The Secrets to Generational Curses: Break the Stronghold in the Bloodline

By Alexander Pagani

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SECRETS TO DELIVERANCE

Generational curses are one of Satan’s weapons of mass destruction.
This book will help you identify and dismantle a range of generational curses in your family and others.
 
FEATURES AND BENEFITS

• Prayers to break the toughest and most hidden generational curses
• Insights into how generational curses gain legal access to a person’s life and how they can evolve over time

In the follow-up to his best-selling book, The Secrets to Deliverance, apostle Alexander Pagani shows readers how to dismantle generational curses, likening them to the electrical wiring in the room where the root of the curse lies.

Generational curses are one of Satan’s weapons of mass destruction, and this book tackles some of the most prevalent—including vanity, gluttony, slothfulness, racism, dysfunction, dishonor, legalism, procrastination, homosexuality, and personality disorders.
 
This book will help those who are struggling with habitual sin or feel as if something is keeping them from reaching their full potential. Learn to identify and break free from the powerful generational curses that may be keeping you bound.  Keep the curses out for good.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charisma House
• Release date: Sep 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9781629996066

Book preview

CHAPTER 1

STUMBLING AND SEARCHING: THE MYSTERY OF THE CURSE

These two women serve as an illustration of God’s two covenants. The first woman, Hagar, represents Mount Sinai where people received the law that enslaved them. And now Jerusalem is just like Mount Sinai in Arabia, because she and her children live in slavery to the law. But the other woman, Sarah, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. She is the free woman, and she is our mother.

—GALATIANS 4:24–26

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.

—HEBREWS 8:5, KJV

Now Adam is a figure, a representation of Christ, who was yet to come.

—ROMANS 5:14

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

—2 THESSALONIANS 2:7, KJV

THE REVELATION OF generational curses is not easily defined or outlined in Scripture the way many other things are. Generational curses can only be discovered two ways: 1) by stumbling upon them unintentionally or 2) by searching for them intentionally. The first way reminds me of the parable Jesus told about a person who stumbles across something hidden in a field (Matt. 13:44), only in this instance we trip over the mystifying phenomenon known as generational curses. This stumbling usually happens when a believer is talking with another believer, and the Holy Spirit brings to light previously unnoticed hereditary patterns of behavior and identifies them as the root cause of their struggle. The person realizes they’ve stumbled upon a great revelation and does whatever they can to obtain further understanding on the topic.

The second way of discovery happens when someone has been made fully aware of this treasure—either by divine direction or through another means—and intentionally searches for it. Once again, we find a parable of Jesus (Matt. 13:45) that illustrates how we can go in search of truth until we discover it. It is my belief that most great truths are discovered these two ways: stumbling and searching. The late Myles Munroe summed it up when he gave his assessment of the underlying theme to the parables of Jesus: Nothing is yours until you discover it.

To further drive this point, the Book of Proverbs also states, It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter (25:2, NASB). God highlights the topic of generational curses all throughout Scripture to the person who has ears to hear what the Spirit is saying, and then He expects them to search out these clues until they solve a mystery of the kingdom.

And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables.

—MARK 4:11–13, KJV

This book is designed to help the reader collect the clues they’ve gathered all throughout the years and come to one conclusion: a Christian can have an active generational curse operating in their life through either ignorance, inheritance, or invitation. The work of redemption broke the power of the curse but did not eradicate its presence, just as the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross broke the power of sin but did not remove sin’s presence. The apostle John tells us that even after salvation, believers will have moments during their journey of sanctification when they will sin, and they will be required not only to confess those sins and forsake them but also to allow God to cleanse them of all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9, KJV).

That phrase cleanse us from all unrighteousness is talking about finding the root cause of what is still giving sin its legal hold on a believer, causing the person to sin in that particular area. Most believers overlook that part of the verse by only focusing on confess our sins, but the issue is twofold; we confess our sins, but we also allow God to cleanse us (break the curse; unrighteousness) of what’s making us sin. The great news is that God not only will remain faithful and just—which are courtroom terms—in forgiving our sin but will also go a step further in helping us identify and cleanse ourselves from the curse that empowers it.

In my first book, The Secrets to Deliverance, I explained that for humans to have effective communication, the concepts have to mean the same things for both parties, or there will be a miscommunication as a result of misconception. This can be avoided by what I call prototype timing. A prototype is an original model on which something is patterned. Good communication requires finding the right prototype that means the same thing to both parties. This is foundational in understanding the language of deliverance, but generational curses require a different set of rules of interpretation. This pearl of great price is hidden throughout Scripture in four ways: through illustrations, shadows, figures, and mysteries—and must be drawn out from a determined seeker. Let’s look at each one.

