I'm just not sure why Elijah would use the word "if." Didn't he know he was called to be a prophet and didn't he trust God in this situation? It's confusing.
2 Kings 1:12
AMP - 12 And Elijah answered, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
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