Mark 2: 16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners? 17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
The adverse results are not anything that God will be doing to the offspring. That word “Visiting”, for the most part refers to God allowing the natural law of action and consequence to run unimpeded. In fact, what God does is to set in motion, ways, and means whereby persons who have been adversely affected, either genetically, or by the habitual wrong doing of one’s progenitors can make a U-Turn, and if such persons were to take hold of Christ, the only remedy, they can stop the downward trend in most cases. The following scriptures will confirm what is being said.
Romans 5: 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
God does not arbitrarily visit the iniquities of one’s parents upon the children, if the children will track a different, and right course. God gives much grace to the wicked, so that they can have equal opportunity just like the offspring of the righteous. This sacred truth must now be set in stone in our minds, once and for all.
1st Kings 21: 25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!