Look­ing at The Ori­gin of Dis­ease and Death

No Sick­ness or Dis­ease Before the Fall of Adam and Eve

Before the fall of Adam and Eve, there was no sick­ness, dis­ease, men­tal ill­ness, death, etc.  In fact Adam and Eve had a God con­science and the devil could not com­mu­ni­cate with them in spirit.  That is why Satan showed up in a phys­i­cal body of a snake to talk to Eve.  After the fall, Adam and Eve had a self-conscious.

Gen 1:26Gen 1:26
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26 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.  

WP-Bible plu­gin “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our like­ness.’” God  cre­ated us on the sixth day of cre­ation. He cre­ated us in his image, giv­ing us domin­ion of this whole planet.

After the fall, the curse came upon them.  What did that mean.  It meant that their bod­ies would not live for­ever and that they would have to face death, sick­ness and dis­ease. Until the mil­le­nium, we will have dif­fer­ent bod­ies that don’t die.

Gen 2:16–17Gen 2:16–17
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16 And the LORD God com­manded the man, say­ing, Of every tree of the gar­den thou mayest freely eat: thou…: Heb. eat­ing thou shalt eat ¹⁷ But of the tree of the knowl­edge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eat­est thereof thou shalt surely die. thou shalt surely…: Heb. dying thou shalt die  

WP-Bible plu­gin “And the LORD God com­manded the man, ‘You are free  to eat from any tree in the gar­den; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowl­edge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.’” Here  is the first indi­ca­tion of pos­si­ble sick­ness and death: dis­obe­di­ence: “you will surely die.”

If you read Deut 28: 21–61Deut 28: 21–61
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21 The LORD shall make the pesti­lence cleave unto thee, until he have con­sumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to pos­sess it. ²² The LORD shall smite thee with a con­sump­tion, and with a fever, and with an inflam­ma­tion, and with an extreme burn­ing, and with the sword, and with blast­ing, and with mildew; and they shall pur­sue thee until thou per­ish. sword: or, drought ²³ And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴ The LORD shall make the rain of thy land pow­der and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ²⁵ The LORD shall cause thee to be smit­ten before thine ene­mies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the king­doms of the earth. removed: Heb. for a remov­ing ²⁶ And thy car­case shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. ²⁷ The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. ²⁸ The LORD shall smite thee with mad­ness, and blind­ness, and aston­ish­ment of heart: ²⁹ And thou shalt grope at noon­day, as the blind gropeth in dark­ness, and thou shalt not pros­per in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled ever­more, and no man shall save thee. ³⁰ Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vine­yard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. gather…: Heb. pro­fane, or, use it as com­mon meat ³¹ Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be vio­lently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine ene­mies, and thou shalt have none to res­cue them. shall not…: Heb. shall not return to thee ³² Thy sons and thy daugh­ters shall be given unto another peo­ple, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with long­ing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand. ³³ The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou know­est not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: ³⁴ So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ³⁵ The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that can­not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. ³⁶ The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which nei­ther thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. ³⁷ And thou shalt become an aston­ish­ment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. ³⁸ Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but lit­tle in; for the locust shall con­sume it. ³⁹ Thou shalt plant vine­yards, and dress them, but shalt nei­ther drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt have olive trees through­out all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thy­self with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit. ⁴¹ Thou shalt beget sons and daugh­ters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into cap­tiv­ity. thou shalt not…: Heb. they shall not be thine ⁴² All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust con­sume. con­sume: or, pos­sess ⁴³ The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. ⁴⁵ More­over all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pur­sue thee, and over­take thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hear­kenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his com­mand­ments and his statutes which he com­manded thee: ⁴⁶ And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a won­der, and upon thy seed for ever. ⁴⁷ Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joy­ful­ness, and with glad­ness of heart, for the abun­dance of all things; ⁴⁸ There­fore shalt thou serve thine ene­mies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in naked­ness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. ⁴⁹ The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle fli­eth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not under­stand; under­stand: Heb. hear ⁵⁰ A nation of fierce coun­te­nance, which shall not regard the per­son of the old, nor shew favour to the young: of fierce…: Heb. strong of face ⁵¹ And he shall eat the fruit of thy cat­tle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. ⁵² And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trust­edst, through­out all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates through­out all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. ⁵³ And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daugh­ters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the strait­ness, where­with thine ene­mies shall dis­tress thee: body: Heb. belly ⁵⁴ So that the man that is ten­der among you, and very del­i­cate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rem­nant of his chil­dren which he shall leave: ⁵⁵ So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his chil­dren whom he shall eat: because he hath noth­ing left him in the siege, and in the strait­ness, where­with thine ene­mies shall dis­tress thee in all thy gates. ⁵⁶ The ten­der and del­i­cate woman among you, which would not adven­ture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for del­i­cate­ness and ten­der­ness, her eye shall be evil toward the hus­band of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daugh­ter, ⁵⁷ And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her chil­dren which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and strait­ness, where­with thine enemy shall dis­tress thee in thy gates. young one: Heb. after­birth ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are writ­ten in this book, that thou mayest fear this glo­ri­ous and fear­ful name, THE LORD THY GOD; ⁵⁹ Then the LORD will make thy plagues won­der­ful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long con­tin­u­ance, and sore sick­nesses, and of long con­tin­u­ance. ⁶⁰ More­over he will bring upon thee all the dis­eases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. ⁶¹ Also every sick­ness, and every plague, which is not writ­ten in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. bring: Heb. cause to ascend  

