MMW L02 - The Secret of Disease Revealed

Purpose:

To reveal what disease is, what it is not, and the hidden causes of it.

Introduction

(a) The word “Disease” means “Dis-ease”, “unwell”, “sickness”.

(b) “I saw that the reason why God did not hear the prayers of His servants for the sick among us more fully was that He could not be glorified in so doing while they were violating the laws of health “CD 25-26 

(c) “Sick persons cannot be healed while knowingly committing sin” – Sons & Daughters of God 297. 

(d) “It is labor lost to teach people to look to God as a healer of their infirmities, unless they are taught also to lay aside unhealthful practices. In order to receive His blessing in answer to prayer, they must cease to do evil and learn to do well” – MH227. 

(e) When Christ said, “Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.” (John 5:14), He taught that disease is the result of violating God’s laws, both natural and spiritual” (CD31).

(f) “There is sickness everywhere, and much of it might be prevented by attention to the laws of health” – (CH 389). 

(g) “Thousands need to be educated patiently, kindly, tenderly, but decidedly, that 9 10 of their complaints are created by their own course of action” – MM225.

1. What is Disease?

(a) “Sickness is the result of transgression” – CH 37 

(b) “Disease, the penalty of nature’s violated law” – CH 347 

(c) “it is a sin to be sick, for all sickness is the result of transgression”. – E.G. White 

(d) “Disease is the body’s effort at expelling toxins” – Dr. J.H. Tilden. 

(e) “Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health…unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected. Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions within the system” – MH 127.

2. What Disease is not, and the true cause of it

Note: The world has developed a philosophy that disease is caused by germs, and that we need to kill the germs by all means to bring a cure. But are germs the basic cause of disease? 

(a) Louis Pasteur: Was a French Chemist who developed the germ theory in the 1920s. He researched on bacteria and viruses as causers of disease. He used to argue with another Frenchman- a physiotherapist called Claude Bernard who argued that germs do not directly cause disease, but the favorable condition you create for them in the body is what cause them to multiply and turn infectious. One day as Pasteur, was dying, his death-bed , confession was recorded: “Bernard is right. The microbe is nothing. The environment is all important.” But this confession was useless because his false theory had already covered the whole world and has taken over the world’s health institution!

(b) True research show that germs are a secondary cause of disease. The primary source is sin, violation of

health laws that has filled the body with toxins, which the germs are scavenging upon. 

(i) Antoine Bechamp, a contemporary of Pasteur, stressed that germs are only a secondary cause of disease. This was verified by Dr. Rosenow (America’s foremost bacteriologist) in 1914. 

(ii) Dr. Ray Rife proved in his lab that germs can be changed from being harmful to harmless and vice versa by altering the environment. He could change Bacillus coli (germ) to Bacillus typhosis within 36 hours by changing the medium as little as 2 over one million by volume! 

(iii) Dr. Lemke in 1897 found out that by changing the diet from meat to vegetarianism changed many infectious germs to being harmless! 

(iv) Dr. .A.C. Sass said just like the green flies swarm to areas of rotting matter to multiply, so are germs in a polluted body. Clean the dust bin of rotting rubbish and the flies would be gone in minutes only, so is our bodies! 

(v) Therefore, the use of drugs to kill germs while the primary causes –sin, toxins, pollution (from bad food, drink, air, habits, etc) are not removed, is, and will not take the world’s Pasteur philosophy anywhere near true health. 

Entering Wedge page 9 to 12

“Disease has been identified in three different categories -- hereditary, communicative, and self-created (acquired). This being so, then there must be three kinds of sin, three laws to transgress. Two of these laws are found in the Decalogue (Ex. 20:3-17): The first prohibits sinning against God, and the second against our fellowmen. The Third, therefore, is the law of health, the law which forbids transgressing against our bodies (Lev. 11; Isa. 66:16, 17).

