Sickness Is Part of the Curse of the Law from Which Christ Has Redeemed Us
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Verse 22 says, “And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin,
and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you
shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.” So there was a way to be protected, no
matter what you thought was happening. Verse 23 is very enlightening. “For the L
ORD
will pass
through to smite the Egyptians…” Who is going to do it? This is the third time it says the Lord is
going to do it. “…And when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the
L
ORD
will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to
smite you.” Within the same verse, it says, “The Lord is going to smite…” then before the verse
is over, He says, “If you’ll do what I tell you, I’ll cover and protect you and not let the
destroyer…” Is God the destroyer? Is He talking about Himself? No.
Here is a statement that I wrote down years ago, and it has helped me: When it says God does
this or that, that He smites, strikes, etc., and you see that it is destruction, killing, sickness, just
like this, then really, the destroyer is doing it. Why did the Lord say that He’s doing it? What did
we read in that previous verse? Judgment. The Lord passes judgment that allows the destroyer
access. Since He passes the judgment, He says it as though He did it. He’s the Judge, but it’s the
destroyer who did it.
People jump on that and say, “Well now, the Lord allowed it to be done, but still it was His will.
He’s the One who did it.” No, no, no. Just because the Lord allowed something does not mean
it’s His will, nor does it mean it pleases Him. He allows and passes judgment on numerous
things that don’t please Him at all and are not His will, but He must pass judgment that way
because He is the righteous Judge of all the earth.
Lamentations 3:32-33, talking about the Lord, says, “But though he cause grief, yet will he have
compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly…” Do
you see that word? “…nor grieve the children of men.” God is passing judgment that allows the
destroyer access to situations, and He’s not doing it willingly. It’s not His will. Now, this sounds
strange to people because they have been taught religious things instead of this.
But suffice it to say, when it says that God smites this and smites that, let this come back into
your thinking. In the same verse what did it say? The destroyer was the one that was actually
doing it.
The Lord said, “If you obey me, all these good things are going to happen. If you refuse to obey
Me…” what’s going to happen?
In 1 Corinthians 11:29-31, He said if you don’t discern the Lord's body, there’s condemnation
that comes. “For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we
would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.” That’s a good word. We would not be judged.
“But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with
the world.”
You also see it when He told people they would be turned over to the enemy, the devil, for the
destruction of the flesh. (1 Corinthians 5:5) He didn’t say they’d be turned over to God for the
destruction of the flesh. But if you’re not clear on it, if it seems confusing to you, or if you’re
