Revelation 13:13

 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.

·        The beast rising from the sea has the “signs and wonders” to back up his false teaching.  (DG)

·        It is important that John highlights this miracle. In the eyes of the deceived world, it answers the miracle of the two witnesses, who minister during this period and are persecuted by the Antichrist and his false prophet (Revelation 11:5). To the deceived world, this also puts this false prophet in the class of Elijah (1 Kings 18). We can imagine the false prophet as saying, “Let the true God answer with fire” and then performing his deceptive wonder.  (DG)

Deuteronomy 13:1-3  ….you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

2 Kings 1:10  So Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.”…..