HEALING DURING THE DISPENSATION OF GRACE

Have you ever known someone to lose their faith in God because someone in their family wasn't
healed? That doesn't have to happen.
Healings & miracles in scripture occur when God is confirming his message.
Exodus 4:1, "And Moses answered and said, "But behold, they will not believe me, nor harken
unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee." Vs 5 says, "That they
may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob had appeared unto thee" and God gave Moses a rod that would turn into a serpent
and also gave him healing powers.
Throughout the bible God would confirm his message through the prophets with certain miracles
and healings. It was never as though all the people of Israel could perform miracles once they
reached a certain level of spiritual maturity.
Miracles were for the nation of Israel. 1 Cor 1:22 says, "For the Jews require a sign." And in fact
they had a covenant of sight with God. We read in Exodus 23:10 "And he said, Behold, I make a
covenant: before all the people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor
in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall SEE the work of the Lord: for it is a
terrible thing that I will do with thee."
You know of course that denominational Christianity wrongly assumes we are "spiritual Israel."
That's a lie. The term "spritual Israel is not found in scripture. If you believe in the death, burial
and resurrection of Jesus (1 Cor 15:1-4) and trust in his substitutionary death (Eph 1:13) you are
forever sealed with that holy spirit of promise and you become a member of the church the body
of Christ (Col 1:18,Eph 1:22,23).
The body of Christ does not have a covenant of sight with God. Rather, we "walk by faith, not by
sight" (2 Cor 5:7). During the dispensation of grace given to Paul (Eph 3:1-4 KJB).
One might argue that Peter and Paul did miracles and healings in the early church. I would argue
that there is no such thing as an early church. You'll not find that term ever used in scripture
either. Peter was the head of the church the "little flock" (Luke 12:32) that was promised an
earthly kingdom and was under the law. Paul's apostleship was over the BoC who have a
heavenly inheritance (Eph 1, Col 1) and is not under that law, but under grace (Rom 6:14).
Peter preached the gospel of the kingdom. The gospel of the kingdom was identified by signs,
wonders and divers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost (Heb 2:4). Peter and Paul both preached
the Gospel of God; (ie death, burial and ressurection), Peter in Acts 2:22-32 and Paul in Rom
1:1-4. But Peter never preached the Gospel of Christ (Rom 1:16) ie justification by faith alone
nor did Peter preach the Gospel of the Grace of God Acts (20:24) ie the mystery. Paul never
preached the gospel kingdom and didn't qualify to do so (Acts 1:22).
According to the parable of the fig tree (Luke 13:6-9) Israel was granted a one year extension of
mercy when the could have accepted the offer of the kingdom. Rather, they killed the prophets,
the last of which was John the Baptist. They killed the Son on Passover. Lastly, and exactly one
year later they rejected the Holy Spirit by killing Stephen on Passover in Acts 7.
All of this is part of the prophecy program (Acts 3:21). Peter was doing miracles because God
was confirming his message through Peter during this time period.
You say well Peter did miracles past that one year mark. Yes, but the book of Acts is a book of
transition over approximately a 30 year period of time which records the diminishing and fall
(Rom 11:11) of Israel. See the gospel of the Kingdom in Matt - John was for Israel only (Matt
10:5,6). In the book of Acts we go from Israel only to Israel first. Then finally in Acts 28:28 Paul
leaves Israel to focus on the gentiles.
The bookends for the book of Acts are Acts 3:25 & Acts 28:28. Acts 3:25 says "Ye are the
children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto
Abraham, And in they seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed." According to the
Abrahamic covenant then (Gen 22:17&18 the Gentiles were supposed to be blessed through the
rise of Israel. That will still occur in the 'ages to come' (Eph 2:7). 'But now' (Eph 2:13) the
gentiles are being blessed through the fall of Israel in the mystery program (Rom 16:25). More
on that later...but the point is that we don't hear from Peter at all after Acts chapter 12. The
Kingdom Gospel was put on hold. Peters miracles stopped.
