Chapter 2 of 7

Life’S Healing— The Need Of The Dying

Life’S Healing— The Need Of The Dying

LIFE'S HEALING— THE NEED OF THE DYING

In this booklet we shall see the need of the dying which is life's healing. For this sign Jesus returned to Cana of Galilee, the place of the weak and fragile people (John 4:43-46). Cana means a land of reeds, and reeds signify weak and fragile people (Isa. 42:3a; Matt. 12:20a; 11:7). Cana is in Galilee, a despised place (John 7:41, 52), which signifies the world of a low and mean condition where the weak and fragile people are. The Lord was here once during the first sign to change the death water into life wine (John 2:1-11). Now He comes back to the same place to do the second sign, which in the principle of life corresponds with the first sign—to change death into life.

THE WEAK AND FRAGILE

PEOPLE DYING

This case, the third among the nine cases pre­ sented in the Gospel of John, reveals the dying people's need of healing. This case concerns the son of a royal official who was about to die. Man­ kind firstly needs regeneration (John 3), secondly

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