“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day” (Gen. 1:31).
God had just finished Creation. He said, “That’s it. I’m through!” His finished creation displayed His perfect will for Adam and all his descendants. That was the way He wanted everything to be.
But what was not in God’s creation on that sixth day? Well, you’ll never find a Scripture that says, “On such-and-such a day, God created sickness and disease.” You’ll never read, “And God said, ‘Let there be cancer! Let there be pneumonia!'”
No, God looked at His creation, and “behold, it was very good” (Gen. 1:31). That means sickness and disease were absent in the original creation.
When Adam sinned and fell spiritually in the Garden of Eden, he chose a new master to serve. He turned creation over to the enemy. At that moment, Satan became the god of this world with a long-term lease on creation.
When Satan entered into his new domain, he brought all his goods with him – sickness, disease, fear, poverty, depression, oppression, death, and everything else that’s evil. Someone once said, “Sickness is the foul offspring of its father, Satan, and its mother, sin.”
You don’t find sickness and disease anywhere in the Bible until after Satan became the god of this world. Then you find sickness running rampant throughout the earth.
Satan is the author of sickness. He brought it into the earth with him. And only through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the Cross would life ever again become “very good” on this earth.
Sickness doesn’t come from God. Satan is the father of all diseases,
but I’ve been delivered from his kingdom. I walk in health and
healing because my Father wants me well!
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
For over 40 years, Pastors Mark and Janet Brazee have traveled throughout the world sharing the Word of God and the Spirit of God. Together they've shared the powerful truths of faith and healing in more than 50 nations.
Today Mark and Janet pastor World Outreach Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they base their ongoing outreach to the world. The Brazees still travel as the Lord leads, and they are raising up a congregation who share their passion to reach Tulsa and the world.