Milagres
Os milagres manifestam o poder soberano de Deus. Desde a criação até os sinais de Jesus e dos apóstolos, Deus intervém sobrenaturalmente na história para revelar sua glória e amor.
O Deus dos milagres
Para Deus nada é impossível. Ele abriu o mar, fez cair fogo do céu e ressuscitou mortos. Seu poder não tem limites.
Jesus beheld, and said to them, With men this thing is impossible; but with God all things be possible.
Jesus beheld, and said to them, With men this thing is impossible; but with God all things be possible.
for every word shall not be impossible with God.
Lo! I am the Lord God of all flesh. Whether any word shall be hard to me?
And when Moses had stretched forth his hand on the sea, the Lord took away the sea, the while a great wind and a burning blew in all the night, and turned the sea into dryness; and the water was parted.
And the sons of Israel entered by the midst of the dry sea; for the water was as a wall at the right side, and the left side of them.
I had mind on the works of the Lord; for I shall have mind from the beginning of thy marvels.
And I shall think on all thy works; and I shall be exercised, either occupied, in thy findings.
thou art God, that doest marvels. Thou madest thy virtue known among peoples;
Milagres pela fé
Se tiverdes fé como um grão de mostarda, movereis montanhas. A fé é a chave que acessa o poder miraculoso de Deus.
Jesus saith to them, For your unbelief. Truly I say to you, if ye have faith, as a corn of sinapi, ye shall say to this hill, Pass thou [from] hence, and it shall pass; and nothing shall be impossible to you;
And Jesus answered, and said to them, Truly I say to you, if ye have faith, and doubt not, not only ye shall do of the fig tree, but also if ye say to this hill, Take [away thee], and cast thee into the sea, it shall be done so [or it shall be done].
And Jesus said to him, If thou mayest believe, all things be possible to a man that believeth.
And Jesus beheld them, and said, With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things be possible with God.
And he said to them, Those things that be impossible with men, be possible with God.
And he did not there many virtues, for the unbelief of them.
Sinais e prodígios
Os apóstolos realizaram sinais e maravilhas em nome de Jesus. Os dons do Espírito incluem a operação de milagres e a fé sobrenatural.
Ye men of Israel, hear ye these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God before you by virtues, and wonders, and tokens, which God did by him in the middle of you, as ye know,
And when they had prayed, the place was moved, in which they were gathered; and all were filled with the Holy Ghost, and spake the word of God with trust.
And God did virtues not small [or little] by the hand of Paul,
so that on sick men the sudaria, [or sweating clothes], were borne from his body, and sicknesses departed from them, and wicked spirits went out.
nevertheless the signs of mine apostlehood be made on you, in all patience, and signs, and great wonders, and virtues.
But God set some men in the church, first apostles, the second time prophets [or the second prophets], the third teachers, afterward virtues, afterward graces of healings, helpings, governings, kinds of languages, interpretations of words.
And the word of wisdom is given to one by Spirit; to another the word of knowing, by the same Spirit;
faith to another, in the same Spirit; to another, grace of healings [or of healths], in one Spirit;
to another, the working of virtues; to another, prophecy; to another, very knowing [or discretion] of spirits; to another, kinds of languages [or tongues]; to another, expounding [or interpreting] of words.
And Jesus said, Do not ye forbid him; for there is no man that doeth virtue in my name, and may soon speak evil of me.
He that is not against us, is for us.
Milagres de cura e provisão
A oração da fé salvará o enfermo. Deus provê, cura e intervém quando clamamos a Ele com fé genuína.
and the prayer of faith shall save the sick man[or shall save the sick], and the Lord shall make him light; and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven to him.
Therefore acknowledge ye each to other your sins, and pray ye each for other, that ye be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man is much worth.
Elijah was a deadly man like us, and in prayer he prayed, that it should not rain on the earth, and it rained not three years and six months.
And again he prayed, and heaven gave rain, and the earth gave his fruit.
And when he had taken the five loaves and two fishes, he beheld into heaven, and blessed them, and brake, and dealed to his disciples, that they should set [or put] forth before the companies.
And all men ate, and were full-filled [or were filled]; and that that left to them of broken meats was taken up, twelve coffins.
And he was teaching in their synagogue in the sabbaths.
And lo! a woman, that had a spirit of sickness eighteen years, and was crooked [or bowed down], and neither in any manner might look upward.
Whom when Jesus had seen, he called [her] to him, and said to her, Woman, thou art delivered of thy sickness.
And he set [or put] on her his hands, and anon she stood upright, and glorified God.
And the prince of the synagogue answered, having disdain for Jesus had healed in the sabbath; and he said to the people, There be six days, in which it behooveth to work; therefore come ye in these, and be ye healed, and not in the day of sabbath.
