During a recent election season, candidates promoted themselves as the solution to the healthcare crisis in America. They promised change. They promised solutions. Some of them even promised free healthcare as a fundamental human right. (You should expect to get what you pay for when the cost is free.)
Yet, there is a country that has already promised universal healthcare as a basic right to all of its citizens. Better yet, it is even free for the taking. Further still, it is not even funded with taxes. In addition, healthcare is not only free, but the food in the nation is also unlimited and free.
No, it is neither Canada nor the European Union. The country is eternal. The King is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The citizens of that kingdom are part of the bride of Christ, the church.
As John described his heavenly vision of the church descending from the presence of God, he wrote of the eternal healthcare system of God. “In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations” (Revelation 22:2).
Remember the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve could freely eat from it. That tree gave life, but they lost access to its power when they sinned. They were banished from the Garden, and a watch was set. The real Tree of Life (a spiritual one) is in the middle of the street in the New Jerusalem. It provides healing and food to the nation. Jesus promised eternal sustenance to those who would follow Him (John 4:14; 6:35), and this was prefigured in Israel in the wilderness (1 Corinthians 10:1-4). Jesus is also the Good Shepherd who cares for and heals the sheep.
For thus says the Lord GOD: “Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. …I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country. …There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. …I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick.“ (Ezekiel 34:11-16)
Do you want unlimited healthcare? Do you want free healthcare for all? Do you want unlimited food as a basic right of citizens? Do you want what God offers? You won’t find it on Earth. Here, you’ll get what you pay for, but in the heavenly country, God provides abundant blessings. Here’s how you receive them. “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city” (Revelation 22:14).
