Objection: Healing Will Not Be Available UNIVERSALLY Until the Millennium

To say that healing is not available universally today is to contradict the Scriptures that state that God is “no respecter of persons,” in other words, that He does not play favorites.  God would be playing favorites if He would grant healing to some but not others who were in the same circumstances and walking in the same light.  Of course, the man with no faith in the healing Scriptures will not be healed while a man who believes them will be healed.  This has no more to do with playing favorites than the fact that many men will burn forever in the lake of fire while others go to heaven.  Heaven is available to all, but not everyone will go there because not all men believe the gospel and receive Christ.  The man who believes is saved, while the man who does not believe is damned.

During the Millennium, things will be much better than they are now.  They will be even better on the new earth in which righteousness dwells.  The fact that everyone will be healed on the new earth does not mean that this blessing isn’t available now.  In heaven, God’s will is done.  God’s will is healing.  Today, God’s will is not always done because man and sin have messed things up.  (If God’s will were always done on the earth, no one would die unsaved.)  But all who believe today can have healing.  The fact that people will have it better and easier later is no reason not to believe for all our covenant blessings now.

Healing was available universally during Christ’s ministry.  Not all the sick people on earth at the time were healed, but healing was certainly available.  Even some outsiders to Judaism came and were healed, although they had no technical right to do so because they were outside of God’s covenant at the time.  Those who heard that Jesus of Nazareth was the Anointed One came and were healed, and Jesus never made an exception.  There were surely those like the ones at the Pool of Bethesda who did not know who Jesus was and were not healed by Him.  Probably some of the crowd around the woman with the issue of blood needed healing.  All we know for sure is that woman believed based on the reports of others and that her faith made her whole.  When people were enlightened about Jesus’ ministry, they came and were healed.  It is the same today.

Because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8), it is illogical that He would grant healing to whoever came for it then but refuse to do so now, but then be willing to do it again during the Millennium.  Healing will be the norm in the Millennium because Satan will be bound during that time.  Men will be able to know the truth without his hindrance.  Part of this truth is that Jesus bore our sicknesses and carried our pains, and with His stripes, we are healed (Isaiah 53:4-5).

Peter was not in the Millennium when all the sick who came for healing were healed in Jerusalem (Acts 5:12-16).  Paul was not in the Millennium when all the sick people on the island of Melita came and were healed (Acts 28:8-9).  The Holy Spirit did not make any exceptions for these people.

Because Jesus purchased healing for everyone by His stripes, healing MUST be available UNIVERSALLY today, just as the new birth is available UNIVERSALLY today because Jesus purchased it for everyone by His blood.