The Spirit of Prostitution

The Lord really spoke to me tonight about the issue of prostitution and broke my heart for the women involved. There are two groups when it comes to the issue of prostitution: the first is those who are in it voluntarily or due to financial/poverty reasons and the second are those who are forced to be in it or as slaves. The first group does it either because they think they can’t do anything better in society, like it (which is not many), financially desperate, or depressed. The second group is forced into prostitution by the sex slavery business primarily through sex trafficking and slavery. This is just a broad look of how deep it really goes. The sex trafficking business and prostitution are two in the one, not to mention the pornography business that drives it on.

I have been praying for the Lord to reveal to me his view of the prostitution industry. It is obviously an act of Immorality and Idolatry in God’s eyes; however I wanted to see the heart of the issue. I just asked the Lord to break my heart in the area that it breaks his heart and let me see how he sees it. I really felt the Lord speak to me through Hosea.


Hosea 4:10-14

10 "They will eat but not have enough;
they will engage in prostitution but not increase,
because they have deserted the LORD
to give themselves 11 to prostitution,
to old wine and new,
which take away the understanding 12 of my people.
They consult a wooden idol
and are answered by a stick of wood.
A spirit of prostitution leads them astray;
they are unfaithful to their God.

13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops
and burn offerings on the hills,
under oak, poplar and terebinth,
where the shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution
and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

14 "I will not punish your daughters
when they turn to prostitution,
nor your daughters-in-law
when they commit adultery,
because the men themselves consort with harlots
and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes—
a people without understanding will come to ruin!


The first thing the Lord revealed to me was in verse 12, that prostitution is a spirit. That immediately took me by surprise because I have never heard of a spirit of prostitution. I hear the spirit of Jezebel a lot and I believe they are very much both evil spirits but the fact that it is distinctively stated “spirit of prostitution” caught me off guard. Anyways the spirit of prostitution is evil and profanes His holy name. We must war against it!


Secondly, in Hosea he is speaking about how much he dislikes prostitution and that the people of the land deserted Him and gave themselves to prostitution. The part that really captured my eye though was verse 14. The Lord states that when the women turn to prostitution and commit adultery he will not punish them because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes and then that “a people without understanding will come to ruin!” I don’t think that it necessarily means this, but this is what God pressed on my heart. That the men in this world need to rise up and separate themselves from godlessness and immorality (obviously this is the majority of the problem), but in order for this to take place the last part must be fulfilled. The knowledge of God must be revealed to them, the Lord states earlier in Hosea 4:6 that “There is no truth or mercy, Or knowledge of God in the land.”

“The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that,
“‘though seeing, they may not see;
though hearing, they may not understand. (Luke 8:10)


The knowledge of God has been revealed to us and we need that knowledge to reach those involved in the prostitution industry. Jesus is the way to that knowledge, whom the son sets free, is free indeed. We can’t set anyone free out of our own righteousness it is always Jesus working through us. Your prayers and the love of God that flows from you move angels and demons and changes things on the Earth. All authority was given to Jesus (matt 28) and he commissioned us to walk in that authority, therefore let us walk out Micah 6:8.