RECORDED MIRACLES

RECORDED MIRACLES

By Given O. Blakely

 

001 The flood (Genesis 7)

002 Confusion of tongues at Babel (Genesis 11)

003 Fire on Abraham’s sacrifice (Genesis 15:17)

004 Conception of Isaac (Genesis 17:17; 19:12; 21:2)

005 Destruction of Sodom (Genesis 19)

006 Lot’s wife turned to pillar of salt (Genesis 19:26)

007 Closed womb’s in Abimelech’s house (Genesis 20:17-18)

008 Opening of Hagar’s eyes (Genesis 21:19)

009 Conception of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25:21)

010 Opening of Rachel’s womb (Genesis 30:22)

011 Burning bush (Exodus 3:2)

012 Moses’s rod turned into serpent (Ex 4:3-4; 7:10-12)

013 Moses’ hand becomes leprous (Exodus 4:6-7)

014 Ten plagues in Egypt (Exodus 8-12)

015 Pillar of cloud/pillar of fire leading Israel (Exodus 13:21-22; 14:19-20)

016 Israel crosses Red Sea (Exodus 14:22)

017 Pharaoh and army drowns in Red Sea (Exodus 14:23-30)

018 Sweetening of waters at Marah (Exodus 15:25)

019 Manna for forty years (Exodus 16)

020 Quails given to Israel (Exodus 16:13)

021 Defeat of Amalek (Exodus 17:9-13)

022 Moses’ face glows from the Divine presence (Exodus 34:29-35)

023 Water from the rock (Exodus 17:5-7)

024 Miriam stricken with leprosy (Numbers 12:10-15)

025 Destruction of Korah and cohorts (Numbers 16:31-35)

026 Aaron’s rod buds (Numbers 17:1-9)

027 Scourge of serpents (Numbers 21:6-9)

028 Destruction of Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10:1-2)

029 Balaam’s ass speaks (Numbers 22:22-30)

030 Jordan divided (Joshua 3:14-17; 14:16-18)

031 Fall of Jericho (Joshua 6:20)

032 Midianites destroyed (Judges 7:16-22)

033 Destroying hail on confederation of kings (Joshua 10:11)

034 Sun and moon stand still (Joshua 10:12-14)

035 Dew on Gideon’s fleece (Judges 6:37-40)

036 Samson’s strength (Judges 14:6; 16:3,29-30)

037 Samson supplied with water (Judges 15:19)

038 Fall of the idol Dagon (1 Samuel 5:1-4)

039 Cows return the ark of the covenant (1 Samuel 6:7-14)

040 People struck with hemorrhoids (1 Samuel 5:9-12; 6:1-5)

041 Destruction of people at Bethshemesh (1 Samuel 6:19-20)

042 Uzzah struck dead (2 Samuel 6:1-8)

043 Jeroboam’s hand withered (1 Kings 13:3-6)

044 Elijah fed by ravens (1 Kings 17:6)

045 Elijah fed by an angel (1 Kings 19:1-8)

046 Elijah increases widows oil/meal (1 Kgs 17:9-16)

047 Elijah raises widow’s son (1 Kings 17:17-24)

048 Elijah prays it will not rain (1 Kings 17:1)

049 Elijah prays it will rain (1 Kings 18:41-45)

050 Elijah brings fire on Ahaziah’s army (2 Kings 1:10-12)

051 Elijah divides Jordan (2 Kings 2:8)

052 Elijah translated (2 Kings 2:11)

053 Elisha divides Jordan (2 Kings 2:14)

054 Elisha sweetens waters of Jericho (2 Kings 2:19-22)

055 Elisha increases widow’s oil (2 Kings 4:1-7)

056 Elisha raises Shunammite’s son from dead (2 Kings 4:18-26)

057 Elisha heals pottage (2 Kings 4:38-41)

058 Elisha feeds 100 men (2 Kings 4:42-44)

059 Elisha cures Naaman’s leprosy (2 Kings 5:1-9)

060 Elisha puts leprosy on Gehazi (2 Kings 5:26-27)

061 Elisha causes axe head to float (2 Kings 6:6)

062 Elisha reveals counsel of king of Syria (2 Kings 6:12)

063 Elisha prays eyes of his servant will be opened (2 Kings 6:17)

064 Elisha smites Syrian army with blindness (2 Kings 6:18)

065 Dead man restored when touching Elisha’s bones (2 Kings 13:21)

066 Destruction of Sennacarib’s army (2 Kings 19:35; Isaiah 37:36)

067 Shadow on sun dial turned backward ten degrees (2 Kings 20:9-11)

068 Three Hebrews children delivered from fiery furnace (Dan 3:23-27)

069 Daniel delivered from lion’s den (Daniel 6:22)

070 Jonah in fish’s belly (Jonah 1-2)

071 Jonah’s gourd (Jonah 4:6)

072 Jonah’s gourd destroyed by a worm (Jonah 4:7)

Number of recorded miracles – 72. Period covered – 4,000 years. Average – a miracle every 56 years, if not clustered

 

MIRACLES OF JESUS

“And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.” (Verse 1, Acts 5:12-16)

In order to more firmly establish the fact that our Father God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, have “all power,” and that it has been revealed in works transcendent to nature, I am taking the time to declare the recorded miracles wrought by the power of God. This is the kind of God in whom we have faith.

