Examining The Scripture LV: The Miracle Worker That Worked and Worked and Worked and....

Wow! The Lord certainly worked miracles through Elisha didn’t He?

After Jesus Christ, Elisha was one of the most prolific miracle workers in the Bible. I have included the prophecies also because to me, being able to know the future accurately can only be because of God because God knows exactly what is going to happen. He is omnipresent. To Him he sees all points in time simultaneously. For God to give this information to man and have man be correct 100% of the time through prophecy is God allowing for a miracle by working through man and giving him foreknowledge. A miracle by definition is: a less common kind of God's activity in which he arouses people's awe and wonder and bears witness to Himself (Grudem 355). I believe prophecy fits this description.

1) Parting the Jordan (2 Kings 2:14)
2) Healing the water with salt (2 Kings 2:21)
3) Curse of the bears (2 Kings 2:24)
4) Filling streambed with water (2 Kings 3:17)
5) Moabites with water red as blood (2 Kings 3:22)
6) Miracle of the vessels of oil (2 Kings 4:4-7)
7) Prophecy: Shunammite woman would have a son (2 Kings 4:16-17)
8) Resurrection of the Shunammite's son (2 Kings 4:32-37) …shadow of Christ
9) Flour & the pot of stew (2 Kings 4:41)
10) Loaves of barley (2 Kings 4:43) …shadow of Christ
11) Healing of Naaman (2 Kings 5:10-14)
12) Supernatural knowledge of Gehazi's wrongdoing (2 Kings 5:26)
13) Cursing Gehazi and descendants with leprosy (2 Kings 5:27)
14) Floating the axe head (2 Kings 6:6)
15) Knowledge or prophecy of Syrian battle plans (2 Kings 6:8-14)
16) Horses and chariots of fire visible to servant (2 Kings 6:17)
17) Striking Syrian army with blindness (2 Kings 6:18)
18) Restoring sight of the Syrian army (2 Kings 6:20)
19) Prophecy of the end of famine (2 Kings 7:1)
20) Prophecy that the captain would see, but not eat (2 Kings 7:2)
21) Deception of the Syrians with the sound of chariots (2 Kings 7:6) …actually it says the Lord did this but the Lord actually did all these miracles, Elisha was only the conduit or vessel.

Grudem, Wayne. "Chapter 17: Miracles." Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. New Ed ed. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1995. 355. Print.