In light of Mara’s recent blog on Jezebel and Waneta’s response, I thought my readers would enjoy this, from heavensroar.org:
False teaching: Wives must submit to their husbands.
Murder attempt as a result of this false dogma: I knew a conservative middle-aged lovely couple and was friends with the husband first. Both husband and wife were involved in church leadership and business. Then they housed a traveling US speaker who taught that the wife must totally submit to the husband. This so affected the lovely husband that he became a monster and eventually tried to stab her. She’d moved to her own bedroom, had locks on the door, the kids were begging her to leave, and she eventually did. I was in the UK by this time and knew nothing of this but God gave me the intercessory burden for her. I knew she was in serious danger and prayed and fasted hard! Finally I managed to get through on the phone and found that the night before he’d been trying to batter down her locked door to get at her with a dagger because she wasn’t willing to ‘submit’ to his ‘authority’. He had become fully possessed by this demon of illegal control. The biblical definition of submission is “to willingly come underneath in a safe place” (and it must be mutual). Her husband was hardly safe after succumbing to the dogma of ‘authority over’ his wife. The dogma wrecked the marriage, the kids’ security, the business, and the man himself.
As prophet Jill Austin said, the Jezebel demon that submission devotees love to accuse women of having, always goes for illegal control and is therefore behind the men that promote female and/or laity submission. This case classically proves that Jezebel is at least one of the spirits behind these men.
Good grief, this is a sobering story! How very sad! It is almost as if a demon posseses people at times when they “buy in” to false teachings. So glad she and the children got away, but I am sure they were scarred for life!
I agree, Julie. Sad and scary.
Perhaps the Jezebel spirit is demonic?
Perhaps it’s a spirit of Pharaoh who declared to Moses, “I am the god of Egypt!”
Much submission teaching leads to husband idolatry making him the god/head of the home. Egypt often symbolizes the flesh. Much submission teaching gives rise to the husband’s flesh and a spirit of control. It brings women and children into bondage not unlike the Children of Israel in Egypt.
CBMW and complementarianism promote the spirit of Pharaoh in men who come to believe that they have god-like authority.
We need a spirit of Moses on the church that declares, “Let my people go!” against this false teaching and it consequences.
(Thanks for the mention, Charis. I really think the Jezebel spirit is solidly about sexual sins rather than about overall control. Personal opinion only.)
Insightful about the Pharoah vs Moses spirit, Mara!
Keep thinking and sharing your thoughts!