is an obvious difference between, say, a tourist attraction and a road sign directing you there. The sign merely points to what is aheadâit's not the destination itself. In much the same way, the miraculous signs performed by Jesus and the apostles were never ends in themselves but pointed to the authority of what they proclaimed (Hebrews 2:1--4; Acts 2:22). Throughout Christ's and the apostles' ministries, people often fixated on their miracles and missed their messages. In Matthew 16:4 Jesus said, 'An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign.' His point is clear: Seeking after signs means missingâor worseâignoring what those signs point to. . . .
