~Still married after death?~

[Krazy_4given_1]

Hi, alright... I was listening to one of those Christian talk shows on the radio. And the discussion of marriage came up, which lead up to wether or not you remain married to your spouse after death. What they were saying is you are no longer married to your spouse as you were here on Earth, however, you become the bride of Christ.
Have you heard anything on this?

 

[RainDrop864]

"....Saying, Master, Moses said, if a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed unto his brother. Now there werewith us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother. Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. And last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? For they all had her.
Jesus answered and said unto them, "Ye are in error, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not reead that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living........." Matthew 22:24-32 (Mark 12:25, too)
Romans 7:2 "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free from that law...."

..so in other words, there is no marriage in heaven, or 'husbands' and 'wives'
In God we are complete, the relationships we have now, are just tiny morsels of the love that is to come when we are in heaven.
..There are too many scriptures to site for Jesus as the Bridegroom, but yes, it shows true.

in Christ, Sarah.

 

[ChristyP4Christ]

I have always been really unclear on this.....Thereis a verse that says there will be no GIVING or TAKING of marriage in heaven...
But there is also a verse that says that what we bind on earth is also bound in heaven.
I believe that once we get there it really is not going to matter either way, because we will be living in a perfact state and I think only God knows if marriage will be put assunder....

 

[Endure2]

the bible also says in the old covenant that marriage is an ETERNAL or everlasting bond, the bible says that when two become married and join together they become one flesh, which to me says it is unreasonable for two people in love and joined together to ever be seperated, the bible speaks of PERPETUAL generations, which says to me that if there are perpetual generations then forever seed will be procreated and children will be born and we arent asexual beings.

like another person said, we will be like the angels who arent GIVEN in marriage, but the word GIVEN in marraige relates more to the cultures of other people who do not choose to be married but are married by default to people of their parents choice or such... angels arent GIVEN or forced to marry.
thats how i see it anyway.

and i know for myself, i dont want to spend eternity remembering my love and soul mate, but not being with her.
if it is to be so, then God will make a way, but he gave this affection himself, and i personally hope it isnt the case.

 

[rugerfann]

I don't think there will be any marriage in heaven,other than being married to Christ Jesus.There will be marriage in the 1000 rein of christ that is clear,but I think that will be the people that survived the tribulation.I have heard some say we are no longer male or female after we recieve our heavenly bodies.I truely don't know where they came to this knowlege either.

 

[boilerblues]

I don't know 100%, I don't think the Bible is real clear on the subject, but I think we will be surprised to find that marriage will continue into Heaven. For the importance that God put on it in this world I find it hard to believe that it'll all be forgotten in the next one. But I'm ok with saying I don't know.

 

[ChristyP4Christ]

I don't think there will be any marriage in heaven,other than being married to Christ Jesus.There will be marriage in the 1000 rein of christ that is clear,but I think that will be the people that survived the tribulation.I have heard some say we are no longer male or female after we recieve our heavenly bodies.I truely don't know where they came to this knowlege either.

I would have to see a verse on that one, Even the Angels have gender...Christ was fully man. Now the bible does say that there is nor male nor female for those who live in Christ Jesus. Meaning that God does not think more of one gender then the other.....

 

[IKTCA]

and i know for myself, i dont want to spend eternity remembering my love and soul mate, but not being with her.

Beautiful thought, Lee. Neither would I. And I know I will know my wife in the heaven and my affection for her will be special and unique.

In the mountain of transfiguration, Moses and Elijah appeared before Jesus and the disciples recognized them. As Moses is still Moses and Elijah is still Elijah now in the heaven, you and your soul mate here will be you and a person of special love and affection in the heaven.

I wish all men had your knowledge. Divorce will not come to their mind. How shameful would they be when they would meet in the heaven their former spouses while others like you continue to love and cherish their former soul mates with a very special affection?

Rupert

 

[KleinerApfel]

Of course real love of any kind will not be destroyed!

I think it is more that we will find that our present, imperfect, human concept of love in this lifetime, even if we've been greatly blessed in that, will be eclipsed by two things:
A/ seeing the Lord face to face; knowing as we are fully known, and
B/ being freed from sin and all it's influence and effects, so that we properly understand love, and can at last give and receive it fully.

