Lithohako tsa meloko ke ntho e makatsang eo Bakreste ba bangata ba lumelang ho eona. When someone struggles in life and experiences a lack or resistance and things don’t go according to the will of the person or if someone is tormented in the mind and commits the same sins as the parents or grandparents, many believe the person lives under a generational curse. But do generational curses exist in the New Covenant? Can you inherit generational curses? Or is the doctrine of generational curses a false doctrine, which deceives many believers? Where did Jesus speak about generational curses or where did Jesus break a generational curse? What does the Bible say about generational curses?
Generational curses in the Old Covenant
Selekaneng sa Kgale, we read a lot about curses in general. But since this blog is about generational curses, only the scriptures that relate to generational curses will be discussed.
And God spake all these words, ho bua, Ke 'na Jehova, Molimo oa hao, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, ka ntle ho ntlo ea bokhoba. U se na melimo e meng ka pel'a ka. U se ke oa u kenya setšoantšo leha e le sefe se behileng, kapa ntho efe kapa efe ea ntho efe kapa efe e leholimong e kaholimo, kapa e lefatšeng ka tlase, kapa ho ea metsing tlasa lefatše: U se ke ua inamela, kapa hona ho li sebeletsa: Hobane ke Jehova Molimo oa hao, ke Molimo ea boulekang, Ho etela bokhopo ba bo-ntate ho bana ho isa molokong oa boraro le oa bone oa bona ba ntlhoileng; Le ho sheba ka ho soma ka likete tsa bona tse nthatang, le boloka litaelo tsa ka (Exoda 20:1-6).
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed The Lord, Morena Modimo, ya mohau le ya mohau, Longsfuff, mme o tletse molemo le nnete, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation (Exoda 34:6-7).
Morena ke selelele, le mohau o moholo, ho tšoarela bokhopo le tlolo ea molao, mme ho hang ho se kholoe molato, Ho etela bokhopo ba bo-ntate ho bana ho isa molokong oa boraro le oa bone (Lipalo 14:18).
U se ke ua li inamela, kapa hona ho li sebeletsa: Hobane ke Jehova Molimo oa hao, ke Molimo ea boulekang, Ho etela bokhopo ba bo-ntate ho bana ho isa molokong oa boraro le oa bone oa bona ba ntlhoileng, And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me and keep My commandments (Deuteronoma 5:9-10).
The doctrine of generational curses and breaking generational curses are predominantly based upon these Scriptures. In these Scriptures, Modimo o boletse, tseo, ba tswetsweng lelokong la Jakobo (Iseraele) and belonged to the people of God and lived in the covenant and became disobedient to the commandments of God, that God would visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hated God.
If the fathers did things against the thato ya Modimo, then by their deeds they showed that they didn’t love God with all their heart, kelello, moea, le matla, but that they hated God. They didn’t submit to God and didn’t keep His commandments, but they went their own way and lived in rebellion against God.
Their iniquity would pass on to their children (second generation), grandchildren (third generation), and their great-grandchildren (fourth generation).
Bana, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren had to pay for the behavior of the fathers, whom God hated and didn’t do what God had commanded them to do, and carry their iniquity.
The curses of God
In Deuteronomium 28 and Leviticus 26, we read about the curses, which would come over those, who were born into the covenant, but refused to listen to the voice of the Lord and submit themselves to God and therefore didn’t observe His commandments and statutes, but became disobedient to God.
These curses derived from God and God’s Kingdom and not from the devil and his kingdom. Ka hona, no demonic powers were involved, but the angels, who were sent by God.
Confessing their iniquity
Not only do we read in Leviticus 26 about the curses that would be brought upon the people, when they lived in disobedience to God, but we also read about annulling the curse, which would rest upon the children of the people because of the disobedience and iniquity of the fathers.
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land (Levitike 26: 39-42)
If they would remember their iniquity and confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespass which they trespassed against God and the way they walked contrary to God, God would remember His covenant with Jacob, Isaka, and Abraham and remember the land.
The generational curse annulled by God in the Old Covenant
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin (Deuteronoma 24:16)
Joale e ile ea feta, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, ho bua, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin. (2 Likronike 25:3-4)
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge (Jeremia 31:29-30)
“The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son”
The word of the Lord came unto me again, ho bua, What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ho bua, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? As I live, Ho bolela Morena Jehova, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Bonang, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, ruri o tla phela, Ho bolela Morena Jehova.
