Post by ResLight on Jan 10, 2014 14:16:03 GMT -5
Luke 24:34 Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry, and are given in marriage.
Luke 24:35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
Luke 24:36 For neither can they die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. -- World English.
Matthew 22:25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.
Matthew 22:26 In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh.
Matthew 22:27 After them all, the woman died.
Matthew 22:28 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her."
Matthew 22:29 But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.
Mark 12:20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
Mark 12:21 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;
Mark 12:22 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
Mark 12:23 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."
Mark 12:24 Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
Mark 12:25 For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
The following is an excerpt from Brother Frank Shallieu's book on "Keys of Revelation", pages 500-503; this segment pertains to the what is meant by Jesus' statement concerning those "accounted worthy to obtain that world":
I had to reformat one paragraph because, for some unknown reason, part of it was being blocked out. Evidently, proboards software was misreading some brackets as being some kind of command.
Luke 24:35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
Luke 24:36 For neither can they die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. -- World English.
Matthew 22:25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.
Matthew 22:26 In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh.
Matthew 22:27 After them all, the woman died.
Matthew 22:28 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her."
Matthew 22:29 But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.
Mark 12:20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
Mark 12:21 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;
Mark 12:22 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
Mark 12:23 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."
Mark 12:24 Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
Mark 12:25 For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
The following is an excerpt from Brother Frank Shallieu's book on "Keys of Revelation", pages 500-503; this segment pertains to the what is meant by Jesus' statement concerning those "accounted worthy to obtain that world":
Luke 20:34–36
Jesus had just been asked a hypothetical question about the resurrection along these
lines: In successive order a woman had seven husbands, each of whom sequentially
died. Finally the woman herself died. Therefore, whose wife would she be in the resurrection?
Part of Jesus’ reply is of special interest at this time: “The children of this
world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to
obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in
marriage.” Of significance is the expression “that world,” meaning “that age.” Those
accounted worthy to obtain that age will neither marry nor already be given in marriage.
In other words, the marital relationship will cease to exist for those people accounted
worthy to enter the age about which Jesus is speaking. “Would that be the
Kingdom Age?” one might ask. An emphatic no is the reply. The Master refers to the
age beyond the Millennium.
First: The awakening from the tomb is resuscitation, not resurrection (Greek anastasis).
The awakening of mankind from the sleep of death will be similar to that of
Lazarus (John 11), for the saved world will not be resurrected in the full sense until
the end of the Millennium and the entrance to the age beyond. Thus the raising-up
process requires the whole Millennium.
Second: One does not have to be accounted “worthy” to be awakened from death in
order to gain entrance to the Kingdom Age. Did not Jesus say (John 5:25), “The dead
shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear [who hearken further in
obedience] shall live”? And did not the Apostle Paul declare that “there will be a
resurrection -- a raising-up process -- of both the just and the unjust [with the
hope of retrieval of some of the latter class]” (Acts 24:15, RSV)? Thus all who have
died are guaranteed the opportunity of being awakened, the wicked as well as the
righteous, though the wicked will receive grievous stripes proportionate to the evils
committed (Heb. 2:9).
Third: Whether or not one has given careful and serious consideration to the subject,
certain Scriptures do show there will be marriage during at least part of the Millennium
(Ezek. 44:22; Isa. 65:23). And what about the unnumbered millions of the
present generation already given in marriage who will live through the great Time of
Trouble about to burst upon the world? During the Kingdom Age the marital state will
be gradually phased out. (Of course the spouse relationship of those who rise from the
tomb will have ceased, since death ends the marriage contract.)
Fourth: Millions will die during the Kingdom Age, yet none will see death who are
“accounted worthy” to enter the age whereof Jesus speaks (verse 35). Of the Kingdom
Age it is stated that “every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed
from among the people” (Acts 3:23; Deut. 18:15). Those who fail to make appreciable
progress after a hundred years of trial and instruction during Christ’s reign will also
be destroyed (Isa. 65:20). Those who are outwardly obedient and who conform to the
rules and regulations of that Kingdom yet who are not in thorough heart sympathy
with righteousness—“the number of whom is as the sand of the sea”—will likewise
be cut off (Amos 8:5,6; Isa. 26:10; Rev. 20:8).
