CURSES

Something that is sometimes talked about but is little understood is the subject of curses. A curse is a call by someone for an act of divine vengeance to be wreaked on an individual, usually someone who has wronged another.

The importance of curses has been long forgotten by Christians, and many of us don't even give such things much thought. But Satan does. In fact, he uses curses to bring suffering and destruction to successive generations of people who don't even know that their ancestors have been cursed or have bound themselves under a curse.

Ever notice how certain diseases such as cancers, heart disease, diabetes, etc. seem to pass down from one generation of a family to the next? Ever notice how certain traits such as alcoholism, child abuse, suicide and violent tempers seem to follow family lines?

Curses leveled against an individual or family line are not overlooked by Satan. God knew the importance of cursing a person, when He stated;

EXODUS 21:17

17 “And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.”

LEVITICUS 20:7-9

7 Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

8 And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them: I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

9 ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him.

Note that God considered this to be so important that He stated the command concerning cursing twice, once in Exodus, and once in Leviticus.

For by cursing your father you curse your family line including yourself; and in cursing the head of the household the curse is binding upon the entire household under his authority. And cursing your mother curses any children she may have afterward. In both cases, the family line bears a curse.

The following are some examples of curses that have had terrible consequences.

GENESIS 9:18-27

18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

20 And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.

21 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.

22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.

25 Then he said: “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren.”

26 And he said: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.

27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and may Canaan be his servant.”

Ok, some facts here. Ham saw Noah lying naked in his tent, and did nothing to alleviate his father's indignity. Added to that fact, he told his two brothers what he had seen, compounding Noah's embarrassment and bringing shame to Noah. His brothers, respectful of their father covered him without looking upon him. If Ham had done the same thing, the curse would not have been upon his descendants.

As a result, Noah cursed Ham's son Canaan, who became the father of the Canaanites that Shem’s descendants, Israel, destroyed by the command of the Lord. Canaan was also the forefather of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah whom God destroyed for their homosexual ways.

The prophet Elisha, the successor to the prophet Elijah was returning from watching Elijah being carried to Heaven in a fiery chariot when some children came out of a nearby city. Showing no respect for the age or office of the prophet, they began to make fun of him in clear violation of the Law which stated:

LEVITICUS 19:32

32 ‘You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the Lord.

The children knew the commandment, as they were instructed in the ways of the Law at an early age. And as Scripture records;

2 KINGS 2:23-24

23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

24 So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

Some might consider that God was unrighteous in ordering the bears to do this to the children, but He allows things like this to be an example to others so that they might fear doing the same thing in breaking the commandments of the Lord.

Below is a case of where a curse played an important role in a real life situation.

When I accepted a job offer at the company that I presently work for, I was told that I would have to move to the state where this company resided. We got our house ready to sell and I rented a small apartment in a town close to the company I was to work for.

We kept showing the house, and while people agreed it was a wonderful house, no one seemed to want to buy it. In the mean time I was commuting nearly 200 miles each weekend to visit my family and try to get the house sold.

Finally after 8 months of commuting, the Lord told me that there was a curse against the house from the previous owners. He then brought to my remembrance how this event had happened.

The owners of the house had been in the Navy and had received orders to go overseas. As a result, they needed to sell the house fairly quickly and had to greatly reduce the price in order to sell it. We had been searching for a house to buy and happened to stumble upon this house, and quickly snapped it up.

Apparently the previous owners were embittered by the fact that they had to reduce the selling price of the house, and cursed the house when they left. The curse was that whoever bought the house was stuck with it.

After the Lord showed me this I immediately broke the curse in Jesus' name and cast out the demons maintaining the curse. A week later we had an offer made on the house, and sold it shortly afterward.

The value and effect of curses was also well known to the Canaanites when Israel after escaping from Egypt was being led into Canaan by the Lord. Balak, king of the Moabites was frightened of Israel having heard how they had readily defeated the powerful Amorites and knew that he and his people were next.

