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Enoch & Elijah are not in Heaven! Where does the Bible say they are? | Part B

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Elijah

ElijahThe story of Elijah is especially intriguing because not only did Yahuwah “translate” him to another place via a fiery chariot, but Scripture reveals he actually lived on earth for at least four to five years afterward!2

Second Kings 2:11 states that “Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” The word “heaven” in Scripture actually refers to several different levels. There is Heaven—the third heaven—which is the home of the Creator, of course. There is also the second heaven in which are the planets, sun, moon, and stars. The heaven referred to in 2 Kings 2:11 is the first heaven: the atmosphere. Obviously, for there to be a whirlwind, it would have to be within the first level of “heaven.” As we understand it, whirlwinds do not exist beyond the canopy that encloses the atmosphere above the earth.

More intriguing still is what happened to Elijah afterward. Scripture does not say where, precisely, Elijah was taken, but the fact that the mantle of leadership passed to Elisha while Elijah continued to live becomes clear once you learn the history of the kings of Judah and Israel. Just before Elijah was taken, a new king came to the throne of Israel. Confusingly for modern readers, Israel’s new king had the same name as Judah’s king. They were both called Jehoram! (See Second Kings 1:17.) Judah’s Jehoram had been co-reigning with his father, Jehoshaphat, for about two years at this time. Four years later, King Jehoshaphat died in 845 BCE. Jehoram, king of Judah, promptly slew his brothers to secure the throne. He also moved to reestablish paganism throughout Judah. The Bible records “he had forsaken Yahuwah Elohim of his fathers.” (Second Chronicles 21:10, KJV) But then, something astonishing happened! Something that would have been impossible if Elijah were dead or in Heaven with Yahuwah. Wicked King Jehoram received a letter.

Moreover he [Jehoram of Judah] made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto. And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith Yahuwah Elohim of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, which were better than thyself: Behold, with a great plague will Yahuwah smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods. (Second Chronicles 21:11-15, KJV)

This is astonishing! This letter came roughly four years after Elijah “went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” (Second Kings 2:11) While we do not know where he lived out the rest of his natural life, it wasn’t in Heaven. Clearly, as John would state nearly a thousand years later, “no man hath ascended up to heaven.” (John 3:13) Enoch and Elijah, as faithful servants of the Most High, are resting in the grave awaiting the return of Yahushua when they, with the faithful of all ages, will be raised incorruptible to live forever in the earth made new.
 
1 Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, 1969 edition.

2 Being transported by Yah’s spirit is not unheard of. There is at least one, possibly two other incidents given in Scripture. The first, recorded in Luke 4, when the villagers in Nazareth tried to kill Yahushua on the Sabbath:

And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went his way, and came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.” (Luke 4:28-31, KJV)

The second occurrence was after Philip baptized the Ethiopian eunuch:

And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea. (Acts 8:39-40, KJV)

 
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