Condition: Fever

Matthew 8:14-15, Mark 1:30-31 and Luke 4:38-39 contain accounts where Jesus instantly heals Peter’s mother-in-law of a fever.  (Luke describes it as a great fever.)

The curse for breaking the Law in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 includes having a fever.

Deuteronomy 28:22:
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; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

When this curse is stated in Leviticus 26:14-39, fever is also mentioned specifically.

Leviticus 26:16:
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

The same Hebrew word translated burning ague in Leviticus is translated fever in Deuteronomy.

Jesus redeemed you from this curse for breaking the Law (Galatians 3:10-14)!

Got a really bad fever?  You’ll be glad to know that a nobleman’s son had a deadly fever in John 4:46-53 and Jesus simply spoke words.  The nobleman believed Jesus’ words and the fever left the son at that moment.  Mere words drove out a deadly fever!  Thank God, your words can drive out a deadly fever, too, when they agree with God’s words.

Acts 28:8 describes how the father of Publius, who had a fever, was healed when a believer (Paul) laid hands on him.

Job 30:30 appears to indicate that Job had a fever.  We know that Job’s physical trials were caused by the devil.  Thus, fever is something that the devil, not God, causes.  The Son of God was made manifest to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).

Psalm 102:3:
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

This probably meant a fever.  Why did the writer have it?  Psalm 102:10 says that it was because of God’s indignation and wrath.  But under the New Covenant, Jesus appeased God’s wrath for those who would believe in Him, bearing their diseases in their place.  You do not have to “burn up” – now or in eternity – because of your sins.  Jesus paid the price for you to be free from God’s wrath (Romans 5:9).