(Possibly to validate the anti-messiah as actually being the Messiah, will the false prophet then attempt to falsely imitate Elijah?e.g. to imitate the following:)
II Kings 1:10 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.
(by his doing this:)
Revelation 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
(and then maybe to imitate this:)
I Kings 17:22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
(that he might be behind the apparent resurrection of the antichrist?)
Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
(considering that he will also have even this kind of power:)
Revelation 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
(Or is that too way out there?)