Proven Biblical Cures

The Bible has many remarkable answers to human needs. Its primary purpose is ministry to spiritual needs. However, God repeatedly intervenes in human lives in many ways. Let me mention a few.
Health. The following examples are proven health cures for various health issues. In every case the cure was 100% successful.
Poison snake bite- “Look at a bronze snake on a pole,” Num. 21: 8. “Shake the snake off, into the fire.” Acts. 28:2-6.
Poison food- “Put flour into the stew” II Kings 6: Poison water- “Pour salt into it out of a new bowl.” II Kings 2:19-22.
Death- Put the prophet’s staff on the child’s face,” II Kings 4:29. “Put the body in the tomb with a dead prophet,” II Kings: “Remove the stone from the tomb, say a brief prayer, and shout loud, “Come out”, John 11:38-44. “Get down on your knees and pray, and then say “Get up”, Acts 9:41.
Leprosy- “Dip seven times in the Jordon River,” II Kings 5:1-14 “Stay outside the camp for seven days”, Num. 12:14. “Show yourself to the priest”, Luke 17:14.
Withered hand- “Stretch it out”. Mark ?
Hemorrhage- “Touch the hem of the teacher’s garment, Mark?
Blindness- “Put mud in the eye,” John 9:6-7. “Yell loud to a passing religious leader,” Mark?
Crippled for 38 years- “Pick up your bed and walk,” John 5:1-9.
Paralytic- “Tear up a roof and get lowered into a room,” Luke 5:17-26.
Deafness- “Stick your fingers into his ears,” Mark 7:33.
The Bible also has a lot of proven solutions for difficult problems. Here are a few examples. Every one of the above directions was successful.
Poverty, “Give your last ½ cup of flour, and you will have all you need,” I Kings 17:7-15. “Gather all the jars you can and then fill them from one ½ full small container, II Kings. 4:1-7.
Lost ax head in a river- “Throw a stick in,” II Kings 6:1-6.
Feed 5.000 men plus women and kids. “Divide a boy’s lunch and have 12 baskets left over,” Matt.
Provide water in a desert for 3.000.000 people, plus livestock, in a desert. “Hit a rock with your staff.” Ex. 17:3-7.
Paying taxes- “Go fishing; get the money out of the mouth of the first fish you catch,” Matt. 17:24.
The Bible has many examples of proven ways to win wars. The partial list below shows instances of 100% successful strategies for winning wars. The enemy causalities list numbers in the 100’s of thousands, with often no casualties on the side that used these strategies.
Egypt- “Lead the entire army into the divided Red Sea and drown them,” Ex. 14:23-28.
Jericho- “Walk around the city 13 times, then shout and blow trumpets,” Josh. 6:15-21.
Midianites and Amalakites- “Take 300 men against too many to count soldiers, break jars, and blow trumpets,” Judges 7:15-22.
Jehosaphat, “Have the choir lead singing and praising God,” II Chron. 20:21-23.
Philistines- “Send a teen ager with a slingshot against a 9 foot giant,” I Sam. 17:1-49. Send two men against a garrison,” I Sam. 14:1-13. “Get one man with a donkey jaw bone and kill 1000,” Judges 15:16.
Jabin, a king of Canaan, “Get a woman preacher to lead the army,” Judges 4:1-9.
Ai- “Decoy the army away from town, then slip in the back door and burn it, Josh. 8:10-23.
Amorites, “Command the sun to stand still”, Josh. 10:12-14.
Syria- “Create the sound of many chariots and horses,” II Kings 2: “Pray that God will send one angel who will in one night kill 185.000 soldiers,” II Kings 19:35.
