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Shalom Everyone, I would like to address how the STRIPES of Yeshua heals. This topic is paramount to establish a proper understanding of Yeshua's ROLE in DELIVERING sinners FROM their SIN. First and foremost, we must consider Yeshua's WORDS in figuring this out. Yeshua told those who refused to OBEY Moses, "Why are you trying to KILL me?" He said that here:
Joh 7:19
(19) Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you keepeth the Law? Why go ye about to kill Me?
Yeshua is plainly telling them that TRANSGRESSING the Law, seeks to KILL Him. Through TRANSGRESSIONS, Yeshua is made to suffer and die, and the writer of Hebrews clarifies this:
Heb 6:6
(6) If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance (from transgressions); seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of Elohim afresh, and put Him to an open shame.
You see, Yeshua came to TURN us from our INIQUITY/TRANSGRESSION (Acts 3:26), and IF we fall back INTO willful transgression, we crucify Him AFRESH, openly shaming Him, and we take away ANY Peace we had with Him. This brings us to our topic. Peter, in speaking about the HEALING we receive THOUGH His stripes, describes it this way:
1Pe 2:24-25
(24) Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
(25) For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Most, like Herbert Armstrong and other substitutionalists believe Peter is telling us that because "Jesus" bore our sins, and was beaten (stripes), we can be healed from bodily sicknesses. More or less, if you accept "the work" that "Jesus" was beaten in your place, and had all of those stripes inflicted upon himself, some how, some way, you can be healed from physical disease. Is that really what Peter was speaking about? NO! First, we need to examine V24. Here is what I would consider a good rendering of what Peter was saying:
(24) Who our sins Himself bore in His body on the tree, so that we would die to sin and live for righteousness: by whose stripes ye are made whole.
The result of our sin fell upon Him, He suffered and died on the tree, so that we would die to sin, and live for doing what Elohim wants - His Righteousness, thus HEALING us or making us WHOLE. Peter tells us something very similar in a preceding chapter about Yeshua suffering in His body so we could live out our lives doing Elohim's WILL (to be made whole/healed):
1Pe 4:1-2
(1) Forasmuch then as Messiah hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
(2) That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of Elohim.
Messiah suffered (received stripes) so that we would DO the Will of Elohim...be made whole, healed. This has nothing to do with physical sickness, this is all about our Spiritual Health, and V25 shows this:
1Pe 2:25
(25) For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
This healing is a conversion, a turning back unto our Saviour so that we can have Peace with Him, being BLESSED by this TURNING AWAY from all of our INIQUITIES, as Peter states here:
Act 3:26
(26) Unto you first Elohim, having raised up His Son Yeshua, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Turning from ALL of your iniquities, HEALS you from your sin, and that is what Peter was thinking about. Now, the question needs to be asked, where did Peter receive this idea about Yeshua's stripes. Please look at this:
Isa 53:5-6
(5) But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.
(6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Yahweh hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Obviously, it was with what the Prophet Isaiah said here. Most who read Isaiah here think in terms of "substitutionalism," that "Jesus" was wounded and bruised "in our place," to satisfy a deities sense of justice "for our sins." But when looking at Isaiah, one should remember what Yeshua said about those who disobey Moses, that they are seeking to kill Him. Here is a better rendering of Isaiah 53:5-6:
(5) But He was wounded through our transgressions, He was bruised through our iniquities: the correction for our peace fell on Him; and by His stripes we are made whole.
(6) We all like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Yahweh hath impinged on Him the iniquity of us all.
This false idea that a diety requires the innocent and righteous to die "for" (IN THE PLACE OF) the wicked is against Scripture:
Exo 23:7
(7) Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
The slaying of the Innocent and Righteous One is not to be done, and when a SINNER comes to the KNOWLEDGE of the Truth concerning their involvement (that they, with the help of wicked me did cause Yeshua to suffer so-gave Him stripes and death), a transformation takes place to where a healing, a being made whole transpires in the heart and life of that sinner to where they NO LONGER Dwell in deliberate active sin. That is the HEALING the Apostle Peter spake of, and not a healing from physical disease/sicknesses. Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew/Ken.
