So god uses a weather event that causes mass destruction and death to transport people to him?. Why would he need the use of such an event?. Why would he need the physical body of that person?. Doesn't god just deal in peoples souls?. Why would god also create these events in areas of non population?
The word "whirlwind" was used to describe a spiritual tunnel. The LORD was delivering Elijah as a spirit into heaven and not his body. This is the same tunnel that people having NDE's mention traveling through in the afterlife.
So what was the actual reason for your post in the first place then ?