Plainly, then, sinning against God brings in its wake a hereditary curse, the kind that passes from father to son "unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me" (Ex. 20:5), saith the Lord. And sinning against our fellowmen brings communicative diseases, shown in the fact that when Miriam sinned against her brother, Moses, she was stricken with the contagious disease, leprosy (Num. 12). "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long...." Ex. 20:12. So "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Gal. 6:7. Thus it was that when Haman built the gallows upon which to hang Mordecai, he himself was hanged on them (Esther 7:9, 10). And when Daniel was unjustly cast into the lions' den, his enemies were devoured by the hungry beasts, but Daniel was spared (Dan. 6:16, 22, 24). Moreover, when the three Hebrews were cast into the fiery furnace, those who carried them were consumed by the flames, but the Hebrews came out unharmed (Dan. 3:21-23). So also, "he that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword." Rev. 13:10.

It is therefore a never-failing fact that if one molests his neighbor, or intends to do so, the harm will fall on himself; and if he harms his neighbor's children, his own children will suffer as a result. The diseases, though, which are not inherited, the sinner himself creates by sinning against his own body. Sinning against a neighbor or against oneself, nevertheless, is indirectly sinning against God also.

WHAT SHOULD EVERYONE KNOW?

If one is suffering from a hereditary disease, for which his parents, grandparents, or great grandparents alone are guilty, he is, of course, helpless to do much of anything in the line of complete recovery, be it by dieting or by using drugs. He may, however, be able to control the disease or even to overcome it by being strictly obedient to the laws of God, knowing that nothing in the world will effect a cure for such illness but prayer, if God's wisdom so decrees.

On the other hand, if one is suffering from a disease which has been communicated to him or that is communicative, due to one's sinning against his fellowmen, then to remove the disease once and forever, he must repent of his sin, practice the golden rule: "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." Matt. 7:12.

But if the disease be neither hereditary nor communicative, then it must be self-created, acquired by oneself, by violating the laws of health, by not living right in one respect or another.

The wise will, therefore, correct their habits of living -- make sure that they do not sin against God or against their fellowmen, that they sleep, breathe, eat, drink, and work correctly and religiously, and if there is a cure at all, they will have it.

The cause of each type of disease having now been defined, the sufferer of any of the three kinds of diseases may without difficulty determine which one of the three laws he is transgressing and as a result paying the penalty it imposes. If he is afflicted with complications of diseases, though, he must be breaking all of God's laws. Let him henceforth quit sinning in any line if he expects to recover and stay well, too.

Many diseases, of course, are wrongly classed as contagious. For example, tuberculosis is not actually communicable, for when one becomes infected with the disease, he can effect a cure if while it is yet in its early stages, he begins to live right. Obviously, then, if one always lives right, he need not fear of the disease ever getting a foothold in his body. So in the last analysis a number of diseases so-called contagious are not in reality such. Strictly speaking, they are infectious, brought on by oneself. And now, how fortunate should one consider himself to know that right living and right doing, with faith in God, actually do away with a multitude of sorrows!

SUMMARIZING THE CAUSES OF ALL DISEASES

Those who wonder what is the cause of this, of that, and of the other disease, may quickly test every case:

It is now fully understood that life and death are at war with each other as are the nations among themselves: One nation's army may pour fire upon another, but not all of the soldiers receive the same kind of wound even though the whole army be under the same fire. In like manner, the bodies of men are the soldiers and the cause of disease the Enemy's mighty weapon in the warfare between heaven and earth. Hence, though some suffer from headache, some from stomachache, some from diabetes, some from anemia, from heart disease gallstones, neuritis, or other ailments, yet all suffer for the same reason -- simply because they have in one way or another moved away from their only fortress, the laws of God. This is the final diagnosis of all diseases. Stick close to Nature, and Nature will stick close to you.” (End of Entering Wedge quote).

Conclusion

1. With a strong immune system due to healthful cooking and eating, drinking, dressing, etc, the body can fight off germs. Dr. Metnikoff of Russia discovered this with long life span Bulgarians who used the friendly bacteria-rich Yoghurt, sour milk and sauerkraut very much. Friendly bacteria can fight off germs in the body and make vitamin Bs, K, etc in our bodies!

2. Drugs may kill bacteria Just as insect spray can kill pests but as long as there is rotting matter in the bin, no matter how strong the pesticide you may invent to kill flies new swarms will continue to emerge-so are germs in our bodies.