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In Matthew 22 when Jesus was addressing the Sadducees' question about a woman married down the line of 7 brothers and who's wife would she be after the resurrection (which they didn't believe in, it was an attempted trick question), he answers:
Matthew 22:29-30
Now, I can't remember anywhere in the canon old testament where this situation came up where the Sadducees would know of it, and the Sadducees only considered the Torah scripture, so that's one interpretation that they refused to acknowledge the scriptures of the prophets and Tanakh. So they didn't know the scriptures, but the way Jesus answered it, it seemed like marriage not existing in the afterlife or resurrection was something addressed in scripture before. But I couldn't find it... until I started reading Enoch.
In Enoch chapter 15 Enoch has gone to God's throne to make intercession for the angels who had gone down to earth and taken human wives and had children with them. They wanted to repent when God was going to bind them up in the pit and then destroy the world with the flood (interestingly enough they're bound for 70 generations, and so that'd kind of tie into Revelation chapter 9 when they're set free in the 5th trumpet judgement). God answers and says that they weren't supposed to take wives, that the reason why God gave humans wives was because they die, and since Angels don't die, they don't get wives.
Which seems to be the answer that Jesus was giving the Sadducees.
If Jesus was considering Enoch to be scripture, why doesn't the church? The things in it about the Angels having half breeds giant offspring with human wives is in Genesis 6.
Is there other scripture that is in canon where Jesus would have gotten this answer from that He expected the Sadducees and Pharisees to know?
Matthew 22:29-30
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Now, I can't remember anywhere in the canon old testament where this situation came up where the Sadducees would know of it, and the Sadducees only considered the Torah scripture, so that's one interpretation that they refused to acknowledge the scriptures of the prophets and Tanakh. So they didn't know the scriptures, but the way Jesus answered it, it seemed like marriage not existing in the afterlife or resurrection was something addressed in scripture before. But I couldn't find it... until I started reading Enoch.
In Enoch chapter 15 Enoch has gone to God's throne to make intercession for the angels who had gone down to earth and taken human wives and had children with them. They wanted to repent when God was going to bind them up in the pit and then destroy the world with the flood (interestingly enough they're bound for 70 generations, and so that'd kind of tie into Revelation chapter 9 when they're set free in the 5th trumpet judgement). God answers and says that they weren't supposed to take wives, that the reason why God gave humans wives was because they die, and since Angels don't die, they don't get wives.
Which seems to be the answer that Jesus was giving the Sadducees.
If Jesus was considering Enoch to be scripture, why doesn't the church? The things in it about the Angels having half breeds giant offspring with human wives is in Genesis 6.
Is there other scripture that is in canon where Jesus would have gotten this answer from that He expected the Sadducees and Pharisees to know?