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Healing - Overall Conclusion

Healing - Overall Conclusion

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As you begin your study of the Healing doctrine, you will soon realize there is much more here than having the experience of calling an elder when you sick. Healing has linkage to a number of important spiritual elements. In fact, Jesus used miracle of healing to establish much of this linkage. Through healing, He demonstrates: see Jesus

In addition, we see direct connection to salvation, faith, prayer, overcoming sin, the gospel and the entire plan of God. Beginning with the return of Jesus Christ, we see the ultimate healing in the first resurrection of the dead. The millennial Kingdom will be witness to the healing of the entire planet and all the humans who live through tribulation.

Many of the spiritual concepts we are hearing preached today in the church are actually forms of healing. The Matthew 18 scriptures, outlining what to do when offended by a brother in the faith is actually a process designed to save a brother and heal a relationship. The administrative act of disfellowshiping a member is procedure borne in the hope that he will allow God to heal him from his backsliding ways.
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. -1 Cor 5:5
The word "saved" is "sozo" and is discussed in the doctrine. It means to "heal" or 'save from eternal death". So we can easily see that the Salvation Process is, in many ways, a healing process of our human nature and prolonged exposure to worldliness and the influences of Satan.

Repentance is pardon and through repentance we experience a remission of sins. Both repentance and remission of sins [see Luke 24:47] is a form of healing; an opportunity for healing. And, of course, the Sabbath is form of physical and spiritual healing, resting and refreshing from the six days of labor and being in the world.

In Revelation 21 and 22, we read of new heavens, new earth and a new Jerusalem. Everything is completely healed prior to the establishment of God's throne on earth. The description we read in Revelation 22 is one of healing for all.

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. -Rev 22:1-2


His healing represents God's power through Jesus Christ to forgive our sins, cleanse our minds and, ultimately, establish the Kingdom of God on earth and resurrect our bodies from the dead. See 146