The Healing of Naaman
“The Healing of Naaman” Victor Paul Wierwille There lived a mighty king who was head of the mightiest empire of its day called the Syrian Empire. The record that I want to look at is regarding one of this king’s great men. His name was Naaman. 2 Kings 5:1: Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper. He was captain of the host of the king of Syria, which perhaps would mean in our day that he would have been a “five-star general.” There was no one above him. He was the leader of the greatest army of its day and of its time. He was a great man with his master and honourable because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria. He was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper. To be a leper in Israel put you outside of the pale, but if one was a leper among the Gentile or pagan nations, they did not throw you out. That is why Naaman was allowed to stay, and to the best of my knowledge, as I have worked the Word, this perhaps was in the early stages of what we know as leprosy. 2 Kings 5:2: And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. When Syria had gone in to capture Samaria, the capital of the ten northern tribes of Israel, they brought many of the men and many of the women out. One little maid whom they brought out became the helper to Naaman’s wife. 2 Kings 5:3: And she said unto her mistress [this is unto Naaman’s wife], Would God my lord [that is Naaman] were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy. She was just a little maid. She had been captured. She had been brought in as a slave, a little maid in the house, a servant to the great Naaman’s wife. And this little maid, in that situation, said to her mistress, “Would to God my lord, Naaman, were with
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their deliverance, and then they think about it, and they say, “Well, I do not see much improvement.” He did not see any! He went down six times and he did not see any improvement. But, he went down the seventh time according to the word of the prophet and when he came up from the seventh dipping... 2 Kings 5:14 continued: ... his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. The skin on him was like the skin of a baby. Gillette went out of business. So did Wilkinson Sword Blade, all of them, because a little child does not need a Gillette. The most important thing is to (1) get God’s Word, then to (2) carry it out literally. If God would say, “Jump,” you never ask, “How high?” you just jump. 2 Kings 5:15-16: And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him [the man of God]: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is