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LIE #3 - HEALING DOES GOD PUT SICKNESS ON US?
One of the best lies against God is to believe that healing isn’t available for everyone or that it isn’t His Will to
heal everyone. This is simply not true. Healing is available for everyone, every time, and for everything, but
people don’t always receive it. There are also reasons why people do not receive healing even though it is
available.
One of the number one hindrances to receiving healing is not knowing that it IS God’s Will to heal. Some
people do not believe that healing is for us today. They are fixed in their belief that it is NOT God’s will to
heal or that healing died out with the apostles of the New Testament.
Some people believe that God puts sickness on you to teach you something. If this were true, why did Jesus
go about doing His Father’s business – healing all who were sick? You can’t have it both ways – either
healing is God’s will or being sick means you aren’t allowed to go to the doctor to get well because God is
teaching you something out of it.
Other people believe in healing but they don’t believe God will heal them, personally. They believe they
have been too bad, too mean, are unworthy, or are just not good enough. This is also a lie!
To know if it is God’s Will to heal, you can’t listen to other people. You must get your answers from the Bible
(the Word of God). You must never base your faith or belief system on your past experiences (or other
people’s). Sickness and tragedy are not from God.
Healing is a gift, like salvation, already paid for at Calvary. All you need to do is accept it by faith, just like
you did salvation. You heard the salvation message, believed it and received it - probably by going forward
to the altar or front of the church (or not) and getting “saved” because of what you heard. Every promise of
God is received the same way. Hear the message, believe it and receive it – which is all you need to do -
possess the promise that is yours.
Today we will discuss where the confusion came from – why people think God puts sickness on them. In
later articles, we’ll deal with the scriptural basis of healing.
You need to know:
When God first created man, there was no provision for healing because there was no sickness. Adam and
Eve lived and walked in divine health. Then Adam sinned against God (Gen. 3:1-6), and the earth became
Satan’s property.
The moment Satan took control, everything about the earth became cursed because Satan came to steal, to
kill, and to destroy (John 10:10). Sickness, disease, doom, gloom, despair, and destruction spread because
of his ownership.
So here’s the earth, cursed. Then came Jesus and his sacrificial death on the cross to redeem us from the
curse. Galatians 3:13 states that: Jesus has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us. So sickness is under the curse and we are redeemed from that curse, so we are redeemed from
sickness.
Healing – Old and New Testament – Part One
In the King James Version of the Bible, one would be led to believe God puts sickness and disease on us to
teach us something (what, I don’t know!). Deuteronomy 28:20-22 says:
Smite means “to afflict” or “to attack or afflict suddenly and injuriously.” So it looks like God is putting
sickness on people.
People read Deuteronomy 28:27, “God smites the disobedient with tumors, hemorrhoids, scurvy, itch,
madness, blindness, and dismay of heart from which no man can save them.” So the thought process would
then be: When people sin, God makes them sick.
People read Ezekiel 32, “God will scatter the Egyptian Pharaoh's flesh upon the mountains and darken the
sun and stars,” and the thought process is: When nations ignore God , God gives them political upheaval
and natural calamity.
Young's Literal Translation, which was written by a Hebrew scholar, examines these difficult verses by
returning to the original Hebrew text. According to Young and other scholars, the Hebrew language has two
tenses—the causative and permissive tenses.
The causative tense is the active tense; the subject of the sentence causes the action. For example: The
bullet hit the tree or The runaway train ran into the mountainside.
The men who translated the Old Testament from Hebrew to English used the causative tense, so the Old
Testament is filled with verses that say, "God did this. God did that. God smote this. God destroyed that."
The permissive tense is best translated, "It was allowed." Verses that say, "God causes sickness," have
been incorrectly translated and should have read, "God allows sickness to come." Causative verbs make it
sound as though God were causing the sickness and disease. The original Hebrew where the verbs are
permissive means that the action was simply allowed to happen.
Deuteronomy 28:22 in The King James Version reads, "The Lord shall smite thee...." In the original Hebrew,
that phrase says, "The Lord shall allow you to be smitten...."
Exodus 15:26 says, "I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians."
The Hebrew text says, "I will not allow any of the diseases to come upon you that I allowed to come upon
Egypt."
Disease was already there because of the curse. God allowed the diseases to overtake Egypt because they
didn't have a covenant (relationship) with Him. God did not cause the sickness and disease; He simply
allowed what was already there to take place. The translators distorted the true meaning of these verses.
God Allows?
So what does this mean, God allows? Or what does that permissive tense mean which allowed a bad thing to
happen?
God will allow anything you will allow. He'll let you rob a bank if you want to. God will allow you to go to hell if
you want to. It's not His will, but He will allow you to do it. God allows sin, but He is certainly not in favor of it.
God allows sickness, but it is not His will.
Because of our free will, God will never force us to do anything. We have free will to choose.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of sickness but people are still sick. He redeemed us from sin yet people
are sinning today. He died so people can go to heaven yet people are still going to hell.
If you read both the Old and New Testaments, you will find many scriptures about healing. God has always
provided healing for His people.
God gets no glory from our sickness or disease (except our being healed!). He takes no pleasure in harming
us, and He never will.
