READ: Numbers 12:1-16
“And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman” – Numbers 12:1
A son who criticizes his father usually inherits his father’s problems and devils. Being critical of a person opens you up to the person’s problems for a number of reasons. Problems pass from fathers to the sons who murmur and criticize.
Murmuring and criticizing is a sin and sins open the door to evil spirits. Evil spirits operate in the darkness of sin. There are sons who criticize their father and pay heavily for it. The evil spirit of incurable sickness attached itself to Miriam when she criticized Moses.
The evil spirit of death and destruction fell upon the Israelites when they murmured against Moses. None of them passed into the Promised Land. “And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron… Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun” (Numbers 14:2, 30)
Similarly, the spirit of demotion, affliction, inferiority and mediocrity came upon Ham when he despised his father. Noah was disgraced and embarrassed by the exposure of his nakedness. But now, Ham and his descendants would be disgraced and embarrassed by the mediocrity of their lives. “And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren” (Genesis 9:22, 24, 25).