Are Sickness And Suffering Caused By Satan And His Minions

Satan and his tribe of minions can certainly bring sickness and suffering. The devil uses the direct results of Adam and Eve's fall to cause sickness and suffering. His tools are bacteria, viruses, poison, malnutrition, Alzheimer's, and premature birth for illness — while deploying accidents, blindness, warfare, old age, rapists, and murderers for suffering.

Is sin's wicked darkness the root cause of these infirmities? We should gather from scripture that, indeed, Sin could be a major factor. This can be from a person's sin or original sin that has been handed down from generations.

In all likelihood, the causes of our most wretched moments fall into those categories mentioned previously. That some people have been cured of these afflictions by the name and power of Jesus Christ shows strong evidence that sickness and suffering can be the product of Lucifer and his ilk.

John chapter 9 verses 1 to 3 tells us of a man born blind who receives sight by the spit of Jesus Christ. “And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

Upon reading this gospel, I interrupted this essay to review this entire, very powerful, chapter of John.

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.” So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

Therefore, the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?” Some said, “This is he.” Others said, “He is like him.”

He (the blind man) said, “I am he.” They asked of him, “How were your eyes opened?”

He answered and said, “A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received sight.”

Then they said to him, “Where is He?” He answered, “I do not know.”

They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees. Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

Some of the Pharisees said, “This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.”

Others said, “How can a Man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.

The Pharisees said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him because He opened your eyes?”

He said, “He is a prophet.”

But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight until they called the parents of him who had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but by what means he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.” His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. His parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

So they again called the man who was blind, and said to him, “Give God the glory! We know that this Man is a sinner.”

He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.” Then they said to him again, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”

He replied, “I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?” (Who is showing the most common sense, the Pharisees or the everyday people?)

Then they reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples. We know that God spoke to Moses; as for this fellow, we do not know where He (Jesus) is from.”