The Healing That Should Raise Questions
When the impressive healing is not from God
There is something in the human heart that wants healing to be simple.
When someone who has been suffering is suddenly well, when a condition that had been documented and deteriorating reverses dramatically, when the person who could not walk walks or the person who could not see sees, the instinct is gratitude and wonder, and the attribution that follows the gratitude is almost always toward God. Healing feels like God. It resonates with everything the Scripture says about the compassion of Christ toward the suffering. It triggers the memory of the disciples returning to Jesus to report that even the demons were subject to them. It feels, at every level, like evidence of divine activity.
And it may be. Genuine healing exists, authentic divine intervention in the physical suffering of human beings is real, and nothing in this week’s reading is intended to produce a general suspicion toward every reported cure. What this week is pressing toward is something more specific, and the Scripture is clear enough about it that treating it as a minor caveat is not available to the careful reader.
Satan has power over the human body. This is not a fringe theological position. It is established in the text of Job, where the affliction of Job’s body is specifically authorized and specifically executed by the adversary: “So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head” (Job 2:7, NKJV). The causation is explicit. The power to afflict is real. And Jesus Himself, in Luke 13:16, describes a woman with a physical condition as one “whom Satan has bound, think of it, for eighteen years” (NKJV). The binding is attributed to Satan. The power to afflict and to hold is attributed to him.
This means that the power to release that affliction is also in his arsenal. An entity that can introduce a condition can also withdraw it. And when the withdrawal is staged in a context where it appears to be divine healing, the result is exactly what the text describes: people regard the person as healed, and they regard the healing as evidence of God’s activity in and through the one performing it.
The staging is the key word. The condition was introduced. The introduction was hidden. The release is public and dramatic and accompanied by everything that genuine healing looks like, because genuine healing is precisely what it is pretending to be. Not a simulation of healing — an actual physical change in the actual person, occurring at the apparent command of the one performing the cure. The healing is real. The attribution is false. And the attribution is exactly what the performance was designed to produce.
“For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect” (Matthew 24:24, NKJV). The signs and wonders are not illusions. They are real enough to threaten the elect — people who have had genuine, sustained contact with the truth. Something that looks completely like what the elect know the genuine article looks like has to be real, not merely sophisticated theater. The healing happens. The cure is documented. The crowd witnesses it. And if the criterion for deciding whether this is from God is whether the healing occurred, the deception is already accomplished.
The question the text demands, before the attribution of divine origin is made, is not did the healing happen but what is the healing pointing toward. Is the one performing it directing people toward or away from the commandments of God? This is the test. The healing alone is not.
Here is what this means practically. Every dramatic healing that occurs in a public religious context deserves not merely an emotional response but a directed question: what is this healing serving? Who is it endorsing? What does the endorsed person teach about the God of Scripture and His law? These questions are not the symptoms of spiritual coldness. They are the symptoms of the sober mind that the text calls the genuine alternative to spiritual stupidity. The person who asks them is not failing to appreciate what they have witnessed. They are applying the diagnostic that Scripture requires before any attribution of divine power is made, because the attribution has consequences that the experience alone is incapable of settling.
The deception is designed to feel exactly like the genuine article. That is not a peripheral feature. That is the core mechanism. A deception that feels like a deception has already failed. The staged healing is only effective precisely to the degree that it feels like what it is pretending to be. Which means the person who relies on feeling to identify the deception is the person the deception was designed to catch.
Focus Verse: “For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” — Matthew 24:24 (NKJV)
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