No One Hath Ascended into Heaven by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Mar 20, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 12.

No One Hath Ascended into Heaven

By Editor

2026.—"No One Hath Ascended into Heaven." John 3: 13.

Will you please explain in the Question Corner of the SIGNS, John 3:13, especially in view of the fact that Enoch and Elijah ascended into heaven?

There is perfect harmony if we will only keep the context in mind. Nicodemus wanted to know God's way. He came to Jesus to find out. Jesus assured him, in the eleventh verse, that He spoke that which He knew, and bore witness of that which He had seen, "and no one hath ascended into heaven," to learn those things and bring them back to earth; "but He that descended out of heaven." That is the thought of the text. Enoch and Elijah ascended into heaven, but they did not come back to tell us what they learned there. Jesus came from heaven in order that He might reveal to the world heavenly things, and no one save Christ has done this.