The startling fact about this sermon is- The common factor of all 30 examples given, is that they were all successful, and not a single one of them make any sense. In fact, from a human standpoint, they are just plain stupid. Everyone knows that putting mud in a person’s eye would cause him not to be able to see, not cure blindness. How can you get up and walk when you can’t even get up? You can look at an object all day long, and nothing will be cured, let alone a deadly snake bite, that hundreds had already died from. How can you get a woman to be the General of the Army, when at this time no women had ever been in the army, let alone be the leader. Besides being a preacher, she was probably also a blond. Yes, the methods worked every one of them. But in any other situation or any other time, none of them would have worked.
There is more going on here than meets the eye. In each of them either God, Jesus, or a “man of God”, such as Elijah or Elisha, an Apostle such as Peter or Paul is involved. And so, we know that Divine Power is part of the cure. But in each case, besides God or his representative being present, with divine power, a third factor is included. This factor is an individual, who is seeking divine intervention. Thus the individual is the key to the cure working, the problem being solved, the opposing army defeated. These were ordinary people for the most part, just a cross section of society. Or humble ordinary people when they first were the key to miracles, and became great because of their faith. David was a teen shepherd boy when he first allowed God to use him. Moses was a fugitive from justice, a shepherd, living in the desert when he allowed God to use him as a key of faith. Gideon was no one of note, when he believed and followed God becoming a man of faith. The Shunammite woman that was kind to a prophet, a poor widow at Zarephath, a prophet’s widow, a student prophet, a sick woman, a blind man. They could have been any of us. All of us could be the key to miracles in our lives and in building God’s Kingdom.
We learned from Jesus, when he returned to Nazareth. We learned that he often needed an individual’s faith to perform miracles for us, Mark 5:5-6. Time after time, he says to individuals, “Your faith has healed you,” or “Your faith has saved you”. This is strange, since Jesus does not perform miracles.
He can do anything, and nothing is a miracle for him. The word miracle is a human word. When he does something for us that is impossible for us to do, we call it a miracle, because we cannot do it. To God, it is no more effort than the twitch of an eye-brow. Yet, even though it is a small thing for God, he wants us to provide the faith for him to do it. It must be like a parent urging a child to walk. You can easily carry the child, yet we let them fall time after time, so they can learn to walk. So, God lets us stumble on, trying to get us to “walk by faith”, so we can be spiritually mature. The scripture says, “Without faith it is impossible to please God,” Heb. 11:6. So, he encourages us to use faith he has made available to us, that we might have our miracles. He wants us to have them, just as we want our children to learn to walk.
Back to the health cures, problem solutions, and war strategies that are so senseless. Why did God give them? Is he just kidding, playing with us, or has he a sense of humor? Or is he trying to teach us to live by faith? Look at the practical side. If they made sense, and actually worked on their own merit, then there would be no faith involved. All we would be doing would be following instructions, showing God how obedient we are. But that would not glorify God. By us having faith, allowing him to give us a miracle, we glorify him. By using faith, we have a miracle to brag on God about, and reason to praise him.
When the ax- head fell into the Jordon, Elisha could have jumped in, waded around, or dived for it till he found it. But that does not glorify God or involve any faith. It just requires knowing how to swim. By throwing a stick in so the ax head would float, you are performing a senseless act that requires divine power to float iron on water. Then God, not Elisha, gets the glory, and the man who lost it gets a lesson, and exercises faith in the God of Elisha.
Naaman, the leper, could not understand dipping in the Jordon seven times. He could not understand why he should dip in the Jordan, or why 7 times. There is nothing magic about taking a bath. But there is plenty of faith in believing a foreign God’s power to do the impossible, with senseless instruction. His obedience turned into faith, and he was healed.
The blind man could not understand how putting mud in his eyes would make him see. But he did understand, that if Jesus put it there, it had a reason. His faith led him to obey, to get someone to lead him to the pool of Siloam, and to wash the mud out. He did it, and was immediately an ex-blind man.
The simple fact is- “Faith is an essential part of our Christian life, and we must use it, if we are going to please God, and enjoy his divine power working in and through our lives.”
Every healing and miracle was by a different method.
The next big question we face is “How to build faith.”