Poverty is one of the symptoms of the curse.
The root cause for all things can always be traced back to the garden of Eden, to one tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
A contract was broken. Adam and Eve, our fore-parents, made a bad decision that resulted in the curse.
The descendants of Adam and Eve made bad decisions, which caused the human race to lose 90% of its lifespan. In Genesis 6, God said his Spirit will not strive with man, so his lifespan was cut 120 years:
“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” Genesis 6:3
Contractual agreement governed the garden of Eden Genesis 2:15-17
“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: FOR IN THE DAY THAT THOU EATEST THEREOF THOU SHALT SURELY DIE.”
God bult the house, and he sets the rules. He knew man had the potential to know good and evil because man was created to be like God. God chose to retain that knowledge to himself. But a contract is a contract, and every human being on the face of the planet is subject to the contract.
In grade school, we had to stand every morning, place our right hand over our hearts, and pIedge allegiance to the flag of the United of America, and we sing, “My Country Tis of Thee.”
I enlisted in the military service and had to take the oath of office. I raised my right hand and swore allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America. The moment I entered Marine Corp Recruit Depot, San Diego California, I got off the bus and stood on the yellow foot prints, I informed that I am now subject to the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. The moment I was honorably discharged from military service, I was reminded that I was still subject to the Uniformed Code of Military Justice for the next 24 hours.
We live in a land governed by a constitution. We live under the law, rules, and regulations of the land we were born in or currently reside. There are people who claim to be sovereign citizens not subject to the laws of the land. There are no sovereign independent agents.
Covenant
Adam was created from the dust of the ground. God breathed the breath of life into Adam’s nostrils, and man became a living soul.
Adam was placed into the garden of Eden, and the covenant/contract was explained to him.
Adam was governed by this contract. Contract is a present-day term for covenant. We have many names for covenant such as contract, binding agreement, pledge, compact, treaty, pact…
Covenants govern things like employment contracts, cell phones, and internet service. All things function under legal binding contracts. If you don’t agree to their contract, you can’t use their services.
Credit cards issuers make the users of their services sign a binding contract. Your payment for their services have to be in their office on a specific date, if not they can penalize you by charging you a higher interest rate.
The Curse
Genesis 2:17-19
“And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and dust shall thou return.”
The curse produces death. The purpose of the curse is to bring a person to a state of death.
The curse works in three ways: poverty, sickness, and disease. The curse causes struggle and sorrow. The curse brings about the death cycle. The curse is always working on the earth. The purpose of the curse is reduction. The curse increases effort or struggle. Instead of reaping an abundant supply, your supply is being reduced. You have to spend more money for less product.
The Curse is generational
“And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.” Genesis 5:29
The people of Noah’s day struggled with getting the earth to reproduce. The work and toil of their hands were cursed.
Romans 5:14
“Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.”
Each succeeding covenant
The terms of the contract become evident as God made succeeding covenants with man.
The Edenic covenant was made with Adam before the fall.
The Adamic covenant was made with Adam after the fall in the garden. It is detailed in Genesis 3:14-21. God added a redemption clause in Adamic covenant. God said, the Seed of the Woman would bruise the head of the Serpent, and Serpent would bruise his heel, Genesis 3:15. That covenant promise was fulfilled, Revelation 12:4-5.
“… the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.”
From there, Satan was cast out of heaven. Satan, aka, the Serpent, Satan, the devil, and the dragon, which deceives the whole earth.
God’s covenant with Noah and his family
God made a covenant with man after the flood. In Genesis 9:9,
“And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you.
That covenant was broken at the tower of Babel.
God made a covenant with Abraham and his seed, Genesis 17:7-8
Abraham’s physical seed became the nation of Israel. God dealt with them about robbing him. The people were puzzled by God’s accusation. GOD SAID
Malachi 3:8-12
“Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have ye robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the DEVOURER for your sake, and he shall not DESTROY the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Abraham’s spiritual seed came through the ministry of Jesus!
