BIBLE RECORDS | 124 MIRACLES (49)

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 49: WIDOW’S MEAL AND OIL—a widow of Zarephath’s meal and oil increased (1 Kings 17:14-16). 

a) Widow's meal and oil.

1 Kings 17:14-16 New King James Version (NKJV)
14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.’”

15 So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. 16 The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah.

b) Oil.

i ) Only olive oil seems to have been used among the Hebrews. It was used for many purposes: for…

@1. Anointing the body or the hair (Exodus 29:7; 2 Samuel 14:2; Psalms 23:5; 92:10; 104:15; Luke 7:46).

@2. In some of the offerings (Exodus 29:40; Leviticus 7:12; Numbers 6:15; 15:4), but was excluded from the sin-offering (Leviticus 5:11) and the jealousy-offering (Numbers 5:15).

@3.Burning in lamps (Exodus 25:6; 27:20; Matthew 25:3).

@4.Medicinal purposes (Isaiah 1:6; Luke 10:34; James 5:14).

@5. Anointing the dead (Matthew 26:12; Luke 23:56). 

ii) It was one of the most valuable products of the country (Deuteronomy 32:13; Ezekiel 16:13), and formed an article of extensive commerce with Tyre (27:17).

iii) The use of it was a sign of gladness (Psalms 92:10; Isaiah 61:3), and its omission a token of sorrow (2 Samuel 14:2; Matthew 6:17).

iv) It was very abundant in Galilee. 

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