The first place that God deals with magicians is before the exodus, with Moses and the plagues, I think you should look into that but also God handles this issue of power all through the bible. Gideon asked for signs from God to be super sure about what was happening and God showed him (a few times) and then defeated a crazy huge army with Gideon and 300 guys. Elijah asked for God to rain down fire on the army against him and God did, that's not magic that's being the owner of the world. Really really a lot of interesting things this God Dude does even before Jesus. But Jesus also handled the magicians and tricksters and is able to do what no one else can and through His power is how His children are to be a blessing in the fallen world.
Things I looked up:
Gideon and the fleece
Then Gideon said to God, “If You will deliver Israel by my hand, as You said, I will put a fleece of wool here on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and all the ground is dry, I will know that You will deliver Israel by my strength, as You said.” And that is what happened. When he got up early in the morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung dew out of it, filling a bowl with water.
Gideon then said to God, “Don’t be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me to make one more test with the fleece. Let it remain dry, and the dew be all over the ground.” That night God did as Gideon requested: only the fleece was dry, and dew was all over the ground.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%206&version=HCSB
Gideon and the 300 guys vs army battle
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%207&version=HCSB
God knows everything
That night the Lord said to him, “Get up and go into the camp, for I have given it into your hand. But if you are afraid to go to the camp, go with Purah your servant. Listen to what they say, and then you will be strengthened to go to the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outpost of the troops who were in the camp.
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the Qedemites had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore. When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said, “Listen, I had a dream: a loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent, and it fell. The loaf turned the tent upside down so that it collapsed.”
His friend answered: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has handed the entire Midianite camp over to him.”
No one else could have done what what done but God and Jesus is God in form. I can get into all that if you'd like
The first place that God deals with magicians is before the exodus, with Moses and the plagues, I think you should look into that but also God handles this issue of power all through the bible. Gideon asked for signs from God to be super sure about what was happening and God showed him (a few times) and then defeated a crazy huge army with Gideon and 300 guys. Elijah asked for God to rain down fire on the army against him and God did, that's not magic that's being the owner of the world. Really really a lot of interesting things this God Dude does even before Jesus. But Jesus also handled the magicians and tricksters and is able to do what no one else can and through His power is how His children are to be a blessing in the fallen world.
Things I looked up:
Gideon and the fleece
Then Gideon said to God, “If You will deliver Israel by my hand, as You said, I will put a fleece of wool here on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and all the ground is dry, I will know that You will deliver Israel by my strength, as You said.” And that is what happened. When he got up early in the morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung dew out of it, filling a bowl with water.
Gideon then said to God, “Don’t be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me to make one more test with the fleece. Let it remain dry, and the dew be all over the ground.” That night God did as Gideon requested: only the fleece was dry, and dew was all over the ground.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%206&version=HCSB
Gideon and the 300 guys vs army battle
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%207&version=HCSB
God knows everything
That night the Lord said to him, “Get up and go into the camp, for I have given it into your hand. But if you are afraid to go to the camp, go with Purah your servant. Listen to what they say, and then you will be strengthened to go to the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outpost of the troops who were in the camp.
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the Qedemites had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore. When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said, “Listen, I had a dream: a loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent, and it fell. The loaf turned the tent upside down so that it collapsed.”
His friend answered: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has handed the entire Midianite camp over to him.”
No one else could have done what what done but God and Jesus is God in form.
The first place that God deals with magicians is before the exodus, with Moses and the plagues, I think you should look into that but also God handles this issue of power all through the bible. Gideon asked for signs from God to be super sure about what was happening and God showed him (a few times) and then defeated a crazy huge army with Gideon and 300 guys. Elijah asked for God to rain down fire on the army against him and God did, that's not magic that's being the owner of the world. Really really a lot of interesting things this God Dude does even before Jesus. But Jesus also handled the magicians and tricksters and is able to do what no one else can and through His power is how His children are to be a blessing in the fallen world.
Things I looked up:
Gideon and the fleece
Then Gideon said to God, “If You will deliver Israel by my hand, as You said, I will put a fleece of wool here on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and all the ground is dry, I will know that You will deliver Israel by my strength, as You said.” And that is what happened. When he got up early in the morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung dew out of it, filling a bowl with water.
Gideon then said to God, “Don’t be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me to make one more test with the fleece. Let it remain dry, and the dew be all over the ground.” That night God did as Gideon requested: only the fleece was dry, and dew was all over the ground.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%206&version=HCSB
Gideon and the 300 guys vs army battle
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%207&version=HCSB
God knows everything
That night the Lord said to him, “Get up and go into the camp, for I have given it into your hand. But if you are afraid to go to the camp, go with Purah your servant. Listen to what they say, and then you will be strengthened to go to the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outpost of the troops who were in the camp.
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the Qedemites had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore. When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said, “Listen, I had a dream: a loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent, and it fell. The loaf turned the tent upside down so that it collapsed.”
His friend answered: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has handed the entire Midianite camp over to him.”
As for Jesus and His miracles, no one else could have done what what done but God.
The first place that God deals with magicians is before the exodus, with Moses and the plagues, I think you should look into that but also God handles this issue of power all through the bible. Gideon asked for signs from God to be super sure about what was happening and God showed him (a few times) and then defeated a crazy huge army with Gideon and 300 guys. Elijah asked for God to rain down fire on the army against him and God did, that's not magic that's being the owner of the world. Really really a lot of interesting things this God Dude does even before Jesus. But Jesus also handled the magicians and tricksters and is able to do what no one else can and through His power is how His children are to be a blessing in the fallen world.
Things I looked up:
Gideon and the fleece
Then Gideon said to God, “If You will deliver Israel by my hand, as You said, I will put a fleece of wool here on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and all the ground is dry, I will know that You will deliver Israel by my strength, as You said.” And that is what happened. When he got up early in the morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung dew out of it, filling a bowl with water.
Gideon then said to God, “Don’t be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me to make one more test with the fleece. Let it remain dry, and the dew be all over the ground.” That night God did as Gideon requested: only the fleece was dry, and dew was all over the ground.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%206&version=HCSB
Gideon and the 300 guys vs army battle
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%207&version=HCSB
God knows everything
That night the Lord said to him, “Get up and go into the camp, for I have given it into your hand. But if you are afraid to go to the camp, go with Purah your servant. Listen to what they say, and then you will be strengthened to go to the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outpost of the troops who were in the camp.
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the Qedemites had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore. When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said, “Listen, I had a dream: a loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent, and it fell. The loaf turned the tent upside down so that it collapsed.”
His friend answered: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has handed the entire Midianite camp over to him.”