THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD
27There came to
him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, 28and they
asked him a question, saying,
“Teacher, Moses
wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the
man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
29Now there were
seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. 30And the
second 31and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and
died. 32Afterward the woman also died.
33In the
resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as
wife.”
34And Jesus said
to them,
“The sons
of this age marry and are given in marriage, 35but those who are considered
worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither
marry nor are given in marriage, 36for they cannot die anymore, because they
are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
37But that
the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he
calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
38Now he is
not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.”
39Then some of
the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” 40For they no longer
dared to ask him any question.
LUKE
20:27-40
COMMENTARY
On this occasion,
the party of the Sadducees came to Lord Jesus with the intention of ridicule
Him, asking our Lord an exaggerated question about marriage in a hypothetical context
of resurrection, which they themselves did not believe in.
In this
elongated marital case, where a woman ends up marrying seven brothers, to finally
die without having offspring to any of them, Jesus gets asked whose wife, she
will be considered at the ‘resurrection’, hoping to entangle Him in a complicated
theological argument.
Lord Jesus, knowing
that they did not believe in the resurrection or even the after-life, and that
that question was given with bad intention, revealed to all the present a fact
of the after-life which nobody had heard before until then:
1 – JESUS revealed
to them that in the after-life, even after the resurrection, which the Sadducees
themselves had mentioned; glorified people (Those worthy to attain glory v.35)
are not given in marriage, or live in a married state, but that everyone is on
the same level as children of God.
With this, our
Lord not only responded the question to the Sadducees, explaining to them that the
woman in question won’t be anyone’s partner in glory, even though in the flesh
she was married to seven men; but also responds to wrong ideas today, where
some think like the Mormons, that marriages are eternal, or that people in
glory can continue getting married; or others who hope to be saved but get
married during the Millennium. NONE of these things are possible, for according
to Jesus, marriages in general, end up with death (1Corinthians 7:39) and that people
in glory do not get married.
ALSO, those who
are saved, once resurrected or transformed, as will be the case of those righteous,
found either dead or alive by the time Lord Jesus returns, WONT BE MARRIYING
ANYMORE (v.35-37) during the Millennium on Earth.
2 – LORD JESUS
CHRIST, also openly declared to these heretics, knowing what they really
believed and the evil intention in asking Him this question, that the Resurrection
of the dead is real, it will happen (v.37); but not only this, Lord JESUS also
declared that the spirits of the dead are present constantly before GOD, by
pointing out the present tense in the declarations of Moses, regarding YHWH and
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, by saying ‘I AM’ not ‘I WAS’ the God of these
prophets.
By saying that
GOD ‘IS’ a God of the living, not of the dead and unconscious, Jesus declares the
conscious existence in the spirit world of all people during the intermediate
state before the general resurrection of the body.
LAST NOTE:
LORD JESUS ALSO
ADMITTED HERE, THAT HE IS NOT YHWH, as some are used to think these days
wrongly.
Jesus speaks
about GOD YHWH, his Father, as being the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, speaking
as if this GOD YHWH, is a different person to Himself, and who is the one who spoke
to Moses in Horeb.
JESUS IS THE
REFLECTION OF THE FATHER, BUT HE IS NOT THE FATHER.
JESUS is the
reflection of GOD INVISIBLE, but HE IS NOT YHWH (Colossians 1:15).
Omar Flores.
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