Don't get caught up in the title question
Don't be preoccupied with questions (Mark 12:18-27)
"The Religious People Killing Jesus"
The most difficult thing in the world to break is the vested interests. Attempting to break the vested interests provokes a terrifying backlash from those with vested interests. The vested interests are also the fruits of the sweat of the past, so they need to be respected appropriately. However, excessive vested interests hinder fair competition and become seeds of community conflict.
All truth movements begin by breaking down and reforming existing wrong customs and wrong vested interests. Then, as those who pursue the truth movement gain power, they gradually become established rulers themselves. Then, when faced with a new reforming force, they fearfully resist and try to destroy the reforming force. Human society develops little by little through such conflicts and adjustments.
At the time of Jesus, there were several factions in Jewish society. The Pharisees carried out the truth movement with progressive faith, but spiritual pride and hypocrisy were the problems. The Sadducees carried out the truth movement with their conservative beliefs, but their problems were secularization and corruption. The Herodian faction was the same faction as today's pro-Japanese faction that cooperated with Rome, which was centered on King Herod, the Celtic faction was a Taliban faction that wanted to achieve Jewish independence by force while waiting for a political Messiah, and the Essenes lived ascetic communities in the wilderness. It was the wave that did
Among them, with the exception of the Celtic and Essenes, all other factions gradually became vested interests, playing central roles in Jewish politics and religion, and enjoying vested interests. Just then, an incident occurred that threw the bomb of reform on the vested interests. It was the case of Jesus cleaning the temple. As a result of that incident, he asked many difficult questions to frame Jesus by becoming one with the Pharisees, Sadducees, and the Herodians, who were usually at odds with each other. Among them, in the text, there is a scene where the Sadducees come to Jesus and try to grasp Jesus' weakness through difficult questions about the resurrection.
<Don't get caught up in the question>
The Jewish people have a tradition of successive marriage, so that for the older brother who died without heirs, the younger brother has a relationship with the younger brother, so that the brother's line is not cut off. However, in a certain family, if the seven brothers died one after the other in that way, the woman who continued to have sex with the seven brothers asks whose wife it is. Why did you ask such a question? Not because I want to know whose wife she really is, but because there is a chaotic situation where everything is so messed up when there is a resurrection, so the question is to argue that there is no resurrection of the dead.
To that question, the Lord says that there is no marriage in heaven and that God is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. This Lord's answer shows that the Lord delights in obedient faith above all else.
Sometimes I get this question as well. “When you are resurrected, what age do you resurrect?” If you are resurrected at your age when you die, it is the most detrimental to those who lived long on this earth because they have to remain old forever. Also, if you die young, you will always be a child in heaven. Some claim that "man is resurrected to the age at which he is at his most beautiful." Then, the question arises, "When is a person at the age when he will be most beautiful?" Some people claim, "All of them are resurrected to the standard age of 33 when Jesus died and rose from the dead."
In fact, such a question is beyond the comprehension of a difficult person to answer. Being immersed in such a question raises doubts about the resurrection itself. Therefore, it is important not to dwell on such questions, but to accept the truth of the Bible as it is, and to thoroughly obey the words that require practice.
Occasionally, I see cases where they ingeniously interpret questions beyond human thought and advertise themselves as “a servant who has received a mysterious revelation.” A person who makes such an interpretation is ‘a person with spirituality’, and a person who does not have such an interpretation is a ‘person without a spirituality’? It's not like that. Even if you don't know what you don't know, you can't say that you have bad faith or bad spirituality. Rather, to say that you do not know what God did not know is better faith and better spirituality.
If you are close to someone who acts as if you know everything, you will also distance yourself from God's grace. On the other hand, if you get close to someone who can say, “I don't know,” God's grace will overflow. When you resurrect later, all mystical secrets will be unlocked. Therefore, do not get absorbed in the difficult questions and answers that cannot be understood by the human head, and have a heart to obey the Word a little more.