Teneisha Johnson
Sins of the Father: Generational Curses- E.T. Futuristic Lover (Treasonous Trio)
The Bible is the most prominent book in my life and tells many stories.
Many of these stories feature a prophet or prophetess sent to give a word from God.
In today’s society however, there are leaders who have honored the prophets of old but who fail to honor the prophets God is sending from among them to speak into their lives today.
When pride is in operation, it will cause them to disobey the word of the Lord, either because of the mightiness of their ministries or the strength of their talents.
However, there are always, please hear me, always repercussions and these repercussions flow from generation to generation.
In Exodus 20: 2-5, God spoke all these words and I believe they still remain relevant today:
2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 You shall have no other gods before me.
4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.
Let’s look at King Amaziah of Judah in 2 Chronicles 25 as I summarize the story.
Essentially Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign and he reign for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.
He did right in the Lord’s sight, but not with a perfect or blameless heart.
The scripture goes on to tell us how King Amaziah defeated those who had killed his father, however he brought back their gods and set them up to be his gods and bowed before them and burned incense to them.
This made the Lord anger and the Lord sent a prophet who asked, “Why do you consult these people’s gods, which could not save their own people from your hand?”
2 Chronicles 25:15.
Continuing in verse 16 the King said to him, “Have we appointed you an adviser to the King? Stop! Why be struck down?”
Basically, King Amaziah was saying,
“Don’t I own you?
You can’t speak to me like that.
I am the King and you’ll have to give me a good reason why I shouldn’t kill you right now.
After all we put you in the position you’re in right now”.
Nevertheless, the prophet was under the hand of God.
You must never depend upon the strength of your ministry, your gift or your position and ignore the word of the Lord.
You will lose every time!!
Why?
Because scripture says in Isaiah 59:19,
When your position becomes your central focus instead of obeying the Lord, you have come under the spirit of dictatorship and rigid control.
God will always bring down false authority.
Why? Because when individuals are no longer letting the spirit of God direct them, God’s people can no longer respond properly to ministry.
Then the church basically becomes no more than a club or cult.
The spirit of control has silenced the mouth of God.
Please listen closely.
When we begin to worship what we have established, how big our ministries have grown, how awesomely the church has been established, how great and grand the company we have built and so on-we have made an idol of what we have created.
Remember, God is a jealous God and as I stated previously from Exodus 20:5, He will punish the children for the sins of the father from generation to generation.
As you continue reading we’ll look at the story of King Uzziah of Judah, who was King Amaziah’s son.
King Uzziah was just a “fresh face” young boy of sixteen when he began his fifty-two-year reign.
He also initially did right in the sight of God, however the cord of disobedience from his father had been planted deep in his son Uzziah’s soul-and he eventually repeated what he had seen from his father.
In 2 Chronicles 26: 8-15, King Uzziah did many exploits, built many cities and won many wars.
His fame spread far and wide and he became very powerful.
But continuing in verse 16, it says,
“But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall.
He was unfaithful to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense”.
At the beginning of his reign, King Uzziah was under spiritual authority but over time he became so great in his own eyes that he stepped over his spiritual authority and was attempting to operate in a spiritual office that was not his.
When Uzziah entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense he was at that very moment trying to operate in a spiritual office that was not his.
Only the priests who were descendants of Aaron and who also had been consecrated were allowed into the temple to burn incense.
Scriptures says that Azariah, the chief priest and eighty other courageous priests followed King Uzziah in and confronted him.
2 Chronicles 26:18 says, “It is not right for you Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord.
That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense.
Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the Lord God”
When you become so great in your own eyes that you think you can operate in a spiritual office God has not anointed and appointed you for, you are putting yourself in a dangerous position.
King Uzziah was not a priest, he was a King.
He stepped out of his place and perverted God’s divine order and while he was in rage towards the priests broke out in leprosy.
I strongly believe God has a purpose for each and every one of us as His children.
It is clear from the story about King Uzziah that he was simply to be a King and nothing more.
The Lord had not anointed him to be a priest.
In this story we see how strength sometimes breeds pride which then leads to disobedience.
King Uzziah became a diseased king under a false anointing.
We must be careful when the Lord begins to strengthen us, because as we mature in Christ, it can be very easy to become arrogant.
Psalms 23:5
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
