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* SEDUCTION, LUST AND JEZEBEL *


"This assignment is more easily discerned but far more lethal in its
outward consequences, for it devours its prey. The intense seduction
lures My children into the enticement of sin but eventually leaves them
stripped of their ministry, calling, reputation and sometimes even their
relationship with Myself and the Father and their eternal salvation." He
sighed deeply.


"The Father knows that these very ones were drawn to Him because they
knew the very weakness of their own souls-like the woman whose story I
promised would be told eternally."


I spoke. "The woman who washed your feet?"


Jesus smiled tenderly. "Those who have been forgiven much love much. In
this last generation many came to Us from the greatest ensnarements and
bondages. Once they saw Our great love for them, they became Our
greatest champions and bondservants, for their gratitude for receiving
such a redemption was unfathomable.


"These are the ones who have become close and tender with Me-who would
follow Me unto death."


"But if they would follow you unto death, Lord Jesus-and they hear your
voice-then how could they fall to seducing spirits?" I asked, that chill
gripping me again, sensing the answer.


"Every weakness that these ones experienced in their lives..." His
expression was so grave, "...every fissure, each wound, each broken
place that lies unhealed-these satanic powers and principalities and
demons shall now target.


"Many, many of My children did not receive healing of their minds,
emotions and souls in this last generation. And because they have lived
in the household of God for years, many do not even realize that these
scarred places exist.


"These last days' assignments have been meticulously strategized, and
that is the very strength of their evil-they have been tailor-made to
each of My champions. They know the urgent, driving, unmet needs of the
soul:


the generational bondages of each individual called by Me to impact this
generation; the lack of nurturing; the deep unhealed rejections and
hurts of the emotions; the fatherlessness; the need for affirmation; the
desire to belong; the deep isolations-all of which when not met in
Me-now have laid the perfect snare for the assignments of the enemy.


"Some of My champions have experienced a violent, satanic assailing
against their minds. Any thought not taken captive shall be a thought
that can take violent root in their soul to lead to ensnarement.


Anything from their past that has been dealt with by their own strength
and not by My Spirit shall become a snare to them and can leave them
vulnerable to the enemy of their souls. Any habit not ruthlessly dealt
with and put to the cross, when assigned with the searing heat of
temptation, will breed and rapidly multiply."


Jesus continued, "In this past age Jezebel has translated itself into
many different forms, but one of her primary rules in this present age
is her amalgamation with Babylon, the spirit of the world and lust. Lust
of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life.


Jezebel rules electronic media-film, television, advertising-she is the
epitome of seduction in this last age. She was Delilah, Salome,
Herodias. She rules pornography, adultery, lasciviousness,
homosexuality, pride, power, separation, divorce, ambition and every
perversion and sin of the flesh known to mankind. She tantalizes,
packages sin, sells it and then debases and exposes her victims before
killing. Her primary targets in this last Church Age are My ministers,
both men and women."


I felt the icy chill once more. Well I knew the depth of hatred Jezebel
holds for God's bondservants.


"Multitudes of My ministers today struggle with pornography. Multitudes
of My ministers struggle now with lust on a daily basis. Multitudes are
struggling against a terrible coldness of heart within their marriages
and families.


"Many came out of a deeply sinful lifestyle or out of deep-rooted
rejections, and as was the way in this past generation, far too many of
My children were not discipled effectively and did not receive effective
healing in the areas that propelled them into that habitual sin.


Also, especially among My leaders in this past generation, My Church has
been so embroiled in self-righteousness that if one of My children has
cried for help in an area of failure, many times they have been
ostracized, isolated and had their confidence betrayed.


This has led to My ministers leading double lives, having a public face
for their congregations whilst crying out to Me in their bedchambers
because they hate what they have become. Yet they know that many will
deal treacherously with them if they admit their need for help.


Jezebel knows this full well, and it is one of her most effective
strategies. For once the champion is isolated from real help, the
seducing spirits are unleashed, and time after time, My child falls into
adultery, fornication, homosexuality, pornography, separation and
divorce. And how I and My Father grieve. For well Lucifer knows that it
is often those who love us and who have hungered for Our presence who
have often been the most damaged in their past-and now Satan targets the
damaged places.


