>No, Hebrews says that Enoch did _not_ die. Did you read it?

I started a separate thread on Enoch called "Did Enoch Die?"

>Hebrews 9:8 is talking about the Holy of Holies, not about Heaven.

The "holy of holies" pictured heaven and that was the point of Hebrews
chapter 9- how the earthly arrangement prefigured the heavenly one.

"The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the holy place
has not yet been discolsed while the outer tabernacle is still
standing" (Heb. 9:8 NASB)

the "holy place" signifies heaven. Until Christ had presented the
atoning value of his sacrifice to God (Heb. 9:24) the way into the
"holy place" heaven was not available to man.

"For Christ did not enter into a holy place made with hands, a mere
copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the
presence of God for us."

 Elijah, Enoch, Moses all died before this took place in 33 c.e

This is why at John 3:13 Jesus said: "No one has ascended into heaven,
but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man" (NASB)

Through his manifestation upon earth nineteen centuries ago, the Son of
God "shed light upon life and incorruption through the good news."
(2 Tim. 1:10) Through him God gave to many persons "a new birth to a
living hope . . . to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading
inheritance . . . reserved in the heavens." (1 Pet. 1:3, 4) Jesus
Christ himself was the first person resurrected to fullness of life,
the first to be resurrected to heaven.-Rev. 1:5.

Jesus was therefore the "forerunner" of those receiving life in
heaven. The inspired Christian writer said of the heavenly hope:
"This hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and firm, and
it enters in within the curtain [into the Most Holy of the temple,
representing God's own heavenly dwelling place], where a forerunner
has entered in our behalf, Jesus who has become a high priest according
to the manner of Melchizedek forever." (Heb. 6:19, 20) The same
writer shows that the curtain to the Most Holy compartment of the
wilderness tabernacle represented Jesus' flesh. (Heb. 10:20; compare
Exodus 26:1, 31, 33.) As long as Jesus was in the flesh, he could not
go into heaven, for "flesh and blood cannot inherit God's
kingdom." (1 Cor. 15:50) By his giving up his flesh, which he gave
"in behalf of the life of the world," and by his being resurrected
"in the spirit," the way was opened for those who would be invited
to the kingdom of the heavens.-John 6:51; 1 Pet. 3:18.

Furthermore, Christ's resurrection is said to be "a guarantee to
all men" that God will resurrect others. (Acts 17:31; 24:15) This
would not be true if God had been resurrecting righteous men to heaven
all through the preceding centuries.

How, then, are we to understand the Bible account about the prophet
Elijah, which reads: "As they [Elijah and Elisha] were walking along,
speaking as they walked, why, look! a fiery war chariot and fiery
horses, and they proceeded to make a separation between them both; and
Elijah went ascending in the windstorm to the heavens." (2 Ki. 2:11)
Did Elijah actually go into the heavens of God? Or did he die?

 "No man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven,
the Son of man." (John 3:13) Speaking of John the Baptist, Jesus
said: "Among those born of women there has not been raised up a
greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the
kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is." (Matt. 11:11)
Accordingly, Elijah, not being greater than John, could not be in
heaven.

What, then, were the "heavens" into which Elijah was taken by the
windstorm? These were the physical heavens, the atmosphere, the
"expanse," also called "Heaven" at Genesis 1:6-8. A windstorm
could exist only in this atmospheric expanse, not in the spirit realm
of Jehovah's heavenly presence. Elijah was carried up out of
Elisha's sight by the windstorm.

The Bible does not say that Elijah died on that occasion. As a matter
of fact, Elijah was still alive and active as a prophet at least five
years later, apparently over in the territory of Judah. The Bible tells
us: "Eventually there came a writing to [Jehoram, king of Judah] from
Elijah the prophet." This letter foretold the sickness and death of
Jehoram because of his wrong, idolatrous course. (2 Chron. 21:12-15) A
further evidence that Elijah did not die at the time of being taken
into the "heavens" is that his servant and successor Elisha did not
then hold the customary period of mourning for his master.-Compare 2
Samuel 19:1; 1 Chronicles 7:22; 2 Chronicles 35:24.

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