It’s time once again for some clarifications. This is not binding on anyone else; it’s just my peculiar notions about some things.
I’ve often explained that miracles are wired into Creation itself. There are multiple factors involved in accessing them. At the bottom end, the lowest common denominator, is a certain consciousness that addresses Creation from the heart-mind.
The fallen elohim and their Nephilim offspring taught this to humans even before the Flood, and they misused that power for evil ends. That’s the second of the Three Rebellions. The Flood mitigated some of that rebellion, but since neither the elohim nor the Nephilim were allowed to leave this realm of existence and return to Heaven, they stuck around and continued stirring up trouble. The used various means to get the attention of a rather small portion of humanity to teach the Black Arts so that they showed up in places like Pharaoh’s courts. The talents for this kind of stuff are rare.
That stuff was the same power as miracles, but abused for evil ends. You’ll notice that there is no record of great things being accomplished by those powers, just some major deceptions. Anything more substantial is purely fiction (deception). In other words, the power’s use was mostly mischief, and nothing like that global perversion of human existence such as before the Flood. The powers are limited by certain missing factors, boundaries God set in place.
A major missing factor was the lack of a valid covenant with Jehovah. The bigger miracles, like the Ten Plagues, belong to the Covenant. If you don’t enter the Covenant, the power is vastly curtailed. If you do enter the Covenant, you still need to keep the focus on what the Covenant is supposed to accomplish in this world: Revelation.
Our parish talked recently about how Election is also tied to Revelation. This is the key to everything. God has a message to humanity in our fallen state. That message includes a heart-led consciousness. It is something that has been missing from Western Civilization. God did not sponsor the West; Satan did. For all the things you may imagine the West has gained, the whole point has been to keep God’s Elect from rediscovering their divine heritage — including miracles.
Take a look at the progress of things in the New Testament. We had the Twelve Apostles — counting Paul, the true “successor” to Judas’ place — with whom certain divine provisions died. Since John died around 95 AD, there has been no new Scripture, no new revelation that applies to everyone under the Covenant of Christ. That’s because these 12 were not western men, but Hebrew men. Not in terms of their ethnic identity, but they were highly conditioned by their time with Jesus from within a Hebraic worldview.
It’s not that miracles have ceased by any means, but the wide open access those men had is no longer there. I’m not saying it’s not possible; I’m saying it’s not happening. God still does miracles, but there are no humans around today who are so familiar with the territory that they can just raise the dead when it glorifies the Lord. Part of the issue is that we are unable to discern when something like that suits the Lord’s glory.
Prophets today can discern things God is doing here and now, and for a limited audience, but they will not gain a word from God that is binding on other believers. The miracles do not manifest with any consistency. The missing factor is not limits on God’s end, nor in Creation itself, but that we have so far failed to recover what the Twelve had. I’m not sure it’s possible, but more to the point, we simply have not done it.
We don’t raise the dead as consistently as Jesus or the Twelve; we don’t walk on water and we don’t rebuke storms to make them go away. The biblical prophecies about the End Times suggest that these things may return then. We’ll see. But the point should be clear that what the Twelve had disappeared with them. It’s obvious in the writings of those who took up church leadership behind them. The tone and content is not the same. Nor has it been the same at any time and place since then.
The task for us should be clear: to recover as much as possible the Hebraic outlook and the heart-led way of faith. That is the Covenant path, and the way to recover our divine heritage that God promised.
