When YAHSHUA completed His work of atonement to save the world, He said, “It is finished!” What did He mean by that? We were redeemed from hell and healed from diseases. The Prophet Isaiah says: For many the Servant of God became an object of horror; many were astonished at Him; His face and His whole appearance were marred more than any man’s and His form beyond that of the sons of men… He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men. A Man of sorrows and pains and acquainted with grief and sickness, and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him; surely, He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows and pains, yet we considered Him stricken, smitten and afflicted by God; but He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain peace and well-being for us was upon Him and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole (Isaiah 52:13; 53:3-5). And Psalm 22 Continues: My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from the words of my groaning?… Many [foes like] bulls have surrounded me, strong bulls of Bashan have hedged me in. Against me they opened their mouths wide, like a ravening and roaring lion; I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is softened [with anguish] and melted down within me; my strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery; my tongue cleaves to my jaws and You have brought me into the dust of death (Ps. 22: 1,12-15). Here, He describes the horror of His sufferings; that was when the Romans broke His body by scourging Him without mercy. That was for our healing, my friend. These prophetic utterances were fulfilled and registered in the New Testament by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and Acts.
Matthew writes: Then the governor’s soldiers took YAHSHUA into the palace, and they gathered the whole battalion about Him. And they stripped off His clothes and put a scarlet robe upon Him. And weaving a crown of thorns they put it on His head and put a reed in His right hand. And kneeling before Him, they made sport of Him, saying, Hail king of the Jews! Mark says: And they struck His head with a staff make of a reed and spat on Him and kept bowing their knees in homage to Him. And when they had finished making sports of Him, they led Him out to crucify Him (Mark 15:19-20). Luke describes YAHSHUA’S agony in the Gethsemane Garden saying, Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done. And there appeared to Him an angel from heaven, strengthening Him in spirit. And being in agony [of mind], and prayed more earnestly and intently, and His sweat became like great clots of blood dropping down upon the ground. (Luke 22:42-44). After being scourged severely, without strength left, they made Him to carry our cross. Six hours hung on the cross, He suffered the worst pain, the separation from His Father, when our sins were put on Him. “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me”? He suffered the pain of hell. His sacrifice was completed when He affirmed,” It is finished!” Salvation for the world, and also physical healing. We Praise You, YAHSHUA! Thank you for our healings. We have learned to accept His sacrifice for our salvation, but we struggle receiving the gift of healing. The fact is, the healing was part of His atonement. He gave us faith, and hope, which we must mingle together to receive our healing. Hope is empty without faith. Faith is the “spark plug” of hope. Faith and hope were in the words uttered by Him on the cross- IT IS FINISHED! The Word of God will not return to Him void of accomplishing that for which He sent. When we pray His words back to Him, He will answer us, no matter how long it will take. In Isaiah 55:10 He said: For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give see to the Sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
If then the Bible says, By His stripes we are healed and made whole (Isaiah 53: 5), What do you think it means? Why is that that we can’t grasp His word to believe with hope and faith for it to be accomplished in us? Psalm 91 says, You shall tread upon the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent shall you trample underfoot (Ps. 91:13); YAHSHUA gave to the seventy disciples authority and power to trample upon serpent and scorpions and over all the power that the enemy possesses and nothing shall in any way harm you (Luke 10:19). These are our enemies!
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