Summary
There's no testament yet at this point to validate the truthfulness of what is being proclaimed and so Scripture says, God used signs and wonders. What they would do is they would try and cast out demonic spirits by appealing to a more powerful spirit they said and what they would do is they would borrow from various religions. It had to be significantly mysterious sounding so that the person who supposedly had the demonic spirit would think that this spell that would be put over them would be effective. What's really interesting here is you see the second use of no there in that verse that's a different word than the first no. What is so fascinating is that disciples would struggle about who Jesus is and the demons from day one they know exactly. There was praise because God would not allow the holy name of Jesus to be attached to the evil scheme of the seven sons of skeiva.
Video citations
- "Awestruck" — Would you open your Bibles, please, with me, to the 19th chapter of the Book of Acts? The seven sons of Skiva. Those band of boys were bad news. They were exorcists that went around, traveling…