In Luke 20:36 Jesus mentions three reasons why those who are accounted worthy
to enter the age beyond the Millennium cannot die anymore:
(1) “They are equal unto the angels.” The comparison is that those who are worthy
to obtain that age will be like the holy angels, who will not die. In the time of the
Flood the angels who remained steadfast and left not their first estate (Jude 6) withstood
a most severe and crucial test, which is comparable to the test the world will
have at the end of the Millennium. All of mankind who pass that inspection will have
no further concern about dying, for they will have passed a difficult heart examination
and character test. The comparison, then, is that just as the angels who were faithful
prior to the Flood by not succumbing to evil and disobedience need worry no longer
about death, so those of mankind who survive and enter the age beyond the Millennium
need worry no longer about their true heart condition and steadfastness, for they
will have obtained their inheritance of life everlasting. Mankind will also be like the
angels in that all will become males or “sons of God” like Adam before his gender
division in the formation of Eve (Gen. 6:2). The marital relationship will cease because
humankind will be “equal unto the angels” in this respect.
(2) They will be “children of God,” that is, an endeared species like the holy angels
but dwelling on a lower or earthly plane of existence. Beyond the Millennium the
faithful of mankind will become “children of God,” whereas previously, during the
Millennium, they are children of the “everlasting [age-lasting] Father”—children of
Jesus (Isa. 9:6). The human race will not obtain permanent sonship until they have
proved their faithfulness at the close of the Millennium. The “children of God” will
not die anymore, for they will now be God’s sons in the truest sense of the word.
“Come, ye blessed of my Father” will not apply until the very close of the Kingdom
Age (Matt. 25:34).
(3) The “children of the resurrection” will be an already tried and proven class.
They will not be merely raised to a status like that of Father Adam before he sinned
but to a condition where the resurrection is full and finalized. It should be carefully
noted that each of the six days of the Creative Week ended with God’s full approval
and purposed intent. The creation of Adam and Eve in the physical and moral perfection
of innocency—though as yet in an untried state—marked the end of the sixth
Creative Day. But the seventh day of the Creative Week will terminate in a tried perfection
and the eradication of sin and death, that is, in crowning glory. The completion
of this seventh day will serve as the introduction of the grandest of all jubilees. The
end, terminus ad quem, of the seven one-thousand-year days since the fall of Adam
will be coincidental to the end of the seventh day of the Creative Week, composed of
seven seven-thousand-year days.
Jesus had just been asked a hypothetical question about the resurrection along these
lines: In successive order a woman had seven husbands, each of whom sequentially
died. Finally the woman herself died. Therefore, whose wife would she be in the resurrection?
Part of Jesus’ reply is of special interest at this time: “The children of this
world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to
obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in
marriage.” Of significance is the expression “that world,” meaning “that age.” Those
accounted worthy to obtain that age will neither marry nor already be given in marriage.
In other words, the marital relationship will cease to exist for those people accounted
worthy to enter the age about which Jesus is speaking. “Would that be the
Kingdom Age?” one might ask. An emphatic no is the reply. The Master refers to the
age beyond the Millennium.
First: The awakening from the tomb is resuscitation, not resurrection (Greek anastasis).
The awakening of mankind from the sleep of death will be similar to that of
Lazarus (John 11), for the saved world will not be resurrected in the full sense until
the end of the Millennium and the entrance to the age beyond. Thus the raising-up
process requires the whole Millennium.
Second: One does not have to be accounted “worthy” to be awakened from death in
order to gain entrance to the Kingdom Age. Did not Jesus say (John 5:25), “The dead
shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear [who hearken further in
obedience] shall live”? And did not the Apostle Paul declare that “there will be a
resurrection -- a raising-up process -- of both the just and the unjust [with the
hope of retrieval of some of the latter class]” (Acts 24:15, RSV)? Thus all who have
died are guaranteed the opportunity of being awakened, the wicked as well as the
righteous, though the wicked will receive grievous stripes proportionate to the evils
committed (Heb. 2:9).