In this glorious future in Heaven we will no longer suffer jealousy, envy, insecurity, selfishness etc., which currently influence the way we experience love, making it a thing we crave, clutch at, guard or hang on to for fear of loss.
Some may argue their love is stronger and purer than that - To you I say; examine yourself carefully, then just wait and see the difference when we get there!

We will no longer be upset if our dearest love should also love many, many other people, because we will be utterly free and secure for eternity!

I also agree it seems unlikely that we shall lose anything good from this life - God has been working in our lives, shaping us and watching over our growth as He transforms us into his likeness. Why would he "wipe" our minds of all that learning and growing in Him?

Therefore I would expect that we will remember people we have loved, and at least something of the lives we shared will have a lasting value in the world to come.

God bless, Susana

 

[Child of JC]

Our wedding vows are clear, I thought..."till death do us part"... which would mean the end of the covenant. I do feel that we will still love the person in heaven, but the covenant of marriage will not exist.

 

[boilerblues]

Our wedding vows are clear, I thought..."till death do us part"... which would mean the end of the covenant. I do feel that we will still love the person in heaven, but the covenant of marriage will not exist.

But is that a vow taken from Scripture or is that the invention of man? Now Scripture does say that if the spouse dies we are free to marry another, but does that nullify the oneness created in the first relationship?

Obviously there's questions such as the effects of divorce, multiple wives, unequally yoked marriages (believer and nonbeliever), and probably a number of other complicated situations that we could come up with.

The last part of Isaiah 65 speaks of the Kingdom of Heaven and makes a couple of references to children

Is. 65:20 “No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days,
Or an old man who does not live out his days;
For the youth will die at the age of one hundred
And the one who does not reach the age of one hundred
Will be thought accursed.
Is. 65:21 “They will build houses and inhabit them;
They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Is. 65:22 “They will not build and another inhabit,
They will not plant and another eat;
For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.
Is. 65:23 “They will not labor in vain,
Or bear children for calamity;
For they are the offspring of those blessed by the LORD,
And their descendants with them.

If there's children in Heaven then I'd assume there would be families, I suspect Heaven won't be a giant orgy.

For myself I look at the issue of marriage in Heaven as one possible thing that might surprise us. I can't say yes, but I also don't feel there's strong evidence to the contrary. As I said above, I think God puts too much importance on marriage in this world to totally disregard it in the one to come, especially since marriage did come before the Fall. How it might look or work I don't know, I don't think any of us can comprehend the smallest part of what Heaven will be like.

Whether there's marriage there or not doesn't make much of a difference here and now, and I doubt I'm going to complain when I get there. I'll be with Christ, that's all that matters. The rest is just bonus.

 

[God_follower]

They shall become one flesh... when one part of that flesh dies... then i guess its possible to become one with another flesh... seems possible.

Also... The Church isnt the Bride of Christ. The Bride of Christ is New Jeruselem. We are the Body of Christ... How can a Body marry itself? We have Christ as our Head and we are the Body of Christ.

God bless

 

[Endure2]

God follower

i had a response to you written, but then i figured you might not have meant what i thought you did, what exactly do you mean by that?

the Lord is my banner

well, i dont believe what i feel for a lady now, and what i will have with my future wife is a product of not knowing God well enough and having sin and its influences in my life.
or else i believe the closer and closer we grow to God and the more sin loses its hold on our lifes... we would lose our desire and need for husbands and wifes.


you said
[U...]jealousy, envy, insecurity, selfishness etc., which currently influence the way we experience love, making it a thing we crave, clutch at, guard or hang on to for fear of loss... [/U]

you believe these are the basics of the Love we have on earth?
it wouldnt be love at all if that were true, would it? but rather just another "need"?
no, my love is happiness, affection and joy i feel toward someone, and i want to be with her forever, not becuase i feel insecure, but becuase no one else makes me that happy.

all through the song of solomon, it was a happy story, not a story riddled with the depressing anxieties and cravings of a disfunctional, incomplete, soul-impoverished person, who was full of the things that destroy relationships.

the bible says that God so loved the world that he gave...
true love is a giving love, its a love that offers and gives.
insecurity, fear, anxiety, lust, infatuation... only take and crave.

