Objection: You WERE Healed in 1 Peter 2:24 Must Mean That You Were SAVED, Because Healing Is Still Ongoing in the Present for SAVED Believers

The objector reasons that the past tense of the word HEALED in 1 Peter 2:24 proves that whatever Peter is talking about must be a past event for the believer, and because many believers still need healing, it isn’t a “past” event for them, and therefore it supposedly isn’t what Peter is talking about.

But God has a track record of putting in the past tense things that are yet to happen in the future but which must certainly happen.

For example, He told Abraham that He HAD made him the father of many nations, but it had not happened yet from a human time perspective.  It was as good as done on a one-time basis in God’s mind, but Abraham had to work out the believing part.  In fact, God gave him his new name, Abraham (father of a multitude) BEFORE Abraham was ever the father of anyone other than Ishmael, who was not the child God had promised (see Genesis 17:5).

God told Moses that He HAD delivered Og into his hand while Og was not in Moses’ hand (Numbers 21:34).

God told Joshua that He HAD given Jericho to him while Jericho’s huge wall was still standing (Joshua 6:2).

God told Gideon that he HAD given the host of the Midianites into his hand before Gideon had defeated a single Midianite (Judges 7:9).

Jesus is even referred to as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).  This messes with our time-based perspective but it shows the perspective of God, who dwells outside of time.  Jesus healed and forgave people BEFORE He died on the cross “on credit” based on the fact that He would pay for their sins.

So I see no problem with God saying that we are HEALED before we see any change.  In His mind, He already did everything that was necessary for our healing.  It is vital that you understand that so that you do not join the ignorant masses who beg God to “do something” about their conditions.

You are HEALED just as much as you are DELIVERED from the kingdom of darkness.  Unfortunately, not everyone walks in the revelation of that in this life.  This doesn’t disprove that it was provided for you in the past tense – it just proves that many Christians aren’t too familiar with their Bibles.  SALVATION FROM HELL was provided for you in like manner in the past, but you only partook of the benefits when you received Jesus.

The best way to understand “you were healed” is that healing is LEGALLY your possession right now because of Jesus’ PAST act.  A parallel truth is that Jesus is the Lamb who “takes away the sins of the world.”

If we were to follow this objector’s logic, we would conclude that the Bible CAN’T say that Jesus took everyone’s sins because some people are still on their way to hell in their sins, and others have already gone to hell in their sins.  The fact that there was no moment when they received God’s gift of righteousness doesn’t negate the fact that Jesus DID purchase that gift for them in the PAST.  They just failed to receive it.  Likewise, the fact that there is no moment when someone has received healing doesn’t negate the fact that healing WAS purchased for that person in the PAST.