A curse is a scary thing. Many people were worried about being cursed by a dead pharaoh when their tombs were excavated. Some people fear the hex of a wizard or a witch. But, the greatest and most deadly curse was placed about 2,000 years ago.
If you're familiar with your bible, you know the story of Christ's crucifixion. There was a point where Pilate was trying to free Jesus, but the people wouldn't have it.
Matthew 27:24-25- When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Bad move! These people put a blood curse on not only themselves, but their posterity. And, for almost 2,000 years no one has been as hunted, persecuted, murdered, etc. as the Jewish people. It's because of this curse.
Now, you may say that you don't believe this, but they were warned almost 3,000 years before Christ was killed.
Numbers 35:30-34- Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
A murderer's blood must be spilled in judgement for the land to be cleansed of the blood that was shed through murder. When these people put the blood on themselves and their children they cursed their entire race to have to be killed for the innocent blood that was shed in their land.
The same blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that washed away our sin and enables us an eternity in heaven with Christ is the blood that dooms the Jewish people to pay for it's shedding by their own blood being spilled.
That's terrifying!
Can they ever remove this curse? Yes. They were told how to remove the curse around the same time they were told about the curse.
Deuteronomy 21:1-9- If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley: And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried: And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
If it's so easy then why haven't they done it yet? Well, it's not as easy as you would think.
The elders and judges of the Jewish people first have to acknowledge that Jesus was their Messiah and that their religious leaders in times past were the ones to murder Him.
Next, they have to have a priest. The Jewish priesthood hasn't existed for over 1,900 years. They are just now getting to the place where they can find sons of Levi to learn the role of the priesthood and perform it.
And, probably the most difficult will be that when they finally realize that Jesus Christ was their Messiah and they need to remove this blood curse, it will be during the Tribulation when the Anti-Christ is sitting in the third temple of Jerusalem claiming that he is their Messiah.
The leaders will have to brave the armies of the Anti-Christ with Levitical priests and a heifer and make it to the valley outside the walls of Jerusalem and accomplish this while engaged in battle for their very existence.
A curse is not an easy thing to break when the most powerful force in the entire universe is the very thing that has hexed you!
The only good thing is that the blood of Jesus Christ is powerful enough to save you from a curse that has been placed on you. The curse of sin. And, the end of that curse is outer darkness. This curse can only be broken while you are alive, and it can only be broken through accepting Christ's gift of Salvation that He provided when He shed His blood on Calvary to save your soul.
