In the biblical narrative, miracles serve as divine interventions that reveal God's power and authority. However, the response to these miracles varies significantly between the righteous and the wicked. The wicked, despite witnessing God's mighty works, often forget or dismiss these miracles, leading to further rebellion and disbelief.

The tendency of the wicked to forget God's miracles is a recurring theme in Scripture. In the Old Testament, the Israelites frequently witnessed God's miraculous deeds, yet many among them quickly forgot His works and turned to idolatry and disobedience. Psalm 78:11-12 highlights this forgetfulness: "They forgot His deeds and the wonders He had shown them. He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan."

The forgetfulness of the wicked is not merely a lapse in memory but a willful disregard for God's acts. This is evident in the account of Pharaoh during the Exodus. Despite witnessing the ten plagues—each a miraculous sign of God's power—Pharaoh's heart remained hardened. Exodus 9:34 states, "When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his officials."

In the New Testament, the pattern continues with the religious leaders of Jesus' time. Despite witnessing Jesus' miracles, many Pharisees and Sadducees refused to believe in Him. John 12:37 notes, "Although Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still did not believe in Him."

The forgetfulness of the wicked serves as a cautionary tale, illustrating the spiritual blindness and hardness of heart that can result from ignoring God's miraculous works. It underscores the importance of remembering and responding to God's interventions with faith and obedience, rather than allowing disbelief to take root.

This theme is further emphasized in the warnings against apostasy found in the New Testament. Hebrews 3:12 warns, "See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God." The forgetfulness of the wicked is thus portrayed as a deliberate choice to reject God's revelation, leading to spiritual peril.

Throughout Scripture, the miracles of God are intended to draw people closer to Him, to inspire faith, and to demonstrate His sovereignty. The wicked, however, often choose to forget these signs, illustrating a profound spiritual disconnect and a refusal to acknowledge God's rightful place as Lord and Creator.Nehemiah 9:17
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsook them not.
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Psalm 78:1,11
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
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Christ Teaching by Miracles
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of these miracles in St ... She told the scholars how a wicked governor placed an ...
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Acts XII
... But wicked men are prone to forget the warnings of ... When we remember that these disciples
were so familiar with miracles, it is rather surprising that the ...
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A virgin at Antioch, Having Refused to Sacrifice to Idols...
... have been becoming bashful, and fear to laud on or describe the wicked series of ...
Listen, ye holy virgins, to the miracles of the martyr, forget the name of ...
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The Demoniac
... of natural law does not forbid us to believe in miracles. ... they could not get rid
of the wicked ones." Social ... But men also are wont to forget their wrong doing ...
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Signs and Wonders.
... only in strange portents, absurd and lying miracles, which they ... How we forget that
on Him we depend for every ... pangs come upon us"like the wicked queen-mother ...
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One Saying from Three Men
... The 'wicked' man's true faith is this, absurd as it may ... is fixed, and that therefore
there are no miracles, or for ... If we forget it, we shall need, and we shall ...
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How Holy Love Returning into the Soul, Brings Back to Life all the ...
... 539] God then does not forget the works ... are only forgotten; but the sin of the wicked
is not ... in the corporal cures which our Saviour wrought by miracles he not ...
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John vii. 25-27
... when He saith, "The sons of Eli were wicked sons, they ... in not by doctrine, nor by
preaching, but by miracles. ... He saith, (not only "ye shall not forget Me," but ...
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A Parable in a Miracle
... knew nothing about the principles upon which His miracles were wrought ... Nor let us
forget that it is this swift shoot ... in His life, and 'with the wicked in His ...
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Hebrews vi. 7, 8
... and love, will never despise you nor forget you ... unless he be righteous, unless he
work miracles, I stretch ... that thou shouldst say that he is wicked and worthless ...
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