The last healing revival that occurred in America was in the 1950s, when God granted the “gifts of healings” to only a small number of Christians (1 Cor. 12:30).
God extended the promise of healing in body, soul, and spirit to all mankind who would repent of their sins and receive Christ as the new life within them (1 Thess. 5:23; Mark 16:17-18).
God the Holy Spirit imparts and sustains all life, whether it be in heaven or on Earth. (Acts 17:25; Job 12:10; 1 Tim. 6:13).
FOOTNOTES FOR: DO ANGELS TEACH ANGELS?
1. The first promise made by God to the Israelites on their journey from bondage in Egypt concerned healing. He spoke it three days after they crossed the Red Sea (Exod. 15:22). He said that if they would heed His voice, do what is right in His sight, and obey His laws, then He would “put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer” (Exod. 15:26).
Through the forty years of their wandering in the wilderness, God was faithful to His word and preserved them from sickness on a diet of bread from heaven and water (Deut. 8:4; Ps. 78:23-25; 105:41; 1 Cor. 10:4).
This health is made possible by faith in His work on the cross of Calvary and in His resurrection and ascension into heaven (Isa. 53:4-5; Matt 8:16-17). Matthew used the same words, “healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness,” twice about Jesus and once about His disciples (Matt. 4:23; 9:35; 10:1). At one point in the life of the church in Jerusalem, all the sick and the demonized were being healed (Acts 5:16).
2. Christians through whom the Lord Jesus would exercise His healing ministry in a pure way must hate their natural self-life (John 12:25; Luke 14:26) and the things of Satan’s kingdom on the earth: “the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life” (1 John 2:15-17; James 4:3-4).
3. Demons are evil spirits who are part of Satan’s forces. Those who work on the earth try to possess or oppress human beings who allow themselves to become vulnerable to their attack because of sin, deception, or ignorance (Deut. 32:16-17; 1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Cor. 2:11).
There is much greater demonic activity recorded in the Gospels and the Book of Acts because of the ministry of Jesus Christ while on Earth and of His disciples in the New Testament church. The Lord cast them out of afflicted people who came to Him, and so did His disciples (Matt. 8:16; Luke 10:17). Known as exorcism, or deliverance, or the casting out of evil spirits, this ministry has always had some part in the work of the church throughout the centuries.
4. The Hebrew word for “scourging” or “stripe,” found in the phrase “by His scourging we are healed” (Isa. 53:5), is chabburah, the name of the instructor for these training sessions.
5. The angelic beings are spirits (Heb. 1:14) whom God created by two means: (a) “by the word of the 33:6). LORD” they were made, and (b) “by the breath of His mouth” they began to live (Ps. God’s breath, the Holy Spirit (Job 33:4), continually sustains the angels in life, and He is able to pass through them purely and powerfully to enliven other angels.
