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The Law of Seedtime and Harvest “But Brother Copeland, even if the curse wasn’t originally God’s will, isn’t it true that after Adam fell God set the curse in motion as a judgment against sin?” No. What judges sin is the law of seedtime and harvest. That law causes every seed to produce after its own kind. It dictates that what you sow is what you reap. Designed to work for good, the law was set in motion by God at Creation before sin ever came into the picture. And all judgment in this earth is a result of that law. When used as God intends, it causes good seeds sown in faith and obedience to God’s WORD to multiply and produce a harvest of BLESSING. When used as the devil intends, it causes bad seeds of unbelief and disobedience to God to produce the weeds of the curse. This is the message of Deuteronomy 28. In the first part of the chapter God describes to the Israelites the benefits of THE BLESSING and tells them how to walk in it. In the second part of the chapter, He explains what will happen if they don’t. He says: "It shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God…. But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee" (verses 1-2, 15). Neither of those passages say that God is doing these things. They don’t say God puts BLESSINGS and curses on people. What’s said is that according to the choices people make, either THE BLESSINGS or the curses “come upon…and overtake” them. God doesn’t have to come to your house every morning, and say, “BLESS! BLESS! BLESS!” for THE BLESSING to come on you. He’s already released that BLESSING by His WORD. It’s out there, ready for you to step into it by believing and doing what God says. Likewise, God doesn’t have to come and knock someone in the head every time they do something wrong for the curse to come on them. The curse is already out there, and the devil who’s behind it will see to its operation. “But aren’t there some verses in Deuteronomy 28 that actually say The LORD will smite people with the curse?” you might ask. Yes, and when read by themselves they can seem confusing. The confusion is cleared up, however, when they’re read in the light of scriptures like Exodus 12, for instance. There, when Moses was telling the Israelites how God had instructed them to apply the blood of a lamb to their doorposts to protect themselves from the plague that was about to hit Egypt, he said, “For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you” (verse 23). Notice that although the first part of that verse makes it sound like The LORD Himself is executing this plague, the last part reveals it’s “the destroyer.” Who is the destroyer? It’s satan. He isn’t mentioned by name very often in the Old Testament. Because people back then weren’t born again, they tended to worship any spirit being they knew anything about, so God rarely spoke of him. But all through the Bible wherever we see cursing and destruction, he’s always there. In the Garden of Eden, he was the serpent stealing Adam’s BLESSING. In the book of Job, he was the accuser who orchestrated Job’s troubles. In Malachi 3:11, he’s the devourer God refers to when He says to His tithers, “I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground.” In the New Testament, he’s the tempter in the wilderness showing Jesus all the kingdoms of the earth and saying, “All this power will I give thee, and the glory…for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it” (Luke 4:6). 8 : BVOV

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