so would there be a way to test such a thing? claiming a miracle of the Holy Spirit to be of demons is Blasphemy and unforgivable. but what if satan was masquerading as an angel and doing miracles and claiming they were of the Father. is there a way to test such a thing? you wouldnt want to be wrong!
I would say wouldn’t want to be wrong with no grace needed turn us towards Him to repent if we do deny him in unbelief..
According to 1 John 2: 27-28, in speaking of the methodology of the antichrist singular which is Satan who influence men as antichrists (plural) in respect to the father of lies who has no form trying to seduce the believer to believe they do need a man to teach us as that which the Holy Spirit not seen did promise he would perform in us giving us His comfort, as the peace of God that surpasses our human understanding. ..
We are to try the spirits to see if they are of men, seen the temporal, or of God not seen the eternal .
This is seeing the antichrist was already there, I believe as a result of the first century reformation where men no longer looked to the flesh of a Jew in regard to Christ coming in the fullness of time, the time of the reformation... fulfilling that shadow in respect to an outward Jew that pointed toward his invisible presence, again up until the reformation.
The father of lies who turn things upside down as if the work of the Potter, the clay provided the understanding as of faith of God . Turning it upside down by making it our faith we offer toward God .This is something God call a dead work seeing it is offered toward Him and not a generated from His towards us called faith a belief belonging to Christ.. The law of faith in respect to the faith of Christ that works towards us cannot be given to man, if it comes from God.
The loving commandment below that God uses as that to protect his own self from false worship . The first commandment is to have no gods before our living God if so it is recognized as blaspheme if you follow the conclusion in verse 7.
Seeing some men were attributing the faith or work that comes from hearing God to men therefore making gods they can have before him in the likeness of men. .
Jam 2:1 My brethren, have
not the “faith of” our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
Jam 2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
We can see the result of that in a few place where Satan does get his foothold in the door as the things of men (oral traditions)that in the end of the matter does offend the things of God. (His written tradition the Bible).
Act 14:11 And when the people
saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The
gods are come down to us
in the likeness of men.
They violated the loving commandment (James 2) because they attributed the work to men as gods in the likeness of men and therefore were not walking by the faith of Christ, the Lord of glory.
The spirit of the antichrist, the spirit of error is shown even working in Peter exposing him as a false prophet who did learn what it means to try the spirits to see if they are of God or men influenced by the father of lies. A clear distinction between the things of men which offend God and those generated by or of God must be made if we are to hear God by faith aright
Mat 16:22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the “things that be of God”, but “those that be of men”
.With Emanuel (God with us and not God is us) it is possible to try the spirits .... without the hearing His voice no man could believe God.
1John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are
of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world..
