Biblical Healing – Introduction
(Part One in a series
of Biblical Healing teachings)
First and foremost, I am
humbled to be presenting God’s Word in a manner that I have known yet did not
previously carry it out to fruition.
Please note that the information
presented within is NOT of my opinion but from numerous sources - too many to
list. However, I will try to let you know when I offer an opinion.
Disclaimer (I borrowed from the
Internet):
The following information is not intended or implied to be a substitute
for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content is for
general information purposes only. I make no representation and assume no
responsibility for the accuracy of information contained in or available
through this article, and such information is subject to change without notice.
You are encouraged to confirm any information obtained from or through this web
site with other sources and review all information regarding any medical
condition or treatment with your physician. NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL
MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE
READ ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION.
The fun part is that some of
the information you may disagree with, which is OK, but I ask only one consideration
– if you disagree with any of the information then do the research and prove
what is presented to be wrong. What I mean about research is not an opinion
piece (webMD) that supports your argument, but true scientific data
collaborated across all communities.
You see, everyone has an
opinion and as allegedly quoted by Adolph Hitler:
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently
enough, it will be believed.”
As you will learn later, I
was led into learning the truth about health because I believed the lie that
was big enough and told frequently enough that I, along with most of the world,
believed it.
Again, welcome. The first
question that I have for you is “Why are we here” OK, think Biblically and
eternally, why did God put us here?
The answer lies in Matthew
28:19, 20:
“Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
For that reason, we must start
here to establish motivation and purpose before the proceeding with the follow-on
presentation. You see, what I really want to discuss won’t fit in one
presentation effectively, but we can start here.
Let us first establish some
basic truisms / proverbs:
•
What
does not strengthen our immune systems weakens it
•
There
is not one prescription drug that heals*
•
God
design our bodies to be self-regulating and self-healing
•
The
medical industry does not profit from healthy people
•
The
FDA was not created to protect us citizens
•
The
Hippocratic Oath “Do No Harm” is no longer a requirement
•
General
Practitioners are taught today to “manage disease” not “cure”
•
Medical
Schools teach only one course in Nutrition
•
"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy
medicine be thy food." – Hippocrates
•
Inflammation
is the root cause of all diseases
•
National
Institute of Health is comprised of 98+ pharmaceutical companies
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Being
Healthy is our natural state
•
God’s
Word is Truth
*Antibiotics appropriately prescribed and appropriately
applied may be an exception but with negative side effects)
Professional writers suggest one
to focus on a maximum of three points, but I have this problem – I tend to
deviate and go off on tangents so who knows where we travel but I must meet these three goals:
First: As Christians, why is our health so important
since I have salvation?
Second:
Why do I need the Bible when I have doctors, health insurance, and prescription
drugs galore?
Third:
Does the Bible really prescribe health guidance AND healing remedies?
OK, so let’s return to my
opening question and recall your answers to – Why did God put us here by remember
what the apostle Paul say about a believer’s body?
“Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the
Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to
yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So, you must honor God with your
body.” (1 Cor 6:19 NLT)
So,
how can we honor God with our bodies?
Do you realize that being
healthy is our natural state? Being healthy is what God intended for us.
Besides, how can we be
effective disciples if we are not in the best of health?
Yes, many of us have personally witnessed individuals within our church family being Christ-like while suffering through personal
tribulations, some terminal - so I am not suggesting that God cannot use us if
we are not perfectly well. Quite the opposite.
Then, what is our motivation to follow a path of health and healing?
Well, let’s pose that question a bit
differently. If our health as Christians is not important to us, or to God,
then why did God give us plants for our medications (Ezekiel 47:12 and
Revelation 22:2)?
“The fruit will be for food and the leaves
for healing. (NLT)”
“The leaves were used for medicine to heal
the nations. (NLT)”
Then
why did God provide specific foods as in Genesis 1:29:
“Then God said, “Look! I have given you every
seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. (NLT)”
Then
why was healing part of Jesus’s ministry? (Jeremiah 30:17)
“I will give you back your health and heal your
wounds,” says the LORD. (NLT)
Also in Luke 9:1:
“One day Jesus called together his twelve disciples
and gave them power and authority to cast out all demons and to heal all
diseases. (NLT)”
Obviously, we can cite
instances in Scripture all night but one observation I find interesting is that
almost every time Jesus healed spiritually, He also healed physically.