Third: Whether or not one has given careful and serious consideration to the subject,
certain Scriptures do show there will be marriage during at least part of the Millennium
(Ezek. 44:22; Isa. 65:23). And what about the unnumbered millions of the
present generation already given in marriage who will live through the great Time of
Trouble about to burst upon the world? During the Kingdom Age the marital state will
be gradually phased out. (Of course the spouse relationship of those who rise from the
tomb will have ceased, since death ends the marriage contract.)
Fourth: Millions will die during the Kingdom Age, yet none will see death who are
“accounted worthy” to enter the age whereof Jesus speaks (verse 35). Of the Kingdom
Age it is stated that “every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed
from among the people” (Acts 3:23; Deut. 18:15). Those who fail to make appreciable
progress after a hundred years of trial and instruction during Christ’s reign will also
be destroyed (Isa. 65:20). Those who are outwardly obedient and who conform to the
rules and regulations of that Kingdom yet who are not in thorough heart sympathy
with righteousness—“the number of whom is as the sand of the sea”—will likewise
be cut off (Amos 8:5,6; Isa. 26:10; Rev. 20:8).
In Luke 20:36 Jesus mentions three reasons why those who are accounted worthy
to enter the age beyond the Millennium cannot die anymore:
(1) “They are equal unto the angels.” The comparison is that those who are worthy
to obtain that age will be like the holy angels, who will not die. In the time of the
Flood the angels who remained steadfast and left not their first estate (Jude 6) withstood
a most severe and crucial test, which is comparable to the test the world will
have at the end of the Millennium. All of mankind who pass that inspection will have
no further concern about dying, for they will have passed a difficult heart examination
and character test. The comparison, then, is that just as the angels who were faithful
prior to the Flood by not succumbing to evil and disobedience need worry no longer
about death, so those of mankind who survive and enter the age beyond the Millennium
need worry no longer about their true heart condition and steadfastness, for they
will have obtained their inheritance of life everlasting. Mankind will also be like the
angels in that all will become males or “sons of God” like Adam before his gender
division in the formation of Eve (Gen. 6:2). The marital relationship will cease because
humankind will be “equal unto the angels” in this respect.
(2) They will be “children of God,” that is, an endeared species like the holy angels
but dwelling on a lower or earthly plane of existence. Beyond the Millennium the
faithful of mankind will become “children of God,” whereas previously, during the
Millennium, they are children of the “everlasting [age-lasting] Father”—children of
Jesus (Isa. 9:6). The human race will not obtain permanent sonship until they have
proved their faithfulness at the close of the Millennium. The “children of God” will
not die anymore, for they will now be God’s sons in the truest sense of the word.
“Come, ye blessed of my Father” will not apply until the very close of the Kingdom
Age (Matt. 25:34).
(3) The “children of the resurrection” will be an already tried and proven class.
They will not be merely raised to a status like that of Father Adam before he sinned
but to a condition where the resurrection is full and finalized. It should be carefully
noted that each of the six days of the Creative Week ended with God’s full approval
and purposed intent. The creation of Adam and Eve in the physical and moral perfection
of innocency—though as yet in an untried state—marked the end of the sixth
Creative Day. But the seventh day of the Creative Week will terminate in a tried perfection
and the eradication of sin and death, that is, in crowning glory. The completion
of this seventh day will serve as the introduction of the grandest of all jubilees. The
end, terminus ad quem, of the seven one-thousand-year days since the fall of Adam
will be coincidental to the end of the seventh day of the Creative Week, composed of
seven seven-thousand-year days.
I had to reformat one paragraph because, for some unknown reason, part of it was being blocked out. Evidently, proboards software was misreading some brackets as being some kind of command.