are you saying we cannot know true love? true love is more.

i believe we can know true love, and i believe we do.

yes we do have insecurities fears and cravings, but i believe our true love is something seperate from those things.
and as the bible says "true love casts out all fear" we can have this in Christ Jesus.

i do not believe our Love is a blight that will be purged from us by God.

yes we do have a certain "need".
but it is becuase we are an interdependent people, made to live and work together, all races and all peoples, meant to love and know and help each other. but this isnt the fruit of sin, sin kills and causes hatred and predujice and death, it is love that binds and brings people together, not sin.

sin and its effects, never caused anything good... and a wife or a husband is a GOOD thing.

we all know what sin and its freedom does to marraige... and it is ANYTHING BUT the intamicy in marriage that we have in love.


im not attacking what you feel or think, this is just how i feel about it.

 

[kuntrygurl_26]

Legally no you arent still married, In heaven no because there is no marriage in heaven. But my own personal feelings are, if i was married and my spouse died emtionally I would still feel married to them. Know what I mean? I mean even though legally I am not It would still seem like it becuase I would love them so very much

 

[KleinerApfel]

the Lord is my banner
well, i dont believe what i feel for a lady now, and what i will have with my future wife is a product of not knowing God well enough and having sin and its influences in my life.
or else i believe the closer and closer we grow to God and the more sin loses its hold on our lifes... we would lose our desire and need for husbands and wifes.


you said
[U...]jealousy, envy, insecurity, selfishness etc., which currently influence the way we experience love, making it a thing we crave, clutch at, guard or hang on to for fear of loss... [/U]

you believe these are the basics of the Love we have on earth?

it wouldnt be love at all if that were true, would it? but rather just another "need"?
no, my love is happiness, affection and joy i feel toward someone, and i want to be with her forever, not becuase i feel insecure, but becuase no one else makes me that happy.

all through the song of solomon, it was a happy story, not a story riddled with the depressing anxieties and cravings of a disfunctional, incomplete, soul-impoverished person, who was full of the things that destroy relationships.

the bible says that God so loved the world that he gave...
true love is a giving love, its a love that offers and gives.
insecurity, fear, anxiety, lust, infatuation... only take and crave.

are you saying we cannot know true love? true love is more.

i believe we can know true love, and i believe we do.

yes we do have insecurities fears and cravings, but i believe our true love is something seperate from those things.
and as the bible says "true love casts out all fear" we can have this in Christ Jesus.

i do not believe our Love is a blight that will be purged from us by God.

yes we do have a certain "need".
but it is becuase we are an interdependent people, made to live and work together, all races and all peoples, meant to love and know and help each other. but this isnt the fruit of sin, sin kills and causes hatred and predujice and death, it is love that binds and brings people together, not sin.

sin and its effects, never caused anything good... and a wife or a husband is a GOOD thing.

we all know what sin and its freedom does to marraige... and it is ANYTHING BUT the intamicy in marriage that we have in love.


im not attacking what you feel or think, this is just how i feel about it.

No offense taken.

I think you misunderstood me though.
I did not say these negative things were the basics of the way we love each other in this life. Of course that's not so.

The basics for our loving each other arise from the reflection of God's image in us, and we love only because He first loved us.

I believe all our love is imperfect, because these negative human emotions control our reactions much more than we may think.

Happiness, affection, joy, are all wonderful, but in a long-term relationship you'll need more than that to make marriage work.
And you'll certainly find that your spouse and yourself struggle with negatives, and with a degree of loss of some of the good feelings at times.

(Unless you're like the occasional elderly couple we hear of who claim to have have "never had a cross word in 60 years of marriage!")

If you love your wife now, you will love her even more when you are both perfected.

God bless, Susana

 

[ninja]

i think the only thing we can be sure of is that no one really knows

 

[nb_christseeker]

Rom 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
Rom 7:2 For the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

And every marriage vow ends "until death do us part".

also, gay marriage is wrong. God made 2 sexes because men and women complement each others' characteristics so well.

"It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

woman is "meet" or right, for man, as a partner.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

the Bible is clear. the confusion only comes when you don't believe it.