Christ and Authority
We, who believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, should understand that, by acting with the authority given by Him, we have authority to heal.
In Matthew 28:18, “Jesus said…all authority is given unto me in heaven and in earth”.
He gave this authority to His followers when He said in Mark 13:34 “the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house (his body), and gave authority to his servants”.
Allegorically, Mark was saying that Jesus, as the Son of man, was going to take a far journey into the spiritual realm after He left His earthly body by death. When He rose from the dead, He showed that he had overcome death and was alive in the spiritual realm. While He was in this far place He would give His servants authority to run His earthly household as He had done before He left on His journey.
In Ex 15:26 Moses said, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians (representing the world); for I am Jehovah who heals you." Ani Jehovah rophecha Iאֲנִי יְהוָה רֹפְאֶֽךָ׃
Isa 12:2 states that Jehovah has become my Yeshua (salvation). This revelation equates Jehovah of the Old Testament with Yeshua or Joshua (Hebrew) and Iesus (Greek) and Jesus (English) in the New Testament.
In Acts 1:8 Jesus said “you shall receive power, after the Holy Ghost has come upon you”
Mark 16:15, 17, 18. “And he said unto them… signs shall follow them that believe… they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover”.
Who, then, is qualified to heal? Ultimately, it is Christ as Jehovah Rophe, “I am Jehovah who heals you” Ex 15:26. If God can use Balaam’s Ass to prophesy, then He is capable of using any vehicle He wishes to heal. When God heals He does so to fulfill His purpose and plan for Creation.
In a corporate sense the question is "Who has the authority to minister healing in the Kingdom Age?” The answer is, to those who have been given the power and authority to do so. That is one of the reasons why it is important to preach the gospel, so that the source of healing can be known.
In Luke 9:1, 2 in the last public ministry of Jesus before His death “he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority (ἐξουσία exousia)… to cure diseases. He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick”.
Initially, during the Pentecostal or Church Age, this power and authority was limited because Pentecost was a leavened feast. It contained the leaven of unrighteousness. Sin abounded.
The expectation is that, in the Tabernacles Age which is before us, healing will be commonplace. This is the age when those who have overcome sin in the world, will receive the fullness of their inheritance through Christ, a glorified body like Adam had before he sinned.
Under what conditions may healing take place? The answer is at the level of faith that has been given. Both the healer and the one healed must have faith that healing can be accomplished through Jehovah, that is, Jesus Christ.
Authority to heal is not given in all cases because illness is a chastening that God uses to bring about corrective, healing judgments in an individual
In conventional medicine much emphasis has been spent on physical and emotional healing. Very little attention has been spent on the role of spiritual healing. Many in the medical field such considerations are thought to be inappropriate. Because of this attitude healing has been incomplete.
Health of the spirit of man is required for the health of the physical state as well.
From a minister’s standpoint, healing power must be able to flow unimpeded. Therefore, those who have taken on the full character of Christ and have been sanctified by obedience to the Laws of God out of love as Sons, will be entrusted with the health of their Fathers household while He is away. This will become more evident as the Sons of God become known in the age that lies ahead
From our present experience, it seems that most health care givers are not authorized to heal. They are operating outside of their calling. They are just treating. This is the spirit of antichrist that dominates the healing arts today. There is a substitution of man’s spirit for the spirit of Christ.
By God’s grace this will change in the near future and we will, at last, experience complete healing.