Acts 10:38 “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
The sign of healing the sick can also only be performed by the power of God. In the above passage of scripture we are taught the truth that Jesus is the healer, and the devil is the one who oppresses individuals with sickness. In other words, the devil has the ability to place sickness on people, but he has no ability to heal people of those sicknesses. Think about the magicians that stood in Pharaoh’s court when Moses confronted them. Those magicians were Satan’s ministers because they performed their signs by demonic powers, and they were able to perform many of the same signs that Moses did. However when Moses placed boils on the Egyptians, including the magicians, those same magicians had no power to reverse the sickness that had come upon them (Exodus 9:11), the reason being that the devil has no power to heal. The topic of sickness and healing is vast; including God’s role, Satan’s role, nature’s role and the role of men themselves, and therefore certainly falls outside the scope of this teaching. But as far as this teaching is concerned, I wanted to establish the truth that contrary to popular belief, Satan has no ability to heal the sick, and so he also cannot perform this sign through his ministers to try deceiving the church.
Michael E.B. Maher
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