, or actions. The spirit that abounds at Christmas is a spirit of
covetousness. The apostle Paul declares that the covetous man (or woman) is an idolater.

Ephesians 5:5
For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous
man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

The pervasiveness of this idolatry is undeniably extensive. Covetousness is the driving
force behind the prosperity gospel that has replaced the preaching of the disciple’s cross in
this hour. The Jezebel spirit extends as far as those churches that have embraced Christmas
and Easter, the rites and symbols of Baal and Asherah.
Consider now the great attraction of these things. I know of a few men who have
become convicted of the error of mixing the holy and the profane, of merging the worship
of Yahweh and His Christ with that of Babylonian mystery religions. When they have
suggested to their wives and children that they must put away these things, some have
encountered a firestorm of protest. Some men have backed down immediately. They feared
their wives and children more than they feared God.
What if the man had said to his wife or children that they were no longer going to
practice some Christian discipline that had formerly been their custom? Would there be a
great protest, even threats of divorce? It seems unlikely. The rites introduced by Jezebel,
however, appeal to the flesh. They satisfy the lusts of men and women. Those who act to