Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother\’s keeper?” And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother\’s blood is crying to Me from the ground. “And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother\’s blood from your hand. “When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you; you shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth” (Gen 4:9-12).
Curses release the powers of evil against us. Because the devil was “a murderer from the beginning” (see John 8:44), few things can release his evil powers like the shedding of innocent blood. Here we see that Cain was “cursed from the ground” because he murdered his brother. The very earth itself curses man today in many regions because of the innocent blood that has been shed upon it. Therefore, many revivals and moves of God could not be released in these regions until there was repentance for the sins that had been committed in those places by previous generations.
Why would the curse brought on by one generation get passed on to the next? Because every time there is sin, there is a wound that is inflicted upon the glorious harmony that was originally established in the creation. For wounds to be healed they must be disinfected and closed, which is true throughout the creation. For the consequences of sin to be removed, there must be repentance, reconciliation, and restoration. A good biblical example of this is found in 2 Sam 21:1:
Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
King David\’s administration suffered a famine for a sin that his predecessor had committed. The curse did not come upon David\’s administration to punish him, but because the ground was cursed. When the curse became evident, David made restitution to those who had been wounded by Saul\’s sin so that the curse could be removed. Thus, we find righteous men in Scripture such as Daniel and Nehemiah asking forgiveness for the sins of their fathers. The reason that the sins of the fathers are passed on to following generations is not to punish the children for what the previous generations did, but to remove the curse and bring repentance and restoration. Curses upon regions are to alert the righteous that the healing of a spiritual wound in that region is needed.
Today @ 11:03a.m is the first quarter moon
- Command the quarter moons to praise the Lord and continue to do only His bidding. Blot out every contrary voice that endeavors to instruct the moon to do anything else other than the purpose for which it was created.
- The quarter moons are like a D or its mirror image, it is a bow. The wicked use the quarter moon as a bow to shoot arrows of calamities and catastrophes at the ignorant for the purpose of human sacrifices. Pray that the Lord will heap evil upon them and spend His arrows upon them until they are wasted. (Deut 32:23-24)
- Pray through Psalm 64 concerning those who shoot arrows of wickedness at the righteous in this season; that their arrows will be broken and their wicked darts will return to sender.