| ------------------------------------------------------------ ( C ) Stripes, a scriptural consequence for sins and criminal activity Finally, let us take a closer scriptural look at the issue of stripes in the context of sin and fault; 30. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31. If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32. Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. - Psalms 89:30-32 10. A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. - Proverbs 17:10 29. Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. - Proverbs 19:29 30. The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. - Proverbs 20:30 1. If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2. And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. - Deuteronomy 25:1-3 14. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: - 2 Samuel 7:14 47. And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. - Luke 12:47 23. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: - Acts 16:23 23. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; - 2 Corinthians 11:23-25 In each case, stripes were given as a consequence for punishing a person who was guilty of a crime, someone guilty of an act of sin and evil. Thus, Jesus Christ who is Righteous ( 1 John 2:1 ) and Just ( Acts 3:14 ) bore on his back the stripes on the cross on our behalf because of our sinful and unrighteous nature. Jesus Christ suffered the consequence of stripes on his back because of our sin, our iniquities, our backsliding and our transgression. Therefore, the healing of which the prophet Isaiah and the apostle Peter speak when making mention of Jesus' stripes is a healing with regard to our soul and spirit which has been guilty of sin, iniquity, transgression and backsliding. Nothing in the above scriptures equate stripes and physical healing. Now in the case of the apostles in the books of Acts and 2nd Corinthians, they received the consequence of stripes not because they were guilty of having commited a sin, a crime or wrong doing. But they received the punishment of stripes unfairly because those holy men of God were suffering for their Christian witness at the hands of unjust and evil men. So it was with Jesus Christ. He suffered stripes not because he was a sinful man, but rather being Just and Holy, Jesus the substitute for sinful humanity on the cross suffered Gods' wrath for sins on behalf of sinful humanity. Therefore, we are not physically healed by Jesus' stripes, but rather we are healed of the times we backslide into sin and iniquity. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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