Why not? Was there a problem with the transporter system?
Paging Scotty, paging Scotty...
Actually, I always thought that Jesus and Enoch and Elijah were merely taken away and then zapped outside the space-time continuum. The "rising into the sky" was merely how the onlookers interpreted the disappearance. God uses "simple" things to explain these things to us who are not rocket scientists...
Works for me.