Summary of answers to why we don't see large scale miracles today

I think that it has to do with a lack of faith. I also believe that these types of "large scale" miracles do still happen, but we either don't recognize them or don't attribute them to God.

mcarans said:

I'm interested to hear reasons why we don't see today large scale spectacular miracles (parting of Red Sea, rain stopping for years, God in pillar of fire not individual miracles like healings).

Why do we not see large scale spectacular miracles today? : cruciformity

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If you look at the entirety of scripture great miracles of the past and those predicted for the future and charted them on a time line and plotted red dots when the great miracles occurred and when they are promised to reoccur you will see that at a few points of history God poured out a demonstration of his power with a purpose of establishing a testimony. So in reality the times or miracles is not the rule but the exception. The Bible speaks of many incredible things that will take place during the tribulation. That is fire from heaven with great hail stones and water turning to blood and plagues of biting locust and many more. These miracles all fall in line with specific prophecies about israel being destroyed and brought back into existence at the time the 7 year tribulation takes place. The mid point of these 7 years is what Jesus refers to as the abomination of desolation that Daniel talked about. This occurs in the temple which would have to be rebuilt. The Jews are now in Israel and have prepared everything necessary for the rebuilding of the temple and in fact expect the messiah to be a normal man who can get this done through negotiations and bring in an era of peace to the world. This is to me a great miracle that Israel has kept a national identity while in exile for over 1800 years and has become a nation again. They have prepared everything necessary for the return of the temple sacrifices. This is proof that these things said to come will come and again it is a special time when God judges and makes himself known. There are hundreds of specific prophecies to come that one should study such as Isaiah 17 the destruction of Damascus and the war of Ezekiel 38. These are again unfulfilled and good men have different ideas of how and when they will take place but be certain the word of the LORD will not fail. This in itself is already a great miracle in just setting the stage for the type of thing you anticipate.
If you read about say the battle of Britain and the 1967 war in Israel you will hear testimonies of great miracles that changed the outcome of those wars. One guy withstood 1000 Syrian tanks in 1967, WW2 a handful of plains from England defeated a great number of German planes and the surviving German pilots asked where did you get all those planes? The LORD did intervene then with angels. By the way Churchill had the nation all praying for the war and calling on the name of the LORD for deliverance as they knew that were overmatched.

We do see rain stopping for years. These events are not miracles; we call them droughts.

People have claimed to have witnessed miracles, but without documentation, of course. Because God no longer interacts with creation that way.

The kingdom now speaks for God. The work of the Messiah, believers.

There are always two types of believers. Faith believers and sight believers. Jesus did not commit himself to those who believed because of the miracles they saw. But He also used miracles to manipulate the sight believers along the way throughout the Old Testament.

Faith is a substance based on evidence of things not seen. We have evidence of changed lives and fulfilled prophecy and sometimes even miracles. Miracles in and of themselves are neutral as we are warned of lying signs and wonders.

mcarans said:

I'm interested to hear reasons why we don't see today large scale spectacular miracles (parting of Red Sea, rain stopping for years resulting from human prayer, God in pillar of fire not individual miracles like healings).

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Difficult to say is it really so that God doesn’t heal people anymore. But I think reason for no miracles is probably that they are not useful. If person doesn’t become righteous, it is not useful to show miracles.

"He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
Luke 16:31

Also, if we look what people do to those who do good and heal, like for example Jesus, people murder them. Not really very tempting to do anything good for people.