Atonement, Healing and Death

Appoint: to be laid away, laid by, reserved, reserved for one, awaiting him. In other words, God have already reserved my time of death (which I do not know when) because He is my creator and I have on control over my long living life. Ecclesiastes 3:2 "a time to be born and a time to die". What made God decided that I was born on December 11th? Ecclesiastes 11:5 "As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things." Greek Word: Ajpovkeimai Transliterated Word: apokeimai Book to Display: Hebrews Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Ecclesiastes 8:12 Although a wicked man commits a hundred crimes and still lives a long time, I know that it will go better with God-fearing men, who are reverent before God. God have "appointed" their time (day). Hebrews 9:27 (NKJV) And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment. (NIV) Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment. Many Christians die before 70 years. This proves that not ALL Christians will live 70 years or beyond. read Ecclesiastes on their birthday every year simply because Solomon explained to us the reality of life from God's point of view. I arrived naked from the womb of my mother; I will leave in the same condition--with nothing. There's a right time and way for everything. It's true that no one knows what's going to happen, or when. Life leads to death that life, while it lasts, will soon be over. There's an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth. A right time for birth and another for death. A right time to plant and another to reap. A right time to get sick and another to heal. A right time to cry and another to laugh, A right time to lament and another to cheer. A right time to make love and another to abstain. A right time to embrace and another to part, A right time to search and another to count your losses. A right time to hold on and another to let go. A right time to rip out and another to mend. A right time to shut up and another to speak up. A right time to love and another to hate. The atonement basically means whoever Believe in Christ will not perish and those who do not believe in Christ will NOT get the benefit of Christ's atonement. Many of the verses regarding Christ's atonement are related to eternal life rather than healing. In Mark 10:17, a rich young man ran up to Jesus and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" In verse, 21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." John 12:25 The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. In Proverbs 20:9, Solomon wrote "Who can say, 'I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin' "? Matthew 25:46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." Nothing about physical healing right away. This talks about eternal life (with your new body of course). Those of us were given the free gift of faith and that we have escaped eternal punishment that we rightly deserved because of the mercy and grace of God, and we should be eternally grateful. Hebrews 9:15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant. Hebrews 13:20 May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep. 1 John 2:25 And this is what he promised us—even eternal life. Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. Do I love my physical body more than my spiritual being? Reading Ecclesiastes helped me understood what God is expecting from us. We are to focus on spiritual matter since our temporal beings are going back to DUST. Everything in my human life is meaningless, my pleasures are meaningless, there is a time for everything, my advancements are meaningless, my riches are meaningless. I have learned that there is common destiny among us, materialistically, we are born with nothing and we will die with nothing. I understood that I should enjoy myself and the fruits of my labors, that my life is empty when I lived apart from God. God is my life and when I die, I will be with Him. My faith is not the only issue that God is looking for. Spiritual is the key for atonement. Not temporal healing. Romans 3:25-26 "God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— He did it to demonstrate His justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus."