Receiving Healing through the Atonement (1): The Mount Everest of Prophecy

Healing (along with forgiveness) is God's will for His people (Psalm 103:3). This is made clear from the fact that healing is in the Atonement. The book of Isaiah is the Mount Everest of Bible Prophecy and Isaiah 53 is the peak - being the greatest prophetic proclamation of the Atonement of Christ, which makes it abundantly clear that physical healing is in the Atonement, as well as forgiveness of sins. Both forgiveness and healing are purchased for us through the Blood of Christ, and made freely available for us to receive by faith. We study Isaiah 53 to demonstrate this truth, as well as its confirmation in the New Testament, when it quotes from Isaiah 53 in reference to healing (Matthew 8:16-17, 1Peter 2:24). In the same way that Jesus bore all our sins on the Cross, He also bore our sicknesses. He paid the price for us to be both fully forgiven and fully healed. Just as forgiveness has been purchased for us and is now freely offered to us by God on the basis of the Atonement (Blood) of Christ, for us to receive by faith, so likewise, healing has been purchased for us and is now freely offered to us by God through His atoning Blood, for us to receive by faith. Therefore, physical and emotional healing and health is God’s will for all His children. He wants us all to believe that, and to come to Him in faith to receive our forgiveness and healing.