Feel free to hit me up with the non-Canonical texts any time.
As to preordination, a point of order: It always concerns prophets, and as Sigurd points out, God can make whatever he wants happen. Extrapolating the lives of the (almost universally) disobedient prophets to the general post-incarnation population of humanity is suspect.
As to John, there is some cause to think he might not have been admitted into heaven when you look at Jesus' words after he is taken into captivity.
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