Miraculous Events
From Eco-Bible 1
These are notes for an incomplete "Concept" page.
- Information is being added as the Bible Pages are added. In the end, everything will be compiled, further information added (as necessary), broken links connected, etc.
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Modern-day definitions of "miracles" tend to be a distortion of what Scripture portrays them as.
Miracles are properly defined as "works of power." Though they can be "supernatural" (going beyond, or violating, natural laws), they do not always have to. Many of the great "works of power" that have been done by God involve God's providential arrangement of circumstances and laws of nature in ways that are totally unexpected and not normal.
It is important to realize that the presence of miracles is not proof that something is from the True God. Counterfeit miracles have been done, and will be done again (2 Thessalonians 2:9).
- Some of the Ecological Judgments (and similar) are not listed here... see those pages.
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- A burning bush that was not consumed by the fire.
- Miracles God gives Moses to show to the Israelite leaders:
- The rod changes into a snake & back again.
- A hand becoming leprous, then healthy again.
- Water poured onto the ground turning into blood.
- The rod turned into a snake, etc. / The magicians could also do it, though their rods (snakes) were eaten by Aaron's.
- Water (Nile River, pools, streams, etc.) turned to blood; water undrinkable; all the fish died. / The magicians were able to imitate this.
- Swarms of frogs, covering everything. / Magicians were able to imitate this.
- Swarms of lice/gnats. (The exact meaning of the word is uncertain. It's one or the other.) / Magicians couldn't imitate this, and acknowledge that God is involved in this.
- Swarms of flies, only in Egyptian territories (not Jewish territories).
- Plague/pestilence, causing death to all Egyptian livestock; not the Israeli livestock. / Infections – boils on all Egyptian people/animals. / Deadly hail on Egyptians only – killed all who stayed outside; destroyed trees; destroyed flax & barley crops.
- Locust swarms; all plant life destroyed. / "Feelable" darkness in Egyptian territories only.
- All the firstborn, both human and animal, will die – but not in Israel.
- God shows Moses a tree (or piece of wood) to throw into the water, to make it drinkable. (Not enough information is given to show us if it was providential or supernatural.)
- God provides quail and manna. (The method of providing the quail is not stated. In other instances, he blew them in by a strong wind.)
- No water... the people complain. / God tells Moses to strike a rock with his rod, and water comes out of it. (Issue: The people are testing God.)
- Moses strikes the rock and water comes out of it. (He was supposed to only speak to it; so this was done in disobedience. But God still provided the water.)
- Num 21:9 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
- God dealt with Egypt, using many signs and wonders (miraculous and/or providential events ... he will do the same with the nations in Canaan.
- God brought forth water out of the rock of flint; he fed the people in the wilderness with manna.
- It was for a purpose: that he might humble them, and that he might test/prove them - for their own good.
- The people had seen all the things God had done in Egypt and in the wilderness. (Examples given.)
- When the ark of the covenant was taken to the edge of the Jordan River, the water piled up in a heap. It stayed that way until the ark was taken out of the riverbed on the other side. The exact means by which this happened is not described.
- Jos 10:13 The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. (God also used providential works of power.)
- God (as the Angel of Yahweh) appeared to Gideon. He causes fire to consume Gideon's offering. He caused Gideon's wool fleece to be wet/dry and the ground dry/wet, to confirm his calling to Gideon.
- 1) A floating axe head.
- 2) 2Ki 6:17 - Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
- Alluded to in the notes. It is more likely that the events in this passage could be described as an act of Providence - which is just as much a display of God's power.
- Examples of God's wonders in Egypt, dividing the Red Sea, leading them with a cloud/fire, providing water in marvelous ways, etc. God demonstrated his power in ways that had never before been experienced.
- A review of the various miracles (judgments) God did in Egypt.
- A number of examples of God's protection and/or deliverance of Israel are given. These were providential and/or miraculous demonstrations of God's power.
- Yahweh "struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal;" and "sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants." (Psa 135:8-9)
Unless otherwise noted, all notes and comments are © by Dennis Hinks.
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