Heading For Healing 7: the Aramaic Earth

In first century Palestine, they spoke Aramaic. Yes, the lingua franca was Greek, the land was occupied by Latin-speaking Romans, there was a strong Hellenistic influence, and the place was a funnel neck in the commerce of the Fertile Crescent with people of every language, culture, and persuasion passing through. By and large, though, the people spoke Aramaic from their time in captivity in Babylon. In the Greek New Testament, when the literal words of Christ are quoted, they are always Aramaic, because the Jew we know as Jesus spoke Aramaic. So did his disciples and his listeners. It was the world they lived in.

There are questions now about healing—divine, miraculous healings and creative healings. Is it God's will to heal? Does God hear? Who can get healed? Are sins forgiven? What is the faith for healing? How much faith is required? By whom? Under what conditions and circumstances? Are the gifts of the Spirit for today, or did they cease? Do I have to feel, do, or say anything? Let me just say that all you have to do is be, in attitude, in that first century Aramaic world. You are just one of them. You do not need to know any of the Aramaic language—they came from everywhere to be healed. They didn’t necessarily speak or understand Aramaic; all they knew was someone said there was a guy who was healing people. They got up and ran, or hobbled, or were carried. They got to him as soon as they could wherever he was.

T. L. Osborn had audiences of hundreds of thousands of both believers and unbelievers. All he did was explain the scriptures as well as he could. No gift of healing. It was just that THESE scriptures mean THAT world. There is no difference. THAT situation is NOW: THAT Him is for all time.

I have been healed three distinct times. Four if you include my baptism in the Holy Spirit. I was healed those three distinct times just because I went to Him as a foreign lunkhead. 1) Charles Hunter said to compare our limbs and to stand or sit like this, and I did. He asked Jesus to heal, and he did. 2) I hyper-extended my back in Hawaii, and got back to Rowland Heights again as fast as I could to ask the elders of my church to pray for me. I stood there while they laid hands on me and prayed that Jesus would use their hands as His hands, and my back was fixed. 3) Illumined to see that everything is the Ineffable’s intelligence—there isn’t anything else—in my mind I said, “You can heal me,” and It did.

These were in that first century Aramaic world. It is just the matter of fact that this is the way it is: Jesus heals. Like I said, “THAT Him is for all time.”