The Fruit of Sin is Cursed! Don't eat from that tree!
Remember, anything that has been obtained by sinful tactics will curse anyone who benefits from the fruit of that tree. The fruit is cursed and will destroy anyone who eats from it. So it is written that the sins of my father can impact me. The key is to acknowledge and repent of those things too and then turn from those ways. Grandfather may have accepted Christ at some point in his life, but there are still generational consequences for his actions that will impact another generation unless they repent too. Grandfather's actions, while forgiven now because he eventually repented, still impacted the minds of those who live on and they likely passed them on in how they live to hold on to what they have. And if there is no acknowledgement of the sin that is now embedded in the mind... then there is no 2 Chronicles 7:14 approach to reconciling that past which would change the trajectory of the next generation of my downline which would give life to it and good fruit that blesses..
King Ahab, of the Old Testament, spent the majority of his life rejecting the knowledge of God. He eventually repented and avoided God's wrath. But the scripture indicates that the wrath of God would fall on His children. This lines up with what Hosea 4:6-7 points out. The knowledge that was rejected manifested in actions that embraced sin. The influence King Ahab had over those in his house would embed those actions (how to do it, what they saw) in the minds of those he influenced. Therefore his children would also reject God's ways because of what they learned from Ahab the majority of his life. He spent his entire life rejecting God up until 3 years before his death. It's what he did the majority of the time that would have the biggest influence on his descendants.
Anything accumulated from sin will be destroyed. It is cursed and so is the one who has made the fruit of sin their identity.
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