Adam and Eve were in an elevated position, as it were, until they disobeyed the Word of God. Scripture unfolds this descent in two stages. First, we see action of the fall in Genesis 3. Through that one act, sin entered the world, and man was plunged into a life of death, disease, and decay. Sin is to life what rust is to metal. It eats away, tarnishes, devalues, and prevents you from fulfilling your purpose.
Second, we see the effects of the fall in the book of Romans. One realm we see the fall affecting is human kind. No human is born innocent. Every person is born a sinner. All mankind is effected by the fall. Another area we see the fall effecting is creation. All suffering we see, whether physical sickness or a natural disaster, is directly connected with the fall. We have sickness in the world as a result of sin. Scripture records numerous causes that bring about sickness in both the Old and New Testament.
Theologian L. Besides this many ills were ascribed to the direct agency of Satan. However, Scripture very clearly lists these as agents God uses to bring about sickness. God is judging individuals for their sin by sending physical sickness on their personal bodies. Micah in no uncertain terms says, "So also I will make you sick… because of your sins [emphasis added]. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
This was the regular practice under the law and should not be seen as normative now. Having said that, we would be foolish to say God would never judge our sin this way today. Second, sickness as a result of paranormal activity: Satan has tremendous power, and we only have a limited understanding as to the extent of it.
Clearly, he has the ability to bring about sickness and affliction because of what we see in the life of Job. First, while Scripture makes it clear that Satan is often the agent of sickness, he is not always the author of sickness. Sometimes God is. Who makes him deaf or dumb? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now this is what is stated in the scriptures. Deuteronomy The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
Now do we read this literally and say that it is Lord who brought sickness into us? As such if we do not read this literally with a 21st century mindset, do we read this with one? Luke Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her? Does sickness comes from God or Satan?
The obvious answer is neither. You see similar use of both the word the Lord and Satan interchangeably here as well. Now if you pay attention to the marginal notes, it points to 2 Samuel Now this is what it says about the same event.
Who asked David to take a census? Satan or God? Or is Satan God? As such, they became the adversary to David. And yet our churches are filled with sick believers. Obviously, we don't know everything we need to know about healing, and we need to study it again. For example, people read Deuteronomy , which says that God smites the disobedient with tumors, hemorrhoids, scurvy, itch, madness, blindness, and dismay of heart from which no man can save them.
So, they think, When people sin, God makes them sick. People read Ezekiel 32, which says that God will scatter the Egyptian pharaoh's flesh upon the mountains and darken the sun and stars, and they think, When nations are carnal, 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. They were originally written in the Hebrew permissive tense and should read, "God allows sickness to come. I don't care about any of that. But, it is important to look at Scripture in the proper tense to exact the true meaning.
The Ministry Of Jesus We have already established that sickness, which comes from Satan, entered the world as a result of Adam's sin.
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