HIDDEN IN AN ILLUSTRATION

In Galatians, the apostle Paul gave us the greatest reference point in being able to find hidden treasures in any field of Scripture when he used the Greek word állo, which means other; different.¹ It is where we derive the word allegory, a story, poem, or picture in which there is another, hidden meaning.² This opens up a whole new avenue of interpretation that allows God to highlight what’s been hidden in plain sight in understanding the secrets to the kingdom.

The greatest example of this can be found in Galatians 4:24, where Paul says that while Sarah (Abraham’s wife) and Hagar (Abraham’s concubine) were real people, their lives were illustrations, or allegories, of two covenants to be later revealed at the establishing of the new covenant. He goes on to explain that Hagar represents Mount Sinai, while her mistress, Sarah, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. Had Paul not pointed out the allegorical significance of these two women, their stories would be nothing more than historical information about Abraham’s attempt to fulfill God’s promise by trying to have a child with his concubine Hagar.

These two women serve as an illustration of God’s two covenants. The first woman, Hagar, represents Mount Sinai where people received the law that enslaved them. And now Jerusalem is just like Mount Sinai in Arabia, because she and her children live in slavery to the law. But the other woman, Sarah, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. She is the free woman, and she is our mother.

—GALATIANS 4:24–26

Paul goes on to state that Sarah’s role was more than that of just being Abraham’s wife; her life is also connected to the spiritual DNA of all believers, just as Abraham is considered the father of faith. Paul says of Sarah, She is our mother (v. 26). This statement immediately shifts the text from a historical context to a spiritual one of honoring the heavenly Jerusalem. Exodus 20:12 tells us, "Honor your father and your mother" (ESV)—the only commandment with a promise attached to it. This promise is physical but also allegorical in that honoring your mother can produce a lasting inheritance of longevity on the earth.

When it comes to generational curses, you immediately find there are no scriptures using the term openly, but you find generational curses hidden in the extremely large field of biblical events, commandments, psalms, epistles, and prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments. Seeking out this treasure requires the reader to become more allegorical than literal. One of the downfalls of proper hermeneutics, or the proper interpretation of Scripture, is that it trains students to be trapped in black letters on white pages and doesn’t allow them to view Scripture from an allegorical perspective. So when reading the story of Sarah and Hagar, you find nothing more than a story about two women married to one man. In proper exegesis, yes—this is what we’re reading—but in an allegorical sense we’re dealing with two covenants, and everything that is recorded in Scripture about the details of their lives has some spiritual significance in the life of the believer.

In the text we’re told that Hagar represents Mount Sinai and that her spiritual DNA has been transferred to her spiritual bloodline: she and her children live in slavery to the law (Gal. 4:25). If this is not a perfect example of the generational curse of slavery being transferred (post-crucifixion) to her descendants, I don’t know what is! This curse of slavery continues to exist four thousand years later to those blinded to the freedom that can only be found in Jesus Christ. Even after salvation many believers are still in bondage to legalism, keeping them from walking in the fullness of the generational blessing of Isaac, the son of the freeborn wife [who] was born as God’s own fulfillment of his promise (v. 23).

Had Paul not been allegorical in his interpretation of this passage, we would never have known the story of Hagar and Sarah has a much deeper meaning. If this one story has great significance that could only be discovered through an allegorical approach, then how many more stories in Scripture have hidden allegorical meanings of both blessings and curses? We will explore many of them in the upcoming chapters.

HIDDEN IN A SHADOW

God told Moses to make sure that when he created the tabernacle, he used the blueprint—the exact pattern—shown to him on the mountain (Exod. 25:40). Everything had to be a 100 percent representation of what he saw because if it wasn’t, it would cast a different shadow and produce a different meaning in the New Testament. This method of gaining more insight into the revelation of generational curses allows us to see the silhouette, or outline, of something—what the Bible calls a shadow.

A shadow is a form of an object that is cast by light. The Greek word skia means an image cast by an object and representing the form of that object.³ If I could define this word in one phrase it would be the shadow represents. This word shadow appears two times in Hebrews to describe both the furnishing/functioning of the tabernacle and the hidden meanings to many of the laws stipulated by Moses. In Hebrews 8:4–5 we read, "If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law. They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven." The author is letting us know that the tabernacle with all its furnishings, priesthood, and sacrifices was a shadow that represents something else—heaven’s temple—which would later be revealed in the New Testament.

