No, I don't think it was necessary. Christ had already taken another form and God the Father was more than able to lift him. The display of Christ physically going up into the clouds was for the disciples benefit and our own.
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If anyone doubts that God in His infinite power is somehow unable to remove the Son of God from this earth to His heaven then the next question must be..
How did God Create the Universe??????
Simple by His spoken Word!!!
God says it and there it is!!
It may be helpful to those who do not do Bible study to grasp. There are several important facts about Jesusā new body.
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His body was different from our physical bodies even though it was flesh and bone (Luke 24:39). Since Mary did not recognize Jesusā newly transformed body, we discover that Jesusā body did not look like His old one.
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In His new body, He could eat and drink. Now that is wonderful. Just imagine eating in the kingdom with Jesus. Jesus told His disciples that He would eat with them in the kingdom (Luke 22:15-16).
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Jesusā body was able to go through walls, and He could simply vanish. Now our bodies cannot do that.
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Jesus returned to heaven both in spirit and with His new, immortal body.
Finally, the same way.....very same way that Jesus assended to heaven is the way that those of us who are truely born again will get to heaven.
Every man and woman will have a new body some day in the future. Some day God will give us transformed bodies. These new bodies will join our spirits. The apostle Paul tells us this in the following passage.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53 ........
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."
Glory to God!!!!