8 Bible Verses about Miracles Counterfeited

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Then Pharaoh also summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt by their secret arts did the same thing. Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

The magicians did the same with their secret arts and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt too.

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great. All the people, from the least to the greatest, paid close attention to him, saying, "This man is the power of God that is called 'Great.'" And they paid close attention to him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic.

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan's working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,

He performed momentous signs, even making fire come down from heaven in front of people

For they are the spirits of the demons performing signs who go out to the kings of the earth to bring them together for the battle that will take place on the great day of God, the All-Powerful.

Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf -- signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.