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Demystifying The Curse Of Poverty

opened and he became all too aware of good and evil, and as such
he had fallen from God’s grace. This necessitated the punishment
that would make God send him out of His presence and make a
covering of animal skin to cover man’s “nakedness”.

The word “nakedness” here refers to sin; which then necessitated
the need for God to slay an animal to shed the blood and cover
man; “without remission of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin”.

“[In fact] under the Law almost everything is purified by means
of the blood, and without the shedding of blood there is neither
release from sin and its guilt nor remission of the due and merited
punishment for sins” Hebrews 9:22 [AMPC]

This was God’s redemption plan that was already rolled out before
time and later made manifest as Christ took the human form and
went to the cross to die and reconcile us back to God. The blood
then marks the break from every curse that stood contrary due to
sin.

It is out of this “Epic Fall” that Christ came to give the total reversal
to us all that we are no longer bound under the curse (See Galatians
3:13) (Much on this later). For to Him He became a curse that
through Him we may be blessed.

“But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the Law.
When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for

our wrongdoing. For it is written in the scriptures, “Cursed is
everyone who is hung on a tree” Galatians 3: 13 [NLT]

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