Ahab is first mentioned in the bible as a wicked king who was more wicked than all of his predecessors (1 Kings 16:30) and did more to provoke YHVH than any other king before him (verse 33). He married the Phoenician Jezebel and immediately led Israel to worship her gods (verses 31 through 33). I’ve done a post on The Jezebel Spirit already; feel free to read more about it’s biblical history. These two spirits are intertwined.

So who is Ahab? He is the “hen pecked” husband of the domineering banshee he has for a wife. I’m sure you’ve seen these emasculated men. My own grandfather and uncle were Ahabs; my grandmother ruled our household with an iron fist. Ahab and Jezebel go against the godly order of family, and in this marriage the woman is the head. Ahab is the sulking toddler who pouts when he doesn’t get his way (1 Kings 21:1-6, 1 Kings 22:7-8). He is often seen as Jezebel’s victim but in many ways he is just as conniving and manipulative as his wife. He throws a tantrum fully aware that Mommy will give him what he wants (1 Kings 21:7-16). An Ahab will quietly complain to his Jezebelan wife about a quarrel he is having with someone and will stand by smiling as she rips into the other person, who is too taken aback from the verbal attack to even defend himself. This is a couple whose familiar spirits found each other, creating an incredibly toxic bond. Wherever Ahab and Jezebel go, expect chaos and destruction.

Ahab reports everything to Jezebel (1 Kings 19:1). Psychologists will refer to an Ahab as the son-husband of the Jezebel, a narcissist and oftentimes borderline personality. An Ahab is emotionally (and spiritually) a child who needs his mommy. Of course, this is completely unnatural and demonic in spirit, so an Ahab will suffer through bouts of depression and have an inferiority complex, since he’s completely emasculated. It isn’t the least bit surprising that these men become addicted to pornography and/or become serial adulterers. They are desperately trying to recover their masculinity. In some cases, a boy raised and emasculated by his Jezebelan mother will unwittingly open the door to spirits of homosexuality and perversion. Many also become drug addicts and alcoholics (spirit of pharmakeia tied to witchcraft), looking to numb the pain and the shame of being on his wife’s leash. This couple teaches their children an ungodly order of marriage, practically ensuring that history repeats itself. These spirits then become generational curses that travel in the bloodline, visiting every generation.

I have to wonder if Solomon was also an Ahab, seeing how he repeatedly referred to this type of woman (Proverbs 19:13, 21:9, 21:19, 25:24, 27:15). Keep in mind King Solomon ruled almost sixty years earlier; again, Jezebel is a spirit that was named after the wicked queen, but has been around since the garden of Eden (fully explained in my post, The Jezebel Spirit). I almost feel sorry for Ahabs, if it weren’t for the fact that they are just as poisonous as their wives. These men are sneaky and can be as cold and calculating as a Jezebel; they simply hide it better. Because Jezebel is such a complex spirit who lures, then cages her prey and keeps him bound in fear through witchcraft, most Ahabs may be fully aware of their wives’ desperate need for deliverance but are simply too afraid to confront them. In turn, the wife does not respect her husband for being so weak and treats him with contempt. It’s a vicious circle.

Ahab son husbands to their mothers will bring this dynamic into their marriage. He may not have married a Jezebel but allows his Jezebelan mother to interfere in his marriage. No woman will ever be good enough for her son husband; that’s because she believes he belongs to her and he has no right to marry. These men are their mothers’ eunuchs. The poor wife will have to decide if she wants to suffer the rest of her life with this overbearing, even abusive mother in law or if she must break the marriage covenant against her will. Again, these men are completely emasculated. It takes a lot of courage and untapped strength to face the Jezebel’s rage when you put her in her place. But if you want to put your house in order, it must be done.

Please spend some time in prayer and fasting. You will be going to war with an incredibly powerful and destructive spirit. While you may seek deliverance for yourself, please pray for your wife. She needs to be delivered, as well, but it must be her choice to make. As her husband freed from the Ahab spirit and taking his rightful place in his marriage the only thing you can do for your wife is intercede for her. Lord willing, her spiritual eyes will open and she will seek deliverance. In the meantime, get delivered and retake your God given authority in your home. Anoint your home and anoint yourself before praying for deliverance. Pray daily for your wife and make daily declarations of a breakthrough in your marriage. It may not happen overnight, but remember always that you can do all things through Christ and that with God all things are possible. I pray this blesses you.

WARFARE PRAYER:
Father I come humbly before Your throne of grace and ask for Your forgiveness. I did not take my role as high priest of my home (Ephesians 5:23, 1 Timothy 2:12-13, 1 Peter 2:5, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 20:6) seriously and have allowed an unholy spirit to dwell in place of Your Holy Spirit. I fully acknowledge my part in allowing Jezebel to rule over my wife and I am truly repentant for not protecting her, thus giving the devil a foothold into our marriage. Lord we made a covenant before You and have both broken it. As the husband, I take full responsibility and dutifully cover my wife. Father have mercy over us both. Right now I take my place as the head of my marriage and my home. I cover our home with the blood of Christ and order every demonic spirit to leave!

Leviathan, I cut off your head and tail and burn them in Holy Spirit fire. I jab a spear dipped in the blood of Christ into every scale and burn your body in Holy Spirit fire. I bind Jezebel and cast her out of her ivory tower.

Now I cast out Ahab, depression, perversion, adultery, fornication, every lewd, effeminate and unclean spirit, lust, spirit wife, son husband, homosexuality, misogyny, fear, wickedness, rejection, rage, arrested development, witchcraft and pharmakeia. (Now name any other spirit that the Holy Spirit reveals to you.) From this moment forward I take my rightful place as the leader in my marriage and in my home; you are no longer welcome in either. Leave now!

Holy Spirit, I ask You to rule over my home. Father, assign guardian angels 24/7 at my door and in my home. Lord Jesus, please intercede to the Father for my wife as I will intercede for her daily, as well. Restore my marriage; You make all things new. I thank You for Your mercy and grace. May the pact this bloodline has made with You today never be broken. I seal this prayer with the precious blood of the Lamb and give thanks and praise to You. Amen.