We’ve all heard of ‘generational blessings
and curses’.
Perhaps you have heard of them both in and
out of churches.
While one makes us smile, the other makes us
all cringe!
How do ancestors’ acts upon our lives infringe??
With 7 references to such generational trends, 1
The Bible pleads: ‘Make generational blessings your friends.
Avoid curses that across generational lines
leap!’
How does what our ancestors
sow impact what we may reap?
God told Abraham that for 4 centuries,
His seed would suffer slavery drudgeries.
For their iniquities, Amorites would not yet
be judged,
Therefore, away from the Promised Land his
seed
would be nudged. 2
would be nudged. 2
Ahhh!
The make-up of Abraham’s seed destined for
slavery,
Were descendants of brothers who committed
treachery,
Against Joseph, Jacob’s favored and
righteous son. 3
Were brothers’ sins ‘visited
upon’ those yet to come??
Many other examples to us are displayed,
Lessons from The Bible’s pages, to us
relayed.
Both positive and negative examples unfold,
Righteousness and sinfulness, generationally scrolled.
The Bible reveals spirits are eternal
beings,
Just as we are, but a body they are lacking.
Good, bad or ugly, they desire to be a
mentor.
To express their nature, they need us,
an Earth actor.
Earth realm, planting field where things
procreate.
Physical or spiritual, they …‘mate’.
Physical things populate: Roots grow when in hosts
seeds germinate.
seeds germinate.
Spiritual things propagate: Roots grow when in hearts
seeds penetrate.
seeds penetrate.
While righteousness and sinfulness have
roots, spiritual,
We are more impacted by our choices, consensual.
Like sponges, from people, we absorb, then emulate.
Thus, with spirits that spawn their
acts, we associate.
In days ‘of old’ families were much tighter
than now.
Generational impacts were high. Can you see how?
Today, with families much looser than then,
We are more influenced by strangers
and friends.
Sins that traverse generational lines,
Result from exposure to devils’ shrines.
Exposure not resisted by your generation,
Means the same curses and judgments one day it
will own. 4
Thus…
Beware and be careful with whom you associate,
Since so much, if not all of life, spirits
saturate.
In your associations, one spirit will dominate,
And in your
life, that spirit will …celebrate!
~o~
He who walks with wise men will be
wise,
but the companion of fools will be
destroyed.
(Proverbs 13:20)
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1 ‘For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me…’ See: Exodus 20:5, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18, Deuteronomy 5:9 and 24:16, 2 Kings 10:30, 2 Kings 15:12, Jeremiah 31:29-30, Ezekiel 18:1-4
2 Amorites
is the collective name for
Canaanites, an ancient people who dwelt in the land of Canaan. See:
Genesis 15:16
3 See:
Genesis 37
4 ‘Fathers shall not be put to death for their children nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin. (Deuteronomy 24:16) Some may misinterpret this verse as annulling the above verses (in footnote #1), but note well: judgments on generational sins need not necessarily be the death penalty. Death is but one type of judgment.
