We assume every physical illness—including trauma,
infection, inflammation, tumors, irritation, allergy, paralysis, atrophy,
etc.—is a result of some SPIRITUAL reality. The natural realm—the realm of
sight—is always parallel to, and results from, some spiritual activity. The
physical manifestation is just the fruit of some spiritual root.
Possible roots include:
Unrepented and unconfessed sin
Generational (blood line) sins, curses, diseases,
Familiar Spirits, genetic weaknesses
Defilement
Curses, including medical diagnosis and test results
Drugs, especially those called “medications”
Not discerning the Body
Bitterness
Unforgiveness
Demons
Calling illness “good”, a way to get attention,
sympathy, etc.
Blood infusions, organ transplants
LOCATION WITHIN THE PHYSICAL BODY
Sometimes it’s helpful to consider the part of the body involved, and to think
about what Scripture says about that specific part of the body. There is almost
always a correlation between the physical body and its infirmity, and the
spiritual, soulish or symbolic meaning attached to that body part. These
organs, sites, tissues or structures are locations for demons or illnesses
which relate to their function.
For example, the FEET are symbolic of faith (Joshua was given any place his
feet trod); ankles involve putting faith into action (lame man in Acts 3); and
our “walk” symbolizes our GROWTH in the faith. (NOTES: The healed don’t simply
walk, they leap or run. Feet should be shod with gospel, not run swiftly
to mischief. Fee on the mountain singular in OT for Jesus, plural in NT for
body. Clearest example about healing is Asa, 2 Chronicles 16, lame in feet,
went to physicians, died. Katharine says Oral Roberts has spirit of Asa; takes
“feet generation” - last part of Jesus’ body to touch earth - to doctors.
Therefore we can figure OR is “lame on both his feet”.)
MOUTH:
With hands, primary instrument of worship. Spoken word is creative - life and
death in its power. Praise should continually be in mouth, Psalm 34. TONGUE
runs things -the rudder, bridle, fire of James. Under tongue may be poison;
lying spirits (Prophets of Ahab). Zechariah stricken dumb because of unbelief
about John the Baptist’s birth. This is one of the gates to our being. Word
“profane” means bringing something unclean across the temple threshold.
NECK:
Submission vs. stubborness - stiff-necked generation. Seat of rebellion or
yielding, taking the yoke. We put on Jesus’ yoke, refuse to be yoked with
unbelievers. Also affected by control spirits; and neck tension can cause headache.
HAIR:
Connected with strength (Nazarite vow) and with rebellion. Length of hair
speaks of rebellion and of shame, for both men and women. Baldness is connected
both with mourning and with degradation.
EYES:
Opening to the soul; another one of the gates, especially for LIGHT. Eyelids
allow closing this gate - we can’t close the ears. Bitter, hurt people often
close off, expression becomes hard and set. Eyes are indicators of the
emotions; joy (twinkling), sorrow (tears), fear (enlargement of pupil), anger
and rage (flashing), peace (clear and steady), grief (“running down”, being
“consumed”). If eye is evil, we’re dark inside. God wants a single eye, without
motes and beams. His Beloved has Dove’s eye.
ALL THE ORGANS OF SENSING PARALLEL THE SPIRITUAL SENSE:
1. Eyes: natural and spiritual vision 2. Ears; same, natural and spiritual
hearing; 3. Skin: especially hands - feeling, touch, pressure, pain; a border
which is not to be breached by cutting, injecting, etc. 4. Mouth: especially
tongue -taste, experiencing (taste and see that the Lord is good) and pleasure,
and also consuming (eat the various things; milk, meat, asses’ heads and doves’
dung, meat ye know not of, etc; sweet in mouth, bitter in belly), 5. Nose:
smelling aromas in the natural and discernment of spirits in the spirit.
THORAX:
lungs, chest: seat of pneuma - wind, breath, spirit. Site of many demons, those
who come out via yawning, screaming, coughing, etc. (Demons who occupy the
flesh come out with vomiting, gagging, spitting, etc. Their exit is affected by
the part of our being they’ve inhabited.) Lungs function to breathe in
life-giving air, breathe out poison.
BLOOD:
Soul life. Contains every facet of soul -intellect, memory, emotions, will. An out
flowing of blood may be sacrifice spirit, may reflect loss of soul power in
whatever part is bleeding. Frequently indicates attack from spirit of death.
One wide open door for infirmity is taking blood or blood components; you
receive into your being every facet of some other person’s soul; his will,
emotions, demons, etc. No immunity or walls built vs. “strangers within.”
Forbidden OT and NT, God hates it. (NOTE: organ transplants, same danger and
effects as with blood, plus all the components of stranger’s FLESH.
