{"id":199421,"date":"2026-01-20T04:13:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=199421"},"modified":"2025-11-28T05:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:15:41","slug":"64-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/64-u\/","title":{"rendered":"64.u. Mark 12:24-25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cAre you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(Mark 12:24-25)<\/p>\n

On the Tuesday before He went to the cross, Jesus debated the religious authorities on the temple mount in Jerusalem. One of the groups to challenge Jesus were the Sadducees, who hoped to trap Jesus with a complicated question meant to make the truth of the resurrection look ridiculous and therefore false.<\/p>\n

Jesus responded to the Sadducees by telling them they were twice\u00a0mistaken<\/strong>. They did not\u00a0know the Scriptures<\/strong>\u00a0and they did not know the\u00a0power of God<\/strong>. Because they didn\u2019t know God\u2019s word, and they didn\u2019t know and trust the power of God, they doubted the truth of God\u2019s promise of a life after this one \u2013 the resurrection.<\/p>\n

The Sadducees thought that if there was a resurrection, it was just this same life lived forever. With the principle\u00a0when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage<\/strong>, Jesus showed that in the age to come life will be lived on a completely different principle and in a dimension we can\u2019t imagine.<\/p>\n

Many people make the same mistake as the Sadducees in thinking about heaven \u2013 that it is just a longer and better version of earth. Some Native American thought of heaven as the happy hunting ground. Some Vikings thought of heaven as Valhalla, where they fought as warriors all day, but at day\u2019s end the dead and wounded rose whole again, celebrating all night at a banquet, drinking wine from the skulls of their enemies. These ideas mistake heaven for simply a better earth. Heaven\u2019s life is of a different order all together.<\/p>\n

In heaven, God\u2019s people\u00a0neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven<\/strong>. Therefore, we can\u2019t take our present relationships and suppose they will be the same in heaven. On earth, human relationships are largely a matter of time and place \u2013 a man can be a son, then an adult, then a husband, then a father, and so on. In heaven, all this changes.<\/p>\n

From everything we know, angels don\u2019t have babies. In that respect, we will be just like the angels. We know it won\u2019t be the same as what we know on earth, but we can\u2019t say for sure what it will be like in heaven \u2013 other than to know that we won\u2019t be disappointed.<\/p>\n

Knowing that the resurrection of the dead is true doesn\u2019t answer all our questions. There are mysteries that remain, but they don\u2019t take away from the basic truth of the resurrection.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t make the same two mistakes the Sadducees did. When we don\u2019t know\u00a0the Scriptures<\/strong>, we don\u2019t have an anchor for truth and belief. When we don\u2019t know\u00a0the power of God<\/strong>, we doubt God\u2019s ability to fulfill what He has promised in the Scriptures. (Guzik)<\/p>\n

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Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cAre you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.\u201d\u00a0(Mark 12:24-25) On the Tuesday before He went to the cross, Jesus … Continue reading “64.u. Mark 12:24-25”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199424,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199421\/revisions\/199424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}