The next verse we will look at opens a new way of viewing the Law of Moses by saying it was a shadow. According to some scholars, Moses gave the children of Israel a total of 613 commandments. This opens up for us an inexhaustible opportunity to find at least 613 shadows of good things that were to come at a later dispensation. Let’s read:

The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves.

—HEBREWS 10:1

The text even goes on to say that the law itself was not the good thing. This is not saying the Law of Moses is obsolete for the believer but rather is fulfilled in Christ, who would come at a later time to do just that. But the commandments were a shadow, a form, of something that was coming to reveal their true meaning. The law was not a means to an end but pointed to Christ.

These verses from Hebrews help us recognize when the Scriptures are highlighting generational curses hidden as shadows within many biblical passages and stories. The Scriptures take on a whole new meaning when you’re not limited to black letters on white pages but are able to see revelation because of the form being cast by the illumination of the daystar rising behind it—and truths hidden before the foundation of the world suddenly get revealed. Maybe that’s what the apostle Paul meant when he said,

No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him. But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.

—1 CORINTHIANS 2:9–10

Right now thank the Holy Spirit for choosing you to be one of those who can see, hear, and understand the deep things of God. Ask Him to increase your ability to see by highlighting every scripture where generational curses are hidden in a shadow and to sharpen your ability to hear so you’ll be able to quickly recognize a generational curse when you hear it. Also ask the Spirit of God to enlarge your capacity to understand so you can receive new insight and fresh revelation about generational curses, in Jesus’ name!

HIDDEN IN A FIGURE

Another method God uses to reveal hidden truths from Genesis to Revelation is through figures. The Greek word for figures is typos, from which we get the word type, meaning pattern, example, or prophetic symbol used to prefigure a future person.⁴ Out of all the methods, this is the one most widely used by God, as the personalities in the Scriptures can be used as a pattern for God-fearing behavior and also as a prophetic symbol of some revelation yet to be discovered.

Paul said in Romans 15:4 that whatever was written in the past was written for our learning, meaning the stories were literal events that happened but also patterns for us to follow in the New Testament.

An example of this can be found in the life of Abraham. We find God telling Pharaoh in Genesis 20:7, Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die (NIV). Why would God deal so severely with Pharaoh concerning Abraham when nowhere in the Scriptures does it record Abraham prophesying? His life was a figure and a prophetic symbol that would be used to prefigure not only God but also Christ and the church. Had Pharaoh disobeyed the voice of the Lord, it would have created a ripple effect that altered and rewrote the Scriptures’ prophetic future. Every action Abraham was to take was a figure for our time now, in which he would become the spiritual father of both Jews and Gentiles.

So the promise is received by faith. It is given as a free gift. And we are all certain to receive it, whether or not we live according to the law of Moses, if we have faith like Abraham’s. For Abraham is the father of all who believe. That is what the Scriptures mean when God told him, I have made you the father of many nations. This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new things out of nothing.

—ROMANS 4:16–17

Now Abraham is just one biblical personality whose life and actions are a figure, or type. Many other biblical figures fall under the same category because their life choices produced consequences that are also types for the believer in modern times. This is where generational blessings and curses can also be seen in figures and types. If a Christian reading about these biblical personalities understands that they’re figures, it will be easy to accept that generational curses—like generational blessings—fall into that category as well. In later chapters we will explore these figures more in depth and see how generational curses originate and operate even after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

HIDDEN IN A MYSTERY

Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 13:11, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given" (ESV). In essence Jesus was saying that by grace He had personally bypassed the process of searching out clues by giving them the answer to the mystery directly. A mystery can be figured out by those willing to take the time to search out the clues, gather them, study them, and come to a definitive conclusion. Investigating a mystery requires time, patience, and careful attention to detail, plus following every lead (even if it leads to a dead end). The benefits of the kingdom are only available to those who seek for them. The clues are out there scattered in the field of Scripture waiting to be discovered.

There are multiple mysteries in the Word: the mystery of Christ (Rom. 16:25), the mystery of the wisdom of God (1 Cor. 2:7), the mystery of the resurrection (1 Cor. 15:51), the mystery of God’s will (Eph. 1:9), the mystery of Christ and the church (Eph. 5:32), and the mystery of iniquity (2 Thess. 2:7, KJV), which we will cover in depth in the upcoming chapters. No one talked more about the mysteries of the kingdom than the apostle Paul. It was his desire that the church,

Reviews for The Secrets to Generational Curses

[Sharon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Learnt many new things about generational curses. It was like a Bible Study about how different types and degrees of sin and evil affects us and bloodline. Prayers were guiding and anointed. Thank you.

[Resham Badal · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Amazing book Apostle Pagani man of God. This book is led by the Holy Spirit.