Objection: The Earth Is Under a Curse Because of Adam, So Sickness Will Continue Until Jesus Returns

This statement by itself is true.  Because death came into the world by sin (Genesis 3:19), nothing that causes death (for example, sickness) could have been in the world before Adam fell.  Sickness came in with Adam’s transgression.  Now that Satan has been allowed (by Adam’s treason) to become “the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4), corruption and sickness will be part of life on this planet until the earth is replaced with a new one that Satan will never visit.

The implication that we will have to put up with sickness because it is on the earth is not true.  There are two major curses in the Bible.  There is the “curse on the earth” for Adam’s sin in Genesis 3 and there is the “curse for breaking the Law” in Deuteronomy 28, Leviticus 26, and a few other places.  These curses do not overlap.  They cover completely different things.

While God DID curse the earth after sin came in, He pronounced a separate curse for breaking the Law of Moses in Leviticus 26:14-39 and Deuteronomy 28:15-68.  The curse for breaking the Law was not specified in Genesis for the obvious reason that the Law of Moses had not yet been given – so no one could have broken it yet!

We are redeemed from the curse of the Law (Galatians 3:13).  Every sickness known to man is part of the curse of the Law (Deuteronomy 28:61), and because we are redeemed from the curse of the Law, we are redeemed from every sickness known to man.  On the other hand, we still have to work for a living, and we will eventually die physically, so we are not yet redeemed from the curse on the earth found in Genesis.  However, God does not mention sickness as part of the curse on the earth.  That is good, because we are stuck with the curse on the earth for the rest of our lives.

The fact is, sickness will continue until Jesus returns (and beyond into a couple of other prophetic periods before the eternal new earth is set up).  But you don’t have to be one of the people who gets it!  Just as the Israelites in Egypt were exempt when the whole land was cursed, you are exempt from sickness even if it is everywhere else in the land.

Jesus also said that evil men will become worse and worse before He returns.  That does not mean that you have to become worse and worse.  There will be sin on the earth, too, but that doesn’t mean that you have to be doing any of it.