It is a time to speak words of comfort to the Lord's people. The warfare of Israel has been accomplished. The wickedness, lawlessness, and rebellion of Zion have been pardoned.

Jerusalem, both natural and spiritual, has suffered much at the Lord's hand, having been chastened severely by the Lord. We think of the holocaust of the Jews and the vicious torture and murder of millions of Christians.

Now it is time to comfort Zion, both natural and spiritual Israel, for the two are on a converging course and shall become one stick in the Lord's hand.

Let us think for a moment about Divine healing. Divine healing includes healing for spirit, soul, and body for they all are part of our personality.

There are four conditions of eligibility for Divine healing, and one condition that is not eligible. There is some confusion over the noneligible condition.

Healing for the Lord's people.

Healing as a sign of the Lord's truth.

Healing for the family of a Christian.

Healing for an individual who is not a Christian but who comes to the Lord's people for help.

The noneligible condition has to do with the world at large. Although we are hearing today that the Christian churches are to go forth and heal everybody so all can enjoy their life in the world, we do not find this directive in the Scriptures.

Divine healing is the children's bread. It is Babylon (man-directed Christianity) that offers the children's bread to whoever will accept it. Babylon and all her daughters (the Catholic Church and the Protestant churches) are prostitutes when they offer the Lord's benefits to the world so the world will accept the churches and interact with them.

They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. (Ezekiel 16:33)

The promises of the Scripture are not directed toward the world but toward the Lord's elect, toward Zion. The Lord's elect include the physical land and people of Israel, and also those of the Gentiles whom God has called.

Healing for the Lord's people.

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. (Matthew 15:26)

Divine healing for spirit, soul, and body is the children's bread. Healing is for Israel including the elect Gentiles. There is healing in the atonement. The Scriptures are very clear on this. Speaking to God's elect:

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed [have been healed]. (I Peter 2:24)

The healing of our entire personality has already been accomplished on the cross of Calvary—spirit, soul, and body.

To be continued.