Did Christ die for them that are perishing ?

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It healed/saved them !2

Now what does the word healed mean in 1 Peter 2:24 ?

Well it's the greek word iaomai and means:

to make whole i. e. to free from errors and sins, to bring about (one's) salvation:

It or they, His stripes bring about or effects one's salvation!

Now what can be more plainer than that ?

John Poole writes in his comments on Isa 53:5 " with his stripes we are healed"

by his sufferings we are saved from our sins, and from the dreadful effects thereof.

And that is a true comment! Christ death alone saved them He died for from their sins and its effects, which is death, even the second death! 54

 

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It makes them righteous and gives them heaven as their eternal life and inheritance.

The death of Christ alone for them He died for hath accomplished their being made righteous Rom 5:19
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Only antichrist deny this truth !

 

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And having been made righteous, they shall shine forth in the eternal heavenly kingdom Matt 13:43
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear

How come they to be the righteous ? By the One obedience of Christ Rom 5:19! 54

 

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Christ's death brings us back to God by healing our native apostasy

When Scripture states that by Christ's death alone those He died for are healed (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24), it means that the spiritual healing the Cross provides is dynamically manifested by the healed ones being returned to God.
Peter explicitly identifies the fruits of this healing in two ways:

1. Living Unto Righteousness: "...that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (1 Peter 2:24)
2. Bringing Us to God: "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God..." (1 Peter 3:18)

This exact spiritual healing is prophesied in Hosea 14:4: "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him."
The theological and linguistic links here are undeniable:

• The Healing: The word "heal" in Hosea 14:4 is the Hebrew word rapha’. This is the exact same word used in Isaiah 53:5 ("with his stripes we are healed").
• The Disease: The word for "backsliding" in Hosea 14:4 is the Hebrew word mĕshuwbah, which means a turning away, turning back, or apostasy. It is the same word used in Proverbs 1:32: "For the turning away of the simple shall slay them."

Humanity apostatized from God in Adam. We went completely astray, as Isaiah 53:6 states: "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way."

It is precisely this radical estrangement and spiritual deadness that the death of Christ actually healed for His sheep. Peter ties all of these threads together perfectly:

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls." (1 Peter 2:24–25)

The stripes of Christ did not merely make a way for us to return if we chose to; they successfully accomplished and effected our return to the Shepherd. The Cross completely heals the fatal posture of apostasy that began in Adam! 55

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One writer writes about Christ death healing those He died for:

With His stripes we are healed " by His sufferings we are saved from our sins, and the dreadful effects thereof!"

Matthew Poole

 

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Spiritual Healing is Forensic Justification by His Blood

Throughout the Word of God, the term 'healing' frequently denotes the objective forgiveness of sins and the legal cancellation of our sin debt. Consider how the Holy Spirit uniformly defines this reality across both Testaments:

• Psalm 41:4: “I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.”
• Psalm 103:3: “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.” [1]

David sets up an ironclad poetic parallelism: to have the soul healed by God is the literal equivalent of having all iniquities forgiven. This spiritual healing is not a conditional process that depends on a human response; it is a finished legal acquittal. [1]

The Apostle Peter picks up this exact prophetic blueprint and places it into past-tense, substitutionary finality in 1 Peter 2:24:

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”

Notice the precise legal mechanics Peter outlines: Christ took the specific sins of His elect people and bore them in His own body on the cross. As a direct, unpreventable consequence of that vicarious sacrifice, Peter declares that you were healed. He uses the Greek aorist passive verb iathēte, which denotes a forensic action that was completely finalized in the past. [1, 2, 3, 4]

This blood-bought healing perfectly coincides with the forensic New Testament definition of our redemption. As Ephesians 1:7 declares: “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.” [1]

According to the Apostle Paul, this forgiveness is the absolute baseline of our legal standing before the heavenly tribunal: “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3:24). [1]

Therefore, when Scripture states that by His stripes we were healed, it is not publishing a vague, provisional possibility of salvation. It is declaring that the elect were completely healed from the penal consequences of the law, forgiven of all iniquities, and forensically justified the exact moment Christ died as their Surety at Calvary. Faith does not trigger this healing; faith is the spiritual gift given to the regenerated soul to look to the cross and consciously rejoice in a legal cure that was already finalized by the blood of the Lamb "+ nothing." 55

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