We continue looking at what eternity will be like for us. The question we are addressing is what will heaven be like? We are looking at various topics on that subject. Today is marriage. This is going to kind of bank off of what we did last time concerning our appearance and our relationships in heaven. Marriage is an interesting one.
In the gospel of Matthew 22, the Sadducees, which is a sect of Jews who didn’t believe in the resurrection, thought they had a perfect way of tripping up Jesus. They were going to ask Him about who would be married to a particular woman in heaven because she went through seven husbands. So, they elaborate this story, obviously not a true story, but she married a man, he died, and she married another man and went through seven of them. I don’t know about you, but if I was number six or seven, I would be a little nervous about being involved with this woman, but it is just a made-up story. So, they get to the seventh one and he dies as well and then they ask the question in Matthew 22:28, “In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.” So, they really thought they had Jesus pinned, because she couldn’t be married to seven different men. So, if there is a resurrection and both the husband and the wife is resurrected, who is she going to live with for eternity. Obviously, Jesus was up for the occasion as He always was, and He turns it back on them in Matthew 22:29, “You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.” The fundamental problem they had is that they didn’t understand Scripture and they didn’t understand the power of God. They had too much of a human idea of God who they apparently didn’t think had the power to truly resurrect people from the dead. He calls them out on that. They don’t understand Scripture because the Scripture is clear about the resurrection of the dead . . .
