The Bible is a book of miracles. 

From the beginning all the way to the end, we see the miraculous work of God. 

So how would you define "miracle"?

'MIRACLE' IS A WORK THAT HAS DIVINE POWER FOR DIVINE PURPOSE

So God is always working in His world. We know that God is always at work. He is asking us to join Him. In the Old Testament, His Spirit came upon people. In the New Testament, His Spirit lives in His people, and He asks us to come and to be a part of what He's doing. 

     But when we begin to study the Bible, from the Miracle of Creation, this world and the heavens and the earth did not just happen. The newest theory coming out is that we are actually a universe or galaxy inside of a black hole, and that's what black holes do. Black holes produce new galaxies. And so somehow in all of this universe that we have, we're just part of a little black hole called the Milky Way. Well, that's not what the Bible says. 

     God Himself spoke to more than 40 people in the scripture over thousands of years and wrote the Old Testament and the New Testament. The people of God, through the leadership of the Holy Spirit, verified what books were actually inspired by God so that we have these 66 books, 39 in the Old Testament, 27 in the New, 1,189 chapters in the Bible, thousands of verses, millions of words spoken by God so that we would know. And from the beginning when God created the heavens and earth, he said, "Let there be light," and all of it was created. The light power of God created everything, even before there was a sun and a moon and all of the stars, and as they came into existence, they began to reflect that light to all of us, and God created man on the 6th day and put him on this planet. 

     All throughout the Bible, we find these miracles. In fact, you maybe want to know, in the Old Testament, there are at least 80 miracles, most scholars say 82, at least 80 miracles in the New Testament. Some of the most renowned scholars have said there's 83 of those specific miracles in the New Testament, but there's also, in the Old Testament, at least 333 prophecies that were made that have either been fulfilled or will be fulfilled about God's plan, about the Messiah, and about the last days. So if you add all of that together, there's at least 500 miracles in the scripture in which God moved beyond natural in the supernatural, divine power and divine purpose. Now, some of us today may have experienced a miracle. God is involved in our world.Now, you need to know, though, when we study scripture,

miracles don't happen by accident, and they don't happen without a purpose of God.

So most of the miracles that we see happened in 3 periods in the Bible.

1) THE TIME OF MOSES AND JOSHUA

     Now, why would God have divine power show up in an amazing way for a divine purpose? Because God is calling His nation out of bondage into the promised land, and so God does amazing miracles like those ten miracles that happened to defeat Pharaoh; like crossing the Red Sea on dry land out in the middle of nowhere; like the walls of Jericho falling down flat at the sound of the shout and trumpets of the people of God. God does amazing miracles in the time of Moses and Joshua.

2) THE TIME OF ELIJAH AND ELISHA

     And then later, another period of time in which miracles happen in an amazing number is in the time of Elijah and Elisha. And in fact, Elisha says, "If I'm there when you are taken, would you give me a double blessing?" And the scripture actually records twice as many miracles for Elisha as Elijah. 

3) THE LIFE OF JESUS

The third period is in the time we're looking at now, in the life of Jesus, in which Jesus himself was doing miraculous things every day. Now, they're not all recorded. In fact, John will tell us, "If we wrote everything Jesus did, there wouldn't be enough libraries to hold it all." Is it possible that one of the reasons the Pharisees and the religious leaders were so upset is that this Messiah, Hamashiach, Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, was doing so many miracles, it was beyond debate that He was the Messiah for everybody in the nation? And the crowds were turning out and following Him, and he was feeding thousands of them, because they were seeing the proof of Him being God in the flesh on a daily basis, and He will pour that into his disciples. and then after Jesus rises from the dead, Peter will lead the church, and Peter will do many miracles throughout his life.And then it seems that those miracles are not as daily frequently, until the Bible says

in the last days that that kind of miraculous thing will happen again.