He sent for Balaam, a man who was apparently well known as a sorcerer who could curse someone and have the curse work. As Scripture records;

NUMBERS 22:1-13

1 Then the children of Israel moved, and camped in the plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan across from Jericho.

2 Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

3 And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Moab was sick with dread because of the children of Israel.

4 So Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this company will lick up everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

5 Then he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying: “Look, a people has come from Egypt. See, they cover the face of the Earth, and are settling next to me!

6 Therefore please come at once, curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

7 So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the diviner’s fee in their hand, and they came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak.

8 And he said to them, “Lodge here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the Lord speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

9 Then God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

10 So Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying,

11 ‘Look, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the Earth. Come now, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to overpower them and drive them out.’ ”

12 And God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

13 So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go back to your land, for the Lord has refused to give me permission to go with you.”

Some other examples;

The Jews have been savagely persecuted down throughout history, especilly since 70 A.D. when the Romans destroyed Judea and drove the Jews to the four corners of the Earth. The last major instance of this was the Holocaust of WW II in which 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis.

Two major reasons for this.

One, Moses in Deuteronomy chapter 28, verses 15-68, recited frightful curses that would befall Israel if they disobeyed the Lord, promising that they would be a curse everywhere they went, that they would be mercilessly slaughtered, sold as slaves, driven from out from everywhere they tried to settle, suffer disease, which history shows did indeed happen.

The second, even worse, was when the Jews cursed themselves and their descendants when Pontius Pilate tried to acquit Jesus Christ when the Jews vehemently shouted for Him to be crucified.

Pilate had a custom to release a prisoner as a gift to the Jews for Passover and offered to release Jesus. Scripture records;

MATTHEW 27:15-25

15 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to releasing to the multitude one prisoner whom they wished.

16 And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.

17 Therefore, when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”

18 For he knew that they had handed Him over because of envy.

19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that just Man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.”

20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

21 The governor answered and said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They said, “Barabbas!”

22 Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let Him be crucified!”

23 Then the governor said, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they cried out all the more, saying, “Let Him be crucified!”

24 When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it.”

25 And all the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children.” 

And right there, in verse 25, the Jews cursed both themselves and their descendants for destroying their Messiah. Jesus died in 26 A.D. and God waited for 40 years for them to repent and seek forgiveness. They refused and in 66 A.D. the Romans began their destruction of Judea, and the Jews suffered for 1,878 years from 70 A.D. until 1948 A.D. fulfilling the curses promised by Moses and the curse of Jesus’ blood.

Understand this, though. The reason that this happened to the Jews is that the Gentiles were not bound by the Law given to Moses by God Himself. As such, the curses of the Law were brought to bear against the Jews because they knew that the Messiah would come, but didn't accept Him when He did come as promised.

That does not mean that the Jews are greater sinners than we are. Remember, we all put Him on the cross! All of our sins were cast upon Him. But God's fury was poured out on the Jews because after Jesus' death and resurrection they still offered the sacrifices of the Law, rather than believe that Jesus took away the Law of sacrifices with His atoning death.

The Gospel was preached to them by the apostles and believing Jews, but they refused to hear and believe. Therefore God brought upon them the curses described by Moses, until His fury was spent and He brought them back to the land of Israel, almost 2,000 years later.

This is not to say that God is unmerciful. For if the Jews had repented and accepted the atoning death of Jesus, God would have spared Israel as a nation. But they refused to believe, choosing to continue to follow the Law, therefore the curses of the Law were leveled against them in full measure because of their disobedience, rejection and unbelief.

Ok, time to get to the heart of the matter.

As I have shown above both from Scripture and in real life cases, curses do indeed work.

The problem today is that people level curses against others all of the time without even thinking about it. How many people take the name of the Lord in vain, asking Him to damn someone? That is a curse just as much as the ones I just described above. And while the Lord may not curse the person, Satan will use the opportunity to curse them and bring misery and destruction into that person's life. Christians who curse others allow Satan access to their own lives through their disobedience to God's commandments.

