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The following incident, told in two parts of Luke, notwithstanding Matthew, illustrate the importance of knowing the facts before asking your questions. Many of the high-level Jews have tried to discredit Jesus’ teachings by attempting to show that Jesus is ignorant in matters of the Old Testament. They effectively gambled on a bluff they thought Jesus had, and they ended up losing their hand in the process. Game, set, match as the Jews who heard Jesus’ teachings, weren’t convinced that Jesus wasn’t who he said he was as those Jews tried to portray him as such.
It starts out in Luke 14:12–14 in which Jesus advises a man who invited him to a banquet in Luke 14:12–14 that when he gives a feast he should “invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind” who cannot repay him. Jesus says that if the man does this he “will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Later on, in Luke 20:27–40, the high-level Jews, namely the Sadducees, who deny there’s such a thing as a resurrection, asks Jesus a question. The question focuses on Deuteronomy 25:5 in which Moses says, “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.”
Hoping to stump Jesus and make him bluster, they ask him what if the husband dies and he has seven brothers who are each obligated to take on the duty of the husband when the one before each of them dies; which brother would such a resurrection of the just apply to? As an aside, the question seems to presuppose that under the circumstances only one of the brothers who take on the duties of the ‘dead’ husband would be considered just for purposes of the resurrection. But as we may see, such a question is as ridiculous as asking if a plane that takes off from one place and crashes into another, where would the survivors be buried. Of course, you don’t bury those who just survived! With that thought in mind...
The answer Jesus gives totally disavows the question as he says among Verses 34-38, , “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.” In other words, if the brothers are at the point of resurrection, they’re passed the point of being in position to marry the widow. To marry the widow in this situation is a non-sequitar; only the “survivors” can marry the widow. Conversely, the inference may be that whoever marries the widow has a long way to go before they are considered for resurrection. Alternatively, perhaps, to think about what might take place upon resurrection is as gainful as trying to predict the future. Only God knows what the future will bring.
In addition, Jesus raises the point in Luke 20:37-38 that as God identifies himself (in Exodus 3:15) as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God is God of the living, not of the dead. Jesus seems to be saying to the Sadducees here, ‘Why bother with what happens when you’re dead? Your judgement is on what you’ve done while you were alive on earth.’
It starts out in Luke 14:12–14 in which Jesus advises a man who invited him to a banquet in Luke 14:12–14 that when he gives a feast he should “invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind” who cannot repay him. Jesus says that if the man does this he “will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Later on, in Luke 20:27–40, the high-level Jews, namely the Sadducees, who deny there’s such a thing as a resurrection, asks Jesus a question. The question focuses on Deuteronomy 25:5 in which Moses says, “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.”
Hoping to stump Jesus and make him bluster, they ask him what if the husband dies and he has seven brothers who are each obligated to take on the duty of the husband when the one before each of them dies; which brother would such a resurrection of the just apply to? As an aside, the question seems to presuppose that under the circumstances only one of the brothers who take on the duties of the ‘dead’ husband would be considered just for purposes of the resurrection. But as we may see, such a question is as ridiculous as asking if a plane that takes off from one place and crashes into another, where would the survivors be buried. Of course, you don’t bury those who just survived! With that thought in mind...
The answer Jesus gives totally disavows the question as he says among Verses 34-38, , “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.” In other words, if the brothers are at the point of resurrection, they’re passed the point of being in position to marry the widow. To marry the widow in this situation is a non-sequitar; only the “survivors” can marry the widow. Conversely, the inference may be that whoever marries the widow has a long way to go before they are considered for resurrection. Alternatively, perhaps, to think about what might take place upon resurrection is as gainful as trying to predict the future. Only God knows what the future will bring.
In addition, Jesus raises the point in Luke 20:37-38 that as God identifies himself (in Exodus 3:15) as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God is God of the living, not of the dead. Jesus seems to be saying to the Sadducees here, ‘Why bother with what happens when you’re dead? Your judgement is on what you’ve done while you were alive on earth.’
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