Objection: “Divine” Healings Today Are the Prophesied Lying Signs and Wonders of the Antichrist

If you preach divine healing, consider it a given that some people will declare that what you do is “of the devil” and the fruit of an antichrist spirit.  After all, Jesus said that men will do to you what they did to Him.  Quite a few people attributed HIS signs and wonders to the devil.  We had someone leave a church that we pastored saying that if you listened to us, you would go to hell!

This objection is offered by those who are sure that divine healing passed away a long time ago.  Other people would at least acknowledge that Jesus is still healing sick people today.  Because they believe that God does not heal anymore, they conclude that the devil must be doing the healings.  This is a strange inversion of the truth – saying the SATAN wants you to BE HEALED but God wants you to STAY SICK.  Have God and Satan switched places?  Does God steal, kill and destroy while the devil does the works of Jesus today?  What a weird idea!  It would make people want to worship Satan instead of God because based on this weird idea, Satan is nicer to you than God!

There are true Christians on either side of the divine healing question.  I would not for a minute suggest that a Christian who does not believe in divine healing is hell-bound or “of the devil.”  You are saved by receiving Jesus as Lord, believing that God raised Him from the dead.  Your views on divine healing have nothing to do with your ultimate destination.  If you are a Christian, you are just as saved as I am even if you disagree with what I say about healing.

It is rather ridiculous to claim that a divine healing preacher is motivated by an antichrist spirit.  An antichrist spirit would be anti-Christ!  I am pro-Christ.  I preach Christ crucified, dead, buried, raised, ascended and coming back.  I preach the plan of salvation.  You can be extremely sure that when the Antichrist appears, he will not explain the true plan of salvation to anyone!   He will try to get the Christians to stop following Christ and he will do anything he can to impede others from serving the Lord Jesus.  He won’t urge anyone to make Jesus his Lord as true healing preachers do.

Furthermore, there is a biblical test to determine if someone is really backed by an antichrist spirit.  An antichrist spirit does not confess that Jesus came in the flesh (1 John 4:1-4).  I DO confess that Jesus came in the flesh.  He pre-existed with God and was incarnated, not created, when He was conceived in Mary’s virgin womb.  He was a true Man as well as truly God.  I cannot possibly proclaim that and be a mouthpiece for an antichrist spirit!  If any preacher is able to confess that Jesus came in the flesh, he is not manifesting an antichrist spirit.  He might be “missing it” in some area, but he is not a tool of the antichrist.  There is a difference between unwittingly letting the devil use you to try to talk people out of healing and being aligned with the antichrist.  The devil used Peter’s mouth to try to talk Jesus out of paying for our sins, but the fact that the devil managed to engage Peter’s mouth did not mean that Peter always operated with an antichrist spirit.

Labeling healing ministers as antichrist followers is hype gone crazy given what the Bible says about the antichrist and his lying doctrine that Jesus did not come in the flesh.