This premise is not correct!
I believe it is. Miracles of the kind performed by Jesus and his apostles do not happen today. The holy spirit does not fail and there are other explanations that fit what people are experiencing more accurately.
Matt 13:58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
Miracles were performed only for the benefit of unbelievers. This was to give glory to God, not Jesus.
Matthew 15:30-31...
"And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, 31 so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel."
There were no miracles performed in the first century that were for the benefit of those who already believed that Jesus was the Messiah. This scripture in context does not mean what you imply.
Matthew 13: 53-58 (ESV)..
."And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there, 54 and coming to his hometown he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? 55 Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56 And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” 57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.” 58 And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief."
Where was he? And what did he say about those people as to why he chose not to perform miracles there?
He was in the place where he grew up. The people there just saw him as "the carpenter's son". Jesus was not "honored" there because of their familiarity with him. His own family members (apart from his mother) did not yet accept him as Messiah. Their witness would have to wait a while until Jesus' works were more widely broadcast and their pre-conceptions broken down.
https://www.religiousforums.com/bible/mark/5:31/
And his disciples said unto
him, Thou
seest the
multitude thronging thee, and sayest
thou,
Who touched me?
(Throngs touched him but only one was healed)
The woman in this account had exhausted all her finances trying to get healed from her affliction, but she only got worse. She had heard about the teacher and felt confident that this one could heal her.
Mark 5:27...
"She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well."
What did Jesus say?
Mark 5:30..
."Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”
Once she confessed, Jesus said..
.“Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
He did not heal her intentionally....her faith drew the healing power from him. He felt the power go out of him.
So again, I believe you are misreading the scripture.
https://www.religiousforums.com/bible/mark/9:18/
This account (in plain English ESV) reads...
"And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. 18 And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.”
This was the expulsion of a demon....a particularly powerful one. When Jesus expelled it, the boy appeared to be dead, but Jesus raised him up, cured of his affliction.
Later it says....
"And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” 29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”
Jesus was the teacher and the one from whom the power over these things came. It was only in his name that the disciples were able to perform these miracles in the first place. This incident shows that sometimes appeal to a higher authority was needed. The demons always had to do what Jesus commanded. The account about the demons entering the herd of swine demonstrates this. (Matthew 8:28-33)
Pentecost was when the disciples received the holy spirit individually. The gifts that they received then, helped them to keep going in the work that Jesus assigned to them. (Matthew 28:19-20)
Therefore your conclussion is based on a faulty premise.
Sorry, but I believe that context shows us that your own conclusions are mistaken.
Yes, Satan can manifest himself. But notice that in Job he only came to steal, kill and destroy but Jesus came to give life and life in abundance. He heals all who are oppressed of the Devil
The devil has not changed his tactics since Eden. He lies and deceives and paints himself as "an angel of light" to get people to believe his side of the story. He puts temptations in our path in an attempt to create a wedge between us and God.
One of his favorite tactics is to sever people's relationship with God by getting them to break God's laws.
Just before entering the Promised Land, many of the Israelite men fell away to the immoral advances of the Moabite women who supposedly came to offer them friendship and comfort. They were seduced into joining in false worship and immoral sex. 24,000 lost their lives on that occasion.
It is interesting that when Jesus comes as judge, "many" who claim him as their "Lord" will be rejected as "workers of lawlessness". (Matthew 7:21-23) Jesus says that he NEVER knew these ones.....yet they seem unaware of why Jesus is rebuking them. They even enumerate the many things they did "in his name", "powerful works" being one of their appeals. They are 'good Christians' in their own eyes, but not in the eyes of God. How can this be? They are hoodwinked by the devil because of who and what, they want to believe.
It is because of the foretold apostasy that was to take place after the death of Jesus and the apostles....and after the last book of the Bible was penned. What happened to Judaism, was repeated by Christendom. Just as the Jews saw no wrong in what they were doing and teaching in Jesus' day, so Christendom sees no wrong in her teachings today either. It is all they have ever known. Each had slowly led their flocks down the wrong path by introducing "the traditions of men" and teaching them as doctrines.
Only when a person knows the truth, can they escapes from "Babylon the great"...the devil's world empire of false religion. (Revelation 18:4-5) Unless people know what Babylon the great is, they will remain her prisoner and continue their lawlessness.