WP-Bible plu­gin, you will notice a whole list of curses to those who sin. Among them are: dis­eases, plagues, fever, inflam­ma­tion, severe burn­ing fever, scorch­ing, boils, tumors, scabs…. It is clear here that God does not con­sider sick­ness as a bless­ing,  but rather a curse.

When the curse of death came upon man, Satan entered the genetic sys­tem of the body to
begin his destruc­tive mis­sion. He came to kill, steal and destroy you.  The Bible con­firms that Satan is the source of evil in the
world. Our sin opens the door for Satan to attack us. Jesus said he is a thief and …

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy…
(John 10:10John 10:10
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10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abun­dantly.  

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Sick­ness destroys the body like sin destroys the spirit. Dis­ease steals health, hap­pi­ness,
money, time, effort, and strength. It truly kills and destroys. Even “acci­dents” that harm
the body are destroy­ing agents of Satan. Because the source of sick­ness is Satan, you
must resist it just as you do temp­ta­tion and sin. When you resist temp­ta­tion and sin you
are doing spir­i­tual war­fare against Satan’s attacks on your soul and spirit. When you
resist sick­ness you are wag­ing spir­i­tual war­fare against his attacks on your phys­i­cal body.

Jesus Redeemed Us From The Curse of Death, Sick­ness and Disease

The good news though is that Jesus died in our place and redeemed us from the curse… Gal 3:13–14Gal 3:13–14
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13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is writ­ten, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: ¹⁴ That the bless­ing of Abra­ham might come on the Gen­tiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.  

WP-Bible plu­gin “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becom­ing a curse for us, for it is writ­ten: ‘Cursed is every­one who is hung on a tree.’ He redeemed us in order that the bless­ing given to Abra­ham might come to the Gen­tiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.”

Through Jesus Christ, the Lord have us author­ity to cast out demons and heal the sick.

The demonic world of spirit are dis­em­bod­ied spirits—that is, they once had bod­ies but lost them. This explains why they hunt for bod­ies. They crave bod­ies to inhabit.

Then, the New Tes­ta­ment gives us more clar­i­fi­ca­tion of this fact. Jesus him­self referred to dis­ease as satanic bondage (Luke 13:16Luke 13:16
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16 And ought not this woman, being a daugh­ter of Abra­ham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eigh­teen years, be loosed from this bond on the sab­bath day?  

WP-Bible plu­gin). We know that Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit to remove such bondage (Luke 4:18Luke 4:18
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18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the bro­ken­hearted, to preach deliv­er­ance to the cap­tives, and recov­er­ing of sight to the blind, to set at lib­erty them that are bruised,  

WP-Bible plu­gin; Isa­iah 61:1Isa­iah 61:1
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61 ¹ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tid­ings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the bro­ken­hearted, to pro­claim lib­erty to the cap­tives, and the open­ing of the prison to them that are bound;  

WP-Bible plu­gin; Acts 10:38Acts 10:38
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38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and heal­ing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.  

WP-Bible plu­gin). We know that Jesus iden­ti­fied a demonic spirit in con­nec­tion with a case of phys­i­cal dis­ease (Luke 13:11Luke 13:11
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11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infir­mity eigh­teen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up her­self.  

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Other bib­li­cal ref­er­ences of Sick­ness and Disease:

In this verse, ser­pents and scor­pi­ons refer to demonic spir­its. The phrase, “all the power of the enemy” is much broader and would include ill­ness. This is very clear when all of chap­ter 10 is read in con­text, but even if it had not been so clear, we could come to the same con­clu­sion based on Acts 10:38Acts 10:38
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38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and heal­ing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.  

