A POINT OR TWO ON THE RESURRECTION……
by Keith Hunt
"YOU DO ERR, 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 YOU NOT READ WHICH WAS SPOKEN UNTO YOU BY GOD, SAYING, I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB. GOD IS NOT THE GOD OF THE DEAD, BUT OF THE LIVING"
(Matt. 22:29-32).
First note the context. The Sadducees, who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead, tried a trick question on Him. What if someone was married ex-number of times in this life, which wife would be the man's wife in the resurrection [obviously the resurrection to eternal life].
Jesus corrected them on two points - they did not know or believe the Scriptures about a resurrection, and they did not know the power of God, to be able to resurrect people, people who had gone back to dust in the grave.
Jesus then taught them [and us] that there is NO MARRIAGE in the eternal life to come [via a resurrection] - for in the point of marriage the children of God in the eternal resurrection, will not be married as we in the flesh and blood time, marry. So no marriage as we know it today in God's Kingdom.
That sometimes kinda shocks people; the trouble they make is to think we go into eternal life with sex hormones. And we simply do not. Sexually we shall be like as when we are before our sex hormones kicked in at puberty. Did we not enjoy life without sex when we were kids? Of course we did. So in God's Kingdom there will be no sex hormones, it just be not be part of our brain etc.
Then we notice Jesus' teaching here, that the angels of God are sexless. The angels were created sexless. When the covering cherub became Satan the Devil and one third of the angels followed him in rebellion, and became demons; they were still sexless. Nowhere does it say the angels now demons, all of a sudden had sex hormones. THEY DID NOT!
So this completely DESTROYS and SMASHES to a million pieces the teaching from some, that demons co-habited with physical women and produced "the giants" or whatever back before Noah. That teaching is demonic, it comes from Satan the Devil - it is totally FALSE! Just out and out FALSE! I want to emphasize this, because, and so, women do not have to be scared silly about marrying a man who is really a demon in disguise, no matter how bad or evil that man may become.
Demons have never had the power to reproduce through physical females.
Then we also notice what Jesus said about God being the God of the living.
This whole context is about the resurrection, not some immortal soul that goes on living after death. Jesus said God is the God of the living BECAUSE there will be a RESURRECTION.... God is able to resurrect the dead, and that is why he is the God of the living.
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