Some secret societies and cults force prospective members to take oaths and swear to curses that are binding on their descendants. The curses are supposed to activate when and if the oath-taker becomes an oath-breaker, or reveals the secrets of the group.

Some curses are binding in such a way that if the descendants break one of the rules of the society, the curse becomes active. Nice, huh?

And while the descendants may not be aware of it, they are laboring under a curse from an ancestor that binds them as surely as it did the person taking the oath. In many cases that is why some family traits such as certain diseases, destructive personality traits or situations such as poverty are passed down through successive generations.

Granted such curses are not supposed to activate unless the oath-taker breaks the oath, but Satan seldom plays by the rules. And such a binding oath gives him the legal right to access the lives of the oath-taker and their descendants.

The problem with our society today is that we know little about our family lines. Granted we may have a celebrated ancestor who was famous for some great crime or who was a historical figure, but what about the ones we don't know about?

For example, say an ancestor swindled someone, and the one they swindled leveled a curse of poverty against both the swindler and their descendants. The descendants would be struggling and working their entire lives and would make little headway against a lifetime of grinding poverty and would have no idea why they were in this state.

Now, I am not saying that all poor people have a curse of poverty in their family line somewhere. Nor do I teach a "name it and claim it" (“prosperity”) gospel, or as Hank Hanegraaff in his book “Christianity In Crisis" so amusingly puts it, a "blab it and grab it" doctrine. You will have to seek the Lord's word concerning this issue.

But if something like poverty, cancer, heart disease, violent temper, alcoholism, suicide, adultery, pre-marital sex, divorce, homosexuality, child abuse, etc. seems to run through several generations of the family I would strongly suspect a family curse as being the cause. Such curses, unless broken through the name and power of Jesus give demons a legal right to work through successive generations of individuals. Again, seek the Lord concerning this matter as only He can reveal whether this is the case for you and your family.

In my family heart disease and cancer are some of the generational curses, and cancer runs in my wife's family. I have broken the curses on both sides of the family line in Jesus' name (as the head of the household, I have authority to break the curses in my wife's family line that affect her only), and have broken the power of the demons responsible for the diseases.

My father died of heart disease and had several types of cancer when he died. My younger brother has had open-heart surgery.

I have been given a clean bill of health by the Red Cross physicians. My heart is strong, and I have no traces of cancer anywhere within me.

My wife's mother had lymphoma, a form of cancer in the lymph nodes. Her older brother was treated for Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer that forms fibrous tissue in the lungs.

My wife has no symptoms of cancer anywhere in her at all.

However, in the case of diseases and personality disorders, if either are already in progress, breaking the curse responsible will not necessarily cure the problem. The Lord must be petitioned for healing, the demons cast out and doctors consultedin the case of diseases. For personality disorders, the demons responsible must be cast out, and the Lord petitioned for any healing of the soul that may be needed. But breaking the curse or curses will stop them from perpetuating through family lines.

We also had a curse of poverty working in my family. I remember my father working two jobs most of my young life, and his father worked just as hard. Granted we weren't on welfare, but it seemed we struggled constantly.

In my adult life, I wasn't poor, but I had to struggle also. In fact at times, it seemed that about all my wife and I had was each other, and God. I worked whatever jobs I could find to support my family, my wife worked also, and we seemed to just barely make it. Having learned about curses, I asked the Lord, and he showed me that my family was under a curse of poverty.

I broke the curse and broke the power of the demons maintaining the curse, and within a couple of months I received a job offer from a major electronics company. Granted we are not rich, but we are at the point of where we are comfortable, and my wife does not have to work unless she wishes to.

Satan is the ultimate lawyer. If someone takes an oath that is binding on a family line or a family member is cursed he will act wherever he can and will petition God for the right to do so. And one aspect of spiritual warfare that most Christians know nothing about, is knowing the sins of your fathers. Scripture is rife with examples of the Jews confessing the sins of their fathers when repenting and seeking the Lord.