Now God starts allowing Paul to do the miracles to confirm Jesus's message to Paul. The
mystery program (Rom 16:25) given to Paul was never prophesied. It was mystery 'hid in God'
(Eph 3:9). The main component of the mystery is the formation of the body of Christ in the 'but
now' (Eph 2:13-16). God broke down the middle wall of partition ie...he now longer makes a
distinction based on circumcision! The Jew and the Gentile coming together in one body.
Paul says he was first in the body of Christ in 1 Tim 1:16, 1 Cor 15:3 & Eph 1:12. In the KJB he
says he was given a dispensation (set of instructions for a given period of time) in Eph 3:2, Col
1:25,26, 1 Cor 9:17.
So, the church the little flock is diminishing over this transition period. And even though Paul
does initially preach to the Jews (who require a sign) after Acts 28:28 he no longer directs his
ministry to the nation of Israel. It takes 4,000 years of human history before God says through
Paul in Rom 11:13, "I speak to you Gentiles, I magnify mine office:" Once that happens...no
more miracles!
If you look at the table below you'll see that Pauls miracles are nearly identical in nature to
Peter's miracles. They both heal a lame man Peter in Acts 3, Paul in Acts 14. Peter is delivered
out of prison in Acts 12, Paul in Acts 16 etc etc.
After these same set of miracles are performed Paul is no longer able to do miracles.
In 1 Tim 5:23 Paul tells Timothy, "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for they stomach's
sake and thine often infirmities."
In 2 Tim 4:20 Paul says, "Erastus abode at Corinth; but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick."
And lastly, "Phil 2:25-27 says, "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Ephaphroditus, my
brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger and he that ministered
unto my wants. 26For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had
heard that he had been sick. 27For indeed he was sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on
him; and not on him only but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow."
We learn that Paul completed the word of God in Col 1:25, "Whereof I am made a minister,
according to the dispensation given to me for you, TO FULFILL THE WORD OF GOD."
Therefore, God's message to us is completed. He no longer needs or uses miracles to confirm that
message. Nor does he need you to hear from God. Everything God wanted us to know he wrote
down in KJB.
Medical malpractice is defined as any act or omission by a physician during treatment of a
patient that deviates from the accepted norms of practice in the medical community and causes
injury to the patient.
Could it be considered spiritual malpractice to cause someone to doubt their faith by telling them
that their faith is somehow inadequate or they're not being healed because there is hidden sin in
their lives just as they are on their death bed ready to cross over?
What a horrible thing to do to someone. Yet that is exactly what denominational Christianity
does! Why? Well, they don't use a KJB because they refuse to acknowledge the dispensation
given to Paul for the body of Christ. Why? Primarily so they can collect your tithe. That's why
they don't use a KJB. Frankly, it disgusts me.
My apologies to the medical community who work so hard providing medicine and care to
Christians who then don't thank you...but thank some miracle of God.
P.S. Angels aren't at work either in dispensation of Grace. Compare Col 2:18 in a KJB to your
perversion. Angels are definitely apart of Israel's prophecy program (Acts 3:21) but they have
nothing to do with Paul's mystery program (Rom 16:25) in the dispensation of Grace (Eph 3:2,3).
Lastly, the wonderful thing about the dispensation of grace is that all it takes to get to heaven is
to believe in the death, burial and resurrection 1 Cor 15:1-4 and trust in the substitutionary death
of Jesus. Eph 1:13 says, "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed (the one baptism)
with that holy spirit of promise." Believing and trusting are NOT works. And your sealed forever
having been forgiven ALL (past, present and future) trespasses (Col 2:13). 2 Cor 5:21 says, "For
he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him." Not a bad deal huh? More than we could ever ask or think (Eph 3:20).
Yes, it is hard to see our loved ones go through physical suffering and then perhaps on to be with
the Lord rather than get healed.
But do you really want God to suspend this dispensation of Grace in order to give your loved one
a few more years before death? But then be in a dispensation that requires works (James 2:24 vs
Rom 3:28) No...God is good all the time...without healing our loved ones.
I hope you'll take the time to listen to Richard Jordan discuss healing in the dispensation of
Grace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7S0NiPOwW4&t=20s
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