Jesus Rambling Copyright © 2007 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
One of the best lies against God is to believe that healing isn’t available for everyone or that it isn’t His Will to
heal everyone. This is simply not true. Healing is available for everyone, every time, and for everything, but
people don’t always receive it. There are also reasons why people do not receive healing even though it is
available.
One of the number one hindrances to receiving healing is not knowing that it IS God’s Will to heal. Some
people do not believe that healing is for us today. They are fixed in their belief that it is NOT God’s will to
heal or that healing died out with the apostles of the New Testament.
Some people believe that God puts sickness on you to teach you something. If this were true, why did Jesus
go about doing His Father’s business – healing all who were sick? You can’t have it both ways – either
healing is God’s will or being sick means you aren’t allowed to go to the doctor to get well because God is
teaching you something out of it.
Other people believe in healing but they don’t believe God will heal them, personally. They believe they
have been too bad, too mean, are unworthy, or are just not good enough. This is also a lie!
To know if it is God’s Will to heal, you can’t listen to other people. You must get your answers from the Bible
(the Word of God). You must never base your faith or belief system on your past experiences (or other
people’s). Sickness and tragedy are not from God.
Healing is a gift, like salvation, already paid for at Calvary. All you need to do is accept it by faith, just like
you did salvation. You heard the salvation message, believed it and received it - probably by going forward
to the altar or front of the church (or not) and getting “saved” because of what you heard. Every promise of
God is received the same way. Hear the message, believe it and receive it – which is all you need to do -
possess the promise that is yours.
Today we will discuss where the confusion came from – why people think God puts sickness on them. In
later articles, we’ll deal with the scriptural basis of healing.
You need to know:
When God first created man, there was no provision for healing because there was no sickness. Adam and
Eve lived and walked in divine health. Then Adam sinned against God (Gen. 3:1-6), and the earth became
Satan’s property.
The moment Satan took control, everything about the earth became cursed because Satan came to steal, to
kill, and to destroy (John 10:10). Sickness, disease, doom, gloom, despair, and destruction spread because
of his ownership.
So here’s the earth, cursed. Then came Jesus and his sacrificial death on the cross to redeem us from the
curse. Galatians 3:13 states that: Jesus has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us. So sickness is under the curse and we are redeemed from that curse, so we are redeemed from
sickness.
Healing – Old and New Testament – Part One
In the King James Version of the Bible, one would be led to believe God puts sickness and disease on us to
teach us something (what, I don’t know!). Deuteronomy 28:20-22 says:
Smite means “to afflict” or “to attack or afflict suddenly and injuriously.” So it looks like God is putting
sickness on people.
People read Deuteronomy 28:27, “God smites the disobedient with tumors, hemorrhoids, scurvy, itch,
madness, blindness, and dismay of heart from which no man can save them.” So the thought process would
then be: When people sin, God makes them sick.
People read Ezekiel 32, “God will scatter the Egyptian Pharaoh's flesh upon the mountains and darken the
sun and stars,” and the thought process is: When nations ignore God , God gives them political upheaval
and natural calamity.
Young's Literal Translation, which was written by a Hebrew scholar, examines these difficult verses by
returning to the original Hebrew text. According to Young and other scholars, the Hebrew language has two
tenses—the causative and permissive tenses.
The causative tense is the active tense; the subject of the sentence causes the action. For example: The
bullet hit the tree or The runaway train ran into the mountainside.
The men who translated the Old Testament from Hebrew to English used the causative tense, so the Old
Testament is filled with verses that say, "God did this. God did that. God smote this. God destroyed that."
The permissive tense is best translated, "It was allowed." Verses that say, "God causes sickness," have
been incorrectly translated and should have read, "God allows sickness to come." Causative verbs make it
sound as though God were causing the sickness and disease. The original Hebrew where the verbs are
permissive means that the action was simply allowed to happen.
Deuteronomy 28:22 in The King James Version reads, "The Lord shall smite thee...." In the original Hebrew,
that phrase says, "The Lord shall allow you to be smitten...."
Exodus 15:26 says, "I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians."
The Hebrew text says, "I will not allow any of the diseases to come upon you that I allowed to come upon
Egypt."
Disease was already there because of the curse. God allowed the diseases to overtake Egypt because they
didn't have a covenant (relationship) with Him. God did not cause the sickness and disease; He simply
allowed what was already there to take place. The translators distorted the true meaning of these verses.
God Allows?
So what does this mean, God allows? Or what does that permissive tense mean which allowed a bad thing to
happen?
God will allow anything you will allow. He'll let you rob a bank if you want to. God will allow you to go to hell if
you want to. It's not His will, but He will allow you to do it. God allows sin, but He is certainly not in favor of it.
God allows sickness, but it is not His will.
Because of our free will, God will never force us to do anything. We have free will to choose.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of sickness but people are still sick. He redeemed us from sin yet people
are sinning today. He died so people can go to heaven yet people are still going to hell.
If you read both the Old and New Testaments, you will find many scriptures about healing. God has always
provided healing for His people.
God gets no glory from our sickness or disease (except our being healed!). He takes no pleasure in harming
us, and He never will.
Jesus Rambling Copyright © 2007 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
20. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine
hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the 21.
The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the
land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation,
and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew...
hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the 21.
The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the
land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation,
and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew...
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