Jesus Christ healed. Peter healed. Paul healed. Those in the little flock were healed. New believers were healed. All before Acts 28, and the setting aside of Israel. One more time, including those believers at Corinth.
The question is: WHY were they healed? And why, after Israel was blinded, set aside, and became 'Lo Ammi" (not my people), were they NOT healed? The proof we have that those that were healed BEFORE Acts 28 lost that healing was that they are just as dead today as those who were NOT healed after Acts 28.
There is a reason for physical healing. It is the Millenial Kingdom. Those going into the kingdom will live for 1000 years. THEY WILL BE HEALED. THEIR BODIES WILL NOT DIE. So, why, did Christ, Peter, Paul heal the Jews before Acts 28? Why were those believers healed? BECAUSE UNTIL ISRAEL WAS FINALLY SET ASIDE, THE KINGDOM OFFER WAS STILL VALID FOR THEM. The SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL HEALING was part of that Kingdom promise and offer to them. And it will be AGAIN, after the BOdy of Christ is raptured, and GOd once again deals with Israel as a Nation. The tribulation. There WILL be PHYSICAL HEALING once again, as those tribulation saints endure to the end and go into the Kingdom upon Christ's return.
Physical healing has to do with THE PHYSICAL part of man. We are told during this age that the OUTWARD man perishes, though our INNER man is renewed day by day. To put no confidence in the OUTER MAN. We know that Christ is going to change our VILE BODIES like unto His glorious body when He comes for the Body of CHrist, but we are NOT going as physical people into the Millenial Kingdom. Israel is, however. Living, flesh, marrying and having children, all things that PHYSICAL MAN does, for 1000 years. Of COURSE, PHYSICAL HEALING will be necessary.
Israel was offered physical healing at the first coming of Christ, many were healed, they were offered physical healing after the Ascension of Christ, through the Disciples, many were healed, and they will be offered physical healing again, during the tribulation and Millenial Reign of Christ.
And ONCE AGAIN, I am NOT saying GOd does not heal today. He certainly does. For HIS purposes. It has nothing to do with any promise He made us, or covenant He made with Gentiles. Because He most certainly never made such a promise to us as He did to Israel. We have something much greater. We have all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. And we are promised by Him to be kept from His wrath. But we are NOT promised by Him to be physically healed. Unless we are Israel, we are in the middle of the tribulation, and are about to enter into the Millenial Kingdom, to be a Kingdom of priests and a blessing to all nations for 1000 years.
Some interesting insights on Job.
One is that there’s NO indication in Scripture that Job ever had knowledge of the behind the scenes things that were going on that we know about.
The other is that there’s nothing in Scripture that indicates in any way that what happened was an out of the ordinary event.
Satan is STILL the accuser of the brothers. He’s standing there accusing us to God just like he was accusing Job before God.
We are only privy to some activity in the spiritual realm on occasion but for the most part, we don’t KNOW the of the spiritual battle which rages around us. We are told of Satan’s wiles, his general MO, but not the details unless it’s a really obvious attack.
People are in no position to make blanket statements about spiritual realities that they have no idea about. Just like they can’t tell you what God is thinking about you.