The Resurrection Hope
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The Sadducees
The Sadducees
possibly 2nd Century BCE, possibly affiliated with a high priest Zadok (from the Aaronic line of priests)
They dont believe in the Resurrection of the dead, or angels.
The Torah is supreme, they do not hold to oral traditions (key contrast with the Pharisees)
The Problem of 7 Brothers
The Problem of 7 Brothers
and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. And the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.
Who would want to marry this woman!?
The conundrum: based on failed doctrine
The conundrum: based on failed doctrine
In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”
The question has many suppositions behind it. First, it assumes that the afterlife is seen as very much like this life. Second, the marriage relationship in that life will be monogamous as in this life. Third, the absurdity of the woman’s dilemma is designed to illustrate the futility of a resurrection hope.
Bock, D. L. (1996). Luke: 9:51–24:53 (Vol. 2, p. 1622). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
Jesus’ Response
Jesus’ Response
And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
Jesus’ Challenge
Jesus’ Challenge
But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.”
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
He meets them on their playing field.
God is Faithful
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.” So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army. Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.’ Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.”