Big Healing Book - Deuteronomy 7:12-15

Deuteronomy 7:12-15:

Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee: but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

Notes on Deuteronomy 7:12-15:

This passage is a clear promise to remove all sickness from those who obey God. One apparent problem is God’s threat to lay diseases on those who hate Israel. Does God actually put sickness on people? Is He, and not Satan, the author of sickness? A reading through of the Old Testament (and even the New Testament) will show you places where God put sickness on people as judgment. Even in some cases where an angel was the intermediary, the sickness was still considered God’s judgment. That does NOT mean that every time you get sick, God is “using” Satan to judge you or that God is sending an “evil angel” to judge you or that He is even judging you Himself. In fact, you have to be really bad to get to the point where God Himself has to judge you. Jesus didn’t refuse to heal anyone on the basis that God was trying to judge him! Jesus made it clear that He forgave sins. Forgiven people are no longer required to tough out the physical penalty for sin. However, not everyone received from Him. The power of the Lord was present to heal the religious leaders in the house where the paralyzed man had friends who “let him down,” but none of them received healing, while the man who was let down left both forgiven and healed (Luke 5:17-26).

If God “permits” something, even if Satan does it, does that make God responsible for it? No. If God were REALLY responsible for everything the devil does, GOD would have to be punished in hell for those actions along with the devil! God definitely has done things that resulted in people’s sickness as judgment. However, they were really responsible for it. God set life and death before the people. When they chose death, that was their choice, not God’s. God showed them the consequences of serving or opposing Him, and when they chose death, God had to allow them to reap the results of their deadly choices. Even in the New Testament, the law of sowing and reaping still applies (Galatians 6:8). The fact that your sins are forgiven does not mean that they have no consequences in this life.

This passage makes it clear that material prosperity as well as health are consequences of serving God.

According to this passage, sickness is evil. You should never think of it as a friend, companion, or in any way other than an offensive perversion of the wellness God created you to have.