However, the two witnesses are NOT GOD and the HOLY SPIRIT.
Their testimony and what they say is still by GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT...and it isn't them who has the "power" to rain fire down on men, but GOD has given them that power...
GOD does NOT give any of us that power...for if we did this, we would be rebuked just as James and John were rebuked when they wanted to rain fire down from heaven on that samaritan village who would not accept JESUS.
CHRIST said to them, truly you do not know of whose SPIRIT you are of.
When you see these two men testifying and these things happening, it is by GOD'S POWER that they do these things...but they are NOT GOD and THE HOLY SPIRIT at all...
They are simply doing what GOD has foreordained for them to do...by HIS SPIRIT and HIS POWER, yes...
But "THAT WORK" is NOT ours to do...
Do you rember what I said in a previous post... That part of bible study is to detect patterns. Consider this one.
God sometimes used names to tell a story, a sort of code.
EXAMPLES
Gen 16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
Gen 17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isa 8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
Hos 1:4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Hos 1:9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Mat 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Luk 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
Luk 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
This is one of those patterns!
So, I would ask you all to consider that when at the end of the book of Malachi where it says: Behold, I will send you ELIJAH the
Prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord. The name Elijah means in Hebrew: My God Jehovah or Jehovah is my God.
Is it at least, with in the realm of possibility that, He was saying: Behold I will send you my God Jehovah before the great and terrible day of the lord?
And
Mar 15:33 ¶ And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Mar 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mar 15:35 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.
Mar 15:36 And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
Mar 15:37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
Mar 15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
I found this in one of my bible studies to be very interesting.