Healing Is In The Atonement

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The double cure.

The literal truth about Isaiah 53:4

Besides our sins, Jesus bore our sicknesses and pains on the cross. He was also whipped 39 times on His back (till His flesh was torn and His bones exposed) to buy us healing.

Isaiah 53:4,5
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs [sicknesses], and carried our sorrows [pains]: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.


The words "griefs" and "sorrows" actually mean "sicknesses" and "pains" (physical and mental) in the original Hebrew text (see Strong's numbers 02483 and 04341). The translation is thus unfortunate.

The verses are quoted again in Matthew 8:17 and 1 Peter 2:24. Some have insisted that Isaiah 53:4 has to do with spiritual healing only. But let the Bible interpret the Bible. How does the Holy Spirit translate Isaiah 53:4 in Matthew 8:15? He says, "Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses", implying physical healing.

Matthew 8:15-17
15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.


Moreover, the immediate context of Matthew 8:17 (verses 15 and 16) proves that the verse is referring to physical healing. This is not to say that spiritual healing is excluded as demons were cast out too.

What does all this mean for us Christians? Because Christ bore our sicknesses and pains on the cross, it would make no sense for us to bear them again. Do we go around carrying our sins and feeling condemned? No, because Jesus already bore our sins for us, and was judged and punished by the Father in our place because of our sins. So, for us to carry on bearing our sins and condemning ourselves is to not trust in the finished work of Christ and to dishonour it.

It is the same with sicknesses and pains. Why should a Christian suffer cancer and be in pain when, in his place, Christ had already born that particular cancer and pain in His body on the cross? If Christ had already been punished with that cancer, why should that Christian be punished again with that same cancer?

The same crime cannot be punished twice! If you get a speeding ticket, you don't pay the fine twice or thrice, do you? God is not unjust -- He is faithful to the perfect payment of His Son. It is Satan who is unjust. It is the devil, not God, who puts sickness on the ignorant Christian.

God says that His people are destroyed due to a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). Christians are still getting sick and dying prematurely because they do not know their rights or inheritance in Christ, and Satan has taken advantage of their ignorance and indifference. When they partake of the bread during communion, they are not recognising the health and healing that has been purchased for them by Christ.

So, start seeing that cancer on Jesus' body on the cross, not on your body. The disease cannot exist in two places at the same time. Focus on the fact that Jesus did bear that cancer on His body when He hung on the cross for you. Stop focusing on the cancer. Stop focusing on the medical reports. Stop focusing on your circumstances. Look unto the finished work of Jesus!

The bronze serpent on a pole

That is why Moses lifted up the bronze serpent wrapped around a pole -- a type of the crucifixion (and the medical symbol used today).

Any Jew who was bitten by a snake in the wilderness received healing as long as he focused on the bronze serpent on the pole (a type of Christ bearing our sicknesses and pains on the cross). But those who focused on their snake bite wounds (their natural circumstances) died.

Numbers 21:9
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.


But how can the bronze serpent be a type of Jesus? A serpent symbolises sin and curse. Jesus was made both on the cross.

2 Corinthians 5:21
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Galatians 3:13
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

John 3:14
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:


Bronze speaks of judgment. In God's Old Covenant temple, the bronze altar is where the animal sacrifice is burnt. On the cross, Jesus bore God's wrath and fiery judgment as God had to punish our sins that were on His Son's body.

Romans 6:23 says that the wages of sin is death, but Isaiah 53:5 says that the chastisement that brought us peace with God was laid upon Jesus. The pole, of course, symbolises the cross.

Under the Old Covenant system of law, God blesses His people if they obey His laws, but allows terrible curses to come upon them if they don't (Deuteronomy 28:1,15).

Redeemed from every sickness and plague

In Deuteronomy 28, there are 11 verses of blessings (verses 3 to 13) and 53 verses of curses (verses 16 to 68). Since there are more curses than blessings here, it behoves the Christian to study what these curses are, lest he calls something a blessing when it is a curse!

One of the curses is:

Deuteronomy 28:61
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.


Notice it says "every sickness, and every plague". This means that any and every sickness or disease is a curse, never a blessing as some Christians believe. So, if you say that your sickness is a blessing from God, you are contradicting Deuteronomy 28:61, which implies that any sickness is a curse.

But praise God that because of Christ's work on the cross, we have been redeemed from the curses of the law, including Deuteronomy 28:61.

Galatians 3:13
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:


In other words, healing is part of Christ's redemptive work. Healing is part of the atonement (Isaiah 53:4, Matthew 8:17 and 1 Peter 2:24)!

So, we can't say that God chooses to heal some and not others because the fact is that healing is offered to all through the cross. If we say that God is willing to heal only some people, it is like saying that God is willing to save only some people. Neither can we say that God chastens His children with diseases (see Does God chasten with sicknesses and deaths?). If that were true, God would be going against the work of His Son!

The way the bread is made

If we examine the Jewish matza bread, which is the unleavened bread the Jews eat during the Passover feast, and which many churches use as the communion bread, you will notice that it is striped with tiny holes and slightly burnt. The Jews do not really know why the bread has to be made this way -- they are simply following Moses' "recipe" strictly -- but we do: striped -- with his stripes we were healed. holes -- he was pierced for our transgressions. burnt -- bore God's wrath on our behalf. for picture see:

http://sg.geocities.com/saltandlight5/communion.html
 

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Does God heal some and leave others sick?

Most say "yes" becos they go by testimonies not the Word. "Yes" bcos some get healed and "no" becos some dont get healed.

When it comes to healing, there no place for yes and no, its never a question of yes or no simply becos healing is already in the atonement. God has already done it 2000 years ago. Just like you cant say salvation is yes for some and no for others, becos God already shed his blood for all.

Now its up to man to appropriate it by faith. So all the promises of God are YES n AMEN in Christ. We can say Yes and Amen to them or no thank you, just as with salvation.

And God is not a yes-no God -- Yes to healing/salvation for some and No to healing/salvation for others.

2 Cor 1:
18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
19* For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
20* For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

to say that God wills some sick and others healthy is to first deny what's already done, and second to preach a "YEA-NAY" Jesus.
 
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