Take time to let him show you what it contains. If he uncovers any sin, ask for his forgiveness and then pray for healing. The New Testament reveals Jesus as the Great Physician, the healer of body and soul, whose miracles point to the kingdom of God. Key Scripture: If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statues, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians.
Exodus NKJV. God also reveals a part of himself via a name. We can learn something new about him every time we discover a new name in the Bible. Names had a whole other type of weight in the Old and New Testament. We do encounter the name Jehovah Yehovah a lot in Scripture, often tied with a compound name of some sort.
The verb from which Rophe or Rapha is derived occurs sixty-seven times in the Old Testament. Though it often refers to physical healing, it usually has a larger meaning as well, involving the entire person. This Hebrew verb is also used in other ways—for example, God "heals" water, land, and nations, and he "repairs" an altar.
Significantly, God also heals sin and apostasy. The Hebrew Scriptures, in fact, link sickness and sin by presenting sin as the cause of illness just as it is the cause of death. In the New Testament, the corresponding Greek word is iaomai and it can refer to deliverance from death, demons, sickness, and sin.
We first discover the name of Jehovah Rapha in Exodus Scripture also uses the name Jehovah Rapha in verses such as Jeremiah , Isaiah , Isaiah , and Psalm It should come as no surprise that people in Scripture call God Jehovah Rapha when they face something a little more detrimental than a stomach ache or the common cold. They arrived at a place called Marah and found water only to discover that it was bitter.
They turned to God, complaining that He was not taking care of them. Moses turned to God and cried out for help. God intervened and instructed Moses to take a piece of wood and throw it into the water. Immediately, the water became clean, sweet and refreshing. God then speaks to the Israelites, but he seems to change the subject.
He talks about the diseases the Egyptians had suffered, and how the Israelites can avoid those conditions. God tells the people that he can heal them, but they need to obey. He will be their Jehovah Rapha. In Exodus 15, God gives himself a new name: Jehovah Rapha. What he actually said is stronger than that. God heals and, at that moment, was a good thing because the Israelites needed healing.
I believe the bitter taste in the water symbolized what was polluting the Israelites hearts. They were harboring bitterness that needed healing. We all have bitterness over things that have happened to us, and we all need healing. God can heal that. God is the one who heals. He came to the earth and through Jesus, healed over seventy times throughout the Gospel.
Moses did so, and the waters became fresh and sweet. And that promise is repeated throughout the Old Testament. Here are just a few examples:. Jesus is the Great Physician Mark , calling those who are sick spiritually to repentance.
As Isaiah says,. Jesus spent His time with us on Earth healing people physically and forgiving their sins. We can call on Jehovah Rapha today; He is still ready to fix whatever is broken in our lives. To this day, no formal vowels exist in the Hebrew language. However, a group of secular leaders of the Jews called the Masoretes, created what are called vowel points to help with pronunciation of words mainly for non-Hebrew speakers. They took the vowel points for the word Adonai and inserted them into YHWH to disguise and distort the true pronunciation of the one and only name of the All-Powerful One, stating that the name was too sacred to be outwardly spoken.
However, this is in direct contradiction to the scriptures that plainly command his people to call on his name. Sadly, rather than search the scriptures to find out the truth for ourselves, most of us just rely on what we are told without question.
Depending on this meaning of His name, praying for His healing every day. My husband of 46 years was diagnosed April 20, with stage 4 lung cancer.
While all of these comments are interesting, this passage is a great comfort and hope to precious people like Ronda and her husband. He is my healer! This phrase, apart from your use of it in the second paragraph of your comment that I agree with, just jumps out at me. Sadly we all lose out on much of our knowing, walking with, and living in as described by the rest of the commenters of this post to this point of the ONE who exists beyond our understanding.
One day we all will come to understand. He is faithful. Wonderful, thank you. With all due respect, did not God say in the second book- … This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations. I understand that God not need to distinguish Himself.
Cleary in the second book He does not give His memorial name to moses as Adonai. Thank you for your insights, Professor Mordochai.
I took a few Hebrew classes in seminary, and really respect your expertise in this area. Once I began studying Hebrew, I was completely overwhelmed by the complexity of it, and went away feeling as if I had barely scratched the surface.
Thank you for helping us understand more about this passage. I would love to hear more of what you have to say in the future. Shalom, Chaplain Nancy Dallara Davis. These comments are so educating for me, especial Prof. Mordochai ben-Tziyyon. Bless The Lord Our God. Thank you everyone—and BLB, for this article and reference scriptures.
I do like the information. We know God hears us and His word is true regardless.
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