I. PERSONAL SIN CURSES

• Zechariah’s Vision of the Flying Scroll – Zechariah 5:1-4
  The Flying Scroll represented the sovereignty of God’s Word over the land
  The curse is released when God’s Word is sinned against
  Stealing and swearing falsely are the representative sins that brought about curses on the house of the thief and anyone who would swear falsely.
  The curses will consume the households of those who sin against God’s Word (assuming there was no repentance)

• “Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.” (Genesis 4:11)

• “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.” (Genesis 12:3)

• “Will anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you say, ‘How are we robbing you?’ In the tithes and offerings! You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me – the whole nation of you!” (Malachi 3:8-9)

II. GENERATIONAL OR ANCESTRAL CURSES

• “The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.” (Numbers 14:18 – also – Exodus 20:5; 34:7; and 1 Samuel 2:30-33)

• “Therefore I bring charges against you again, declares the Lord. and I will bring charges against your children’s children. (Jeremiah 2:9)

• “May his blood fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father’s house! May Joab’s house never be without someone who has a running sore or leprosy or who leans on a crutch or who falls by the sword or who lacks food.” (2 Samuel 3:29)

• “If you do not listen, and if you do not set your heart to honor my name, says the Lord Almighty, I will send a curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not set your heart to honor me. Because of you I will rebuke your descendants. (Malachi 2:2-3)

Generational or Ancestral curses are similar to the curse of original sin, only they have a temporal effect rather than eternal.