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As you said, satan does not have the power to resurrect anyone ... only God does.
For every truth of God ... satan has a lie ... and is extremely crafty and deceitful.
People who do not believe the dead are in fact dead and don't know anything (dormant in the grave) ... are primed to believe in familiar spirits and that they can in fact communicate with the dead. (which is not so)
satan and his demons certainly have the capability of "appearing" as something ... they are not ...
2nd Corinthians 11
New International Version
14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
So yes, satan will counterfeit the resurrection (appear as people who have died) by this great illusion (working through the antichrist) and many will believe he is god because of this. MANY
People who believe in an "immortal soul" will be easily deceived, along with non-believers because of this "counterfeit resurrection" ... we are not immortal in any way, shape or form until Jesus returns ... and when Jesus returns he takes all the saved (resurrected and living) to heaven.
Also His return is not going to be any kind of a secret "rapture" ... it's going to be a loud and powerful event.
Paul sums it up quite nicely here:
1 Thessalonians 4
The Return of the Lord
13Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. 14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep (dormant in the grave) in Him.
15By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. 17After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
18Therefore encourage one another with these words.
and here ...
1 Corinthians 15
51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
We are not and do not become immortal until the Lord returns and changes us.
Eleos: "So yes, satan will counterfeit the resurrection (appear as people who have died) by this great illusion (working through the antichrist) and many will believe he is god because of this."
Prophecy makes it clear that an antichrist figure will have enormous powers of deception. The prophetic books give us only a few hints about how this deception will take place and I don't believe they mention a fake resurrection.
What Revelation does say is:
13 And it [second Beast] performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
Revelation 13: 13-15 NIV
Here we are told that the second Beast, the false prophet, will cause fire to come from the sky, and also produce an animated image. These could be very impressive demonstrations, but they are not resurrection. I'm not seeing a reason to believe that an end times antichrist or the false prophet who props him up will do a fake resurrection.
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