For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Wonder vs. Thread starter jokaec Start date Jan 10, Why you know it's very hardly make a real car by yourself but you still work on it? Click to Sign Up Now! Search Tools. Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort! Resource Toolbox. Print Article. Additional Links. Lectionary Calendar. Search for. Enter query in the box below:. Choose a letter to browse:. The river that turned to blood, and the Heket-like frogs that infested the land, were not afflictions as such, but rather coded communications, as if to say to the Egyptians: see what it feels like when the gods you turned against the Israelites turn on you.
Hence the tenth plague, to which all the others were a mere prelude. Unlike all the other plagues, its significance was disclosed to Moses even before he set out on his mission, while he was still living with Jethro in Midian:.
You shall say to Pharaoh: This is what the Lord says. I have told you to let My son go, that he may worship Me.
If you refuse to let him go, I will kill your own firstborn son. Whereas the first two plagues were symbolic representations of the Egyptian murder of Israelite children, the tenth plague was the enactment of retributive justice, as if heaven was saying to the Egyptians: You committed, or supported, or passively accepted the murder of innocent children.
There is only one way you will ever realize the wrong you did, namely, if the same thing happens to you. These two words are not two ways of describing the same thing — miracles. They describe quite different things. A mofet, a wonder, is indeed a miracle. An ot, a sign, is something else: a symbol like tefillin or circumcision, both of which are called ot , that is to say, a coded communication, a message. The significance of the ninth plague is now obvious. The greatest god in the Egyptian pantheon was Ra or Re, the sun god.
Egypt — so its people believed — was ruled by the sun. Its human ruler or Pharaoh was semi-divine, the child of the sun-god. In the beginning of time, according to Egyptian myth, the sun-god ruled together with Nun, the primeval waters.
Eventually there were many deities. Ra then created human beings from his tears. Welcome to Talk Jesus A true bible based, Jesus centered online community. Join over 11, members today Register Log In. JavaScript is disabled.
For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Difference between signs, wonders, types and miracles. A miracle is an extraordinary event of natural or Divine occurrence which exceeds known human capabilities, understandings and powers.
Broadly, there are two types of miracles: signs and wonders. Signs A sign may be an object or something happening to signify something e. A sign may also be a divine intervention by God to perform a miracle eg Jesus turning water into wine, John Such as a sign of Divine authority.
Wonders A wonder is something which causes people to marvel, be astounded or even terrified. A wonder is a special manifestation of God's power Exodus Types A type or symbol, typifies or symbolizes something. Common types throughout the old and new testament are everyday things such as trees, rocks, rods, buildings, water, bread, wine, fish, storms, eating, drinking, to represent spiritual matters.
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