Jezebel who stirred up

Queen Jezebel asked her husband King Ahab about why his spirit was so sullen

that he wasn’t eating food (1 Kgs. 21:4, 5).

And she found out that it was because Naboth the Jezreelite wouldn’t give Ahab his vineyard (v. 6).

So she said this to Ahab: “"Do you now reign over Israel?

Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite” (v. 7).

 Then she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal,

and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city (v. 8).

The key point of the letters was to slander Naboth, saying “You cursed God and the king”

and then stone him to death (vv. 9-10).

Indeed, she was a wicked woman with a lot of her witchcrafts (2 Kgs. 9:22).

The elders and the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had sent word to them,

just as it was written in the letters and stoned him to death with stones (1 Kgs. 21:11, 13).

This reminds me the letter David sent to Joab.

After King David tried twice to cover up the fact that Uriah’s wife Bathsheba was pregnant

because he slept with her and failed (2 Sam. 11:2-5, 8-13), he wrote a letter to Joab

 and sent it by the hand of Uriah (v. 14).

The key point of the letter was to place Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle

and withdraw from him, so that he could be struck down and be killed (v. 15).

So Joab did as David told him and eventually Uriah died (v. 17).

We are “a letter of Christ” (2 Cor. 3:3), who preach the good news (gospel) of Jesus Christ.

Also, we are “a fragrance of Christ” to God (2:15) who, like Jesus,

 should give ourselves up for Him, “an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma” (Eph. 5:2).

But aren’t we like Ahab who covet our neighbor’s possessions?

(Lk. 11:39; Mk. 23:25; Num. 11:4; 1 Cor. 5:11; Exod. 20:17; Eph. 5:3)

Aren’t we like Jezebel who slander other who has done nothing wrong (1 Tim. 3:11; 2 Tim. 3:3)

and commit wicked sin of accusing him (Jam. 5:6; Isa. 29:21)

in order to satisfy our family member’s greed?

Eventually, as Jezebel promised to her husband Ahab (1 Kgs. 21:7),

she let him take possession of the vineyard of Naboth (v. 15).

She even killed innocent Naboth (vv. 14-16) in order to stole his vineyard and give it to Ahab.

She was the one who controlled Ahab from behind.

She was the one who stirred up Ahab to do evil in the sight of the Lord (v. 25).

She was the one who made Ahab to act very abominably in following idols,

according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord casted out before the sons of Israel (v. 26).

To such a woman Jezebel, God said, “The dogs will eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel” (v. 23).

Satan incites (Cf. 1 Chron. 21:1).  He even incites God (Job 2:3).  

That’s why even Satan’s people who are against Jesus and His gospel incite the church member

inside the church (Acts 14:19’ 21:27; 1 Chron. 21:1).

Therefore they provoke (Acts 21:30), spread rumor (v. 31) and eventually are violent (v. 35).

How could these things happen in the church of God?