Uncrucified, unregenerate flesh which probably died violently. Again, enemy is
WITHIN the gates.) Taking in the life-components of another person sets up
civil war; recipient’s body rejecting incompatible blood or strange flesh, and
drugs are used to destroy body’s defense against invasion. You receive all of
Donor’s soul and flesh life, become one with him, a house divided against
itself, and a mixture. (NOTE: American males have high estrogen levels because
of drug-treated beef- female hormones are given to steers to increase tenderness
of meat. If the animal is aware of its death, the fear and pain can produce
stress hormones which flood the tissue and can survive through the cooking
process to affect the consumer.)
BONES:
Marrow is the beginning of life of the blood -red cells born within the bone.
Bone represents the spirit part of us, the substructure of life, the support
and configurations of the being. Conditions: broken (not done to Jesus); out of
joint (done to Jesus, Jacob became Israel after thigh dislocated); site of Jeremiah’s
“fire” to prophesy; sign of kinship (bone of his bone); last remaining part of
natural body, (bones of Elisha healed, bones of Joseph moved from Egypt, etc.)
Dead mens bones within whited sepulchres. Man seated on throne in heaven is
flesh and bone, no blood.
JOINTS:
Relationships, people fitting together (meaning of word “articulation”), and a
flow of supply. Every joint should supply, and this is hindered by wrong
relationships. We should join together spirit to spirit (bone to bone) not in
the flesh or soul. (NOTE: there is enough provision for the entire body, and
nobody would lack anything if the joints were rightly aligned and supplying -
and receiving - properly).
STOMACH:
seat of the appetites, of digestion. The abdominal cavity as a whole contains
“the belly”, the god of the belly, the bowels and the other organs of
digestion. There is some connection to the emotions; mercy, physical love (Song
of Solomon), living water flows out. That which tastes sweet in the mouth can
be bitter in the belly. Also the weird thing Paul said about the Cretans being
“slow bellies” — what does that mean?
KIDNEYS:
Reins of the heart, the seat of choice. Also concerned with elimination of
poison. Male penis is the “fountain” - literally “hole” — of James 3, which can
produce sweet and bitter water - that is, life-producing semen, or urine which
is full of poison. Both in natural and spiritual, can’t produce both at the
same time.
LIVER:
Involved with metabolism of carbohydrates, clotting of blood. With heart, kidneys
and brain, organ most frequent used for cannibalism (and today for organ
transplants, which is modern cannibalism).
FACE:
countenance, turns toward or away from the Beloved, from light. Expressive of
disposition within. Is set like a flint with firm purpose, in the direction one
has chosen.
GALL BLADDER:
Reservoir of bile, very bitter digestive juice. Site of bitterness, bitter
roots. Common Bile Duct may contain stones. Malfunction causes problems in
digestion of fat, with cramping, severe pain. Typical patient for gall bladder
surgery: female, fair, fat, forty.
BREASTS:
Nourishment of young, site of outpouring of kindness, nurture, the flow of life
to another. Compassion called (MILK of human kindness”.
HANDS:
Work, ministry, organ to impart and stir up
gifts, healing, etc. “Laying on” hands opens a channel to pass along whatever
is inside that person. Hands should be clean, holy, should not shed innocent
blood. Also hands are instruments of praise and worship. Elijah saw cloud;
Gideon’s men drank from hands or lapped (a separation); and would there
demonstrate the Christ nature. Hands write, make ware, bare wounds.
FINGERS:
Specific ministries 5-fold aligned with 5 fingers. God wrote 10 commandments
and ? cast out demons with His finger; Jesus wrote in the dust - it’s “the part
of the hand which wrote” per Daniel. Nails are protection.
SHOULDER: Government, burdens, responsibility, masculine function. (Today women
pad their shoulders to become more manly, to assume their role.) To pull away
the shoulder means resist.
BACK:
Punishment - stripes of Jesus - (Pro. 26:3, Is. 50:6, Ps. 129:3), also burdens,
where long furrows prepare the way for planting the word. God showed Moses His
glory by His back. Can mean rejection of light, turning back, backsliding. The
back represents the foundation of a man, and problems here usually mean God is
dealing with one's foundation.
HEART:
Cental core of the being, most important organ. It spreads the blood, mixes it
with air, eliminates toxins, carries food. It should be guarded with all
diligence, for it contains the issues of life. It has desires, intents; can be
hard, soft, flesh, stone, can become sick from deferred hope, fails for fear.
Connected with emotions. Seat of what comes out of mouth.
MIND:
Intellect, knowledge, wisdom, understanding. Place all sensory input is
received and processes. (Light through the eyes is processed here, either
rejected or accepted. Likewise sound, scent, taste, touch.) Also control of the
body and its functions. Central and autonomic nervous systems, under conscious
or subconscious control. CNS primarily forebrain -interpreting input. ANS
primarily spinal column, brain stem and cerebellum - controls heart rate,
digestion, temperature, blood pressure, release of hormones and enzymes, etc.,
etc. Born carnal, enmity with God, is either renewed leading to our
transformation, or it’s darkened, leading to reprobate mind. Site of
strongholds based in deception. One of several organs which must be in
agreement with God by our WILLS aligning with His. World says it’s controlled
by - functions by - chemicals and electricity.
