{"id":254,"date":"2023-06-16T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/?p=254&2023"},"modified":"2023-06-13T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T00:00:10","slug":"gods-sequel-luke-20-27-40-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/gods-sequel-luke-20-27-40-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Sequel: Luke 20:27-40 (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"spoiler spoiler-style-2\"><div class=\"spoiler-title\">Focus Passage: Luke 20:27-40 (TNIV)<\/div><div class=\"spoiler-content\"><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <sup class=\"versenum\">27<\/sup>\u00a0Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. <sup class=\"versenum\">28<\/sup>\u00a0\u201cTeacher,\u201d they said, \u201cMoses wrote for us that if a man\u2019s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. <sup class=\"versenum\">29<\/sup>\u00a0Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. <sup class=\"versenum\">30<\/sup>\u00a0The second <sup class=\"versenum\">31<\/sup>\u00a0and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. <sup class=\"versenum\">32<\/sup>\u00a0Finally, the woman died too. <sup class=\"versenum\">33<\/sup>\u00a0Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?\u201d <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <sup class=\"versenum\">34<\/sup>\u00a0Jesus replied, \u201cThe people of this age marry and are given in marriage. <sup class=\"versenum\">35<\/sup>\u00a0But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, <sup class=\"versenum\">36<\/sup>\u00a0and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God\u2019s children, since they are children of the resurrection. <sup class=\"versenum\">37<\/sup>\u00a0But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord \u2018the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.\u2019  <sup class=\"versenum\">38<\/sup>\u00a0He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.\u201d <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <sup class=\"versenum\">39<\/sup>\u00a0Some of the teachers of the law responded, \u201cWell said, teacher!\u201d <sup class=\"versenum\">40<\/sup>\u00a0And no one dared to ask him any more questions.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"passage-read-more\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke 20:27-40&amp;version=tniv\" title=\"Read the passage on BibleGateway.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"hyperlink-underlined\">Luke 20:27-40<\/a> in context and\/or in other translations on BibleGateway.com!<\/p><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Have you ever read a passage and had it change your perspective on the world?<\/p>\r\n<p>Well today\u2019s passage is a passage that has done this for me \u2013 specifically with a simple phrase that Luke included in his gospel that Matthew and Mark leave out: <strong>\u201c. . . for to him all are alive\u201d<\/strong> (v. 38b).<\/p>\r\n<p>Most people feel\/believe that there is life of some type after death. In this post, the Sadducees are challenging Jesus on this idea. Their question is one that they had used to disprove the idea of resurrection based on the writings of Moses.<\/p>\r\n<p>The phrase Luke includes seems to support the idea of an immortal soul, but when we push past the surface, we find some interesting issues. If those who have \u201cdied\u201d in this present life are conscious, and are either alive in heaven or alive in hell, then we have an interesting dilemma: Either God is in charge of both heaven and hell and Satan is trapped within time like the rest of us, or both God and Satan are outside of time and each have their respective \u201ckingdoms\u201d.<\/p>\r\n<p>The fallacy in this argument is not in its logic, but in its assumptions \u2013 because it over-extends God\u2019s perspective and superimposes our perspective onto it. We are assuming that because God sees everyone as \u201calive\u201d, that everyone is \u201calive\u201d throughout all points in history, or at the very least, for all points in history after they are born, and that they have simply transitioned \u201coutside\u201d of history\u2019s timeline.<\/p>\r\n<p>In our own storyline-movie example, would we think that someone dying in a movie means that they have died in real life or that if they are dead in real life, that watching a movie they acted in will bring them back to life? That would involve these actors shifting between two different timelines \u2013 and while it is easy for an actor to move into a movie timeline, a movie character cannot jump out of the movie and re-enter history at a later date.<\/p>\r\n<p>However, if the creator of the character <em>(i.e. the script-writer)<\/em> wants to bring the character back in a sequel, they are perfectly capable of doing so.<\/p>\r\n<p>What God promises to do is the same \u2013 to bring all of His people back into history in a \u201csequel\u201d we call \u201cthe new heaven and the new earth\u201d. <strong>God has promised a sequel for His followers<\/strong> \u2013 and what is great about this \u201cperfect\u201d sequel is that God has promised us that it will never end and that it will not have the negative points of the first history.<\/p>\r\n<p>What happens between history and its sequel? Between two storylines, sometimes things happen, but if anything, the events between the present and the sequel are left to our imagination and are only uncovered when the sequel has begun. From our perspective, living in our chapter of history, we can only imagine what happens between the present and the sequel. This imagination is like a dream, which may be one reason why one of death\u2019s parallel ideas in the Bible is \u201csleep\u201d.<\/p>\r\n<p>Have those who died left history and entered eternity? Perhaps, but when we dig into this passage, what might appear as a phrase that supports this thought really becomes a phrase that shifts our perspective \u2013 not a phrase that challenges the future resurrection that Jesus promised.<\/p>\r\n<p>Is it possible for us to really understand God\u2019s perspective? I don\u2019t think so, but by paralleling God\u2019s perspective alongside similar perspectives of our own, I do believe that we can have a better glimpse of how God sees life.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"aj-wrap-up--254\" class=\"aj-wrap-up\"><p><em>This thought was inspired by studying the <strong>Walking With Jesus<\/strong> \u201cReflective Bible Study\u201d package. To discover insights like this in your own study time, <a class=\"underline\" href=\"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/\" title=\"Check out Reflective Bible Study!\">click here<\/a> and give Reflective Bible Study a try today!<\/em><\/p><p><em><a class=\"underline\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onClick=\"rbs_aj_inline_subscribe(this, '254');\">Subscribe<\/a> to this blog and never miss an insight.<\/em><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you ever read a passage and had it change your perspective on the world? 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