Unmasking the Jezebel Spirit [Paperback]

John Paul Jackson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1584830492 | ISBN-13: 978-1584830498 | Publication Date: January 1, 2002 | Edition: Reprinted

With keen insight, John Paul Jackson peers through the enemy's smokescreen and exposes one of the most deceptive snares used to destroy the Church. In this eye-opening book, the author challenges Christians to embrace God's divine order and seeks to strengthen God-breathed intercession and prophetic ministry that bears the marks of humility, wisdom, and discernment. "Unmasking the Jezebel Spirit" is biblically anchored and seasoned with years of divine revelation and thoughtful reflection

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About the Author

John Paul Jackson is the Founder of Streams Ministries International, an in-depth prophetic teaching ministry that endeavors to encourage, motivate, and equip people to walk in greater spiritual maturity, wisdom, and holiness. A popular conference speaker, he travels around the world teaching on "The Art of Hearing God," on dreams and visions, and on the realm of the supernatural. He has authored 3 books and has appeared on Pat Robertson’s "The 700 Club," Benny Hinn’s "This Is Your Day" broadcast, TBN's "Praise the Lord" broadcast, Cornerstone Television, Daystar Television, and God Digital. John Paul Jackson seeks to touch people with the message of God's love. As people have experienced the supernatural power of God, lives have been transformed.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Streams Pubns; Reprinted edition (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584830492
• ISBN-13: 978-1584830498
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #25 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Spirituality > Religious Warfare

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102 of 108 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Calling all Jehus!, April 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Veiled Ploy: Unmasking the Jezebel Spirit in the Church Today (Paperback)

You may be up against it....and don't know it. But if you have ever confronted it, you won't forget it. I know of no fouler spirit unleashed against the church today. Yet, little is written about it---a few small pamphlets and a couple of books. Of all those, this is the best, I believe. Some of the good things written these days are in the phamplets, but they're too short to do more than simply observe that the problem exists. Here you will find no mere poking fingers in the clouds or railing against it. Rather, its history, how to identify it, what to do about it, and the dangers of deciding to do nothing about it, are all covered----and all without fanaticism or wildfire---a treasured commodity. WARNING: if you are looking for a book to give ammo for witch-hunting, this isn't it. He warns against this sort of thing, reminding us that those afflicted are hurting people in need of much healing and grace. Be ready to be challenged to walk humbly and with holy hands, as we deal courageously with this spirit. As a pastor, I would that every pastor had a copy. Oh, the things they DON'T tell us in seminary!

45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Humility, holiness & purity of heart is needed to overcome..., June 10, 2006

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Bookaholikk (Cairns, Queensland, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unmasking the Jezebel Spirit (Hardcover)

A good overview of the Jezebel spirit to assist pastors, prophets, intercessors and all lay people in identifying and dealing with this ubiquitous and insidious problem of Church life. The Jezebel spirit rebels, controls and manipulates, often veiling hidden ambition under a religious garb, and operates in a variety of methods from intimidation to sexual manipulation to blatant witchcraft. Many people might identify this spirit also exerting its malignant influence outside church in diverse arenas of life such as in workplaces and politics at every level. John Paul Jackson gives examples where pastors or churches have been destroyed by the effect of a single person operating in this spirit. "No Church is too great, too pure or too healthy to be exempted from a Jezebel spirit", and hence this book is a warning and an exhortation to all - to walk in deep interior humility and to continuously examine and purify one's own intentions - while remaining on guard and recognizing attacks from without. It's also a useful manual on how to deal with the problem and those affected by this spirit.

Minus half a star for leaving me a little dissatisfied. Perhaps it's because Jezebel is only half the story - the other half is Absalom and Ahab. The masculine form of the Jezebel Spirit, an Absalom spirit, is skimmed over in two paragraphs, whereas the remainder of the book focusses on Jezebel operating through women. Also the bottom line is that it takes an Ahab - unrighteous and compromising authority - to tolerate/accommodate a Jezebel. An alliance in the heart - lust, ambition, idolatory - gives rise to an alliance in the flesh. The book apportions one chapter to describing an Ahab spirit, compared with seven chapters describing how Jezebel operates, and the examples drawn are almost all involving women. Is John Paul Jackson just trying to narrow his focus, or is this an oversight ? - considering that whereas Jezebel threatened to kill the prophets, Absalom, out of the King's very own household, threatened to tear apart the Kingdom of Israel. And it was Ahab who, through his alliance with Jezebel, was the one who gave her an operating platform in the first place. Beware Pastors! If you think you have to watch out only for women, you may have your antivirus on, but your firewall is switched off!

Minus another half star for not making resoundingly clear the fundamental preventative to Jezebels, Absaloms & Ahabs: Christlikeness, humility, holiness, purity of heart. For sure, spiritual authority in the form of Jehu is needed to slay Jezebel when she has already manifested, but prevention is better than cure. This is where I think the book is a little fuzzy. On the one hand John Paul Jackson warns against ambition, gain and lust. The mixed message seems to occur when on the other hand he implies that the primary motivation to defeat Jezebel was the Lord's promise of increased spiritual authority and Divine favour. In other words - spritual self advancement: the very temptation that is capable of incubating a Jezebel. When desire for external ministry becomes more highly prized than desire for the Holy Spirit's transforming us into the image and likeness of Christ, the resultant spiritual distortion sends out an invitation to dormant Jezebels to come to life. No folks, the motivation should be nothing other than the Lord's glory, even if the confrontation entails, like John the Baptist, losing one's own head.

Finally, to those potentially influenced by the negative reviews that the message of this book is too one-sided or might lead to witch hunts: this is not what the book is about. Rejecting the truth of the message because of the book's deficits does not negate the reality of the evil that Jezebel is, nor the unfettered power that this spirit wields in modern secular society and to a lesser extent in some churches. Jezebel originates from the pit of hell and simply must not be tolerated.

The responsibility to overcome Jezebel does not lie just in leardership's ( Jehu's) hands: ALL are called to overcome.

49 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A VERY Important Area to Discern and Understand ..., June 15, 2002

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Leonardo LCH "Lenben" (Cebu, Philippines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unmasking the Jezebel Spirit (Hardcover)

Feminists and other people with a personal agenda will
(of course) disagree, but this book is vital for pastors
and Christians everywhere to understand the manipulative
and satan-strongholds that can operate (often, at first,
subtly) within local churches. The Jezebel/Ahab principality
is a demon-stronghold that can divide and destroy not only
ministries, but entire local churches! - It is VITAL to know
and understand how it operates.
Pastor Francis Frangipane has identified and dealt with
this "Jezebel spirit" in seminars, tapes, and a booklet and
book. John Paul Jackson has an excellent teaching ministry
and here (in this book) he exposes the manner in which this
demonic-activity can lock-into certain personality types
(NOT ALL OF WHOM are necessarily female).
I have worked many years as a pastor and a missionary on a
foreign field. I can definitely testify that the "Jezebel-
demonic-spirit and stronghold" is very, very real and HIGHLY
manipulative and (often) destructive within local churches.
If one is not aware of the problems and operations of this
spirit, they will almost surely fall prey to it sooner or
later in today's secular and religious world.
The "Jezebel-spirit" is a classic "seducing spirit" in the
witchcraft and manipulative sense, not so much in the sexaul
or carnal sense. It operates mostly on an UNconscious level:
wherein it is absolutely CERTAIN it is doing "God's Will." !
READ THIS BOOK and get very well informed on a MAJOR area
of spiritual warfare and demonic-deception.