The Lord tells them through Moses, "All these curses shall pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed--all because you refuse to listen to the Lord your God. These horrors shall befall you and your descendants as a warning."--Deuteronomy 28:45-46.

Derick Prince points out that anti-Semitism in any form carries a curse because God promised the Jewish people that he would Bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you.

Speaking of the Pharisees, Jesus said, "...and say, 'We certainly would never have acted as our fathers did,' In saying that, you are accusing yourselves of being the sons of wicked men. And you are following in their steps, filling up the full measure of their evil."--Matthew 23:30-32. We had an incident in our community a couple of years ago where a drunk driver, the son of a deputy sheriff with a drinking problem, hit and killed a mother of four. The driver was also badly injured in the wreck, but of course was brought up on charges. Just a few months after the tragedy, his brother hit and killed someone in a drunk driving accident. I doubt that they were victims of bad luck, rather I suspect that a generational spirit probably passed down by their father plagued them. I do not mean to imply however that this in any way justifies their guilt in the two deaths, because both men made poor personal choices in the matter. One cannot imagine how the second brother could have gotten behind the wheel drunk, after what happened with his sibling. Even if he was drinking "because" of the family trauma, no human compelled him to drive.

Other cultures have a much better understanding of the spirit world than we do, because Satan has often come in and counterfeited God's truths. This story out of Ghana shows that their culture has a twisted understanding of generational curses. A January 1997 New York Times story reported on the limited success so far in eliminating, in some parts of Ghana, the practice of giving a virgin daughter to a priest in order to atone for some sin of the girl's family. One example cited was a twelve-year-old girl, the product of a rape, given to the local priest by the rapist as a slave (sexual and otherwise) in order to appease the spirits who otherwise would treat the rapist and his family harshly. If the sin is severe, the family must provide girls for several generations.

In Chapter Ten, I shared a personal example of a generational curse, now lets also take a look at King Ahaz who will give us a biblical example of generational spirits which are also sometimes known as iniquitous spirits. II Kings 16:3 records that, "...he even killed his own son by offering him as a burnt sacrifice to the gods..."

Further in the same chapter we read that King Ahaz had a new altar built in the temple and used the old one for personal purposes of divination. King Hezekiah ascended to the throne after his father's death. Remember, the child that King Ahaz had sacrificed had been Hezekiah's brother. Perhaps Hezekiah had sought the true God out of fear, but somehow was able to remain righteous in God's eyes although he was not without sin. His son Manasseh is the one we want to discuss here. Although his father had torn down the old hilltop Shrines (II Kings 18:4), Manasseh rebuilt them in II Kings 21:4. Manasseh clearly followed in the footsteps of his grandfather (King Ahaz) as it is recorded in II Kings 21:6, "And he sacrificed one of his sons as a burnt offering on a heathen alter. He practiced black magic and used fortune telling and patronized mediums and wizards. So the Lord was very angry, for Manasseh was an evil man, in God's sight." It doesn't matter whether we identify the spirits upon Manasseh as generational spirits or familiar spirits, they had clearly been handed down from his grandfather. One could argue that he was merely doing what was culturally acceptable at the time. Yet how do you suppose that the King of Judah, ruler of God's people, followed culture over commandment.

I'm willing to suggest that there were also ruling spirits over the territory, as we talked about in chapter two, that the people had given place to. The comparison would liken itself unto abortion today. Although it is no longer culturally acceptable to burn one's child on an altar, today's children are regularly sacrificed upon the altar of convenience. A personal choice we call it. Yet in the spirit realm it has given place to putting a lesser value on the children in our society and a well-documented higher degree of child abuse. End Sample.

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