Blessings and Curses Through Generations!!!

 

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 grandsons, he deposed Manasseh from his birthright, as the older son, and bestowed it upon Ephraim. Please understand that blessings, and generational and bloodline curses can transcend lineages. And even after curses are broken through prayer and repentance, and by the grace of God, they can be reactivated through sin and separation from God. Just as blessings are to be passed on from generation to generation. Or they can be made inactive.

“And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. And he said, ‘The LORD came from Sinai (where God first revealed Himself to Moses), and rose up from Seir unto them (in what was supposed to be an 11 day journey, in all its exploits); He shined forth from mount Paran, and He came with ten thousands of saints: from His right hand went a fiery law for them (His Covenant). Yea, He loved the people; all His saints are in Thy hand: and they sat down at Thy feet; every one shall receive of Thy words. Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. (God’s law is our birthright and patrimony. It is our legacy. A precious possession.) And He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together. Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few” (Deuteronomy 33: 1-6, KJV).

“Simeon and Levi are brothers [equally headstrong, deceitful, vindictive, and cruel]; Their swords are weapons of violence and revenge. O my soul, do not come into their secret council; Let not my glory (honor) be united with their assembly [for I knew nothing of the plot]; Because in their anger they killed men [an honored man, Shechem, and the Shechemites], and in their self-will they lamed oxen. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide and disperse them in Jacob, and scatter them in [the midst of the land of] Israel” (Genesis 49: 5-7, AMP).

As I was studying, I did not find the tribe of Simeon mentioned in the blessings in Deuteronomy. This will solidify the power of the curse. In the 25th chapter of the Book of Numbers, the population of the Simeonites declined sharply when God struck them with a plague because of their whoredom that was committed against the LORD. When they intermarried with the Moabite and Midianite women while worshipping Baal-peor. Even as Zimri the Simeonite, and Cozbi the Midianitish woman, was bold enough to commit a sexual act in front of all of Israel, in an act of rebellion, as they were being judged. The plague was stayed when they were thrust through. So, the remainder was absorbed into the tribe of Judah. And God’s judgment through the divine prophecy of Jacob had been fulfilled.

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