Now, all sickness, we have to find first that all sickness came from the devil. God is not the author of sickness. No sickness comes from God. God sometimes permits Satan to put sickness on you, as a whip to bring you back to the house of God, when you’ve disobeyed. But sickness, in its beginning, come from the devil. Could you imagine a person would believe that God, our Heavenly Father, would be the author of such a thing as sickness and death? Well, no, He isn’t, never was, never will be. God permits death because of disobedience. God permits death. As one writer said, “All that death can do, God harnessed it to a buggy and it pulls us into the Presence of God, a believer.” But the word death means “separation.”

Demonology, Physical Realm, 1953-06-08, Connersville, IN, §19