In these last days, the spirit of Jeroboam is still actively at work in God’s church. In various ways, this spirit has an impact on God’s church. This spirit finds ungodly ways to increase the church and prevent people from leaving the church.
To defend his Kingdom, King Jeroboam erected temples, employed uncalled people as priests, offered up vain sacrifices, and build pagan altars. Israelites began to offer sacrifices and started worshipping in these temples.
This spirit creates churches which does things in an ungodly way. This spirit makes uncalled people into pastors or priests, just like Jeroboam did when he made priests from every class of people who weren’t sons of Levi. They build unwanted altars and burn unnecessary sacrifices. Their goal is to rapidly increase church growth by implementing numerous growth tools. They act contrary to God’s will and without God’s presence. They entice people by creating a setup that resembles God’s house.
They replicate everything in God’s house
1) Replicate Prophesy / Gifts
2) Replicate healings
3) Replicate God’s presence
4) Replicate God’s teaching without God
5) Manufacture fake tears
Their primary concern is that people should not return to God. People cannot return to God if there is no preaching on the below topics
1) Identifying/Exposing the sin
2) Repentance – Turn from wicked ways to God
3) Cross – Emphasizing on Jesus’s sacrifice rather than works
4) Character and Nature of Jesus
This spirit can replicate everything in God’s House but not the character and nature of Jesus. This spirit cannot produce the fruits of the Spirit. We can determine which spirit is working based on the fruits of the Spirit.
King Jeroboam was successful in fooling the Israelites. The Israelites were not aware that idolatry, worship at false godly temples and altars, and non-godly worship in God’s temple would bring judgement from God onto the land.
This spirit still deceives many churches today by adopting worldly ways, carrying out things contrary to God’s will, and avoiding preaching on the Cross and repentance. God’s wrath is being poured out on the land, and it starts with God’s church before moving on to the local populace.