Why did Christ have to show wonders and signs to the Jewish nation?
Christ had to show wonders and signs to the Jewish nation to prove that His ministry and works were God's doing. Just as Moses performed signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness, these miracles confirmed that Jesus was the Christ and that His power came from God.
Les explains that Christ's earthly ministry followed the same pattern as Moses: He had to show wonders and signs to prove to the Jewish nation that it was God's doing. Moses had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years. Stephen, in Acts 7, is trying to prove to Israel that Jesus was the Christ. He cites Moses' prophecy that God would raise up a prophet like unto him, someone who would deliver Israel even as Moses did, and identifies Jesus of Nazareth as the one who was in the called-out assembly in the wilderness with the angel and received the living oracles, the Law.
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
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What wonders and signs did Moses show in Egypt, the Red Sea, and the wilderness?
Moses showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.