BIBLE RECORDS | 124 MIRACLES (24)

1. What are "Miracles"?

a) Miracles are those acts that only God can perform; usually superseding natural laws. Baker’s Dictionary of the Bible defines a miracle as “an event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God.” It goes on to add that a miracle occurs to show that the power behind it is not limited to the laws of matter or mind as it interrupts fixed natural laws. So the term supernatural applies quite accurately.

b) Miracles are also known as Signs and Wonders.

c) Here we have one of the 124 miracles recorded in the Bible.

2. Miracle 24: Complainers consumed by FIRE at Taberah / the destruction stopped in response to Moses’ prayer (Numbers 11:1-3). 

a) Complainers Consumed by Fire.

Numbers 11New King James Version (NKJV)
11 Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp. ² Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire was quenched. ³ So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the Lord had burned among them. 

b) Taberah - meaning: burning.

i) A place in the wilderness of Paran, where the “fire of the Lord” consumed the murmuring Israelites (Numbers 11:3; Deuteronomy 9:22). It was also called Kibroth-hattaavah (q.v.).