This Topic deals briefly with the issue of sickness and suffering
Can disease and suffering be part of God’s plan for your life? The Scriptures clearly reveal an answer to this question, an answer that rarely gets preached by pastors.
The spiritual roots of disease
There is an interesting passage in Proverbs that declares the following:
"As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come." (Proverbs 26:2)
In other words, things don’t happen by chance. If a disease strikes, there is always, always, an underlying spiritual door that opened the path for that disease to appear. Disease appeared in the world as a result of sin, when man fell in the garden of Eden, so all disease can eventually be traced back to sin, though not necessarily to sin of the person with the disease.
As many preachers have pointed out, Genesis reveals that there is an "untold story" about the origins of the Earth:
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." (Genesis 1:1-2)
The phrase "without form" here comes from the Hebrew word tohuw, which means "formlessness, emptiness", so Genesis 1:2 is declaring that after God created the Earth (verse 1), the Earth was "formless" (tohuw). God, however, declares something rather interesting in Isaiah 45:
"For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else." (Isaiah 45:18).
God declares that He did not create the Earth "in vain", where the phrase "in vain" comes from the same Hebrew word tohuw that appears in Genesis 1:2. If Isaiah 45 says that God did not create the Earth "formless" and Genesis 1:2 says that the Earth was "formless" after God created it, we must conclude that something untold happened between verses 1 and 2 of Genesis 1. God created the Earth with "form", but something took place that left the Earth "formless". We can then see that Genesis is not the story of the creation of the Earth, as most have been taught to believe from Sunday school, but rather is the story of the regeneration of the Earth after God’s judgment over a place populated by spiritual forces that rebelled against God. This is why the Earth appears "flooded" in Genesis 1:2. Just like it happened in the times of Noah, God flooded the Earth in judgment, and Genesis 1 is the story of how God, through judgment, planned to reestablish His kingdom over the Earth, and He placed Man in the garden of Eden so that, as leaven spreads through the dough until the entire dough is leavened, God’s kingdom would spread throughout the entire Earth:
"Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." (Matthew 13:33)...
The garden of Eden was the "base of operations" from which God, through Man, would reconquer the Earth. Man was designed to be God’s manifestation on Earth. Man was made in the image and likeness of God so that God and Man in Oneness would ...rule over creation:
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (Genesis 1:26-28)
It's a Prophetic Biblical Prophetic Insight.. Let's us go back again, ''"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (Genesis 1:26-28)
In the garden of Eden, Man was free from sickness because he was not exposed to the effects of the evil spirits that ruled outside the garden.
The kingdom of God was in the garden and it was designed to spread out from there. Before reconquering the Earth, however, Man was to go through a process of growth until he reached the measure of the perfect or completed Man (Ephesians 4:13).
This growth process implied being willing to die to self despite being weak. This is why it was necessary for man to be given a woman, which represents the weaker side of Man: his soul.
If Man was to reach his full potential, he had to prove that he could die to self and overcome temptation despite having a weaker side. This is why, before the Lord started His ministry, He had to go to the desert and fast for 40 days, and be tempted during the weakness of His fasting. After this, He began His ministry and went out to conquer the world back for His Father.
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