Some examples;

NEHEMIAH 9:1-2

1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads.

2 Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

DANIEL 9:1-16

1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—

2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

3 Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments,

5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.

6 Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.

7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day— to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

8 “O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

9 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him.

10 We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.

11 Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

13 “As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

14 Therefore the Lord has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.

15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day—we have sinned, we have done wickedly!

16 “O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.

Granted, the above example are from the Old Testament, but the fact that curses are binding on family generations today shows that we still need to confess the sins of our fathers and break any curses that may have resulted from those sins.

If you do not know of any sins in your family line, petition the Lord to show you any curses that you or your family may be under. He is faithful, and will do so. You might not get an answer right away, but be patient, and He will give you an answer in His time.

Also remember, curses do not necessarily always come from Satan. At times God will curse a person or their family for sins against Him. Remember, He cursed both Satan and Creation in the Garden of Eden.

He cursed Satan because he deceived Adam and Eve into eating the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (covered thoroughly in the study concerning the Tree of Good and Evil in this Web site);

GENESIS 3:14

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

God cursed all of Creation, including Adam and his descendants to destruction because of Adam’s disobedience;

GENESIS 3:17-19

17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.

18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field.

19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

Another source of curses, is having or handling cursed objects.

When Israel was about to conquer Jericho upon entering the promised land, God ordered that all objects of treasure be put into the Lord's treasury, and that Israel take nothing of the city. The reason for this is that the treasure and possessions of Jericho were cursed, and God wanted to keep demons from afflicting Israel.

He had the power to cleanse the treasures and drive out the demons attached to them. The spoils of Jericho were the first fruits of the conquest and were to be dedicated to Him. He also wanted to see if Israel would be obedient to His commandments.

Scripture records;

JOSHUA 6:18-21

18 And you, by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

19 But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.”

20 So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

 21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

However;

JOSHUA 7:1

1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed things, for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed things; so the anger of the Lord burned against the children of Israel.

This man’s sin caused Israel to be defeated when they next attacked a small town. Joshua and Israel were devastated, wondering why God had allowed this to hapoen. God told him;

JOSHUA 7:11-12

11 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. For they have even taken some of the accursed things, and have both stolen and deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff.

12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they have become doomed to destruction. Neither will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you.

A succession of lots were drawn and Achan was found out. Joshua then questioned him;

JOHN 7:19-21

19 Now Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I beg you, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession to Him, and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

20 And Achan answered Joshua and said, “Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I have done:

21 When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. And there they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it.”

Several things need to be noted here. First of all, the disobedience of Achan affected all of Israel. And Satan through the disobedience of one man was able to afflict the entire nation, just as through Adam's disobedience Satan can now afflict all of Mankind.

Also, Joshua cursed anyone who rebuilt Jericho, saying that whoever did so would lose his firstborn son and his youngest son in the process;

JOSHUA 6:26

26 Then Joshua charged them at that time, saying, “Cursed be the man before the Lord who rises up and builds this city Jericho; he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates.”

And as Scripture records, during the reign of king Ahab;

1 KINGS 16:34

34 In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation with Abiram his firstborn, and with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates, according to the word of the Lord, which He had spoken through Joshua the son of Nun.

Even though Joshua had cursed the city 700 years before, the curse still did it's deadly work.

Now, back to cursed objects.

Cursed objects are things dedicated to idols, or dedicated directly to Satan. And having such a thing in your possession, or even handling it can cause havoc in your life and in your household.

God had commanded Israel concerning such things;

DEUTERONOMY 7:25-26

25 You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

26 Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.

And;

DEUTERONOMY 13:17-18

17 So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,

18 because you have listened to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

Note that in Deuteronomy 7:25 above, God forbids even melting down an idol for it's gold or silver as the metals themselves are cursed. They have been dedicated to Satan and are legally his. And if you touch or take them, he has a legal right to afflict you.

