Life in the Future World

²⁷  The Sadducees did not believe that people would rise to life after death. So some of them came to Jesus ²⁸  and said:

Teacher, Moses wrote that if a married man dies and has no children, his brother should marry the widow. Their first son would then be thought of as the son of the dead brother.

²⁹ There were once seven brothers. The first one married, but died without having any children. ³⁰ The second one married his brother’s widow, and he also died without having any children. ³¹ The same thing happened to the third one. Finally, all seven brothers married this woman and died without having any children. ³² At last the woman died. ³³ When God raises people from death, whose wife will this woman be? All seven brothers had married her.

³⁴ Jesus answered:

The people in this world get married. ³⁵ But in the future world no one who is worthy to rise from death will either marry ³⁶ or die. They will be like the angels and will be God’s children, because they have been raised to life.

³⁷  In the story about the burning bush, Moses clearly shows that people will live again. He said, “The Lord is the God worshiped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” ³⁸ So the Lord isn’t the God of the dead, but of the living. This means that everyone is alive as far as God is concerned.

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