This book is God's words about The Blessing and The Curse and talks about the following:
- The Blessing
First: The concept of blessing
a) God is the source of all blessings
b) God blesses all His creation
c) God blesses the seventh day (the Sabbath) and sanctifies it
d) God's blessing enriches and is limitless
e) The blessing provokes the envy of the malicious
Second: God's blessings to His own
a) The blessing of the Divine Incarnation, the Cross and the Redemption
b) God promises to give blessing
c) God blesses His people and His own
d) God blesses the righteous and the godly
Third: Forms of divine blessings
a) The blessing and good for the bread of increase of the earth
b) The blessing of wealth, property and possessions
c) The blessing of marriage
d) The blessing of having children … blessed sons and daughters
e) The blessing of long life
f) The blessing of health and soundness
g) The blessing of victory over enemies
Fourth: How can we obtain blessing
a) By faith and relying on God
b) By fellowship with the Lord Christ
c) By meekness, humbleness, and fear of God
d) By faithfulness and hard work
e) By wisdom
f) By obedience to God and to His commandments
g) The blessing of the New Covenant with God
h) By giving and charitable deeds
i) By repentance and return to God
j) By praying God for blessing
k) By rejoicing and giving thanks to God for His blessings
Fifth: Those who give blessing
a) The blessing of priesthood and God's holy men
b) The righteous give blessing
c) The blessing of the parents
- The curse
First: Commandments related to the curse
Second: Causes of the curse
a) Disdaining God, what belongs to Him, and the holies
b) Neglecting the divine commandments
c) Doing sin and evil
d) Love of lusts and rejecting the blessing
e) Lack of faith
f) Idolatry
g) Ignorance
h) Adultery and impurity
i) Stumbling blocks and offending others
j) Not honoring parents
k) Having no compassion to the poor and needy
l) Unfruitfulness
Third: Forms of various curses
a) To be forsaken by the grace and losing the blessing and peace
b) God's anger and plagues
c) Shame, defeat, and humiliation
d) Illness and weakness
e) Punishment inflicted upon the children
f) Death and eternal perdition
g) God's curse to the devil
Fourth: Cursing and blaspheming
Fifth: Avoiding the curse
a) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law
b) Giving true repentance from the heart
c) Prayer and atoning for sin