Healing and the Blood of Jesus

When the Israelites splattered the blood of the Passover lamb on their doorposts, the killer plague that took Egypt’s firstborn passed over them.  Christ is called our Passover (1 Corinthians 5:7).  It is significant that the symbol of His blood kept sickness away under the Old Testament.  In this case, it was a killer plague that instantly took the lives of the firstborn children throughout Egypt.  But the killer plague did not touch those who kept the Passover and placed the sacrificed lamb’s blood on their doorposts.  If this mere symbol of Jesus Christ could keep a plague away, how much more should Jesus Himself, whom the Passover symbolized!  Jesus was clear at His last Passover feast that the Passover wine and bread represented HIMSELF (1 Corinthians 11:23-25).

This shows us that God’s will for us is not only healing but health.  We know that God healed any feeble people in Israel at this time also, because there was not one feeble person among them in the exodus from Egypt (Psalm 105:37).  But notice that the blood on the doorpost did not heal anyone of the plague.  It kept them from getting the plague in the first place.  This agrees with Psalm 91’s promise of no plague coming near the house of the man who abides in God.  Healing is available because Christ’s body was broken for us in our place, but health is also available.  You don’t have to get sick and then get healed.

When Israel transgressed against God, atonement was made for the people’s sin and the sicknesses were taken away.  Blood sacrifices were offered to God.  Jesus was the ultimate blood sacrifice.  If sickness could be removed by a one-time atonement of animal blood in the Old Testament, surely it can be removed by the blood of the Son of God, which was shed once for everyone!