Blessings and Curses Through Generations!!! “Then Jacob called for his sons and said, ‘Assemble yourselves [around me] that I may tell you what will happen to you and your descendants in the days to come. Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob; And listen to Israel (Jacob) your father. Reuben, you are my firstborn; My might, the beginning of my strength and vigor, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power [that should have been your birthright]. But unstable and reckless and boiling over like water [in sinful lust], you shall not excel or have the preeminence of the firstborn], because you went up to your fathers bed [with Bilhah]; You defiled it—he went up to my couch” (Genesis 49: 1-4, AMP). This led to a generational curse that affected David when his son Absalom disrespected him more egregiously, in that he did it in the open, in front of the entire city. But there is another curse that remained active. Just as Jacob stole the blessing from Esau, when he blessed his gr...