ding of blood there is no remission of sins." Adopt a bloodless religion and you have but a religion of ideas, and nothing but a human thrill, because "joy unspeakable and full of glory" can never be known except by those who have been saved through the blood of Christ. It is just as great a mystery to me how these Fundamentalists can say that healing is bestowed without reference to Christ's death. The salvation of any part of man without sacrifice is unknown in Scripture.

If bodily healing is offered and is to be preached irrespective of Calvary, why was it that no blessing of the year of Jubilee was to be announced by the sounding of the trumpet until the Day of Atonement? Paul tells us that it is "in Him" that all the promises of God are yea and amen; which is another way of saying that all the promises of God, including His promise to heal, owe their existence and power exclusively to the redeeming work of Christ.

HEALING NOT DEFERRED UNTIL THE MILLENNIUM

Some ministers are trying to relegate bodily healing to the Millennial Day, but Jesus said "this day" (not the Millennial Day) is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." It was in the Church (not the millennium) that God set (established) "teachers, miracles, gifts of healing," etc. None in the Church will need healing during the millennium, because they will receive glorified bodies before the millennium, when they are "caught up

to meet the Lord in the air," when this mortal puts on immortality. If we are going to relegate healing to the millennium, we shall have to do so with the "teachers," etc., that God set in the Church, with the "gifts of healing." To say that healing is only for the millennium is synonymous with saying that we are now in the millennium, because God is healing many thousands in this day.

God's all-inclusive promise is to pour His Spirit upon all flesh during the "acceptable year of the Lord," which is the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. He comes as Christ's executive, to execute for us all the blessings of redemption-to bring to us "the earnest" or "firstfruits" of our spiritual and physical inheritance, until the last enemy, which is death, is destroyed, thus admitting us to our full inheritance

FAITH COMES BY HEARING

The reason why many of the sick in our day have not returned to their physical possessions is that they have not heard the trumpet sound on this line. "Faith cometh by hearing," and they have not heard; because many ministers had their Gospel trumpet put out of order while in the theological seminary. They remind me of a man whom I knew who played a trombone in a brass band. At the beginning of a rehearsal the boys put a small spike into the mouth-piece of his horn, so that, when he blew, his breath went against

the head of the spike, making it impossible for him to produce much sound out of the horn, but he went through the whole rehearsal without discovering what was wrong. Some preachers, like

this man, think they are blowing their Gospel trumpet all right, and have not discovered that there is not half as much coming out of it as there ought to be. They are not, like Paul, declaring "the whole counsel of God."

As here in Leviticus the types show that healing was invariably through atonement, so Matthew 8:17 definitely states that Christ healed all diseases on the ground of the Atonement. The Atonement was His reason for making no exceptions while healing the sick. "He . . . healed all that were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias, the prophet, saying: Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses." Since it is our sicknesses He bore, His Atonement embracing us all, it would require the healing of all to fulfil this prophecy. Jesus is still healing all who come to Him with living faith, “that it might be fulfilled . . .

Since in the darker age of the types they all had the privilege of being healed, surely in this "better" dispensation, with its "better" Covenant and "better" promises, God has not withdrawn this Old Testament mercy. If so, we are robbed that much by the coming and Atonement of Christ.

In Numbers 16:46-50, after 14,700 had died of

the plague, Aaron, as priest, in his mediatorial office, stood for the people between the dead and the living and made an atonement for the removal of the plague the healing of the body. So Christ, our Mediator, by His Atonement, redeemed us from the "plague" of sin and sickness.

THE TYPE OF THE BRAZEN SERPENT

Again, in Numbers 21:9, we read of the Israelites all healed by looking at the brazen serpent which was lifted up as a type of the Atonement. If healing was not to be in the Atonement, why were these dying Israelites required to look at the type of the Atonement for bodily healing? Since both healing and forgiveness came through the type of the Atonement, why not to us through Christ, the Antitype? As their curse was removed by the lifting up of the brazen serpent, so Paul tells us that ours is removed by the lifting up of Christ. (Galatians 3:13).

Again, in Job 33:24-25, we read: "I have found a ransom (margin, atonement), his flesh shall be fresher than a child's; he shall return to the days of his youth." Here, we see Job's flesh was healed through an atonement. Why not ours?

Again, David opens the 103d Psalm by calling upon his soul to bless the Lord and to "forget not all His benefits," and then he specifies, "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases." How does God forgive sin? Of course, through the Atonement of Christ. He heals dis

ease in the same way, because the Atonement of Jesus Christ is the only ground for any benefit to fallen man. How can God save any part of man

except through the Atonement?

In I Corinthians 10:11, Paul tells us "All these things happened unto them for ensamples (margin, as types); and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world (ages) are come." In Galatians 3:7,16,29, the Holy Spirit shows us clearly that these things are for us as well as for Israel. “Know ye, therefore, that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham . . . now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made . . . and if ye (Gentiles) be Christ's ye are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." "Therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints and with the household of God."

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The Rev. Daniel Bryant, in his book "Christ Among Our Sick," says, "The Church then learned what the Church needs, it seems, to learn again; namely, that there is no difference to the compassionate Christ between a sick Gentile and a sick Jew."

THE SEVEN REDEMPTIVE NAMES OF JEHOVAH

To me, another unanswerable argument that healing is in the Atonement is to be found in the seven redemptive names of Jehovah. On pages 6 and 7 of the Schofield Bible, Mr. Schofield, in his