There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

passed away with kidney failure from diabetes, unable to drink or eat for about ten days until his body gave up and released his spirit to God. Herein lays a perplexing enigma. How can a man who has prayed the prayer of faith for so many individuals who were suffering and diseased, and who were healed through his prayers, yet pass away with a sickness? Dad and I both discussed this before his passing. It was pointed out that when Isaac was old, his “eyes were dim” (Gen. 27:1, KJV ) and he had difficulty telling his two sons, Jacob and Esau, from one another. By touching their arms and hearing their voices he was able to distinguish between the two (vv. 21–22). Elisha received a double portion of the anointing and Spirit that was on Elijah (2 Kings 2). Scholars note that Elijah performed sixteen miracles; however, Elisha experienced thirty-two, which is double the miracles of his teacher, Elijah. 1 Toward the conclusion of Elisha’s life we read, “Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die” (2 Kings 13:14). What makes this statement even more confounding is that after Elisha died, during a battle a dead soldier was thrown into the burial crypt of Elisha, and the dead man revived when he touched Elisha’s bones (vv. 20–21). With this level of God’s power within the bones of this dead prophet, why would, or better yet, how could any form of sickness attach itself to this mighty man of God? Would not the resurrection power within his body attack any sickness in his body? In the New Testament we are aware that Christ went about “healing all who were oppressed by the devil” (Acts 10:38). Yet within the