Big Healing Book - There WERE Feeble People Among Israel's Tribes

Objection: There WERE Feeble People Among Israel’s Tribes (Deuteronomy 25:17-18), So We Cannot Use Psalm 105:37 to Claim That None Should Be Feeble Today

Psalm 105:37:
He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

Deuteronomy 25:17-18:
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

Does Scripture contradict itself?

Of course not – there were no feeble people in Israel when Israel came out of Egypt. They DID experience the biggest mass healing in history after partaking of the Passover, which symbolized Christ. Obviously, the verse in Deuteronomy refers to a slightly later time (only a few chapters), and by then, there WERE feeble people in Israel. What happened in the meantime?

There had been murmuring and complaining against Moses. The people had already accused him of bringing them out to die of hunger in Exodus 16. Then they accused him of bringing them out to die of thirst in Exodus 17. The Amalekites showed up later in Exodus 17. This would appear to be what Deuteronomy 25:17-18 refers to as a past event.

Before all the complaining, in Exodus 15:26, God promised health if Israel hearkened to His voice and obeyed Him. Unfortunately, Israel stopped trusting in God and turned to complaining. So while they were obedient, they enjoyed perfect health without a single feeble person, but that changed when their hearts changed. (They couldn’t say that God hadn’t warned them.)

So aside from the obvious fact that Scripture can’t contradict itself, the timing of the events shows that the two passages do not apply to exactly the same point in time. Therefore, we have no reason to doubt that the miraculous health that Israel received after partaking of the Passover wasn’t real.