Where is that big basket of leaven?
Who is Jesus speaking to?
Mat 22:23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
So already we know that the Saducees are mocking Jesus, because they don't even believe in a resurection to begin with.
The question is about a woman who had 7 husbands, and after they all die, who's wife will she be.
Mat 22:28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
Here is a triple whammy answer.
First he calls them out for not even knowing scripture:
Mat 22:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Then he hits them with an answer regarding the resurrection, which they don't even believe in:
Mat 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Then he explains to the Saducees, that only the living make it into the kingdom. So they don't have to worry about it.
Mat 22:31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
Mat 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
He is mocking them.
But let's talk about the angels that left their first estate to marry women.
Who are these?
Angels in the bible are messengers of God. You could say they are the priests and deacons and bishops, etc..
People sitting in "high places of authority"
These people that hand down the word of God to the clergy.
Now we are told that there is a "change" taking place in the heirarchy of the church:
1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1Ti 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1Ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry,
and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Has this ever happened in the OT though? Or is this a new thing?
Psa 78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line,
and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Psa 78:56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psa 78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psa 78:58 For they provoked him to anger
with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psa 78:59 When God heard
this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Psa 78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
Psa 78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
Psa 78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
Psa 78:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Psa 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Jde 1:6 And the angels
which kept not their first estate,
but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
angels:
מֲלְאָךְ mălʼâk, mal-awk'; from an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher):—ambassador, angel, king, messenger.
2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
Luk 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
Luk 13:21 It is like leaven,
which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
who is the woman?
And why would she hide leaven in the teachings of the kingdom of God?
To cause confusion?
Make it appear as something it is not?
Why?
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