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Ivan G Thompson
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The Bible Promises of Healing Volume II
Religion & Spirituality
Author Insight
Religious Tradition: "Healed in Death"
Mark 7:13 (NKJV) "…making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do." One of the religious traditions I have been hearing a lot recently is that a person was "healed in death" or "healed on the other side." Last night, I heard an elaborate version of this tradition that said since God was the author of time and existed outside of time when He promised He'd heal "all our diseases" in Psalm 103, the healing could be manifested outside of our time on Earth. In 1 Kings 17:17-24, Elijah raises a widow's son from the dead. In 2 Kings 4:32-37, Elisha raises the Shunammite's son from the dead. In John 11:38-44, Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. In Acts 20:7-12 Paul raises a young man named Eutychus from the dead. 1 John 3:8 says that Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. You will find no Scriptures where Jesus tells someone that their illness (life-threatening or not) would be healed "on the other side" or "in death." This dangerous tradition produces a divided hope. Instead of focusing on the promises in Scripture for healing in this life, I scatter my hope for a promise, not in Scripture. This tradition only gains traction because we don't know enough about God's Bible promises of healing. I have written three volumes of healing promises to combat that. They are all available on Amazon.
Book Excerpt
The Bible Promises of Healing Volume II
This is an excerpt from the chapter entitled, "Healing, God's Will Throughout the Ages" :
I spend a lot of time in this book talking about the work of Jesus, particularly in the area of healing. But if you look closely at the Old Testament, you will see that healing didn't begin with Jesus.
This is an important point because if I can get you to see that God's will was healing in the Old Testament and in the time of Jesus, then I can get you to understand that it is still His will today (see also the chapter entitled "He Healed Them All” in Vol I).
I wanted to try to use the fancy word dispensation, so I looked it up. That led me to a fancier word, dispensationalism, which spun off into the errors of dispensationalism. I didn't realize it was that complicated. I will try to take the concept as I imagined it and break it down the way I see it in Scripture.
In Scripture, I see a triune God working with man. In the Old Testament, I see God the Father speaking directly to men such as Adam, Moses, and Abraham and through the "word of the Lord" to the prophets (1Sa 3:21, 2Sa 3:24, 1Ki 13:2-18, Isa 39:5, Jer 1:2-4, etc.) and through the ministry of angels (Dan 10:5-9). I also see God the Father's expressed will concerning healing in the Old Testament.
In the New Testament, I see God the Son who put on flesh (Jhn 1:14, Phi 2:6-8), teaching, discipling, leading, and selecting leaders that would carry out His work when He left. In this book, I also detail Jesus carrying out the Father's will regarding healing.
Before He left, Jesus told the Apostles that He would send another Comforter (Jhn 16:14) and that it would be better that He left so that the Comforter could come (Jhn 16:7). That Comforter was God the Holy Ghost.
We see His operation on Earth mirroring everything that had been done by God the Father and God the Son. In the book of Acts and later chapters, we see the Holy Spirit working through men via gifts of healing and miracles.In the simplest of terms, God, whether God the Father, God the Son, or God the Holy Ghost, has always been at work in the area of healing. Healing has always been God’s promise and priority, and it makes sense that the three divine personalities would have the same priorities because They are all one.
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