Heading For Healing 33b: Major on the Great Degree of God's Redemption of Man, of YOU

I have been trying to figure out the William Marrion Branham technique of healing. T. L. and Daisy Osborn shared how they were inspired and challenged by Branham's teaching that illness and disease were introduced with sin by Satan in the Garden of Eden. Because of God's redemption of man by the sacrifice of Christ, all that is GONE. Satan hasn't got squat for rights. Guilt of sin is done away with. Illness and disease can only be foisted on us if we, in ignorance, accept Satan's lie that he has anything like authority in this world. Grasping Branham's understanding of the magnitude of man's redemption by God, its comprehensiveness, the Osborns (among many others) set themselves into action, preaching and teaching God's love, Christ’s sacrifice, and healing thousands.

Except it isn't that easy or effective. Many hear, are even proclaimed healed, and either stay sick or return to states of illness. The Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes. I do not think that people fail to get healed because of lack of faith, but for incomprehension of the degree of God's redemption. It was and is a big thing, but it is remote to them. We need to unremote it, make the big thing immediate.

I ask you to work on trying to comprehend the magnitude of the redemption worked in Christ. We have errant ideas and images--revamp them. Do you see Jesus alone on the cross, rejected of God? Do you see God as somewhat uninvolved, Jesus set to go through this torment on his own? Leon Morris says in The Apostolic Peaching of the Cross (1965. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdman Publishing Co. (London: Tyndale Press). pg. 24), "There is . . . the underlying thought that YAHWEH IS BESTIRRING HIMSELF ON HIS PEOPLE'S BEHALF; IT IS NO ORDINARY ACTIVITY THAT IS IN MIND" (emphases mine). God is not sitting on His throne; He has stood up; this act is the crux of the plan of heaven from before that the world was! The universe is being changed, fulfilled--the Manifestation He is after . . . is come.

If you accept the primacy of the ancient Aramaic text, you do not hear Jesus crying, "Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?"--"My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34 KJV). You hear Jesus declaring to God, "Eil, Eil, l'mana sh'wik-thani," which is to say, "He Is, He Is, wherefore I glorify Me!" (my take on Alexander, September 20, 2010, Translator Notes, "The God of Abraham") (i.e., "Here I fulfill My destiny!") God has not stepped away, He has stepped INTO--"I in You, and You in Me."

If you get my drift, God was not out of it, but was into it; as invested in redeeming us on Calvary as when He plagued Egypt in the field of Zoan to redeem the children of Israel (Psalm 78:42-43). Zoan was the capital of Egypt, and God decimated it. Satan was decimated, too. Nothing was left. NOTHING WAS LEFT!! THAT is what we need to grasp: Satan--our and God's ignorance--was removed from our blame. We are back to the day before the apple. No demon or devil can say, "I have got a right." God says, "No, you don't. I say, NONE!!"

Knowing this, Branham adjured the spirits of infirmity to leave. They had to, their head has been crushed.