This is the third part of Chapter 3 in the unfinished Book: The Ruling Household.
Here’s a link to the first part of Chapter 3 and the book’s The Intro.
When Noah Cursed a Branch of his Family
The Noah and the Ark story has a strange ending.
If you haven’t read Genesis for yourself you may have never heard it before.
Noah plants a vineyard, gets drunk, lies uncovered, and is discovered by his youngest son Ham who tells his brothers who then cover their father’s nakedness by walking backwards into the tent with a blanket.
But it’s what happens next that has implications for thousands of years.
Noah cursed Ham’s son Canaan. “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” (Genesis 9:25 ESV)
Theologians have speculated for centuries about what Ham did in that tent and whether Canaan was also a part.
But what concerns our exploration of multigenerational ruling households is what Noah did in response.
He declared a hierarchy in the family for generations to come.
Noah goes on to say, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant. May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.” (Genesis 9:26-27 ESV)
Why is this in the Bible?
Does this echo into my life today?
Is it the destiny of my family line (Japheth) to expand and then dwell under the shade of the Semites (Shem)?
And can fathers do this today?
I think so.
I suspect this happens all the time and in every family. A father’s words and his spiritual authority are designed to echo for generations. We are constantly blessing and cursing our children and what Scripture is unveiling is that these decisions make a real difference.
Have you received a blessing from your father?
Is a curse uttered generations ago impacting your family today?
What can we do about this principle?
Tool: Removing Multigenerational Curses
The entire book of Genesis seems determined to drive into our heads that blessings and curses are real. God pronounces curses when humanity falls, Noah curses and blesses his sons, God blesses Ishmael, Rebekkah’s family sends her off with a blessing, Isaac accidentally blesses Jacob and the whole book ends with multiple chapters of Jacob’s blessings over his sons and grandsons just before he dies.
But there’s something about the modern scientific materialist worldview gaining traction today that causes Western Christians to ignore or attempt to explain away the power of the blessings and curses in Genesis as a kind of psychological technique. Are we simply witnessing the impact of words of affirmation vs. words of discouragement? No, there is something mysterious and powerful about blessings and curses and we need to try and understand what it is because it seems to directly relate to the welfare of our future descendants.
When Christians vacate a place of power like blessings and curses the enemy sees an opportunity and rushes in. Maybe the best example of this today is the existence of national and worldwide organizations that seem to exist to bestow blessings only if the initiate is willing to pronounce curses over themselves and their descendants.
“What could be the harm?” The Western person thinks, “They’re just words right?”
That is not a Biblical perspective. God brought the universe into existence by speaking words. Words have a spiritual power. Especially when we speak over an arena of our delegated authority and that includes our future descendants.
At the top of my street stands a Masonic Lodge. The Freemasons who gather there will often do helpful things for our city. You can experience community there and they may even help your family in a time of crisis but these benefits come with strings attached. You need to violate the command of Christ over and over again. Freemasons take oaths each time they move up the 33 degrees and seal those oaths by pronouncing curses on themselves and even their future family. No big deal right?
In order to understand why this matters you need to know a bit about what Jesus taught us about how things work in the spiritual realm. When Jesus would cast out an unclean spirit in the Gospels Western people tend to think Jesus was exerting magic power over those spirits but the Jews of Jesus’ day understood that what was actually happening was a clash of authorities.
“And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.” (Mark 1:27 ESV)
The spiritual realm is strictly bound by authority. If you are given authority over evil spirits you have the authority to command them to leave. If you delegate authority to evil spirits through oaths, receiving blessings, and pronouncing curses this also can give them a foothold in your family line.
My wife’s family had a generational pattern of a certain category of issues and when we shared these with a discerning teacher he said, “This pattern is consistent with Masonic curses, has anyone in your family taken Masonic oaths?” We started to do some research and found out, to our surprise, that her grandfather had taken 33 degrees of oaths and even her dad took Masonic oaths before he became a believer.
Multiple patriarchs of her family line had received benefits from the spirits behind Freemasonry and then activated the curses by breaking those oaths through leaving.
We knew we had to do some work to separate ourselves from these multigenerational agreements.
How is this done? We do this through faith in the Gospel. However, Paul points out that there is a specific aspect of the Gospel designed to cancel curses. Have you ever wondered why Jesus died on a cross? Would it have been just as effective if Jesus had been stabbed or poisoned? Not according to Paul. He writes in Galatians, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree” (Galatians 3:13 ESV). Paul is quoting from Deuteronomy 21:22–23 which is a section of the Law that pronounces a curse on anyone hung on a tree. Jesus was hung on a tree in order to take our curses. “Doesn’t this happen automatically when you have faith in Christ?” Well, it’s important to note that Paul’s whole reason for pointing this out was to warn Christians that they could be cursed by attempting to attain righteousness through faith in the Law. He wrote, “all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” (Galatians 3:10 ESV). He was instructing believers that if they rely on the Law and fail to keep it, they can bring down curses, because of the oaths taken by their forefathers, in Deuteronomy 28.
Never rely on the Law for your justification. And never accept benefits that are attached to oaths sealed by pronouncing curses.
So the way we canceled any curses that might be experienced by our family line from the oaths taken by our forefathers was to denounce every bit of the benefits we might have received from their association with Freemasonry and to announce our total reliance on the cross of Christ to absorb all the curses our family agreed to receive from our betrayal of these oaths. Our generation now has the authority to cancel these oaths and so we both say verbally and live in such a way to demonstrate our faith in Jesus alone and not in the benefits derived from these Luciferian organizations.
Please take time as a couple to renounce out loud any benefit you may have received through the oaths taken by previous generations, cancel every unholy agreement, and then claim and rely on the cross of Christ alone for your generation and over every generation to come.
Far too many believers live like materialists. We believe a handful of supernatural things and everything else gets placed in the science category.
Such an interesting read. I have freemasonry in my bloodline. Is there a resource for finding out what the freemasonry curses could be?