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Q&A: Why did God stop doing big signs and miracles (burning bush, parting the sea)?

My Ministry Update and Q&A 00:53:18 – 00:55:21

Question from a listener puzzled by the apparent cessation of large-scale miracles after the Old Testament.

Winger first reframes the premise: even in the OT, spectacular miracles were extremely rare — a thousand years might pass between major miracle events. They clustered at key redemptive-historical moments (Exodus establishing the nation, the time of Christ establishing who Jesus is). He acknowledges this sounds cessationist and says cessationists are correctly observing this pattern. However, he does not conclude miracles never happen today — only that regular, frequent miraculous signs were never the norm. He encourages prayer for healing and miraculous intervention while calibrating expectations.

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