Mark 12:18-27
Marriage at the Resurrection
18 Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 19 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. 21 The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. 22 In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. 23 At the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? 25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 26 Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”
Such a question would not be asked today, but we are grateful that it was as well as for the answer. How blessed are we to have "the God of the Living" as our God! He calls us to witness to his living presence among us, an assignment so relevant in our age of disbelief, and back turning on God and traditional teachings. May we teach and bear witness to this and other truths Jesus taught, by our word and our lives.
Bro. Rene
Dear God, we live in an age of slow and silent rebellion which attempts to ignore you and make you irrelevant. May I do my part to counteract this by standing up for the TRUTH by my words and deeds. Amen.
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