The ―Gospel‖
Good news, as most are familiar with, is the "Gospel‖. Christianity generally teaches the "Gospel" as; the
death, burial and resurrection of the Messiah. But how can Y‘shua preach this if He is still alive? The
apostles, likewise, preached the same while Y‘shua was alive. Also, Heb 4:2-6 says that the Gospel was
preached to the Israelites, some 1,300 years before Y‘shua's time. How can this be?
The explanation is in the Matthew verse itself: the Gospel has to do with the restoration of the lost sheep of
the House of Israel as will be seen in its fullness in the Millennium.
Y‘shua the Healer came into this physically, mentally and spiritually sick world. His divine commission is
specified in Luke's Gospel: ―(18) The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to:
Preach the gospel to the poor;
He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives,
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty them that are bruised,
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord‖. (Luke 4:18-19)
―And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people‖. (Matt 4:23)
Physical health is a priceless commodity, which increases in value the older one gets. When one's health is
gone, it seems that there is nothing we can do to bring it back. But the Saviour healed every kind of physical
ailment. When he had passed through a village or town, he left behind a perfectly healthy population: no
lepers, no cripples, no cancer patients, no deaf and dumb mutes and no one possessed by evil spirits. It is
quite impossible to imagine the sense of joy and exultation that followed in the wake of the Saviour's tour. In
the annals of human history, there has never been anything like it. Had he visited mankind in this century, he
would have been mobbed by millions simply for his ability to heal. But if you go back and study his 'terms of
reference' (listed above) you will see that Y‘shua the Messiah didn't just come to heal the body. After all,
everyone he healed died some years later. Their healing was simply a low-level lesson of the real healing he
had in mind. Remember his mission was to:
Preach the gospel to the poor,
Heal the broken hearted,
Deliver the captives of sin (House of Israel),
Open the eyes of the spiritually blind,
Set at liberty those who had been battered and bruised by Satan,
And announce the acceptable year of YHWH: the day of Salvation!
With that spiritual commission in mind, let us now consider the process of physical healing and what it really
represents.
4:24 All Syria
―And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with
divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were
lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them‖.
(23) ―And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
(24) Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to
destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
(25) And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
(26) And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
(27) And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is
this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do
obey him.
(28) And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee‖. (Mark
1:23-28)
(33) ―And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out
with a loud voice,
(34) Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to
destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.