Question: Explain John 3:13 This text says "no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven." What about Elijah, didn't he ascend into heaven? Answer: "Enoch, Elijah, amy have been translated that they should not see death, but they are not so lifted into the abode of God that they might come thence charge with heavenly truth, and able to explain the 'how' of divine grace....Man, if he should presume to come with a full revelation of Divine and heavenly things, must come down from a height to which he had previously ascended; but no man has thus and for this purpose ascended, except he who has descended from heaven, having been there before his manifestation in the flesh, having been in God, with God, in the bosom of the Father, and having come thence, not losing his essential ego, his Divine personality..." (Pulpit.119,120).