Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

The two most often quoted passages that deal with generational curses are taken from the Torah: For I, the L ORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. —E XODUS 20:5–6 The L ORD , the L ORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation. —E XODUS 34:6–7 These two verses say nothing concerning a “curse” but indicate a visitation from God for iniquity. In these passages the Hebrew word for “visiting” is paqad , and it can mean, “to visit (with friendly or hostile intent).” 1 In these passages the intent is to bring judgment for the iniquity of the fathers who are passing the lifestyle of sin to their children and children’s children . A good example is when Christ wept over Jerusalem, recalling how God sent the city many prophets whom they slew and rejected. Christ said judgment would come upon His