In consideration of those references, if physical health was
important to Jesus, then should it not be important to us!
Also, as we will learn later
in this discussion, as we segue from this introduction; there are (approximately)1,031
references in Scripture pertaining to “healing/anointing” oils - oil producing plants and
their healing applications. (Healing Oils of the Bible by David Stewart,
Ph.D.)
To personalize this, the question for me,
and perhaps all other Christians is:
“Why do I not consult the Holy Bible first for health
and wellness direction instead of first running to the doctor’s office?”
Well,
speaking for myself that is for something I need to continually pray about.
Then the question should be, who is responsible
for our health? In comparison, could we ask who is responsible for our
salvation?
Pastor?
Church?
Family
member?
Spouse?
Friend?
Third Party
Nope,
I alone am responsible for my health and my salvation.
But
then, what role does the medical profession have to do with my health?
As of this writing,
according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ 2014):
The United States
spends more on health care as a percentage of GDP than other developed
countries, but Americans are less healthy.
America spent more than 22% of its gross domestic product on
medical care and drugs in 2022, yet our life expectancy at birth was only 78.8
years according to the latest data available--lower than most developed
countries. In 2021, the U.S. spent 17.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) on health care, nearly twice as much as the average OECD country.
The World
Health Organization’s Ranking of the World’s Health Systems ranked the USA 37th, just two above Cuba. Why are we not #1?
It's
a chilling reality – one often overlooked in annual mortality statistics:
Preventable medical errors persist as the No. 3 killer in the U.S. – third
only to heart disease and cancer – claiming the lives of some 400,000 people each year.
Nearly
100,000 Americans die every year from adverse reactions to FDA-approved
prescription drugs. That's twenty-five times the number of people killed by
H1N1 swine flu (even if you
believe the CDC's numbers). So where's the big warning about the dangers of
prescription drugs? Why isn't the CDC warning Americans about an "epidemic
of dangerous drugs" that poses a far greater threat to your health?
(Natural News)
The
Mayo Clinic lists acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol) as one of the major causes of
acute liver failure—and the most common cause of liver failure in the US.
Within days of taking a very large dose of Tylenol, acute liver failure can
develop.
Tylenol overdose may overwhelm the liver's defenses and cause liver damage or
even liver failure. Liver failure can be fatal; the only known cure for acute
liver failure is a liver transplant.
It is estimated that acetaminophen poisoning calls exceed 100,000 per year.
Studies indicate that acetaminophen overdose results in over 56,000 injuries,
2,500 hospitalizations, and an estimated 450 deaths per year. (For more information on Acetaminophen poisoning visit eMedicalHealth.)
OK, Healthcare in America
is deadly and Tylenol leads the list, but what about our individual habits? Are
we making ourselves sick? Unfortunately, the answer is YES!
According
to The Makers Diet by Jordan
S. Rubin, our everyday habits and practices just may be leading us down the
path to dis-ease! And you can be sure that this list is just a sampling.
Warning: You may get offended! This may step on some toes, but you may question any one of these points.
- Staying
out of the sun
- Going
to bed after midnight
- Never
letting them see you sweat
- Anti-perspirant (benzene, aluminum, parabens, phthalates, triclosan, Propylene glycol) vs. Deodorant
- Taking
Megavitamins
- Consuming
Fluoride (toothpaste, mouthwash, drinking water)
- Sugar or artificial sweeteners
- Seed Oils (corn, cotton seed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower, rice bran, peanut, canola, safflower)
- Showering
every day
- Body soap, shampoo or conditioner, skin or suntan lotions, etc.
