(Book of Job) Does God Allow Sickness Today?

                                           (Book of Job) does God allow sickness Today?

Under The Old Covenant yes, He did. The Old Covenant is based off of man’s action or inaction.  The New Covenant is based off of Jesus’ Action.  During the Old Covenant God was wrathful at man’s sin. In the New Covenant all of His Wrath was borne by one Person Christ Jesus.  Job had a role in his persecutions, what is that role?  Self-fulfilling prophesy, fear is what happened.  Job chapter 3:25-26

“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.”

This shows us Job’s obsessive fear.  We are first introduced to this fear in Job 1:5 “And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. “ 

When we constantly worry about a situation and fear of it, it will sometimes come to pass. If it doesn't we spend a lot of time (not in safety, no rest, in fear and torment) That was Job’s plight, and the devil went after it.  Job thought that it was God’s retribution, because his sons’  must have cursed God, which wasn’t the case at all.  Job 1:21 …….the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord”  This shows the misnomer.

But it wasn’t God that took away, it was the devil.  God did allow it, but  now we are under a covenant with better promises.  Hebrews 8:6But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

God no longer deals with us from His wrath, because it was satisfied. Peace on earth goodwill towards men.  Meaning He because of Jesus is now at peace with mankind.  It is the devil that is out to steal, plunder and destroy, not The Father. 

But when we believe wrongly, the devil can and will seize the opportunity.  If we feel it is God allowing evil, then we are open game.  The Father gave us His Son and through Jesus we have God’s Favor.

One of the reason’s Jesus came was to show us His Fathers Will.   To usher in the New Covenant, while fulfilling the Old Covenant.  Example: Luke 9:53-55

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

⁵³ And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? ⁵⁵ But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

Notice that there was a time, that action was in keeping with God’s Will, but not so, now.  Here is another example of God’s Will in the New Covenant:

Luke 5:12-13

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹² While He was in one of the towns, there came a man full of (covered with) leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, Lord, if You are willing, You are able to cure me and make me clean.

¹³ And [Jesus] reached out His hand and touched him, saying, I am willing; be cleansed! And immediately the leprosy left him.  This is directly from Jesus’ mouth to us. He is completely able and willing to cleanse us, completely. Spiritually and physically. It is always His and His Fathers’ Will to heal us.  Jesus is perfect theology, show me where Jesus sent a disease, storm or any other evil thing? He didn’t because that is from the devil not from The Father. Nor does He allow it, because under the New Covenant

 Isaiah 54:17

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

¹⁷ No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper;
and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

Disease, sickness and death is a weapon from the devil, to us and is not allowed to those who walk in the New Covenant. Thus the problem, we do not fully recognize the inheritance we have received in Christ. We unknowingly through a mixture of the Old and New Covenants fall from favor.  Galatians 5:4

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

⁴ If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed) from Christ. You have fallen away from grace (from God’s gracious favor and unmerited blessing).

Sickness and disease will come, but it isn’t God’s Will and the more we trust in God’s Favor through Jesus, then it has to leave. This is our inheritance.  

Now before I hear that sickness is an everyday part of life and unstoppable……..here’s my response.

There are two examples of a perfectly healthy nation of Israel. One before the Law and one during the Mosaic Law.

From the moment they left Egypt until Mount Sinai, when Moses gave the Law, there were no deaths, disease, no feeble among them. This was a 40 year period. This was maintained until the children of Israel boasted that they could keep God’s Law. Then as soon as God established the law, they broke it with the golden calf. It wasn’t until the Mosaic Law that they made a idol. And 3000 died that day.

The other time was during Solomon’s Reign, there were no fatherless children.  Meaning once again no sickness, death or disease, another period of about 40 years. So if it happened during the Old Covenant, it certainly can happen during The New Covenant:   Hebrews 8:6But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

We are now under God’s Favor unless we turn back to the law. Trust in the Favor (Grace) that Jesus earned and gives abundantly to us.