Hello. I'm here to disrupt.
Hello.
I’m here to disrupt.
“𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 | 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚 | 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 | 𝐃𝐍𝐀 | 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 | 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡”
If you’ve never heard of these words before much less seen them grouped in the same sentence, you will. I can feel it in my spirit that God is about to start revealing more things through science that prove His Word. I’m not exactly sure how I finally started putting the pieces of the puzzle together and how the dotted lines started to connect, but the more I read, the more I became convinced.
Exodus 34:7 “keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
Like many believers, I’ve read this verse and understood that our sins not only effect our lives but also the lives of our children and even our children’s children. I didn’t know, however, that there was a science behind the consequences of our sin patterns. Here’s what I discovered.
We’ve probably all got a basic knowledge of our DNA and how our physical traits pass down a generational line. Originally it was conceived that the majority of our inheritance from the DNA molecule was from our chromosomes which are the physical traits such as our hair, eye color etc, though surprisingly 98% of our DNA is actually captured from noncoding DNA (ncDNA), which is responsible for our emotional behavior and personality. Noncoding DNA, which at one time was considered “junk DNA” is now highly regarded as valuable as the forming of the fetus inside the mother’s womb is formed through this 98%. The environment inside the womb in which the fetus grows as well as the environment the mother (and father) is exposed to outside the womb can alter a generation in both a positive and negative way.
So how does this happen scientifically?
𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (1). Epigenetic are instructions that sit on top of DNA and histones. They do not change the DNA itself but are an inherited mechanism that through the experience of events in both nature and nurture can turn the expression of a gene on (expressed) or off (suppressed). If there is a traumatic event, whether it be physical or emotional and the person is shamed, wounded, abandoned etc these emotions stay trapped within their own cellular make up and will get passed down to their children. The epigenetic process is that we are a combined expression of our parents and their environment – inside and outside the womb.
Trauma at an Embryotic State. Based upon the environment an organism is growing in, the gene expression can be turned on or off and subsequently be passed on to the next generation during development inside the womb. An unborn female baby at nineteen weeks gestation being carried inside her mother’s womb already has six million precursor eggs and inside her 6 ½” petite frame. An unborn male baby at seven weeks will start to produce testosterone and at sixteen weeks have been found to have amounts comparable to adult men. When the mother carrying that unborn child experiences stress in her environment, neurohormones are released from her brain, flows through her blood stream, to the umbilical cord and is then shared with her unborn child, like the feeding process. The unborn child, however, not realizing its origin will share in this stress and depending on the longevity and severity of the stressful or traumatic event the mother experienced, will have an epigenetic marker left on his or her DNA.
However, remember the 6 million precursor eggs? When a female unborn child is experiencing the same trauma as the mother, this epigenetic marker is not only affecting her DNA, but marking her 6 million precursor eggs as well. Thus, allowing the 3rd generation to experience the event as though it had direct exposure. It was at one time believed that only the baby being carried inside the mother’s womb would share in this trauma, now it is believed and scientifically proven that the 3rd generation, in precursor cellular form is also experiencing and its cells being altered and trained on how to react in a similar environment outside the womb. This is called Transgenerational Trauma.
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚. The time frame that the embedded cellular trauma for a female in the womb is limited to both the gestation period and the predetermined eggs she had been assigned during development. It is interesting to note that this trauma is stored within the cellular structure of the 2nd generation female fetus some 15-45 years before the 3rd generation is even born, depending on what age the 2nd generation mother conceives. This trauma may or may not be compounded upon if the 2nd generation mother approaches and confronts the trauma, ridding from having any effects on the 3rd generation and more. The male, on the other hand because he will continue to develop reproductive hormones his entire life, the stress and trauma experienced in his life will not only continue but will compound itself within the histones until conception, passing on his epigenetic markers to his offspring. Creating an even more complex set of new instructions to the 3rd or 4th generation from both parents, if not addressed and healed.
Even though the 4th generation would not be directly exposed to the trauma, if 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 it would have remained constant in their life, potentially reinforced through external environmental conditions and if given place to express itself in an ungodly, unnatural way would create a stronghold in that family line. If that wound was left unhealed, when the 4th generation was born, though not directly exposed to the original trauma, the epigenetic marker would still be embedded on top of the DNA waiting for a similar event to occur that would eventually activate that dormant gene implanted from history and cause the 4th generation to respond in similar fashion. Our exposure to sin is captured and marked at the cellular structure of our DNA.
Romans 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
The Gate Keeper / The Watchman. The encouraging news is that these negative effects can be reversed by identifying the source or “root” and realizing that trauma may not have originated with you but was instead inherited by you, implanted and embedded in your DNA through either your parents or someone further up your ancestry lineage.
I challenge you to reach back generationally and see where it originated from, address it and be the gate keeper for your life and generations to come refusing to allow its entry any further and change the legacy you leave behind. More times than not we accept sicknesses as our own with no known clues as to where it came from without consideration that perhaps it is an epigenetic marker placed there from generations past due to the environment one of ancestors was exposed to during their embryonic state.
There are also sin patterns to consider that could have been evident due to the alter of a gene expression in your ancestors life but more importantly we could creating an epigenetic marker in our life that will be left to our children’s children because of our sin. Just as we clean the mess from the sin patterns of our ancestors or heal from the trauma they experienced, we leave behind a 𝓽𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓼𝓲𝓷 𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓼 or sicknesses to our children and our children’s children when we 𝓲𝓰𝓷𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓖𝓸𝓭’𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓻𝓮𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮 or refuse to acknowledge our actions effect anyone else but ourselves.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬, 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐞𝐭𝐜 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲? Is it cancer, sickness, disease, tormenting, depression, suicide, drug abuse, homosexuality, physical abuse, gender confusion? Remember, the DNA does not change, the expression of the gene is turned on or off based on the environment.
Psalm 103: 13-14 “As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.”
For specific prayers on how to pray over each organ as it develops each week of pregnancy you can order my book “Sons & Daughters Emerging”, A Prayer Strategy for Millennial Parents. There you will be able to cancel the trauma, sickness, sin patterns etc from your family line and learn to decree and declare the promises to your next generation.
1 The Genie in Your Genes, Dawson Church