- Perfume, after shave lotion, all "fragrances" highly toxic
- Chlorinated pools (drinking, swimming, bathing)
- Not
breast-feeding babies (artificial breast milk)
- Pasteurized cow's milk vs. raw cow's milk
- Getting
tattoos
- Getting
all of your immunization shots (add COVID vaccine / booster shots)
- Traveling
in airplanes frequently; Electric vehicles.
- Exposure to EMF (cell phones, microwave ovens, computer, tablet, and TV monitors; smart watches, smart utility meters) Rabbit hole: 5G is not for cell phones.
- Using
commercial hygiene and antibacterial products
- Taking
lots of medications
- Getting
cavities filled with mercury or root canals (cavities can be healed (Xylitol))
- Over-doing
aerobic exercises
- Wearing
contact lenses / receiving implants / sunglasses
- Living
in a toxic home
- Wearing
synthetic (polyester) fabrics (rabbit hole - fiber frequencies)
- Breathing
with shallow breaths / face masks
- Not
fully chewing food
- Plastic food storage products, plastic wrap, aluminum foil
- Eating
non-organic foods
- Wearing
tight clothing
- Electing
surgery to remove “unnecessary body parts”
- Chemotherapy or radiation therapy
- Mammograms or other biopsies
- Visiting
your doctor often
(I suggest that you read the referenced
book to learn the validity behind each of these points.)
Next, we are going to learn
about Essential Oils (EO's) as related to Anointing oils. As an introduction to these
oils, a quick comparison between EO’s and pharmaceutical drugs is in order.
The
information below derived from Health Impact News, 2019, comparing
Essential Oils to pharmaceutical drugs.
- Drugs
and oils work in opposite ways. Drugs toxify; Oils detoxify.
- Drugs
clog and confuse receptor sites. Oils clean receptor sites.
- Drugs
depress the immune system. Oils strengthen the immune system.
- Pharmaceutical Antibiotics
attack bacteria indiscriminately, killing both the good and the bad. Antibiotic oils
attack only the harmful bacteria, allowing our body’s friendly flora to
flourish.
- Drugs
are one-dimensional, programmed like robots to carry out certain actions in the
body, whether the body can benefit from them or not. When body conditions
change, drugs keep on doing what they were doing, even when their actions are
no longer beneficial.
- Essential
oils are multi-dimensional, filled with homeostatic intelligence to restore the
body to a state of healthy balance. When body conditions change, oils adapt,
raising or lowering blood pressure as needed, stimulating or repressing enzyme
activity as needed, energizing or relaxing as needed.
- Oils
are smart. Drugs are dumb.
- Drugs
are designed to send misinformation to cells or block certain receptor sites in
order to trick the body into giving up symptoms. But drugs never deal with
the actual causes of disease. They aren’t designed for that purpose. While
they may give prompt relief for certain uncomfortable symptoms, because of
their strange, unnatural design, they will always disrupt certain other bodily
functions. Thus, you always have some side effects.
- Oil
molecules send information to cells and cleanse receptor sites so that they
bring your body back to natural function. Oils are balancing to the body. Drugs
are unbalancing to the body.
- Oils
address the causes of disease at a cellular level by deleting misinformation
and reprogramming correct information so that cells function properly and in
harmony with one another.
- With
drugs, misinformation is fed into the cells so that some temporary relief may
be obtained, but there is never any true healing.
- Drugs
only trade one kind of disease for another.
- Because
essential oils properly applied always work toward the restoration of proper
bodily function, they do not cause undesirable side effects. They are feeding
the body with truth.
- Drugs
feed the body with lies. While no amount of truth can contradict itself, it doesn’t take many lies before contradictions occur and the body suffers ill
effects.
Are you getting to see the difference between God's plan compared to the world's plan for your health and wellness? From the above comparison would you opt for God's anointing oils or man's pharmaceutical drugs?
Again,
the purpose of this discussion was to establish motivation for you to continue
on your quest of reaching optimum health; and purpose by disclosing that only
you are responsible for your health. The “Biblical Healing” series should help influence
you on your path to freedom from dis-ease! Always discuss your medical concerns with your medical physician but remember something very important - they were all trained by the pharmaceutical industry.