Understanding Generational Curses and Blessings Part [9] 12/14/2023 (Evening thought)

Mark 2: 16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners? 17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

The adverse results are not anything that God will be doing to the offspring. That word “Visiting”, for the most part refers to God allowing the natural law of action and consequence to run unimpeded. In fact, what God does is to set in motion, ways, and means whereby persons who have been adversely affected, either genetically, or by the habitual wrong doing of one’s progenitors can make a U-Turn, and if such persons were to take hold of Christ, the only remedy, they can stop the downward trend in most cases. The following scriptures will confirm what is being said.

Romans 5: 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

God does not arbitrarily visit the iniquities of one’s parents upon the children, if the children will track a different, and right course. God gives much grace to the wicked, so that they can have equal opportunity just like the offspring of the righteous. This sacred truth must now be set in stone in our minds, once and for all.

1st Kings 21: 25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!

Understanding Generational Curses and Blessings Part [8] 12/13/2023 (Morning thought)

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

There are two statements in our first passage which need to be clarified, once and for all, because there are persons who study the Bible one-sidedly instead of line upon line, and precept upon precept, and if this is the case, wrong conclusions of God and of the passage in question will certainly be drawn. Here is the first statement of interest which need clarity: [1] “Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me.”

The word “Visiting” is too often interpreted to mean that God would directly place the sins of the fathers, and results thereof upon future generations, in ways that cannot be averted by the children. Nothing can be further from the truth, for that interpretation is quite contrary to other passages of Scripture.

There are laws of cause and effect, and there are laws of sowing and reaping that are, in many cases, allowed to run their natural course, without direct interference from God, and which bring to maturity the pertinent fruit, either for good, or for evil. If one’s parents and grandparents, going back many years were to cultivate a love for smoking and a love for drinking, their children would be born with such tendencies, and by example, the habit can become set in stone, in the offspring of such, especially if the children were to now cultivate and practice the very same patterns of behavior.

Ezekiel 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!