Merry Christmas! Allow me to say that Christ’s atonement paid the penalty for our sin. Clearly the major emphasis of Isaiah 53 centers on spiritual salvation.
Do we see the apostles use this as a guarantee for their sicknesses or afflictions???
Paul mentions Christ being crushed for our sins in the communion service, but he has nothing to say about healing (using phrases taken from atonement Scriptures).
This verse is cited twice in the New Testament. In Romans 4:25: where the context is Jesus suffering for our sins. The Greek term `healing’ ( The Greek therapis from the Hebrew rapha) is not found in the text and the context deals with sin, not illness.
1 Peter 2:24.......
“who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness-- by whose stripes you were healed.”
Again the context is that of healing from sin. So we see that neither New Testament reference to this verse even mentions illness. Peter applies this to the cross and the spiritual healing of sins; he says nothing about the healing of diseases in our now mortal bodies. So we see that both New Testament references to this verse do not mention illness; furthermore it is in the past tense, “ you were healed.”
When Isaiah 53:5 says we are healed. Peter refers to the stripes being on the cross (not before), and says by whose stripes you were healed, making it past tense. Showing that this event was accomplished. It is related to our spiritual healing from sin not our physical well-being.
To further support this interpretation, Isaiah 53:6 speaks of us as sheep going astray. 1 Peter 2:25 also portrays us as sheep gone astray but now returning to the shepherd of our souls to be brought back into fellowship. Today Jesus heals through His death, (the atonement) and through His present ministry of intercession.
We are going back and forth here on if it's God's will to heal us physically. Seems kind of wierdl two believers saying God does, God does not. We both believe God can, just does God feel like it?
Why is it when we don't want to have to believe for something physically, folks "Spiritulize" it. If you could explain that concept to me, I would apprieciate it.
I can say I believe it's "Spiritual" because I don't have to expect anything I can see. However, Everything from God is done through his Word which is Spirit and life. There is no other thing for physically healing to be, but Spiritual. The Realm of the Spirit is always effected first. From devils plotting to trip you up, to God sending you supply. So, it's sort of a no brainer, God's Word is spirit, and faith comes from our spirit (Not head)
Isa 53:4-5 TS1998 4 Truly, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. Yet we reckoned Him stricken, smitten by Elohim, and afflicted. 5 But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our crookednesses. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
Sickness here is physical sickness. Nothing anywhere, by any comparrision of any other Scripture Choliy is some spiritual unseen sickness.
It's his physical stripes He took for our punishment of early death here on earth. It's by his blood our sins are healed and removed.
Jesus fixed both physical and the punishment we deserved to be sent to hell.
Choliy is sickness in Hebrew. It's not some spiritual sickness we don't understand or can see. Real down to earth sickness.
Deu 28:61 kjva Also every sickness, (
Choily) and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Disobedience to God brouht the curse of sin and death. It was not just some "Spiritual sicknes" Disobedience to God cut your life short.
We don't ever, ever, translate something inconsistant with the way the Word of God use it. Sickness in Hebrew never meant some "Spiritual" Sickness.
Just because we don't like something and it rubs our doctrine wrong, means we change our doctrine.
Holy Spirit interpetation of Isa 53:4-5
Why did Jesus come?
We tend to foreget what the scripture says, for all the reason for Jesus even coming here.
1Pe 2:24 kjva
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Jesus was beaten BEFORE he went to the cross "TREE" He bore our sins "IN" his own body. Stripes are outside the body. Two things were accomplished here.
The punishment of sickness and early death taken by His physical stripes.
All our sins born inside his body.
That is 2 things.
1Jn 3:8 kjva He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Heb 2:14 kjva Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death
he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Satan had the power to kill if someone steped outside the protection of the Law. A law man could not keep.
The Work of the enemy is to kill, steal and destroy. Jesus came that we can be free of the destroying power of the devil. To stop his work in our life.
Deut 28 list a long list of all the physical things that happen to us for disobedience. The devil goes about hurting, making sick, destroying, stealing. Anything to harm us physically, and our realationship with God.
Holy Spirit interpetation of Isa 53:4-5
Mat 8:16-17 amp 16 When evening came, they brought to Him many who were under the power of demons, and He drove out the spirits with a word and
restored to health all who were sick. 17 And thus He fulfilled what was spoken
by the prophet Isaiah,
He Himself took [in order to carry away] our weaknesses and infirmities and bore away our diseases. [Isa. 53:4.]
So Major, the Holy Spirit helps us understand that the Passage in Isa is not some spiritual healing. The Holy Spirit tells us, knowing way ahead of time some would misunderstand.
By the interpetation of the Holy Spirit. We are already healed physically. As the Holy Spirit tells us it was Physically healing, not some spiritual healing.
He interpets the passage for us, and the Holy Spirit is never Wrong.
Be blessed Major. Might want to consider some of your thinking about Healing and scriptures.