Signs from God to the World

Recently while teaching the Introduction to the New Testament course and discussing how the apostle John presented in his gospel the works of Jesus in exactly seven miracles, which the apostle calls signs, the Lord led me to compare the purpose of the seventh sign, the resurrection of Lazarus, with the purpose for our time of the two recent events that captured everyone's attention in 2010. I am referring to the earthquake in Haiti on January 12th and the confinement and eventual rescue of the 33 miners at the San José mine in Chile on October 13th of that same year. Although the apostle acknowledges that the works of Jesus were so many that if all of them were written, not even the world could contain the books that would have been written; however, the apostle only highlights seven miracles of all of them. John presents these seven signs as if they were seven great lessons (as presented in Genesis the seven days of creation) and from each of them he highlights how God establishes with signs His methodology of operation in the midst of the times.