Answers to God's Mysteries
By Cicily Sunny
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Sin, Demon, Diseases, Faith, Miracle and Healing

At Arbela Jesus says to his disciples about the two causes of diseases, "Diseases inevitably come. It is not true that every disease is the consequence of vice or punishment. There are holy diseases sent by the Lord to His just people, so that in the world, which considers itself the end and the means of pleasure, there may be holy people who are like war-hostages for the safety of others, and they pay personally expiating through their suffering, the portion of guilt which the world daily accumulates and which would end by crashing on Mankind, burying it under its malediction. Do you remember old Moses praying while Joshua was fighting in the name of the Lord? You must consider that those who suffer holily give the greatest battle to the fiercest warrior there is in the world, concealed under the appearances of men and peoples, Satan, the Torturer, the Origin of all evils, and they fight on behalf of all men. But how much difference there is between such holy diseases sent by God, and those caused by vice through sinful love of senses! The former are a proof of God's merciful will; the latter are a proof of diabolical corruption. It is therefore necessary to love, in order to be holy, because love creates, preserves and sanctifies." (V. 3, Ch. 294, P. 114). 

During his preaching at Gerasa,its no Jesus says, "I have come for the love that God has for mankind created by Him and to remind people that one Kingdom only is holy: the Kingdom of Heaven. And I have come to preach it, so that the better people may go towards it. Oh! I would like everybody, even the worst ones, to come to it, becoming converted, freeing themselves from the demon who keeps them enslaved, either openly through corporal and spiritual possession or secretly through a mere spiritual one. That is why I move about curing sick people, expelling demons from possessed people, converting sinners, forgiving in the name of the Lord, preaching the Kingdom, working miracles to convince you of my power and prove that God is with me because no one can work a miracle unless God is his friend. So if I expel demons with the power of God, and I cure sick people, I cleanse lepers, convert sinners, announce and preach the Kingdom and I call people to it in the name of God, and God's compliance with me is clear and indisputable, so that only disloyal enemies may assert the contrary, it is a sign that the Kingdom of God is among you and must be established because the hour of its foundation has come." (V. 3, Ch. 287, P. 76).

It is a common thing in all the miracles of Jesus that he asks the sick person to repent about his or her sin and to believe in God. In Volume 3, Chapter 289, Jesus cures a merchant of his blindness. When the merchant asks Jesus why he exacts so much faith to work a miracle, Jesus says, "It is because faith witnesses the presence of hope and love of God." When the merchant asks why Jesus wants repentance first, Jesus says, "It is because repentance makes God friendly." When the merchant again asks how he can testify that he has faith, Jesus says, "You should come to the Truth. You could not come without God's goodness. God allows those who look for Him to find Him, even if they are not yet repentant because man generally repents when he knows God, either consciously or even with a faint consciousness of what his soul wants. Before he is like a blockhead led only by instinct." 

When Jesus appears to his apostles and about five hundred believers at Mount Tabor, he says, "A miracle is not a common and essential act for the life in faith. On the contrary, blessed are those who will be able to remain in the faith without extraordinary means to help them to believe! But neither is a miracle an act so exclusively reserved to special times, that it must cease when they cease. There will always be miracles in the world. And the more numerous are the just in the world, the more numerous will the miracle be. When you see that the true miracles are becoming very rare, you can then say that faith and justice are languishing because I said: "If you have faith, you will be able to move mountains"….God is with those who love Him. The sign of how my believers are in me will be the number and the power of the miracles they will work in my name and to glorify God. To a world without true miracles, it will be possible to say without slander: "You have lost faith and justice. You are a world without saints." (V. 5, Ch. 630, P. 834). 

In Volume 4, Chapter 527 Jesus says that a miracle is generally a proof of holiness and that it can also come from the sources of darkness. He says, "There are people who are already worshippers of Satan and practice the cult of pride, and in order to impose themselves on other people, they sell themselves to the Dark One to have him as a friend….It is possible by adhering to evil, by choosing to give oneself up to Evil so that one might enjoy one hour of triumph, no matter how."

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