From the Elder's Pen "Miraculous Powers" 10/14/01 Past/Future Articles

Miracles of healing served to confirm the revelation of God’s message (Mark 16:20; Acts 14:3).  In Hebrews 2:3-4 this point is made clear, speaking of the “...great salvation; which was at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and the gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.”  With the perfect will of God revealed and confirmed by first century miracles, the need for such miraculous powers to reveal and confirm God’s word came to an end (James 1:25; Jude 3; I Cor. 13: 8-13).  God gave His purpose for giving miraculous power; do we dare question His revealed will and try to continue something He desired to cease?  Only the apostles of Christ had the power to lay their hands on others and confer the ability to work miracles.  Since there are no apostles living today, there is no possibility of anyone giving the God given miraculous powers of healing!  When the last apostle died, and the last one on whom an apostle had laid hands died, the ability of men to work miracles ceased.