 

001 Water into wine (John 2)

002 Heals nobleman’s son (John 4:46-54)

003 Draught of fishes (Luke 5:1-9)

004 Heals demoniac (Mark 1:23-26)

005 Heals Peter’s mother-in-law (Matthew 8:14-17)

006 Cleanses leper (Matthew 8:1-4)

007 Heals paralytic (Matthew 9:1-8)

008 Heals impotent men (John 5:1-9)

009 Restores withered hand (Matthew 12:9-13)

010 Restores Centurion’s servant (Matthew 8:5-13)

011 Raises widow’s son from the dead (Luke 7:11-16)

** 012 Heals demoniacs (Mark 3:11)

013 Stills the tempest (Matthew 8:23-27)

014 Casts demons out of Gadarene (Matthew 8:23-34)

015 Raises Jairus’ daughter from the dead (Matthew 9:18-26)

016 Cures woman with issue of blood (Matthew 9:20-22)

017 Restore sight to two blind men (Matthew 9:27-31)

018 Heals demoniac (Matthew 12:23-30)

019 Feeds 5,000 (Matthew 14:15-21)

020 Walks on raging sea (Matthew 14:22-30)

021 Heals Syrophenician woman’s daughter (Matthew 15:21-28)

022 Feeds 4,000 (Matthew 15:32-39)

023 Restores deaf and dumb (Mark 7:31-37)

024 Restores blind man (Mark 8:22-26)

025 Restores lunatic child (Matthew 17:14-21)

026 Tribute money from fish’s mouth (Matthew 17:24-27)

027 Restores ten lepers (Matthew 17:11-19)

028 Opens eyes of man born blind (John 9:1-9)

029 Raises Lazarus from the dead (John 11)

030 Heals woman with spirit of infirmity (Luke 13:10-17)

031 Cures man with dropsy (Luke 14:1-6)

032 Restores two blind men near Jericho (Matthew 20:29-34)

033 Curses a fig tree (Matthew 21:17-21)

034 Heals ear of Malchus (Luke 22:49-51)

035 Second draught of fish (John 21:6)

036 Resurrection from the dead (Acts 13:30)

037 Many unrecorded miracles (Matt 4:24; 8:16; 14:14; Mk 1:34; 6:13; Lk 4:40; John 21:25)

 

Thirty-seven declarations of Jesus’ miracles, some texts referring to clusters and large numbers of miracles with no itemization. All of this took place within a space of three years. Nothing of this numerical magnitude and diversity had occurred in the previous 4,000 years.

 

MIRACLES WROUGHT BY CHRIST’S DISCIPLES

001 By the twelve Apostles prior to Pentecost (Matt 10:1-8)

002 By the seventy (Luke 10:17-20)

003 By other disciples (Mark 9:39)

004 Peter and John cure a lame man (Acts 3:2-10)  

005 By the Apostles (Acts 3:6-16; Acts 9:34-35; Acts 16:19)

006 Peter brings the death of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:5,10)

007 Peter cures the sick (Acts 5:15-16)

008 Philip is carried away in the spirit, and was found in Azotus (Acts 8:39-40)

009 Peter cures Aeneas (Acts 9:34)

010 Peter raises Dorcas (Acts 9:40)

011 Peter and other Apostles miraculously delivered from prison (Acts 5:19-23; 12:6-9) 012 Paul strikes Elymas with blindness (Acts 13:11)

013 Paul heals a cripple (Acts 14:10)

014 Paul casts out spirits and cures sick (Acts 16:18; 19:11-12; 28:8-9)

015 Paul raises Eutychus to life (Acts 20:9-12)

016 Paul shakes deadly viper from hand (Acts 28:5)

017 Reference to apostolic miracles (Heb 2:4)

 

MIRACLES WROUGHT IN THE CHURCHES

001 The gift of the working of miracles (1 Cor 12:10,28,29)

002 In Galatia (Gal 3:5)

 

OTHER MIRACLES

001 Wrought by a hostile opponent of Christ, described as a “beast” (Rev 13:11-14)

002 The spirits of demons working miracles (Rev16:14)

003 The “false prophet” (Rev 19:20)

 

You see how, so far as the record is concerned, the frequency and number of miracles decreased as the church developed. Also there were competitive miracles wrought by a servant of Satan, Satan himself, and demons.

An even greater work has taken place in the transformation of sinners, who are given new hearts and new spirits. In this context, the need for the additional confirmation of miracles seemed to diminish. Now there were “living epistles” of Christ who themselves became a confirmation of the truth of the Gospel (2 Cor 3:3). There remained, however, the gift of healing, which is held out to any that are “sick” among the believers (James 5:14-15). There is no additional explanation stating there would come a time when this would no longer valid.

As to the possibility of miracles, that has always been under the administration of God, and since His exaltation, of Jesus Christ. There is no detailed “doctrine” of miracles in Scripture – no particular delineation of them, or instruction in how they are to be considered or presented. There is no reference to “the age of miracles,” any more than there is to an age of judgment. Such language is purely the invention of men, who will give an account for their creation and use of such terms.

As long as there is a God, there can be miracles. As long as the Lord Jesus has all power in heaven and earth, He can work miracles. If you do not think they can take place now, there may very well come a time when you will hope to God that a miracle IS possible. Should that time come, rest assured, that the Worker of miracles is still in the throne. That prerogative has not been withdrawn from God, either by intention, or by the imagined cessation of a period of time.

Any perspective of God must not be circumscribed by interpretive limitation. – Given O. Blakely