The Generational Curse of Ahab | Institute of Love

God said; “I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me.” Exodus 20:5 NLT There was a clear generational curse of idol worshiping in the family of King Ahab of Israel. His father Omri set the pattern of doing evil for his son to follow, since he himself did more evil than any of the kings before him. (See 1. Kings 16:25-26) Ahab was influenced by his evil wife Jezebel, a woman devoted to everything that God hated and forbid. As a result, Ahab submitted to his wife and ended up serving and worshiping Baal. Baal was the male god, and Asherah was Baal’s female counterpart. This opened the door to Israel through which Satan gained astonishing power and flooded Israel with tremendous sin and evil. Likewise, a Christian man who is like Ahab, will also by lack of fear of God and through compromising the holy things of God open a door to tremendous demonic attack on himself and his family. The relationship of Ahab and Jezebel provides an excellent illustration of the curse brought about by a husband and wife being out of God’s divine order for the family. When you have an Ahab/Jezebel marriage, you will have men not committed to God, home, or children, but they instead seek to achieve personal selfish satisfaction in other things like money, career, alcohol, women, sports, ministry, hobbies, projects, and other activities. Ahab men are spiritually weak and blame others for their own problems. They are easily influenced and persuaded by their wives to make wrong decisions, and then later they don’t own up to their mistakes. By passivity or laziness, they push their wives to take over their own chores and responsibilities in the home and family, which puts the wife in a position of priest and head of the home, a task she is not designed to handle. They set the wrong pattern for their children to follow, causing them to spend the rest of their adult lives struggling to live normal lives. A mother who is a Jezebel, and a father who is an Ahab, will raise Jezebel daughters and Ahab sons. If sons do not see their father as respected in his office of being the father and leader, they have no other example to the contrary, and will grow up following in his footsteps. Likewise, the girls will likely inadvertently choose a husband who is the same passive type as the father. Daughters will grow up not knowing how to respect a man and/or a future husband. Ahab fathers place curses on male children and Jezebel mothers place curses on female children. Both male and female children easily fall into homosexual lifestyles, not necessarily because they want to or are convinced they are gay, but because of the gender confusion that comes with growing up in a Jezebel/Ahab environment, where the roles are swopped so the mother is the dominant leader of the home, and the father is the follower. Children will later on have broken marriages and families like their parents. Jezebel mothers cause children to be manipulative. Children are full of rebellion and under pressure to prove their love to their parents. Children are often very depressed, have fear, insecurity, frustration, and difficulty learning, but at the same time, they learn to develop skills of how to manipulate people with faking sickness and injuries and with other hypochondriac behavior. This Ahab curse can potentially lead to the total corruption of the child, causing them to live in discord, selfishness, and distrust, as they start looking for heroes in the occult world and a sense of belonging in cultic environments where they can have some sort of status of importance. Under the Ahab curse, children are interested in violence and fascinated with death because of tensions, confusions, hurts, and insults given them by the family structure being out of order. All this confusion, frustration, resentment, and hate in many cases lead to these children wanting to commit suicide or finding release in self affliction like for instance cutting, drug abuse, or sexual promiscuity. In trying to find their place, these children frequently give in to demonic spirits that drive them to the love of power, money, praise, and fame. The children are totally vulnerable and open to satanic attacks, and will usually become just like their parents! It is time to break this generational Ahab/Jezebel evil curse over our children and family in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ! Amen!