THE JEZEBEL CAKE

Today I had an epiphany
when I looked back at a magazine
that I used to read.
It’s called, “Teaching Tolerance”
and I used to read it faithfully.

Originally,
I was committed to it’s beliefs.
But now that God
has changed my heart,
through the revelation of His Word
and the transformation of my mind,
I’m seeing how misleading it really was.

Holy Spirit,
Are you speaking
the truth in love, to me,
through the “Teaching Tolerance” magazine?
Father, am I really a member
of the church of Thyatira?

“I know your works,
your love
and faith and service
and patient endurance,
and that your latter works
exceed the first.
But I have this against you,
that you TOLERATE
that woman Jezebel,
who calls herself a prophetess
and is teaching and seducing my servants
to practice sexual immorality
and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
I gave her time to repent,
but she refuses to repent
of her sexual immorality.
Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed,
and those who commit adultery with her
I will throw into great tribulation,
unless they repent of her works,
and I will strike her children dead.
And all the churches will know
that I am he who searches mind and heart,
and I will give to each of you
according to your works.
But to the rest of you in Thyatira,
who do not hold this teaching,
who have not learned
what some call
the deep things of Satan,
to you I say,
I do not lay on you any other burden.
Only hold fast
what you have
until I come.
The one who conquers
and who keeps my works
until the end,
to him
I will give authority over the nations,
and he will rule them
with a rod of iron,
as when earthen pots
are broken in pieces,
even as I myself
have received
authority from my Father.
And I will give him the morning star.
He who has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches."
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭2:19-29

Father,
I repent at once.
I got it wrong again!
Help me to navigate
this thing that I call the Jezebel cake!

Help all of us Lord!
The Jezebel cake has been baked,
and America has been eating
every piece of it.

We swing between
two political extremes,
and forget about the letters
that you had written to the Church.

Republican and Democrat does not exist
in the Kingdom of Heaven,
nor does Conservative or Liberalism!

There is no division of class or race,
and there certainly is no man
or woman raising a fist.
There is no talk about
left or right,
or right or wrong -
there is only the following
of Your Holy Word.

Human abuse through
domestic violence, homicide,
human trafficking, poverty,
and any kind of police brutality,
defiant profanity, or oppressive system
is absolutely condemned,
and this type of heart
will NEVER enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

But this is only one side
of the human pendulum
that slices through the Jezebel cake
that you have made known to me
as the self-centered heart.

The other side
of the self-centered heart
represents a false form of love.
This is deception at its worst!
People don’t even realize
this kind of evil -
what looks like love to us
can be an abomination to God. 
If He is not Master of your universe,
than no matter how morally good you are, 
you are still operating under the curse.

This is the Land of Balaam
where idols prevail -
and we all get to be the god
of our own world.

This is the world of morally good,
where people focus on
human forms of love.

TOLERANCE
of Jezebel
is
squeezed
through
 the
tiny
little
dark
cracks
of
selfishness,
like
that
of
a
cockroach.

There is no truth in love,
because in the Land of Balaam
there is no one true god. 
Without the Word,
also known as
the Son of God, 
there is no such thing as pure love.
Everything in humanity,
is conditioned by evil intent,
and that is why
we have to understand
God's mercy!
You can love all you want,
but if you don't believe in Jesus Christ,
then the Word of God says
that you are going to hell.

In an effort to fight human oppression,
we have swung to the other side
of the pendulum -
non-authoritarianism; 
where liberal ideas
get injected into society
and before you know it, 
everything is tolerated,
and the only one persecuted
is the Christian who believes
in the Word of God.

God, how patient you are!
How do you even deal with us?
You have such compassion,
and faithful endurance
to put up with us.
We are truly a mess
on our own!

I am so thankful
for the testimony of John.
Thank you God
for this revelation.
Help me to pay better attention,
and help to gain
Holy Spirit strength and wisdom.

Its feels like judgment is coming soon.
It feels like I’m a foreigner
living in this world.
It’s feels like America 
is about to be attacked
because we have digested
all of the Jezebel cake.

Lead me not into temptation
and help me NOT to adopt
the theology of Ephesus,
which seems to be the opposite theology
that was held by the church of Thyatira.

“I know all the things you do.
I have seen your hard work
and your patient endurance.
I know you don’t tolerate evil people.
You have examined the claims
of those who say
they are apostles
but are not.
You have discovered
they are liars.
You have patiently suffered for me
without quitting.
But I have this complaint against you.
You don’t love me or each other
as you did at first!
Look how far you have fallen!
Turn back to me
and do the works you did at first.
If you don’t repent,
I will come and
remove your lamp stand
from its place among the churches.
But this is in your favor:
You hate the evil deeds
of the Nicolaitans, just as I do."

Father, I hear you.
I have ears to hear your Spirit
and I understand what you are saying
to the churches.
Help me to be victorious
and give me the fruit
from the tree of life
that is rooted in your paradise.”

Instead, I pray for humility.
Help me to be like the church in Smyrna.
“I know about your suffering
and your poverty but you are rich!
I know the blasphemy
of those opposing you.
They say they are Jews,
but they are not,
because their synagogue
belongs to Satan.
Don’t be afraid
of what you are about to suffer.
The devil will throw some of you
into prison to test you.
You will suffer for ten days.
But if you remain faithful
even when facing death,
I will give you the crown of life.”

Father, I have ears to hear
and I will listen to your words, 
reverentially.
I will seek to see your face
and I believe that I won’t be harmed
by the second death.
Only your Spirit can deflate 
the Jezebel cake,
and take all of the puffiness out of it!
Father, I lift up America,
and I stand in the gap
and hold the cake up to you.
Remove the yeast that perpetrates our hearts,
and bring us back into relationship with you.​