Warn them. Warn them to guard against the great deceiver of their souls.
For as Satan came to Me in the wilderness, he intends to do now to those
who follow Me, who lead others-to tempt-to lure-for in this most violent
of testings, even My most elect shall fall."


He hesitated, and a great pain seemed to cloud His countenance. And I
sensed that He was thinking about one whom I knew that He loved greatly
who had been caught even that month in a prevailing sin.


And I thought of the ones in this past year who had fallen in ways that
were still politically acceptable to us in the household of God-but my
thoughts were not with those‚ but rather with those, so many of late,
who had fallen morally-not acceptable-and who had lost or taken time out
from their ministries.


And as I looked into Jesus' eyes, I knew that these were the ones He
grieved for. For well He knew how they loved Him. In fact, some loved
Him more, much more than any others. And well He knew how they must have
wrestled in the still, quiet hours of the early morning against sin.


But because the assignments of hell had been so meticulously crafted and
because Lucifer knew so well that the politics of the Church so often
ensured isolation and silence in struggling with sin, one by one they
had fallen to the brokenness and fissures in their own souls.


And as He looked at me, I felt that suddenly I knew how He had looked
upon that rich young man. And so I prayed for all of us who had been
targeted by the enemy, to be assailed in this last End Time, that even
in the tumult and the fierce heat of the testings and trials and
temptations, we would draw on His strength that would take us through
the eye of the needle to that last lap of the narrow way that we may be
counted as conquerors.


"Lord Jesus, how can we stand?" I whispered.


"There is only one way to survive the onslaught, My child." His voice
was so soft. "Firstly, to repent of any and of all lukewarmness and
backsliding in your heart and to reignite and maintain zealously your
first love for Me. Secondly, to keep yourself from all idols and remain
fervent in the Spirit, which is the result of true fellowship in Spirit
and in truth with Myself and the Father and of feeding on My Word until
My Words are Spirit and Life to you." He hesitated, "And finally, the
cross.


The deception in every temptation is that which caused Adam to lead
billions of souls into sin-that of selfishness. Temptation promises that
which self desires. When My children desire the promises of sin more
than they desire Me-they will fall.


"The greatest weapon to survive the onslaught is for My children to take
up their cross and to follow Me. To take up the cross daily and to die
to everything in their souls and their mind that opposes My truth. To
let go of that lower life that is the flesh and continually mortify
their minds and bodies and to put to death the deeds of the flesh.


My children have forgotten the power of the cross. They have thought
that to die once is sufficient, but the spirit of the world, with its
carnality and selfishness, loosed upon this present generation is so
strong in these evil days-that it is only in a continual, daily
crucifying of their flesh that they will indeed be able to withstand
temptation.


"Remember it is written, ‘For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable
to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our
weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation,
but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without
sinning.'


Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the
throne of grace...that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find
grace to help in good time for every need, [appropriate help and
well-timed help, coming just when we need it]. Hebrews 4:16, amp


"Even when you feel you are falling into the very pit of hell itself,
even when it seems as if you are clinging to Me and to My Father and to
My Word and its principles by a thread-when you feel that hell is
sucking you in-it is then that you must cry out to Me. Cry out to My
Father. Cry out Our name, and in that very second, We will come to you
and rescue you. We will draw you in and protect you from every wile of
the Evil One.


"I said I will never forsake you, and this is true. Even when you are in
the heat of temptation-still if you cry out to Me-I will hear you.


"Speak My Word, and I, the Living Word, will come to your aid and
accomplish that which I have promised.


"Now, warn My children. My Father's heart is grieved with a terrible
grieving. Warn My beloved-that many would be saved out of the fowler's
snare-that even those in the deepest mire might cry out to Me and find
their way home.


"Beloved children"-Jesus' voice was so tender, and somehow I knew that
He was speaking to all who had been ensnared who eventually would read
these words-"there is forgiveness, beloved. There is deliverance. There
is restoration." And then He turned and smiled-the smile of heaven that
seemed to light up the whole world in its wake. "THERE IS HOPE."


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