Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. | ||
| Deuteronomy 7:14–15 | ||
| Having lived in Egypt for four hundred years, the children of Israel were all too familiar with the diseases of Egypt. Egypt being a type of the world, we too see the sickness of the world in which we live. Keep in mind that everything in the Old Testament is a physical picture of a New Testament spiritual truth . . . The children of Israel were delivered from the bondage of Egypt and brought to the Promised Land. We’ve been delivered from the world system and ushered into the Spirit-filled life. Their citizenship was in the Promised Land. Ours is in Heaven. They fought with swords and spears. The weapons of our warfare are spiritual. They were to smite their enemies. We are to reckon dead the Enemy of our soul. If you don’t understand this, the Old Testament will be troubling and impractical to you. There are those who say if we walk with the Lord, we’ll have no diseases, that we’ll never be sick. Yet, Paul had a thorn in his flesh (2 Corinthians 12:7). He left Trophimus sick (2 Timothy 4:20). He told Timothy to take wine for his stomach problems (1 Timothy 5:23). The diseases the Old Testament talks about which were physical for them are spiritual for us. The Lord wants to make us a peculiar, special people, different from the Egyptians that surround us. And He says that will happen if we do what He tells us to do. Pastor Jon Courson | ||
