I think we dwell too much on "who" they are. Their actions may be the more important factor.
Their character and the prophetic type the vision is drawing from.
I do find the following intriguing though.
Mark 3:17
James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means ‘sons of thunder’),
Luke 9:54
When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, ‘Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?’
55 But Jesus turned and rebuked them. 56 Then he and his disciples went to another village.
Their character and the prophetic type the vision is drawing from.
I do find the following intriguing though.
Mark 3:17
James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means ‘sons of thunder’),
Luke 9:54
When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, ‘Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?’
55 But Jesus turned and rebuked them. 56 Then he and his disciples went to another village.
“Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;”
Genesis 19:24 KJV
“And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.”
2 Kings 1:10 KJV
“Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.”
2 Chronicles 7:1 KJV
“While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.”
Job 1:16
I think the word of God is what has the power in all things and through time Gods word has done things like this to show his power through men whether Elijah , Solomon , whether in the case of the book of job , John and James request ect
this is why I believe the witnesses are the word of God through the law and prophets no matter the men the word of God is what is able to do the things the two witnesses do.
I think its interesting that for three and a half years they shut up the heaven so it can’t rain which again was something Elijah did by the word of God
“Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.”
James 5:17 KJV
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 11:3 KJV
“These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”
Revelation 11:6 KJV
And Moses of course had power to turn water to blood by the word of God spoken to him first and also the plagues of Egypt.
I believe it’s a reference to the law and prophets because the law and prophets are the word of God which has the power to do those things through anyone who believes and has exhibited that power through men before . Whether shutting the heavens from rain for theee and a half years , pulling fire from heaven , sending plagues upon the earth , turning water to blood ect Personally I believe Elijah is a representation of the prophets and Moses a representation of the law
and both witness of Christ
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