If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things, And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife, Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Jwale, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour’s wife, Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, ruri o tla phela. As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
Yet say ye, Hobaneng? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, ruri o tla phela. The 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 if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, ruri o tla phela, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done, he shall live (Ezekiele 18:1-22).
In these Scriptures, it is written that the son is not responsible for the iniquity of the father and will not bear the iniquity of his father. Therefore there will be no generational curse present in the life of the child.
Everyone would bear his own iniquity by the way the person chose to live.
Is a generational curse stronger than the rebirth in Christ?
Through occult knowledge, the Body of Christ is affected and defiled. Tseo, who believe in curses and work with spells are occultists (baloi, bosatane, lingaka tsa voodoo, bo-shaman, etc.). Former occultists, who have repented and joined the church, have infiltrated and defiled the gospel of Jesus Christ and the words of God with their soulish knowledge and experience of the occult spiritual realm (Bala hape: Kereke ya boloi le Mongwaha o motjha kerekeng).
Through their doctrines, they have defiled the gospel and made the gospel and the power of Jesus’ sebetsa sefapanong, His resurrection from the dead, and His blood of no effect.
According to them a generational curse is stronger than repentance to God and being born again in Jesus Christ. Therefore many believers, seek help to find out if they live under a generational curse that is responsible for their lack, naha, and the oppression they experience in their lives.
Leha ho le joalo, the real problem is that many believers have not truly repented and are not really born again in Christ.
Many have not laid down their flesh, eo ka eona khatello ea sebe e leng teng, ho Kreste, but they keep walking after their flesh in disobedience to God. They keep feeding themselves with the things of this world and therefore these unclean evil powers of the kingdom of darkness manifest and remain in their lives.
What did Jesus say about generational curses?
Since we should become and walk as our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, it is important to look at what Jesus said about generational curses and how Jesus broke generational curses.
Lumela, that is weird… Jesus didn’t say anything about generational curses. Jesus also didn’t say anything about breaking generational curses.
Haele hantle, when the disciples came to Jesus and asked Him if the blindness of the man, who was born blind, was the result of his sin or the sin of his parents, Jesus said that neither the man had sinned, kapa batsoali ba hae, but that the works of God would be manifest in him (Johanne 9:2-3).
Generational curses were part of the Old Covenant and related to fallen man, ya tswetsweng ke leloko la Jakobo (Iseraele) until God annulled the generational curses in the Old Covenant and the children were no longer responsible for the iniquity of their fathers (Levitike 26: 39-42, Deuteronoma 24:16, 2 Likronike 25:4, Ezekiele 18).
Every person was responsible for his own deeds and his own life.
Where did the apostles break generational curses?
From the book of Acts until the Book of Revelations, we don’t read anything about generational curses. We don’t read anything about the apostles digging into the past of the lives of people, searching for generational curses, which entered their lives through their parents or ancestors. And when they had found a generational curse after many consults, digging, and searching, they broke the generational curse through prayer, and suddenly the people were happy and continued their happy lives without any lack, khanyetso, and problems and only experienced prosperity.
Che, this is a myth, which is created by people but is nowhere written in the Bible. It is the image, which many churches have created of a carefree life as a Christian.
Empa 'nete ke eona, that as soon as you get born again in Christ and receive the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit lives inside of you, you have become an enemy of the devil and his kingdom and you shall experience resistance and persecution of the world and the people, who possess the spirit of the world and walk after the flesh in rebellion towards God.
They have persecuted Me, they shall persecute you
Jesu ha kea etsa joalo bolela, the slave is above his lord. They have persecuted Me, but they shall not persecute you.
Che, Jesu o boletse, the servant is not greater than his lord. Haeba ba ntlhobelletse, Le bona ba tla u hlorisa (Johanne 15:20)
E ngotsoe, that you are blessed when man shall revile and persecute you because of Christ’s sake and righteousness’ Sake (Mattheu 5:10-12). But nowadays believers immediately think that a person lives under a generational curse when things don’t go according to the will of the person.
If generational curses would exist, Ebe …
If generational curses would exist, then every person would suffer from generational curses instead of some. Because not every child of an addicted parent is addicted. Not every child, who is abused by his parent shall abuse his child. Not every child, who is raised in a poor family still lives in poverty. And not every child, whose parent lived a loose life and frequently committed adultery, have the same spirit and live the same life.
Feela bao, who live in rebellion against God and have the same mind, character, and behavior as their parents, shall experience the same demonic powers. Because of the same mindset, and the same way of speaking and acting, they invite demons to enter their lives to accomplish their evil destroying work.
