Some church leaders may not be as spiritual as we might like, but then neither was Jehu, who brought down Queen Jezebel — had her thrown down, actually. Elijah’s judgements on the prophets of Baal paved the way for that great victory, but after that, when threatened by Jezebel, ran for his life from that detestable woman.
Nor was Elisha, his anointed successor, up to cleansing the nation of Jezebel, who had dominated and manipulated Ahab, her weak, moody husband. But Jehu got the job done. A young prophet was sent to anoint him king and to then run for his life!
The anointing sanctioned Jehu to do what was already in his heart. He was a flawed but zealous man who polarised people. Those who encountered him were either for or against him. “Is your heart with my heart, as my heart is with your heart?” At Jehu’s order, Jezebel’s eunuchs, threw the over-cosmeticized queen out the window to her doom: the men she had emasculated. (Today’s Jezebels do the same, figuratively, so they can dominate men in the fields of business and commerce.)
A political Jezebel does the same to the men around her. The spirit of Jezebel troubled the church at Thyatira (Revelation 2:20). Jesus referred to her as “that woman” and said that if she did not repent, he would throw her into a sickbed along with those involved with her evil schemes (v.22).
Who needs the media to present the latest Jezebel, when the Bible has the full story of the original one!