Sickness throughout time has been escalating and people have been experiencing strange illnesses in their bodies, and in their minds. Now, there are illnesses that not many people experience which simple medicine cures, and there are those illnesses that no matter what one takes they just do not want to leave. And, there are those types of illnesses that hit mass populations of which results are catastrophic; these are known as plagues. For example, small pox killed 300 million people in the 20th century from 420 B.C. to 1979, the Spanish flu killed 50 to 100 million people in 2 years, by 1771 75 million people were killed by the black death disease, Malaria till today has killed 2 million people, and Aides has killed 25 million people till today. Ever since the ten plagues during Moses’ time many plagues have been showing up these days. So, why plagues? What is the purpose for the massive illness that kills so many people?
Mark 5:28-30
28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?
As Jesus is finding his way to Jairus’ house to heal his daughter this women with an unstoppable leakage of blood hears of his healing power and presses through the crowd to the point of touching him. It is important to note that whoever reaches over to Christ they shall be healed (Mk1:34, 3:10, Is. 53:5, Ps. 30:2, 107:20). This women did not know that the illness she had could not be healed with medicine and she spent all she had trying to find a healing. Plagues cannot be healed with conventional medicine; they can be controlled, The purpose of the plagues was to chastise during Moses time the Egyptians for their idolatry. Idolatry in Egypt was so high they had a god for many things; they had ten main gods and those plagues which God sent were sent as punishment. The ten plagues consisted of snakes, blood, frogs, lice, flies, anthrax (death of cattle), boil, hail, locust, darkness, and pharaoh (death of the 1st born)(ex. 7-11). Throughout the ages plagues have appeared and have caused detrimental effects on man kind, it seems that God has been using them to set his people free (Jh 8:36, Ro 8:2).