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Why the Book Was Written
The Cause
“Of making many books there is no end. . . .” Solomon was right, but
this is not just another book but a revolutionary war—war against sickness
and misery, aches and pains, against a subtle killer—war against satanic
forces that hate the truth that makes us free. I am anxious to put in your
hands, reader, the weapon of victory, the truths that have restored and
prolonged my life and added much true happiness.
“Is there not a cause?” David answered his brothers when they
accused him of coming down merely to see the battle between Israel and the
Philistines. They charged him with being completely out of character and
insisted that he should be back in the wilderness tending his father’s
sheep. But the Hebrew nation was being oppressed and about to come under
the heel of a cruel and ruthless enemy. David’s heart was on fire for
Israel’s deliverance and he knew he had the answer. He pressed his claims
even against his own family’s objections and disapproval but he won a
great victory.
In this matter, also, there is a great cause at stake. Many are
losing the battle for health and even for life itself. Why? Let the
Lord answer, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”…and
with many, “because thou hast rejected knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). This
is true physically as well as spiritually.
David lamented after Abner had been slain by Joab, “Died Abner as
a fool dieth?” (II Samuel 3:27-39). His life was safe and guaranteed
to him inside the walls of the city of refuge. Joab asked to speak to him
outside the gate and he foolishly stepped outside of the area of his
safety to death.
If David had known of Joab’s plot, he would have tried desperately
to get a message of warning to Abner in order to save his life, but Joab
hid it from David. Many today are not aware of a subtle enemy who would
induce them to step outside the safety zone of God’s Word, to disease and
an untimely death. Is not this suffering and dying like a fool?
The Knowledge
I, too, am desperately concerned about getting a message through to
my generation, and to you, reader, that you may come to a knowledge of
this truth which I am convinced can deliver the sick and dying. I speak
with no uncertainty, for it raised me almost literally out of the grave.
This book is written at the suggestion and insistence of many
trusted friends, as well as from my own earnest desire to make this truth
of deliverance known. This is a debt that I owe first to God, for
graciously revealing this blessed truth, and secondly to my fellow men
that they may be set free, not only from sickness and disease, but from
its very fear which in itself is a destroyer.
In the olden days before the network of hard surface highways, there
was always the fear of getting stuck in the mud when starting out on
cross-country driving. When dark clouds came up, they were the cause of
real concern and worry. Many did get hopelessly bogged down, which delayed
them hours and even days. What a relief it was when someone could direct
you to a paved road that would guarantee a mud-free trip all the way to
your destination.
God’s laws are paved highways that keep us from getting bogged down
in all sorts of miseries and needless difficulties. To know we are
traveling on them relieves us of the fears that plague the future of so
many today and assures us of a safe and on-schedule arrival. Happy is the
man who gets off the mud road of his own prejudice and preconceived
concepts, on to the paved highway, the Word of the Almighty, “whose ways
are perfect.”
The Application
God has given directions for the care of the body, which is
His temple and habitation, as well as for the spirit and we shall
give an account to Him for both. We have been made the custodians of God’s
house, the dwelling place of His Spirit’s presence. We are to count it a
sacred trust that, as Christian believers, we may have a good report at
the judgment seat of Jesus Christ.
Vital organs and members of the body must first be destroyed before
the body itself succumbs. And so it can be said that heart, lungs, bowels,
kidneys, liver, etc., are destroyed because the person lacked knowledge or
rejected knowledge. Many die because they have no knowledge of preventive
measures; others perish of various diseases because they do not know of
the remedy. A tragedy seems so much greater if the victim has been warned
of impending death and disregards a proven cure. “Because thou hast
rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee,” the Lord declares.
The heart-rending thing about most tragedies is that they cannot be
undone, and some diseases gain such headway they cannot be stopped. In the
light of this sober fact, earnestly consider the truths in the following
chapters.
There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that I would have been
in my grave years ago had I not come to a knowledge of this key to health
and happiness. I know of many who have died who, as the Lord said through
Hosea, “are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” If through the testimony and
evidence presented here I can save some (I trust there will be countless
numbers) from an untimely death that their mouths may continue longer to
praise our matchless Redeemer and show forth His deliverance, then the
years of study and research, time, suffering and cost will be well worth
it all.
Apart from the Holy Scriptures, I suppose there is no book written
that you and I agree with fully. (But, reader, if you doubt Holy Writ,
this volume will hold little for you, since it is based on the Eternal
Word.) It is so natural for us to have deep prejudices that are not easily
erased. We may heatedly contend that these are strong convictions on our
part; however, in a transparent examination of our beliefs in the light of
eternal truth, we many times find them colored with dark conclusions of
bias and prejudice. These preconceived concepts and dyed-in-the-wool “I’m
right; I won’t change” ideas, often blind us and close our minds to new
truths that would transform our stagnant lives into fountains of blessing
and our wilderness into gardens of Eden. May our Lord give us cool eyes
and His guiding Spirit of truth to lead us into a knowledge of the whole
counsel of God.
Since the Creator of the universe needs no letters of recommendation
from us, or any supporting data to back His claims, therefore, the
scientific information, the facts, the figures and other such findings
from great universities are included in the book merely as illustrations
and explanations, not as proof or evidence.
In the book of Job, after all the wide discussion of tragedies and
joys of life by those who were considered the wise men of that day, we
read, “The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, Where were you when
I laid the foundations of the earth? Who laid the cornerstone…who shut up
the sea with doors [when He said, “Hitherto shalt thou come but no
further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.”]…who provides food
for the raven,” etc.? In chapters 38 through 41, scores of questions
are asked that man cannot answer. In chapter 42 Job comes to the
conclusion that God is the maker and doer of all things…”That they may
know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none
beside me, I am the Lord and there is none else” (Isaiah 45:6).
Another important introductory word: This is one volume that must
be read carefully from the beginning to end, in order to get the
undistorted picture. Do not draw conclusions at the close of any one
paragraph or chapter. Please do not play leap frog or take a passage out
of its context which does not do justice to yourself or to the book. Read
it in its entirety before drawing a final conclusion.
NOTE: We will repeat certain principles and facts throughout the
book that we feel are essential to the immediate subject matter. This is
not “vain repetition.” This is done deliberately to drive home the
importance of these various truths in their different relationships.
I sincerely pray that the Spirit of God will make this book a
blessing to you, and I humbly and reverently add, “Blessed is he that
readeth.”
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