But the Lord answered to him, and said, Hypocrite, whether each of you untieth not in the sabbath his ox, or ass, from the cratch, [or the stall], and leadeth to water?
Behooved it not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo! eighteen years, to be unbound of this bond in the day of sabbath?
And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed, and all the people joyed in all things, that were gloriously done of him.
Jesus did this the beginning of signs, in the Cana of Galilee, and showed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
Therefore those men, when they had seen the sign [or the token, or miracle], that he had done, said, For this is verily the prophet, that is to come into the world.
Jesus saith to him, Thomas, for thou hast seen me, thou believedest; blessed be they, that saw not, and have believed.
And Jesus did many other signs in the sight of his disciples, which be not written in this book.
But these be written, that ye believe, that Jesus is Christ, the Son of God, and that ye believing have life in his name.
Therefore then that disciple that came first to the grave, entered, and saw, and believed.
For they knew not yet the scripture, that it behooved him to rise again from death.
Discernimento nos sinais
A Bíblia alerta contra falsos milagres e sinais enganosos. Devemos provar os espíritos e não seguir sinais que desviam de Deus.
If a prophet riseth in the midst of thee, either he that saith himself to have seen a dream, and he before-saith a sign, and a wonder to come after,
and this thing that he said befalleth, and he saith to thee, Go we, and pursue [or follow] we alien gods, which thou knowest not, and serve we them,
thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet, either of that dreamer; for your Lord God assayeth you, that he know openly whether ye love him, either nay, in all your heart, and in all your soul.
Pursue [or follow] ye your Lord God, and dread ye him; keep ye his commandments, and hear ye his voice; ye shall serve him, and ye shall cleave to him.
And I saw three unclean spirits by the manner of frogs go out of the mouth of the dragon, and of the mouth of the beast, and of the mouth of the false prophet.
For they be spirits of devils, making signs, [or wonders], and they go forth to kings of all earth, to gather them into [a] battle, to the great day of almighty God.
Then some of the scribes and the Pharisees answered to him, and said, Master, we will see a token of thee.
Which answered, and said to them, An evil kindred and a spouse-breaker [or adulterous] seeketh a token, and a token shall not be given to it, but the token of Jonah, the prophet.
For as Jonah was in the womb of a whale three days and three nights, so man’s Son shall be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
Then Jesus began to say reproof to cities, in which full many virtues of him were done, for they did not penance.
Woe to thee! Chorazin, woe to thee! Bethsaida; for if the virtues that be done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, sometime they had done penance in hair-shirt and ashes.
Nevertheless I say to you, it shall be less pain to Tyre and Sidon in the day of doom, than to you.
And thou, Capernaum, whether thou shalt be araised up into heaven? Thou shalt go down into hell. For if the virtues that be done in thee had been done in Sodom, peradventure they should have dwelled till into this day.
Nevertheless I say to you, that to the land of Sodom it shall be less pain in the day of doom, than to thee.
A criação como milagre
O próprio corpo humano é milagre de Deus. Toda a criação testifica do poder e da sabedoria do Criador.
For thou haddest in possession my reins; thou tookest me up from the womb of my mother.
I shall acknowledge to thee, for thou art magnified dreadfully; thy works be wonderful, and my soul shall know that full much.
Into the end, for the privates of the son, the psalm of David. Lord, I shall acknowledge to thee in all mine heart; I shall tell all thy marvels.
For this thing the Lord himself shall give a sign to you. Lo! a virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son; and his name shall be called Immanuel. [For that he the Lord shall give to you a token. Behold! a maiden shall conceive, and bare a son; and thou shalt call his name Immanuel.]
For all this thing was done, that it should be fulfilled, that was said of the Lord by a prophet, saying,
Lo! a virgin shall have in [the] womb, and she shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, that is to say, God with us.
And as they saw him wandering on the sea, they guessed that it were a phantom, and cried out;
for all saw him, and they were afraid, [or they were troubled, or disturbed]. And anon he spake with them, and said to them, Trust ye, I am; do not ye dread.
And when this word was heard, Jesus answered to the father of the damsel, Do not thou dread, but believe thou only [or but only believe thou], and she shall be safe.
And when he came nigh to the coming down of the mount of Olivet, all the people that came down began to joy, and to praise God with great voice on all the virtues, that they had seen,
and said, Blessed be the king, that cometh in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in high things.
And when he had said these things, in their sight he was lifted up, and a cloud received him from their eyes.
And I felled down to the earth, and heard a voice from heaven, saying to me, Saul, Saul, what persecutest [or pursuest] thou me? It is hard to [or for] thee, to kick against the prick.
And the Lord said to Moses, Enter thou to Pharaoh, for I have made hard the heart of him, and of his servants, that I do these signs of me in him;
and that thou tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s sons, how oft I all-brake the Egyptians, and did signs in them; and that ye know that I am the Lord.