The curse came upon Satan, the woman, and the man. However the blood was present right after the curse.

The Lord did not curse them; they put themselves under the curse. He just informed them.

"So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel." To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you." Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return." And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them." Genesis 3:14-21, NKJV.

Blessings come when sin is removed.

""Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered;" Romans 4:7, NKJV.

Sin and curses are seeds. They bear fruit and continue on through the generations. Their affects become magnified as time progresses. God explained this to Moses in answer to Moses' request to know God better.

"Then Moses said to the LORD, "See, You say to me, 'Bring up this people.' But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.' "Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people."" Exodus 33:12,13, NKJV.

"So the LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name." And he said, "Please, show me Your glory." Then He said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." But He said, "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live." And the LORD said, "Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. "So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. "Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen."" Exodus 33:17-23, NKJV.

"Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, "keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation." So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped." Exodus 34:5-8, NKJV.

God revealed this law of generational curses to Moses when Moses wanted to know God better and see Him. As God revealed Himself to Moses, He produced an apparent paradox. Notice in this Scripture God said that He keeps mercy and forgives sin, yet He said that He does not clear the guilty, but instead the curse comes down to the third and fourth generation.

How could both of these be true?

The Lord spoke of a new covenant in the Book of Jerimiah 31:31-34 in which He will forgive the sins of the people.

""In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.' "But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge." Jeremiah 31:29,30, NKJV.

""Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-- "not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. "No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."" Jeremiah 31:31-34, NKJV.

The paradox is reconciled when God reveals who Jesus really is. Only John the Baptist really knew that Jesus was the Lamb of God. Remember it was the Passover Lamb that by God's grace saved Israel in Egypt from the curse.

Jesus said it in John 17.

"Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, "as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. "I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. "And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was." John 17:1-5, NKJV.

Jesus told His Father that He had finished the work given to Him for His earthly ministry, now He was asking the Father to "glorify" Him, or in a strict translation, to reveal who He really is. On the Cross He would be revealed as the Lamb of God who was crucified before the foundation of the world.

How can God forgive sins and yet not clear the guilty? By making Jesus guilty for you and me!

Paul summarized it.

"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them." But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for "the just shall live by faith." Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them." Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." Galatians 3:10-14, NKJV.

What is the whole purpose of overcoming curses?

First, it accomplishes Jesus' work here on earth and gives final defeat to God's enemies.

It brings us into intimacy with Him. In John 17:3 Jesus said that eternal life was to "know" Him. That is intimacy. Notice in Jesus' prayer in John 17:6 that they "kept His Word." Knowing Jesus as our intimate Bridegroom is contingent upon knowing Him first as King!

Now let us look at Junk to Jewels Chapter 8, Blessings and Curses. Let us examine what curses look like, how they affect us and how we can overcome them