hmmmm .... again

So the same people who gave us Jesus, gave us Elijah. Jesus and Elijah are similar in that both had a message and both did miracles and both ascended to heaven - Jesus died first, Elijah didn't. You'd think if resurrection was the reason we worship Jesus, that the people in Elijah's time would have worshipped him. But no religion grew up around Elijah and in some ways, he was "greater" than Jesus.

Am wondering why people were changed when Jesus rose and not when Elijah rose. Am thinking there was more to Jesus' resurrection than just a "rising" - else Elijah would have been God as well.