Empa hape, this has nothing to do with generational curses that are preached. Since the generational curses, which are written in the Bible derived from God and not from the devil.
A lack of knowledge of God’s Word gives way to false doctrines
Through ignorance of people and the lack of knowledge of God’s Word, this false doctrine of generational curses has entered and up to today is still believed by many believers and preached in many churches.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is simple and the power of God. But because of the soulish carnal knowledge of people and earthly wisdom, many have made the gospel difficult, incomprehensible and powerless. Many people are often more interested in the devil and have more faith in his works than in the greatness and power of God.
Believers should be focused on Jesus and fill themselves with the Word. So that the Word becomes alive and shapes the lives of born-again believers. Ka Lentswe, they will be able to discern the lies and the works of the devil from the truth of God and destroy these lies and works of the devil instead of bringing them into the church.
The devil establishes his thrown through his lies
The devil doesn’t enter a life announced and doesn’t say “hello! Here I am, the devil and I take your life captive through my lies and establish my throne in your life and you shall listen to me and serve me.”
Che! The devil is a thief and he enters like a thief. The devil sneaks in through the ignorance of people and what people engage themselves with. As soon as he enters a life through his lies, he deceives the person more and more with his lies, so that eventually the person leaves God’s way and walks on his way.
As long as you feed yourself with the things of this world, your mind shall stay carnal and unrenewed and the lies and the spirits of this world shall reign in your life.
Submit to God and resist the devil
Ka baka leo, ipeeng tlasa Modimo. Hanyetsang diabolose, mme o tla le balehela (James 4:7)
Bibele ha e bue letho ka digging into the past and searching for generational curses. The Bible speaks about dying to the flesh and putting off the old man.
Putting off the old man is something that you have to do with the help of the Word and the Holy Spirit. You have to put off the old man and put on the new man. No one else can do it for you, esita le Molimo (Bala hape: Tlosa monnamoholo le Beha monna e mocha)
A prayer to break a generational curse?
It doesn’t matter how many times you let people pray for you and lay hands on you to break a generational curse, as long as you keep living after the flesh and allow the lusts and desires of your flesh to dictate your life and fill your mind with the unclean things of this world, which derive from the unclean powers of the kingdom of darkness, o ke ke wa lokoloha mehopolong e ditshila, e bakang maikutlo le diketso tse ditshila, tse khahlanong le thato ea Molimo 'me ka hona u tla 'ne u tsamaee lefifing.
Tokoloho ho Kreste
Ka baka leo, ha ho sa le tsuo ho ba leng ho Kreste Jesu, ba sa tsamayeng ka nama, empa kamora Moya. Hobane molao wa Moya wa bophelo o ho Kreste Jesu, o nkgolotse molaong wa sebe le lefu (Baroma 8:1-2)
Kreste o re lopolotse thohakong ea molao, ho etsoa thohako bakeng sa rona: Hobane ho ngotsoe, Ho rohakoe e mong le e mong ea leketlileng sefateng (Bagalata 3:13)
Tseo, ba dumelang dithohakong tsa meloko maphelong a bakreste, se lumele mosebetsing o phethahetseng oa topollo ea Jesu Kreste. Ha ba lumele Lentsoeng leo le ngotsoeng ka lona, hore Jesu Kreste o ile a jara bokhopo ba rona le sebe sa rona mme a re lopolla thohakong ea molao le hore motho e mong le e mong, ya dumelang ho Yena mme a tswalwa labobedi ho Kreste o fetohile mmopo e motjha. Ka baka leo, tsa kgale di fetile, mme tsohle di ntjhafetse (Esaia 53:4-6, 2 Korinthe 5:17). Hobane ho seng joalo, ba ne ba ke ke ba cheka nakong e fetileng ea monna-moholo, ya thakgisitsweng le Kreste mme ha a sa phela (Bala hape: Se ke oa oela ka sekoting sa nako e fetileng).
Ha motho a baka e le kannete ’me a tsoaloa hape ’me a nchafatsa kelello ea hae ka mantsoe a Molimo ’me a ikokobelletsa Molimo le Lentsoe la Hae ’me a tsamaea ka kutlo ho Molimo., Lentswe la Hae, le thato ea hae, sebakeng sa ho tsamaya kamora kelello ya nama, maikutlo, maikutlo le ditakatso le ditakatso tsa nama, motho a ke ke a phela bohlankeng ba moea o litšila oa ’muso oa lefifi, empa ba tla lokoloha mme ba phele tokolohong ya Kreste.
‘E be letsoai la lefatše’
