I must admit, since our arrival in the country couple of months ago, it has really become so tempting to join the wagon of Covenant and Curse Breakers in Nigeria.
This heretic Yes! i mean Heretic doctrine of Breaking Covenants and Generational curses is selling like hot cake, infact nothing sells more now in Nigeria than telling people they need curses broken in their lives to hit a jakpot.
Pastors and teachers in churches and on TV tell their listners that they made so many covenants before they got saved and because of this, curses are following them and this is the reason why they are NOT GETTING RICH. They are told that their businesses are not succeeding because of these covenants. They are told that they are not getting jobs because of curses and covenants that need to be broken.
They are told that they are not building their own houses, they are not buying cars, they are not marrying and getting married, they are fornicating and having sicknesses because of generation curses.
I must also admit and confess i use to be a proponent of this fallacy untill The Lord opened my eyes to the error and danger of this doctrine.
Now before i introduce scriptures to bring the error in this doctrine, i would only like to ask the Apostles of this doctrine two simple questions.
If breaking of generation curses is so central and serious as they proclaim, how come the Lord Jesus Christ never talked about it? How come apostle Paul never told Christians in the early church to break covenants and generation curses? How come that this was not an issue at all for the early church?
You would have expected the Apostle to have atleast said something about this topic with all the revelation and insight he had, but not a word from him, nor did any of the Apostles said or mentioned anything on breaking generational curses. No where in the new testament would you see any word on generational curses, infact the word ”generational Curses” is not in the scriptures at all
2. One question I have repeatedly asked those who believe in “GC” teaching is this: If there is a generation curse, who placed the curse? Most evade the question. Some say, “The parents did,” but then they realize Scripture never says that. Furthermore, there is no Scriptural basis for saying Satan places a curse (despite all the harm he does do). Finally, the answer is: God places the curse. Then I ask, “Do you think you can break a curse God placed?” The usual reply is, “I had not thought of it that way before.”
The solemnizing fact is that God has indeed cursed sin and sinners (Matthew 25:41). The original curse of Genesis 3 affects every human being and all of creation (Romans 8:19-23). Some examples of specific curses placed by God are: Cain (Genesis 4;11); all who would curse Abraham or his seed (Genesis 12:3); all Israelites who were guilty of sins enumerated in Deuteronomy 27-28; God-robbers (Malachi 3:9). There are others, but none is “generational.” No one can break a curse placed by God except God Himself! He delights in breaking curses as soon as people turn to Him in repentance. A prime example is Nineveh (Jonah 3:10).
The people who teach this doctrine take Exodus 20:5-6 as their scriptural basis.
Lets look at it and see if that scripture actually supports the idea of generational curse.
“You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.” (Exodus 20:5,6)
The above scripture is obviously a warning to the Isrealites of the grave consequence of worshipping other gods.
Even this warning is tempered with a greater promise of God’s mercy: “But showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments” (verse 6).
At Sinai, God entered into a covenant relationship with Israel and took her to be His own people. They were to honor that covenant from their hearts, by loving God and obeying Him. Worshiping other gods was covenant-breaking in its worst form, analogous to spiritual adultery.
They were persistently warned of the consequences of such behavior, yet it was all too common. The consequences would even mean that God would “visit the iniquities to the third and fourth generation.” What does this mean? On the surface it appears that God would punish the children and grandchildren for sins that they did not personally commit. But Deuteronomy 24:16 provides good reason to reject this interpretation: “Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own
Is the Blood line cursed?
The arqurment that says iniquity is passed to persons through the family blood is wrong for the following reasons
1. The only family totally affected by sin (iniquity) is the human family. By one man sin entered the world (Romans 5:12). As a result of our first parents’ sin, all humans have been born with a nature that is inclined to sin (Ephesians 2:3).
2. Every baby is conceived with this sinful nature inherent (Psalm 51:5), but children are not held accountable until they personally commit sin. “Sin is not imputed when there is no law” (Romans 5:13). Paul describes coming to “the age of accountability” (Romans 7:9).
3. The only bloodline that is involved with the sinful nature is that from Adam (Romans 5: 17-19) and Eve (1Timothy 2:14). “God has made of one blood all nations” (Acts 17:26, ). Human blood may transmit physical diseases, but it cannot carry spirits or iniquities. A blood transfusion from the vilest sinner could not defile one; likewise, blood from the most Christlike saint cannot make one holy.
4. There is cleansing in the blood of the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45)! By His blood the Church is purchased (Acts 20:28), justified (Romans 5:9), and purified (Hebrews 9:22).
The covenant breaking apostles argue, that God is a respecter of covenants and so if a born again Christian entered into a covenant before being born again , God will do nothing about that covenant until the Christian who entered into it breaks it.
Surprisingly they keep breaking these covenants over and over again using the blood of Jesus. This contradicts John 19:30, where Christ guarantees that it is finished.
This is a mockery of Christ’s finished work on the cross. If Christ became a curse for our sake, how can the generation covenants and curses fail to be succumbed by the blood of Jesus once and for all.
In 2Cor 5:17 it is written that, ‘’Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new’’ But the covenant and generation curse parrots are saying that, when you are in Christ you became a new creature but generation covenants and curses still remain. What kind of logic is this??? If a born again Christian can be under a curse, this logically means that he/she did not become a new creature in the first place and all things never became new.
Ezekiel 18:2, 3, 20) says:2What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
3As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. 20The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
But the covenant and generation curse proponents use(Duet 9:5) to argue fallaciously that , even when sin is forgiven, covenants and the consequences of sin remain. They use the example of David in 2 Samauel 12, 13 etc to show how the generation curse of womanizing followed David’s descendants although God had forgiven David. They do not seem to understand that David lived before the shedding of Christ’s blood on the cross and therefore there is no way this example can be applied to truly born again Christian today.
These people do not seem to understand the distinction between LAW(old covenant) and GRACE(new covenant).
This is what the New Testament teaches.
Gal 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
2Cor 5:17: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
John 8:36 “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed
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