God’s Will; Illness, Disease or Affliction???

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God’s Will; Illness, Disease or Affliction???

August 1, 2021

Topic: Disease, God's Will, Illness

Book: 2 Kings, Numbers

Reverend Reuben W. Ford

God’s Will; Illness, Disease or Affliction???

Spiritual Reading

Numbers 12:1-3, 9-13 (New International Version)

Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

12 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. 2 “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard this.

3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

9 The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them.

10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous[a]—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease, 11 and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. 12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”

13 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “Please, God, heal her!”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 12:10 The Hebrew for leprous was used for various diseases affecting the skin.

Spiritual Lesson

2 Kings 7:3-4 (New International Version)

The Siege Lifted

3 Now there were four men with leprosy[a] at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 7:3 The Hebrew for leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verse 8.

Gospel Message

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