2 Thessalonians 2:9 - Signs and wonders of falsehood?

Does 2 Thessalonians 2:9 object to the need for deliverance for those who have been believers in the past?

2 Thessalonians 2:9: "whose coming is in accordance with (the) working (of) Satan, with all power and signs and wonders (of) falsehood,"

Deliverance for believers?

Could every apparent deliverance of believers be in principle a "working (of) Satan, with all power and signs and wonders (of) falsehood" (2 Thessalonians 2:9)?

Here are several principles to take into account with regard to this question:

1. A sign and wonder "of falsehood" (2 Thessalonians 2:9) would be based on falsehood, and so the truth or the falsehood for the possibility of a believer to be delivered may first need to be investigated.
   
   
   
2. We also may want to take into account what people may claim to have experienced. If a believer claimed to have experienced an actual deliverance after having been prayed for, we may want to take into account their claim by first investigating it.
   
   For example, we read in John 9 that Jesus healed "(a) man blind from birth" (John 9:1), and in the context, it was said that "It-was never out-of the age heard that someone opened (the) eyes (of one) having-been-born blind" (John 9:32). Yet when the Pharisees investigated the man, the man claimed: "I-know one (thing) — that being (a) blind (one), now I-see" (John 9:25).

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