R.C. Sproul Quote
Had gone to heaven. Enoch was translated and Elijah was taken up. One could ascend a ladder (Jesus had told Nathanael that he would see angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man, and Jacob beheld a ladder in his midnight dream at Bethel) or one could ascend to Jerusalem, moving to a higher elevation from sea level. The term could be used figuratively to refer to the elevation of a king to his royal office. But no one ever had ascended to heaven in the sense in which Jesus was speaking. The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended
R.C. Sproul
Had gone to heaven. Enoch was translated and Elijah was taken up. One could ascend a ladder (Jesus had told Nathanael that he would see angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man, and Jacob beheld a ladder in his midnight dream at Bethel) or one could ascend to Jerusalem, moving to a higher elevation from sea level. The term could be used figuratively to refer to the elevation of a king to his royal office. But no one ever had ascended to heaven in the sense in which Jesus was speaking. The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended