of FIGS AND TUMORS AND PARASITES...and sexual pleasure

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Friends;

I do believe I'm on to something good here with the FIGS..The ones from

Smyrna..Just now I have been eating the boiled figs (3 minutes and then left to

soak) and the result has been the " loosening " of these tumors in the

mouth..Tonight I will try applying these same boiled fiigs to the tumor on the

chin.

melville

URL = " http://www.tbm.org/medicineverseshealing.htm "

Today's Question:

Dear Tom, thank you for your faith-inspiring article [on healing]! My husband

and I know the Lord heals. He healed me miraculously when He brought me into the

precious truth. We've experienced miracles as of late too! I have been for a

long time trying to understand by scripture if there is a place at all for the

medical establishment in a Christian's life. Do you see scripture for Doctors

being okay? I just really want to know where I stand on this issue, once and for

all. It seems double-minded to say God heals, but that doctors are good too.

Sincerely, Lori Silva

oldpreach@...

Bible Answer:

Medicine and doctors have their place. After all Luke himself was a physician,

and it doesn't seem that he gave up his practice just because he became a

believer. God used him to write two major books in the New Testament. , who

God used many times to heal, also encourages the medicinal use of wine to

:

Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your

frequent illnesses. (1 Tim 5:23)

's advice shows he was practical in his approach to healing as well as

spiritual. We need that balance. In the Old Testament, we see that the prophet

told Hezekiah to APPLY SOME FIGS to his life-threatening sore, and through the

word of prophecy and the application of the figs, he was healed.

Isaiah had said, " Prepare a POULTICE OF FIGS and apply it to the boil, and he

will recover. " (Isa 38:21)

I do not find a problem with applying both natural and spiritual remedies for

healing. Even Jesus said that the sick need a physician (Luke 5:31).

We also need to be careful not to put our trust in doctors. Too many believers

seek first doctors before they seek the Lord. Asa did that, and he died as a

result of this mistake..In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted

with a disease in his feet.

Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the

LORD, but only from the physicians. (2 Chr 16:12)

God was not upset that Asa saw doctors, but He was angry that he sought help

only from the physicians. That's when we get into trouble. We should learn from

him to PUT THE LORD FIRST, and trust only him to heal and yet be practical and

use physicians, medicine, or natural remedies when needed.

and from

URL =

" http://www.herbalgram.org/wholefoodsmarket/herbalgram/articleview.asp?a=754 "

Dioscorides also recommended that a poultice prepared from flaxseed, honey and

figs was good for sunburn and when a poultice made from the seed was mixed with

honey and pepper " it doeth also provoke venery [sexual pleasure]. " Sixteen

centuries later, the English herbalist Culpeper reported, " The seed

being boiled in water and applied as a poultice or plaster assuageth all pains,

softeneth cold, tumors or swellings, the impostumes of the neck and other parts

of the body...pounded with figs, it is good to ripen and bring to a head boils

and other swellings. "