What Is the Relationship Between Teaching and Signs in the Bible? Part–2

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May the Today Bible verses help you build a spiritual relationship with God. You read this verse and understand what God is telling you and what God wants from you.

In the New Testament

As we look at the New Testament writings, we might expect to discover similar intentions and learn more about signs that would deliver from oppression, signify sacred times, and bring God near to all nations. And we do—but that’s not all we discover. We learn that Jesus is the ultimate sign. He absorbed divine judgment of sin to provide an exodus from sin’s oppressive powers. He fulfilled every covenant promised to Israel and began a new covenant that marked the beginning of an eternal Sabbath. He is God with us and the Messiah for all nations. His death and resurrection served as a sign that his message was trustworthy.

Then certain scribes and Pharisees answered Jesus and said, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you." But Jesus answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign. But no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the big fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation of people and will condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and see, someone greater than Jonah is here. The Queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them. She came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and see, someone greater than Solomon is here.–Matthew 12:38-42

So what’s the relationship between signs and teaching? They share the same purpose. God wants his people to know and trust him. When they disregard his words (teachings) and fail to recognize the significance of his works (signs), he is grieved as his people suffer the consequences of their mistrust. He is grieved because he desires that his people “be fruitful and multiply” 

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply. Fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."–Genesis 1:28

He knows that the fruits of joy, peace, and love only multiply where God and humanity are united in trust. So in Jesus, God gives himself as a sign to teach his people to rely on him, so they can live in the overlap of . This space is where God’s people grow and thrive, and he wants that for the good of the whole world. Before Jesus ascended to the heavens, he instructed his disciples to teach all nations to remember and follow him.

But the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted. Jesus came to them and spoke to them and said, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations. Baptize them into the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Teach them to obey all the things that I have commanded you. See, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."–Matthew 28:16-20

The early Church followed the words and works of Jesus as the apostles carried out their calling to spread the good news of the Kingdom of God. But what did it look like practically for the apostles to do this? Who is privileged to echo God’s words through teaching in the Bible? And how should we regard signs today?