Condition: Boils

The word translated botch twice in the Law’s curse in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 refers to boils or sores (covered separately).  This could include skin disorders (covered separately) as well as ulcers.  Any abnormal breaking forth of an open wound would be covered here.  Jesus Christ was given open wounds on His body as punishment for YOUR sins.  Because He already bore that penalty for you, you do not have to have open sores in your body.  Satan is the author of such, as demonstrated by Job 2:4-7.  Satan gave Job his boils; God healed Job of his boils (Job 42:10)!  (And don’t worry, there is no such thing as having to be “another Job” under the New Covenant – you have personal authority over Satan, which Job did not have back in his time.  Satan loves to promote the lie that you could be another Job so that you’ll botch your chance to be healed.  The article Job Explained tells you the right way to interpret the book of Job.)

God specifically calls a “sore botch that cannot be healed” in the knees and legs a curse (Deuteronomy 28:27).  He also calls sores all over your body (“from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head”) a curse (Deuteronomy 28:35).  Christ has redeemed you from these curses within the “curse of the Law” (Galatians 3:13).

God can keep boils away from his people!  Remember that one of Moses’ ten plagues on Egypt was boils, which came upon the Egyptians, but not upon the Israelites (Exodus 9:8-11).  If He could do that for His people then, surely He can keep boils away under our better covenant established upon better promises (Hebrews 8:6).  Because boils are explicitly called a plague, and God says that no plague comes near the house of the man who abides in him (see Psalm 91), we can claim redemption from this plague today.