Twenty Proofs that Sickness is Satan’s Work

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  1. Satan smote Job with “sore boils” (Job 2:7)
  2. God “turned the captivity of Job” (Job 42:10)
  3. Jesus healed a “dumb man possessed with a devil” (Matthew 9:32-33)
  4. Jesus healed a blind and dumb man “possessed with a devil” (Matthew 12:22)
  5. “If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself … I cast out devils by the Spirit of God” (Matthew 12:26-28)
  6. A woman’s daughter was “grievously vexed with a devil” (Matthew 15:22)
  7. “Jesus rebuked the devil” (Matthew 17:18)
  8. A man “had a spirit of an unclean devil” (Luke 4:33)
  9. “The devil had thrown him in the midst” (Luke 4:35)
  10. A boy had a demon the disciples could not cast out, but as Jesus approached, “the devil threw him down, and tare him” (Luke 9:42)
  11. After Jesus cast out the dumb devil, “the dumb man spake” (Luke 11:14)
  12. “There was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years” and was bent and couldn’t straighten herself; Jesus declared that Satan had bound her (Luke 13:11-16)
  13. “The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10)
  14. “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38)
  15. Jesus called Paul to turn people “from the power of Satan unto God” (Acts 26:18)
  16. Regarding an unrepentant immoral man, Paul said he would “deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh” (1 Cor. 5:5)
  17. When Jesus sent the twelve disciples out by twos, “they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them” (Mark 6:7-13)
  18. Jesus commissioned the seventy to “heal the sick”; they returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name” (Luke 10:9,17)
  19. Jesus partook of flesh and blood, “that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Hebrews 2:14)
  20. “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8). The works of the devil include demons causing many physical infirmities and sicknesses. See Demons or Unclean Spirits.

Hebrew:  shechiyn (OT:7822), to burn; inflammation.  It is translated boil (Job 2:7; Exodus 9:9-11; Leviticus 13:18,19,20,23; 2 Kings 20:7; Isaiah 38:21); and botch (Deut. 28:27,35).  It denotes a tumor on the flesh accompanied with severe inflammation.  Job’s affliction caused him restless nights.  His skin broke out with running ulcers so severe that he would bite himself because of the pain.

Finis J. Dake, Dake Topical Index, WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: “Satan’s Work, Twenty Proofs that Sickness is”.

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