God made a covenant with Jesus and his seed in John 3:16. The covenant of grace, which is offered to whosoever believes.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Galatians 3:29, ‘If you be Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and hiers according to the promise.’
One last thought about covenant:
God always gives man a way out. For example, in Genesis 3:24, God drove Adam out of the garden of Eden because he had access to the fruit of the tree of life, and could eat, and live forever in a fallen state. Therefore, it was an act of mercy that God drove him out of the garden.
“So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherbims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”
A Detail description of the Curse
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
In Deuteronomy 28:15-68, is a detail description of the curse according to the law of Moses.
“But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:”
Below is some of the details of the curse. The curse is described as being brought upon by the LORD. The curse comes upon and overtakes in the following ways:
Cursed in the city, field, basket, storehouses,
Cursed is the fruit of your body, land, cattle, and flocks of sheep
Cursed coming in and going out
The LORD shall send upon you cursing, vexation, rebuke in all everything you put your hands to do until you perish quickly because of your wickedness
The LORD shall make pestilence cleave unto you until he have consumed you off the land
The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, inflammation, extreme burning, with sword, with blasting, mildew and they shall pursue you until you die
The heaven that is over your head shall be brass. The earth under you shall be iron.
The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven shall come down upon you until you are destroyed
The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Your carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, beast of the earth and no man shall fray them away
The LORD will smite you with the botch of Egypt, and with emeralds, with scab, with the itch which can not be healed
The LORD shall smite you with madness, blindness and astonishment of heart. You shall grope at noonday, as the growth in darkness. You shall not prosper in your ways. You shall be oppressed and spoiled always and no man shall save you
You shall marry a wife and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house and not live therein. You shall a choice vineyard and use it common grapes.
Your ox shall be killed before your eyes and you shall not eat of it. Your ass shall be violently taken in front of your face and shall not be returned. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies and none shall rescue them.
Your sons and daughters shall be given to another and your eyes shall look for and shall long for them all day long and there shall not be might in your hands to rescue them
The LORD will make your plagues wonderful, the plague of your seed, great plagues of long continuance, sore sickness of long continuance
He shall bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt, and they shall cleave upon you. Every sickness and plague which not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you until you be destroyed.
And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you. good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and bring you to mouth; and you shall be plucked from off the land.
additional curse of Revelation 22:18
“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophesy of this book, if any man shall add into these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that written in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.“
Final words
The curse was removed from off the ground in Genesis 8:21-22
“And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
GOD WAS PLEASED with the sacrifice that Noah offered and then made promises, one which God would give consistent seed time harvest.
Portions of the curse were removed. The curse is still very much active. One of the manifestations of the curse is famine. Famines are still with us.
The curse is more active today because of corrupt people. Corrupt people are hoarding resources in order to charge exorbitant prices. They are using their God ordained dominion to profit off of people’s misery.
Covenant promises supercede the curse.
Christ has redeemed us from the curse being made a curse for us so that the covenant blessings of Abraham may come upon the Gentiles.
2 Peter 1:2-4
“Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his DIVINE POWER HATH GIVEN UNTO US ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN UNTO LIFE AND GODLINESS THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM THAT CALLED US TO GLORY AND VIRTUE:
This is what mess a lot of people up:
“Whereby are given unto us EXCEEDING GREAT and PRECIOUS PROMISES: that BY THESE ye might be partakers of the DIVINE NATURE, having escaped the corruption that is in the world THROUGH LUST.“
They don’t know the contract. They never fully understood or walked out the terms of the covenant. So the curse is working on them. The curse is working on people around them. The curse is manifesting in so many different ways.
You could be thriving financially, but your family hates you! Or you could be plagued with medical issues.
On the other hand, no matter how much gasoline prices or food prices, medical insurance increases, my covenant, my contract with God promises me power to overcome the curse.
When you are functioning under the curse, you need credit cards in order to survive. You depend on man as your source.
The curse will be removed
Revelation 21:3-4
“And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with man, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
Revelation 21:5
“And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto, Write: for these words are faithful and true.”
Grace & peace!
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