Some modern-day cases.

I had recently read where a family was struggling with poverty, rebellion among their children, marital discord and the like. They suspected that Satan somehow had legal access to their house and family, but couldn't figure out what it was.

As they prayed, petitioning the Lord as to the cause, it was shown that they had cursed objects in their house. And as they prayed concerning this there were suddenly two loud crashes from other parts of the house.

Upon investigation, they found that two statues from Mexico that had been sent to them as gifts were smashed on the floor. They promptly cleaned up the mess, anointed the house, and cast out the demons associated with the statues. And with the destruction and removal of the cursed objects, the problems ceased.

When I was in the Navy, we stopped at the Ivory Coast of Africa for a port visit. However about two days beforehand, my wallet with my military identification card was stolen. Without my I.D. card, I could not leave the ship.

I tried diligently to get a new I.D. card before we hit port, but was stonewalled at every turn. I prayed constantly to the Lord for help, but He was silent. As a result, I had to stay aboard the ship during the entire port visit, which irritated me no end. It wasn't until 16 years later after reading a book on cursed objects that I found out why this had happened.

Whenever I went to a port overseas, I went shopping for gifts to bring home to my family. My wife loved it and said it was better than Christmas when I came home. And I had planned to go shopping at the Ivory Coast port we had stopped at.

But what I didn't know, was that there is a demon god revered in the Ivory Coast that hates women. And any woman who looks upon the image of this god comes under a curse of death.

Apparently the natives there also weave the image of this demon god into tapestries that they sell, and people who are not familiar with this god's image would probably never see it in the tapestry or suspect it's existence. In other words, the tapestries are cursed objects.

I probably would have bought such a tapestry when I went there, and God in His mercy protected me from the curses that are rife in that land. And chances are, I would have picked up some brass urns and other items that might have been cursed also, and would have brought curses into my house as a result.

As I have shown in this study, curses are a hidden source of trouble in the lives of Christians and non-Christians alike. Satan will use any means he can to cause destruction and misery in people's lives, and as we have seen, ignorance of the curses doesn't protect us from their effects.

God has placed numerous examples in His Word concerning the issue, but most Christians pay no heed (including myself until recently), or do not understand the significance of curses in our lives and in the lives of our families.

Satan has had about 10,000 years to perfect his means of deceiving and afflicting Mankind, and only through close fellowship with the Lord and reading His word can we be made aware of Satan's tactics.

We must be diligent at all times to stay close to the Lord and be aware of Satan's tactics against us. As the apostle Paul warned;

2 CORINTHIANS 2:11

11 lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

If you feel you have a family or generational curse in your lives, petition the Lord to reveal it to you. Then break the curse in Jesus' name, bind and cast out all demons associated with the curse, and petition the Lord for healing of the body or soul that may be required.

Also ask the Lord to lift any curses that He may have placed against you or your family, and if He has cursed you or them, ask Him for the reason for it. And if you know of sins that your fathers have committed, or secret societies that they have belonged to (including the Masonic orders such as the Eastern Star, Rainbow Girls, Demolay, Masons; Knights Templar, Knights of Columbus; Wiccans, Satanists, and any other type of secret organizations that require oaths be taken for membership), confess them before the Lord, and break any curses involved.

Also petition the Lord to show you any cursed objects within your house. If you find any, destroy them immediately and remove them from the house. Break the curses in Jesus' name, anoint the house to cleanse it, then bind and break the power of the demons associated with the object or objects, ordering them to leave the house forever.

You may not notice results immediately. But remember, God works in His timing, not ours. And He is faithful to keep His promises, and blesses those who wait for Him.

And may the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ open the eyes of those who read this to the truth of what is written here.

Remember, we have been given power in Jesus' name over Satan and his works. But we need to use that power, or we will be frustrated in our attempts to walk with the Lord and will struggle all of our lives in this world.

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