Healing Was Never a Separate Purchase
"He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us shalom was on Him and by His wounds we are healed." Isaiah 53:5 It's easy to read the Cross as a single-purpose transaction — sin dealt with, forgiveness secured, account settled. And it is that. But Isaiah 53:5 says more than that, if you slow down enough to notice it. The word translated peace in that verse is shalom — the same word that carries the idea of nothing missing, nothing broken, everything whole. And the verse doesn't separate the forgiveness from the healing. It holds them together, in the same breath, purchased by the same wounds. The punishment that brought us shalom was on Him. Not the punishment that brought us forgiveness, full stop, with healing left as a separate line item to be negotiated for later. Forgiveness for sin. Healing for the body. Restoration for the soul. These were never three different purchases made at three different prices....