Healing is the Children's Bread

To assert that 'healing' has ceased...

...is really to deny the Jewish theology of healing, health, covenant, sin, forgiveness, Messiah, God and His kingdom and how these were each interconnected.

The claim of the New Testament was that the ancient Jewish outlook on the future - grounded as it was in their Old Testament Scriptures - was now being fulfilled, inaugurated and carried-out precisely by 'the gospel'.

That's what 'the gospel' meant - it was the glad announcement that the ancient hope of Israel was now being fulfilled - that each of those themes were now coming together, in Jesus the Messiah - for all mankind.

God was visiting His people; dealing with their sin at last; healing and health could, according to covenant, consequently be experienced; evil regimes and even death itself was to be defeated. The 'gospel of the kingdom'.

To say instead that healing had a different purpose and that it was only temporary, disconnects 'healing' from the significance given to it all through the Scriptures - in the Old Testament (the Law, promise, covenant, Psalms and Prophets) first of all; and also in the New Testament.

It would reinvent the Bible-theology of healing - and it would therefore actually be tantamount to modifying 'the gospel' itself.

By reinventing the significance of 'healing' and then eliminating it, we would in effect be minimising part of what 'the gospel' was claimed in the New Testament to actually be.

"And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the FULNESS OF THE BLESSING OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST" (Romans 15:29).