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How did Jesus bring heal­ing to this woman? He rebuked the fever, just as he rebuked the spirit a few verses ear­lier. This is fur­ther evi­dence of the satanic ori­gin of sick­ness and disease.

Then he called his twelve dis­ci­ples together, and gave them power and author­ity over all dev­ils, and to cure dis­eases. And he sent them to preach the king­dom of God, and to heal the sick (Luke 9:1, 2Luke 9:1, 2
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9 ¹ Then he called his twelve dis­ci­ples together, and gave them power and author­ity over all dev­ils, and to cure dis­eases. ² And he sent them to preach the king­dom of God, and to heal the sick.  

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We know God cre­ated every­thing, but keep in mind that sin is not a cre­ation, sick­ness is not a cre­ation, and death is not a cre­ation. These things only exist in the absence of the intended order of cre­ation; they are per­ver­sions of the orig­i­nal inten­tion of God. Nev­er­the­less, many will site Isa­iah 45:7Isa­iah 45:7
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7 I form the light, and cre­ate dark­ness: I make peace, and cre­ate evil: I the LORD do all these things.  

WP-Bible plu­gin to argue the point that even evil is the cre­ation of God.

I form the light, and cre­ate dark­ness: I make peace, and cre­ate evil: I the LORD do all these things.

So, we see that sick­ness and dis­ease is a result of gen­er­a­tional sins of the fore­fa­thers, from Adam and Eve, and from per­sonal sins.

Fur­ther, every dis­ease comes from a germ of life. Just as your spirit gives life to the body, Satan pro­vides the destruc­tive ele­ments of sick­ness. In the nat­ural world, God takes a liv­ing cell and mul­ti­plies it to bring forth life and a new child is born. Satan coun­ter­feits this pos­i­tive process with a neg­a­tive cycle of his own. He takes a liv­ing cell (virus, can­cer,
etc.) and mul­ti­plies it to bring forth death. This is the “spirit of infir­mity” which works in your body when you are sick. When the spirit of infir­mity is cast out, dis­ease in your body dies. As long as that germ exists in the body, the dis­ease lives and con­tin­ues its destruc­tive work.

How Does God View Sickness

If you under­stand how God views sick­ness you will never again doubt its source. God calls sick­ness cap­tiv­ity:
And the Lord turned the cap­tiv­ity of Job… (Job 42:10Job 42:10
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10 And the LORD turned the cap­tiv­ity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. gave…: Heb. added all that had been to Job unto the dou­ble  

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Jesus came to preach deliv­er­ance to the cap­tives:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor, He hath sent me to heal the bro­ken­hearted, to preach deliv­er­ance to the cap­tives, and recov­er­ing of sight to the blind, to set at
lib­erty them that are bruised. (Luke 4:18Luke 4:18
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18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the bro­ken­hearted, to preach deliv­er­ance to the cap­tives, and recov­er­ing of sight to the blind, to set at lib­erty them that are bruised,  

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Jesus called sick­ness bondage:

And ought not this woman, being a daugh­ter of Abra­ham, whom Satan hath bound, lo these eigh­teen years, be loosed from this bond on the sab­bath day?

(Luke 13:16Luke 13:16
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16 And ought not this woman, being a daugh­ter of Abra­ham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eigh­teen years, be loosed from this bond on the sab­bath day?  

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Jesus came to set peo­ple free with the truth:

And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

(John 8:32John 8:32
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32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.  

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The truth is that Jesus viewed sick­ness as oppres­sion and healed those who were oppressed:

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power; who went about doing good, and heal­ing all that were oppressed of the Devil; for God was with Him. (Acts 10:38Acts 10:38
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38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and heal­ing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.  

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The Bible iden­ti­fies death as an enemy:

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (I Corinthi­ans 15:26)

Sick­ness is called loathsome:

For my loins are filled with a loath­some dis­ease; and there is no sound­ness in my flesh. (Psalms 38:7Psalms 38:7
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7 For my loins are filled with a loath­some dis­ease: and there is no sound­ness in my flesh.  

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It is also viewed as evil:

An evil dis­ease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him… (Psalms 41:8Psalms 41:8
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8 An evil dis­ease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. An…: Heb. A thing of Belial  

WP-Bible plu­gin) There are verses in the Bible which indi­cates God sent a plague or sick­ness. While God is not the orig­i­na­tor of such ills, He some­times uses them to accom­plish His pur­poses in exe­cut­ing judg­ment upon the enemy.

 by: Traci Morin, The Min­istry of Deliv­er­ance Heal­ing
Ser­vant and Ordained Min­is­ter of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

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