In Luke 20:33, the Sadducees asked Jesus a silly question about the resurrection because they did not believe in the resurrection. They were simply trying to trap Jesus into saying something foolish so that they could discredit Him. But their question was about a resurrection to a new life in a new world.
In Luke 20:34-38, Jesus answered the Sadducees direct question with a prophecy about a future resurrection into a new world created by God. Jesus spoke about the world, not heaven. Jesus taught that those who inherit this new world do not marry. By this statement, Jesus did not mean no marriage would exist in God's new world. He simply meant that there would be no marriage ceremonies like those in this world. God's new world will be a restoration of the paradise that Adam and Eve inhabited. God did not marry Adam and Eve with any kind of ceremony. God simply paired them together and told them they were man and wife. In God's new world, He will simply pair each man with one woman in marriage just as He did with Adam and Eve.
In verse 36, Jesus taught that the inhabitants of God's new world would be immortal and equal to the angels. God created the angels, and He will recreate the humans who inhabit His new world. Many believe that the angels are sexless, but nowhere does the Bible state this. In fact, the Bible often states that angels who visited earth were men, which has to mean they were men in every sense of the word. The Bible does not mention female angels, but probably because God seldom sends female angels as messengers. Angels are probably male and female, and God pairs them one male to one female in marriage.
In verse 37, Jesus imparted some new information to the Sadducees. Jesus informed them that in Exodus 3:6 when God told Moses that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were still alive waiting for a physical resurrection that Moses responded by agreeing with God. Jesus proved to the Sadducees that their great patriarch Moses believed in a resurrection even if they did not.
In verse 38, Jesus imparted even greater information to the Sadducees. Jesus told them that just as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had always been alive to God, all people that God had ever created were alive to Him. In light of such scriptures as Revelation 21:3-5; John 5:28-29; Revelation 4:11; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-20, and many others, Jesus' statement can only mean that following the resurrections of the Old Testament saints, the Church Age saints, and the Tribulation saints; God will effect a general resurrection of all the living from the dead in the end of this world. God will recover the lives of all humans He ever created within the regions of the dead and recreate them to be righteous humans to live on His recreated earth. God will use His consuming fire to separate their deadness from their lives and cast their deadness, which is totally evil, into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12.
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