Psalm 103:2-3: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Provision has been made for the body and soul because of Jesus’ atonement for us on Calvary. There is salvation for the soul, and there is healing for the mind and body. The entire world has access to these benefits that lay in the atonement. Salvation is still available to those who will receive it, Divine healing is still available, and all enjoy the body’s natural ability to heal itself, although sometimes aided by medicine and the setting of a broken bone by the doctor etcetera. But if the atonement is rejected, then the benefits of the atonement are taken away, so then salvation and healing are no longer accessible to those who rejected it.
The Gentile world has rejected Christ who made this tremendous atonement for us, so in the Tribulation, when the Door of Mercy is closed to the Gentiles, then the atonement and all that it consists of will no longer be accessible. No Gentile will be able to receive Jesus Christ, nor experience salvation for their souls, nor experience healing for their bodies.
This is perhaps a most alarming reality for the reader to learn of, however it is scripturally sound. The Tribulation will be a most terrible time for those who are left behind. With no Christ to look to for peace, mental anguish and total insanity will rapidly spread; and with no Christ to look to for healing, the body will lose its ability to heal so that people will die of the most minor sicknesses and injuries etcetera. Men and women who at present love to walk around half naked and show off their bodies, will then seek out clothing that covers their entire bodies as they rot away from sickness, disease and other physical injuries. Such an awful scene was witnessed when God was delivering His people from Egypt in the time of Moses. The Egyptians who walked around half naked had to quickly cover up when they were smitten with boils and disease that could not be remedied nor taken away until God stopped it.
The prophet of God explained to us very clearly the principle of how the body heals, and that all the medicine in the world never did heal anybody and never will heal anybody. Medicine does not heal, nor does it build back body tissue. If medicine could heal, then medicine would achieve that regardless of whether a body is dead or alive. We therefore learn that it is life itself that brings healing, and God is Life, so healing life comes from God.
We of course do not want to discard medicine, for it is medicine that keeps the body clean, but it is God that does the healing. If a person broke their arm and died from it, the doctor could set the arm, and forty years later that arm would be just as broken as on the day when it broke. But if a person broke their arm and still lived, the doctor could set the arm, but God would do the healing, because healing life that comes from God is still in the body.
In light of all this, in the Tribulation period, billions of people are still living on the earth, and the life that they have to exist as mortals comes from God Himself, but the extra benefits that God has made available, namely, that of salvation and healing, those benefits will be withdrawn because Jesus Christ was rejected, and in rejecting Christ, one rejects the atonement. We must remember that the Egyptians were alive and well, but when God smote them with boils and disease, He temporarily stalled the body’s ability to heal itself. Again, when God struck the prophet with an amoeba because he did not follow the original itinerary that God had shown him on a visit to South Africa, the prophet almost died of the sickness, and no amount of treatment nor prayer could stop the virus until God intervened and supernaturally healed him.