Joh 7:19
(19) Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you keepeth the Law? Why go ye about to kill Me?
Yeshua is plainly telling them that TRANSGRESSING the Law, seeks to KILL Him. Through TRANSGRESSIONS, Yeshua is made to suffer and die, and the writer of Hebrews clarifies this:
Heb 6:6
(6) If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance (from transgressions); seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of Elohim afresh, and put Him to an open shame.
You see, Yeshua came to TURN us from our INIQUITY/TRANSGRESSION (Acts 3:26), and IF we fall back INTO willful transgression, we crucify Him AFRESH, openly shaming Him, and we take away ANY Peace we had with Him. This brings us to our topic. Peter, in speaking about the HEALING we receive THOUGH His stripes, describes it this way:
1Pe 2:24-25
(24) Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
(25) For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Most, like Herbert Armstrong and other substitutionalists believe Peter is telling us that because "Jesus" bore our sins, and was beaten (stripes), we can be healed from bodily sicknesses. More or less, if you accept "the work" that "Jesus" was beaten in your place, and had all of those stripes inflicted upon himself, some how, some way, you can be healed from physical disease. Is that really what Peter was speaking about? NO! First, we need to examine V24. Here is what I would consider a good rendering of what Peter was saying:
(24) Who our sins Himself bore in His body on the tree, so that we would die to sin and live for righteousness: by whose stripes ye are made whole.
The result of our sin fell upon Him, He suffered and died on the tree, so that we would die to sin, and live for doing what Elohim wants - His Righteousness, thus HEALING us or making us WHOLE. Peter tells us something very similar in a preceding chapter about Yeshua suffering in His body so we could live out our lives doing Elohim's WILL (to be made whole/healed):
1Pe 4:1-2
(1) Forasmuch then as Messiah hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
(2) That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of Elohim.
Messiah suffered (received stripes) so that we would DO the Will of Elohim...be made whole, healed. This has nothing to do with physical sickness, this is all about our Spiritual Health, and V25 shows this:
1Pe 2:25
(25) For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
This healing is a conversion, a turning back unto our Saviour so that we can have Peace with Him, being BLESSED by this TURNING AWAY from all of our INIQUITIES, as Peter states here:
Act 3:26
(26) Unto you first Elohim, having raised up His Son Yeshua, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Turning from ALL of your iniquities, HEALS you from your sin, and that is what Peter was thinking about. Now, the question needs to be asked, where did Peter receive this idea about Yeshua's stripes. Please look at this:
Isa 53:5-6
(5) But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.
(6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Yahweh hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Obviously, it was with what the Prophet Isaiah said here. Most who read Isaiah here think in terms of "substitutionalism," that "Jesus" was wounded and bruised "in our place," to satisfy a deities sense of justice "for our sins." But when looking at Isaiah, one should remember what Yeshua said about those who disobey Moses, that they are seeking to kill Him. Here is a better rendering of Isaiah 53:5-6:
(5) But He was wounded through our transgressions, He was bruised through our iniquities: the correction for our peace fell on Him; and by His stripes we are made whole.
(6) We all like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Yahweh hath impinged on Him the iniquity of us all.
This false idea that a diety requires the innocent and righteous to die "for" (IN THE PLACE OF) the wicked is against Scripture:
Exo 23:7
(7) Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
The slaying of the Innocent and Righteous One is not to be done, and when a SINNER comes to the KNOWLEDGE of the Truth concerning their involvement (that they, with the help of wicked me did cause Yeshua to suffer so-gave Him stripes and death), a transformation takes place to where a healing, a being made whole transpires in the heart and life of that sinner to where they NO LONGER Dwell in deliberate active sin. That is the HEALING the Apostle Peter spake of, and not a healing from physical disease/sicknesses. Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew/Ken.
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