Jezebel Poisons Oak Trees Still: How the Oak Tree in the Garden Was Poisoned by a Modern-Day Jezebel

By Jodi LaRae

Mary is a modern woman with millennial adult children. Her husband, Grant, was her gift from God who she trusted fully. However, her friend and soon-to-become family member through marriage became possessed by the demonic spirit of the Jezebel. Soon Mary’s husband would be granting all the demon’s requests. As Grant danced to the demon’s tune, Mary frantically tried to shut off the demon’s music. Together Jezebel and Grant plotted to entrap Mary as their animalistic graphic lust grew more and more deceptive. Would God let their plot destroy all of Mary? Or would Jezebel and Grant both find themselves entrapped in their own snare? That would, of course, depend on God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781639615452

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Jezebel Poisons Oak Trees Still

How the Oak Tree in the Garden Was Poisoned by a Modern-Day Jezebel

Jodi LaRae

ISBN 978-1-63961-544-5 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63961-545-2 (digital)

Copyright © 2022 by Jodi LaRae

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Table of Contents

Preface

Pain and Joy

Distorted Justice

The Jesus Dream

The Holy Spirit and Mary!

Jesus Stands Up! Light It Up

Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling God

Grant

The Oak Tree in Mary's Spiritual Garden

About the Author

Preface

The Bible is often referred to as the narrative story of the one true God who created us, loves us, and has redeemed us. Inside the Old Testament, it gives readers a blueprint of just how cruel people can be through the manifestation of an evil spirit, as seen in the person Jezebel from 1 and 2 Kings. This fictional story mirrors the behaviors of the Jezebel only in modern time. It is made up of real-life experiences that happened to a prospering family between February 2017 and March 2021. This story is told in such a way that a reader can consider an ancient story from Scriptures to learn how a biblical character's spirit can manifest today in the modern world.

The church admirably reaches many from the pulpit, but sometimes a sermon is not enough to recognize a character like Jezebel. This story is more than a sermon from a pulpit giving a warning. This is a story of experiences wrapped through a small but very loved family. The Jezebel spirit can only win if she is unseen. Learn to know her, and she will not fool you. When you see a Jezebel from a distance, may you know how to pray for the fire of God to cast down on her. If she sees you see her, she will run as far away from you as she can get. The Lord did this for Elijah and Elisha; he will do this for you, too, if you know to ask first, you must recognize that you need to ask.

The Jezebel comes only at a specific time, and the circumstances must be right. She wants to believe she can't fail. She will fail when God himself stands up, and she is exposed. This story is how one woman, Mary, exposed and gave flight to the Jezebel. Once the Holy Ghost illuminated what had devoured and poisoned many involved in Mary's life. Mary remembered that God restores and he will continue. That is who the God of the Bible is. He is a God of full restoration. Jezebel and her friends, like Delilah and Lucifer, will never fully take hold of anyone who is known by the Great I Am! May we all be thankful for the Elijahs and Elishas in 1 and 2 Kings for showing us the way to stop the spirit of Jezebel. May you, too, pass through the storm Jezebel brings like a mighty vessel that no one can sink, not even a Jezebel.

Chapter 1

Pain and Joy

An excellent wife who can find?

She is far more precious than jewels.

The heart of her husband trusts in her,

and he will have no lack of gain.

She does him good, and not harm,

all the days of her life.

She seeks wool and flax

and works with willing hands.

She is like the ships of the merchant;

she brings her food from afar.

She rises while it is yet night

and provides food for her household

and portions for her maidens.

She considers a field and buys it;

with the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.

She dresses herself with strength

and makes her arms strong.

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.

Her lamp does not go out at night.

She puts her hands to the distaff,

and her hands hold the spindle.

She opens her hand to the poor

and reaches out her hands to the needy.

She is not afraid of snow for her household,

for all her household are clothed in scarlet.

She makes bed coverings for herself;

her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Her husband is known in the gates

when he sits among the elders of the land.

She makes linen garments and sells them;

she delivers sashes to the merchant.

Strength and dignity are her clothing,

and she laughs at the time to come.

She opens her mouth with wisdom,

and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

She looks well to the ways of her household

and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Her children rise up and call her blessed;

her husband also, and he praises her:

"Many women have done excellently,

but you surpass them all."

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,

but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Give her of the fruit of her hands,

and let her works praise her in the gates. (Proverbs 31:10–31)

Even a Proverbs 31 woman can get lost in the confusion from a Jezebel. Keep alert!

The divorce papers were served to her attorney as proxy. Mary received them via e-mail. Disparagingly, Grant had written that she had two master's degrees in his petition in hopes of paying no spousal alimony, she assumed. Who was Mary's husband now? He once was a man of God who loved her more than his own life. Now he was not. He had drunk deeply from a mistress controlled by the character of a Jezebel spirit. He now was not even a shadow of the man she knew and loved, nor wanted.

After almost thirty-four years of marriage, Mary found that Arizona was a great place to divorce if one is the recipient of spouse alimony. In her confusion, she realized this was something she never thought she needed to know. God did.

In Phoenix, Arizona, her single independence was birthed. She received half of all they had, including all one-third of the stocks that would vest from Grant's company in three years. She also received a lifetime of alimony. Had she been in a state like Montana, there would have been no spousal alimony. Thanks to President Trump, with the tax changes he made while in office, Grant even had to pay the taxes on her alimony. Again, she was under the protection of God through the state Grant chose to divorce her. Mary did a little snickering smile recalling how much he moaned about paying taxes. Now he would pay his and her taxes still.

Mary's eyebrows furrowed as she didn't even have one master's. She had started a master's years ago when she lived in another state. She never completed it past the first semester because Grant's career aspirations took them to three more states in less than three years during that time.

The day the divorce petition dropped in her e-mail, she was working on her one and only master's degree. She thanked God she was only a year away from completing it. Her master's degree would be in divinity. Without the divinity education, making sense of being a witness to the slow poisoning of the man she loved by a Jezebel would have made no sense to her. Mary's Jezebel figuratively devoured the