LOINS:
Location of organs of reproduction. Male begetting, female bearing and
birthing. All aligned with spiritual parallel. Adam’s “rib” which was removed
to create Eve was literally “chamber” - the womb. “Woman” means “Womb-man, that
is; man with a womb”. The whole human race is female to God’s male role; the
church is Jesus’ bride, His womb. Gender confusion and all the unisex movements
are an assault on this fact. The press for women’s rights, for equality,
liberation and such, the same-with-same activities (Homosexuality, humanism,
peer-pressure etc.) all try to deny God-ordained distinctions between male and
female. (NOTE: in three contrasts; male/female, man/woman, husband/wife, only
WIFE is told to submit. There is scripturally no subservient role for “women”
or “females”; actually there’s no distinction at all in Christ.)
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCE TO SPECIFIC DISEASES
One of the first steps in trusting God ALONE as healer is to forget a lot of
what the world teaches about the cause of illnesses. We must realize that the
true causes for diseases are totally at variance with natural, carnal
intelligence. These causes originate within the spirit realm and represent the root
from which the “bitter fruit” of illness springs. (The Sandfords say
unequivocally; “The presence of bitter fruit is prima facia evidence of a
bitter root”.) If we can discover the root and lay the axe to it, the fruit
withers and dies. In practice, this means that death to the root will cause the
illness or disease to simply vanish.
The following is a TINY sampling of the illnesses which are specifically
mentioned in the Bible, either by etiology or treatment. In addition, I mention
others which have only anecdotal evidence, but enough of that to convince ME,
at least, of the truth about it.
Job 7:3. Sleep disorders leading to futility and despair. One frequent cause;
anesthesia. Drugs which induce anesthesia leave a residue of sleep disorders,
and also a demon.
Blindness from following blind leaders, no growth God (2 Peter 1:5-9). From
rejecting light, from worshipping an idol; they’re blind and we become like
what we worship. (Lam. 4:13-15). Results of these roots: cataracts, glaucoma,
detached retina.
Warts from witchcraft, active and deliberate but not necessarily with full
knowledge. Requires repentance and cleansing.
Plagues, epidemics, communicable diseases from no fear of God. (Deut.
28:58-61). This can be visited on children of parents who don’t listen to God.
Gluttony, alcoholism from rebellion, stubbornness. (Deut. 21:18-21). Refusal to
yield to proper authority, which is rebellion, produces bondage to unlawful
authority, an addiction. (From Latin ADDICUS, meaning “slave”). Stubbornness
makes getting healed even harder.
Castration and transsexual surgery produce “not in congregation” (Deut. 23:1)
and manifests in isolation or possible mental illness.
Adultery can result in menstrual disorders; irregular periods, painful periods,
endometriosis. Can cause bowel cancer.
Diarrhea from cursing others, showing no mercy. (May be deliverance also).
Arthritis comes from unforgiveness which is producing resentment and bitterness
toward others, usually long-standing, deep, within close relationships. Often
family. Healing requires repentance, forgiveness and RELEASE OF DEBTS, that is
old un-met needs and past offences.
Psalm 31:10 - TB of the bone and Cancer of the bone from grief, depression,
fear. Other bone diseases (“rottenness to the bone”) from an unfaithful wife
(Pro. 12:4) or envy (Pro. 14:30).
Heart diseases stem from stress (Ps. 73:21, 26) heart
failure from fear (Luke 21:26.)
Leaven - yeast in a state of fermentation - is a symbol of a hidden, pervasive
influence. Forbidden in the natural in OT, warned against in NT in the spirit
(Leaven of Pharisees, Saducees, Herod, Corinthians, Galatians) and both apply
today. Natural: abominations in the homes (Deut. 7:26). Spiritual: religious
externalism, unbelief in the supernatural, worldliness, compromise, infectious
sin, false doctrine. Both natural and spiritual can produce vaginal yeast
infections, fungal infections of the skin (Athletes’ Foot), certain scalp
conditions, earaches in children.
Disobedience and self-effort (Humanism) cause “Diseases of Egypt” (Deut. 28).
Always a potential root - these people are not under the covenant of healing.
Hemorrhoids are a judgment from God because of defiling and abusing the things
of God. (I Samuel 5:6) “Things of God” include the person’s own body.
Breast infection, inflammation; some clogging up of ministry or of spiritual
activity. Example; refusing HS Baptism, refusing to answer a call of God on
your life, staying in a dead church. Can be active resistance of the person, or
someone else hindering the person’s ministry.
Harlotry or the spirit of harlotry causes venereal diseases, cancer of female
organs. This doesn’t need to be literal, physical harlotry.
Kidney problems can come from envy of men (Ps. 73:21), or offence at God (Job
16:13).
Idolatry and lawlessness cause Cancer of the bowel (2 Chron 20:12-15, 18-19).
Eye problems from grief and sorrow (Ps. 31:9, Job 17:5) and eye problems in
children from parents who flatter (Job 17:5).