The Scriptures frequently refer to illness, an unhealthy condition of the spiritual body or the mind, or the state of being of an individual figuratively diseased.
The Bible was written primarily as a Book of Spiritual instruction that each individual choose to follow and be obedient to it. As a result, a healthy state of being was developed. A strong spiritual force was acquired from the knowledge of it, and only maintained as long as obedience from a sincere heart opened the door to it. Then such a glory and dominion of it was formed as a protective spiritual power against to any attacks of the dark forces in pursuit of such power.
Spiritual maladies or other forms of sickness used by these dark power were overcome by such protective power because it was based on obedience to spiritual decrees, commands, and rules dictated by the Creator in His divine Book.
Significantly, the Book shows how to overcome those negative forces in the hands of elemental spirits, which its goal is to corrupt as much as they can, the well being of a healthy spiritual body. By using the element of weakness, they attack the individual and find a way to pollute its soul becoming vulnerable to the attack and bring sickness to its body, losing the glory and dominion placed in it, and become slaves to the acting force that those spirits implant over the sick body.
Disease, then, is treated as a concomitant of the imperfection resulting in death. That is the reason why death was passed on to the human race by the disobedience of Adam (Gen.3; Rom 5), and show how Satan, the enemy of God, made us slaves of our own imperfections, blocking our freedom to choose God, against our vulnerability to the power of the flesh in which the power of darkness is the acting force.
Illness, then, is generally the natural consequence of the attack of these elemental spirits from the dark side to human imperfection and claim the possession of their souls, resulting in Satan's dominion and control of the World, that was made for the spiritual man, created as an acting force and receipient of the Honor and Glory of God. As the Scriptures shows how God, acting by His Divine Love, developed a Divine Plan to rescue His People by only demanding a sincere heart in obedience to His Law, was able to restore His Divine Power again in the human heart and through Him and His Glory made them powerful enough to overcome sickness and spiritual wars. For example: -In Genesis 12, God directly touched Pharaoh and his household with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
-In Exodus 9, God was responsible for the boils with blisters that broke out on man and beast during the sixth blow He inflicted upon ancient Egypt. -In Numbers 12, He struck presumptuous Miriam with leprosy. -In 2 Samuel 12, dealt a blow to the illegitimate child of David and Bath-Sheba so that it took sick and eventually died. -In 2 Samuel 24, God gave a pestilence in Israel in David's day. All these acts of God were in upholding His Name and Law, and for the protection, liberation, and fatherly discipline of his chosen people.
By God's permission, Satan struck Job with a malignant boil from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. (Job 2). This allowed Job to stand as an example for God's people in the matter of keeping integrity. Job was later healed by God and his life was extended 140 years for his faithfulness. (Job 42).
Demons are sometimes responsible for infirmities. The Scriptures differentiate between normal maladies and those caused by demon possession. In Matthew 12, a demon-possessed blind and dumb man was cured by Jesus Christ, showing that a believer can fall in that state of being when the Word of the Lord is taught in a twisted way by False Prophets, making them vulnerables to demon-possession due to his own blindness and foolishness. Failure to obey God's Word in the spiritual sense of it, lead to illness and even death in the spiritual realm.
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