According to scripture, Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind, so does that mean that he is still in heaven with God, Jesus, and the angels? Or is he in hades awaiting judgment with everyone else?<\/p>\n\t
Does it matter? All I can possibly do is answer with the little we are told in the Bible. “And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven<\/em>” (II Kings 2:11). We aren’t told what happened after that point and it would be unwise to make conjectures concerning it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: According to scripture, Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind, so does that mean that he is still in heaven with God, Jesus, and the angels? Or is he in hades awaiting judgment with everyone else? Answer: Does it matter? All I can possibly do is answer with the little we are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[109,405],"class_list":["post-21815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-death","tag-elijah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38770,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-was-elijah-taken-up-so-dramatically\/","url_meta":{"origin":21815,"position":0},"title":"Why was Elijah taken up so dramatically?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Why was it necessary for Elijah to be taken into heaven as he was? 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