-----Original Message-----
 On Behalf Of David Miller
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Monday, June 16, 2003 3:18 PM
 

Izzy wrote:

> ... didn't the Lord send sickness and disease as

> part of His judgments in the Bible?  Do you mean

> He won't send it upon His true children who are

> walking righteously?

 

Yes, but even in judgment, it is not directly God who does it.  Sickness

and disease is part of this world because of sin, so all God needs to do

is withdraw his hedge of protection in order to send it.  Remember Job.

 

David, scripture seems to contradict you; how do you figure?


Deuteronomy 28
15   "(13) But it shall come about, if you do not obey the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

20   "(18) The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and (19) rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until (20) you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.
21   "(21) The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it.
22   "(22) The LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with [1] the sword and (23) with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until (24) you perish.
27   "(29) The LORD will smite you with the boils of
Egypt and with (30) tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
28   "The LORD will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;
35   "(36) The LORD will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.  
59   then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.
60   "(63) He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
61   "Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you (64) until you are destroyed.
62   "Then you shall be left few in number, (65) whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
63   "It shall come about that as the LORD (66) delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will (67) delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be (68) torn from the land where you are entering to possess it.

Exodus 12
12   'For (1) I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and (2) against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments--(3) I am the LORD.

29    Now it came about at (28) midnight that (29) the LORD struck all (30) the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of (31) cattle.

Izzy

 

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