Elijah Never Went To Heaven... In A Chariot Of Fire!

“No one has ascended into heaven except He who descended from heaven, the Son of man”. John chapter 3 verse 3. The Apsotle John was quoting Jesus in his discourse with Nicodemus on the topic “being born again to enter into God’s Kingdom”.

So if Jesus categorically said there was no one who had ascended to heaven where He Jesus had existed in eons of time, then I stand before this court of humanity, comprising dignitaries, atheists, church goers, non-conformists, Muslims, fake pastors and prophets, so called bible students, Greek and Gentiles to say “I AMNOT GUILTY” to proclaim that Elijah did not go to heaven in a chariot of fire.

If you target me as a blasphemer, then better point that accusing fingers at Jesus Christ himself first for “misleading” Nicodemus. So if Elijah did not go to heaven, where is he? Where is Enoch who the bible says he walked with God and he was not”. Genesis chapter 5 verse 24.

Where is Patriarch Noah, the only righteous person who lived before the flood? What about father Abraham who is said to be in heaven accepting all Christians who died and are reposing in his chest in heaven?

Is the parable Lazarus still reclining in the bosom of Abraham? Was Jesus unfair to have caused the real Lazarus to come from the “good” heaven place back to this sinful world?

So where are the Jeremiah’s, the Isaiah’s, the Ezekiel’s, the Amos, the Daniels, the Habakkuk’s, King David, the Apostle Paul’s, Peter, and Moses who God had himself supervised his death on Mount Sinai?

All these Old Testament Men of God should have been welcomed into heaven to be resettled before He Jesus, Son of God, the Word and the Creator was to come down in this world to be born as a human by the Virgin Mary.

I want all those who gnash their teeth against me to explain the paradox of the thief on the cross who had his sins forgiven by Jesus. Which is which Paradise or Heaven?

Did Jesus toss the thief into heaven while he walked 40 days on this earth revealing himself to his disciples and others?

Do the parable of Lazarus and the thief on the cross have the same tone of a future tense as promised by Jesus?

Let’s all go back to the crucifixion where Jesus made his declaration to the thief. It was a punctuation – a comma in a sentence that had been misinterpreted by Christians and non-Christians alike

The book of Luke chapter 23 verse 43 says “And he said to (the thief) TRULY I SAY UNTO YOU TODAY YOU WILLBE WITH ME IN PARADISE”.

Most bible translations put the comma after the first YOU, leaving all too wise professors to speculate that Jesus meant He will take the thief to heaven that very day death closes on all occupants on the cross.

The punctuation or the comma must be placed after the word TODAY to read “TRULY I SAY UNTO YOU TODAY, YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.”

That means Jesus made a promise to the thief THAT VERY DAY HE hang on the cross and the fulfillment of the promise will come later when Jesus in His Second coming will resurrect all the righteous including the thief who is rotten in the grave today. The thief and the dead King David are all awaiting their resurrection by Jesus at a latter day.

That had been a long detour or digression on the road to heaven to search for Elijah who was carried off by a chariot of fire.

Elijah’s story seems to have ended with him going up into the skies and throwing his cloak onto his servant Elisha but it didn’t. The prophet is still in the bible.

Let’s trace Elijah from 1 Kings Chapters 18 -19 to 2 Kings Chapter 2 where Elijah is taken to heaven.

Against the background of a broken kingdom, Elijah worked mostly in his ministry in the 10 tribe kingdom of Israel where Ahab and his queen Jezebel ruled.

God supervised both the 10-tribed kingdom of Israel and the 2-tribed kingdom of Judah and Benjamin.

God retired Elijah and settled him in the kingdom of Judah with Jerusalem as its capital.

The chariot of fire was the mode of transportation God used to whisk away Elijah from Israel to Judah. God has the power to create any means for his good. It is for this means of transportation given to Elijah that has baffled many to believe in the heaven theory.

It is God who wrote the script and Elijah was the actor with God providing the props for his own wisdom.

God, having edited the story from 1 Kings to 2 Kings with Elijah been seen going to the skies in a chariot of fire, opened up the show in Judah where Elijah was already in retirement from Ahab’s Israel with Samaria as its capital.

Be bold as we cross to the book of Chronicles Chapter 21 where King Ahab reigned in Judah with Jerusalem as its capital.

Take note that Jehoram was married to the daughter of king Ahab of Israel and Jezebel and what king Jehoram did was a typical rebellion against God as his wife drove him to be wicked just as her mother did.

Elijah could not contain his anger against Jehoram and his wife and all that he did was to write a warning letter to the king to repent or else face the wrath of God.

Read 2 Chronicles Chapter 21 and end Elijah’s story in verse 12 – 15.

God sometimes interchange Heaven with the Heavens. Heavens goes to describe the seven strata’s of the clouds.

Elijah’s chariot entered the skies just as our modern airplanes fly through the various stratas to land.

So which heaven God manifested the flaming chariot could not be known. If Jesus in his divine form rose up from the earth and travelled through the clouds and later vanished from views, so Elijah’s fiery chariot travelled through the skies to land him in Judah.

Jesus said NO ONE HAS ASCENDED into heaven except He who came from there.

So by Christ’s word I should buy the truth and nothing but the truth to say that Elijah did not go to heaven in a chariot of fire.

May God bless you if you read the Bible to ascertain the truth.

Evng. Eddie Owusu Afram

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