"Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven"
I always used to think this meant Elijah died and went to heaven, but Jehovah's Witnesses showed me the bible. The bible shows that years later, Elijah was still alive!
Here Jehoshaphat is still alive when Elijah went up in the windstorm:
(2 Kings 2:11; 3:11 KJV) Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. ...But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by, him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha
Here Elijah writes to Jehoshaphat's son (Jehoshaphat was dead). So Elijah was alive after Jehoshaphat died, meaning Elijah must not have died and gone to heaven in that windstorm
(2 Chron 21:1,12) Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried...And there came a writing to [Jehoshaphat's son Jehoram] from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father
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2007-05-08
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