The Modern Woman is Ancient

As I watch television, as I watch movies, as I look at popular media and the internet, I see that we're bombarded by lascivious behavior and looks. Beauty has been distorted from one of wholesomeness to whatever goes. Lady Gaga, who certainly is no lady, and the likes of Miley Cyrus are representative of who many teen girls emulate. I'm thankful that my own daughters and granddaughters are not of that ilk, but we all need to see what the gods of the world are offering to our generation!

1 Kings 16:31b "...he (King Ahab) took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him."

Jezebel is the standard to which sinful women are compared. King Ahab did worse than his father, taking this foreign woman as his wife. As a result Ahab, along with the Hebrew people, served Baal, rather than God.   Who is Baal? He was "any other god besides God" because there were many gods called baal. Later on baal was narrowed down to the "weather god", but many other gods were still called Baal. "Baal" simply means "Lord". It's who or whatever takes precedence over the LORD GOD.  One form of baal used quite often is Ba‘al Zebub. That means "Lord of the Flies". If you recall there is a popular book with that same name whose theme is on the conflicts within human nature. It's about good and evil.

In the New Testamament Beelzebub is what Satan is called:

Mark 3:22 "And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He (Jesus) hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils."

The biggest insult to Jesus ever is subscribing his miracles to Satan! Therefore, Jezebel is the epitome of evil. Her religion was one against God, yet King Ahab, who was a Jew, accepted her religion for his peoples. When you think "Jezebel" think pagan religions and their practices!

As one who worshiped Baal, at the time of Jezebel, that god was the female goddess of fertility, sexuality and of war, called Astarte or Asheroth. Pagan worship included all types of sexual activities and rituals. Baal is whoredom, what all  pagan religions are in God's eyes!

On top of that, Jezebel was a whore. Because Asheroth was a female god, then Jezebel's role would be magnified in the temple worship. It's likely that she would be the priestess who engaged in all these sexual and fertility rites!

1 Kings 21:25  "But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up."

Jezebel instigated sinful behavior in Israel. She stirred up religious and power conflicts like never before and used sexual wiles to get what she wanted!

2 Kings 9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.

2 Kings 9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

Jezebel wreaked havoc among the Israelites, causing the death of many servants of the Lord. She was a whore, a prostitute, and as such painted her face and put on an air of confidence up-righting her head in dissidence. Whores throughout history have come to be known as Jezebels and we envision them with excessive makeup and a haughty disposition.

The wise man warns us of Jezebels!

 Proverbs 6:24:24 (ESV) "To preserve you from the evil woman,
    from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
26 for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,
    but a married woman hunts down a precious life."

The adulterous woman is described much like Jezebel. As Ahab was captured by the beauty and manipulation of Jezebel, every man is prone to titillation by women wily as she was! Just as Jezebel was planted by Satan in the midst of those who were called to be holy, don't be surprised if that same type of woman is in the midst of wherever good men go!

America, indeed the west, is what Jezebel was the epitome. No wonder Islam sees Christian women as harlots and the western world as demons. Indeed the ideal woman in media are of the Jezebel prototype. Furthermore, it's more than beauty and seduction, but control as well. Feminism is an offshoot of Astarte the female deity. As Jezebel was the priestess of Baal, the leaders of organizations such as the " National Organization of Women" (NOW) are priestesses of Satan. Yes, "You've come a long way, baby!" describes the journey for Jezebel to Queen Victoria and back to modern feminists! Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, fits the description of Jezebel to a "T".

Christian women must avoid mimicking the actions of Jezebel just as Christian men are not to be Ahab's! God's will is that we're to have no other "Lords", and serving Baal is hurtful to the LORD GOD, even if it's done unintentionally!