Jesus Christ’s resurrected body was/is part of him – you can’t separate Jesus from his body. Jesus is at the right hand of God in heaven.
Jesus’ disciples were frightened when they saw him after his resurrection? Jesus said to them (Luke 24:37-43):
But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. (38) And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? (39) See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” (40) And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. (41) And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” (42) They gave him a piece of broiled fish, (43) and he took it and ate before them.
When Jesus went to heaven from the Mount of Olives, his disciples watched him as he rose into the air until a cloud hid him from their sight. Then two angels said to them:
Acts 1:11 and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
So as he bodily rose from earth to heaven, so he will bodily return to earth from heaven to the very same place – the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. His physical reality is emphasised by the prophecy in Zechariah 14:4 speaking of his return to the Mount of Olives:
On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.
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