Are we to repent for our ancestors past sins?

[n david]

Originally Posted by Aquila

We're talking about the sins of the fathers that have been perpetuated down through generations. Taking it to God as high priests of our family lines and repenting of it, because it offended God. And in the Scriptures, God repeatedly visits the sins of the fathers on the current generation. And so, we bring it to Him, confess it and repent of it, ending any perpetuated action that remains on account of ancestral influences. Redeeming the family name, and setting any outstanding wrongs right.

Aquila, if you wish to research your lineage and put on sackcloth and ashes and wail and repent over what some ancestor a hundred years ago did, be my guest. It will do nothing more than make you feel better. It will not change or absolve the dead of their sins.

If I had a 4th cousin who was a bank robber and outlaw and he terrorized people and towns across hundreds of miles for years, my wailing prayer of repentance would be of none effect. It would profit me very little, other than making myself feel better.

Once I repented of my sins and was buried in the water in Jesus Name, any generation curse or ancestral curse was cut off and no longer controls me.