2 Kings 2:10
2 Kings 2:1010“You have requested a difficult thing,” said Elijah. “Nevertheless, if you see me as I am taken from you, it will be yours. But if not, then it will not be so.”
Elijah tells Elisha, "If you see me when I am taken from you, it will happen for you that way; but if not, it will not happen." The Watchtower treats the "taken from you" here as a non-heavenly removal — either atmospheric or local relocation — because the Watchtower framework denies that any pre-Christian human has been bodily translated to heaven. ("no one has ascended into heaven") is invoked as a universal denial, and the Elijah narrative is softened accordingly.
The Watchtower reading makes contradict within the same canon. in the NWT is unambiguous: "By faith Enoch was transferred so as not to see death, and he was not to be found because God had transferred him." "Did not see death" is the NWT's own wording. If Enoch were merely relocated on earth, he would have died normally — and would be false. So either the canon contradicts itself, or is not a universal historical denial.
is better read in context as Jesus's claim to exclusive revelatory authority. He is talking to Nicodemus about heavenly things: "no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven — the Son of Man." The echo is ("Who has ascended to heaven and come down?"). It is not a historical census of past translations. On that reading, , , , and all fit together: God has on two exceptional occasions taken a servant bodily out of normal death. Enoch did not die. Elijah went up in a whirlwind. The Watchtower's atmospheric reading preserves the wrong harmony — it saves at the cost of .