What is the meaning of Mark 12:26? But concerning the dead rising Jesus sets the topic squarely on bodily resurrection—a reality He treats as settled fact. • Isaiah 26:19 and Daniel 12:2 already foretold resurrection; Jesus affirms those promises, showing continuity between Testaments. • His rebuke of the Sadducees (Mark 12:18) underscores that denying resurrection is ignorance of both Scripture and God’s power (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:12–22). • By beginning with resurrection, He reminds followers that eternal hope is not abstract but anchored in God’s revealed plan (John 5:28-29). Have you not read about the burning bush Jesus appeals to a well-known narrative, expecting familiarity with Exodus 3. • The question “Have you not read…?” exposes the Sadducees’ selective reading; they revered the Pentateuch yet missed its testimony to life beyond death. • Acts 7:30-32 recalls the same incident, showing the early church likewise viewed the burning bush as evidence of God’s ongoing covenant faithfulness. In the Book of Moses By naming the Pentateuch, Jesus grounds His argument in the very writings the Sadducees considered authoritative. • Exodus, part of Moses’ book, carries the same divine authority as the prophets (2 Timothy 3:16). • Luke 24:27 illustrates how Jesus consistently used Moses to reveal truth about Himself and God’s redemptive purposes. How God told him God’s self-disclosure to Moses is personal, present, and covenantal. • Exodus 3:6 records the Lord’s precise words; God speaks in the present tense, not about past relationships but about ongoing ones. • The living voice of God ensures His promises do not expire with human death (Hebrews 11:13-16). ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ The verb “am” (present tense) is Jesus’ linchpin: patriarchs who died centuries earlier are still in covenant fellowship with the living God. • Matthew 22:32 and Luke 20:38 draw the same conclusion—“He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” • God’s covenant formula appears repeatedly (Genesis 26:24; 28:13), always pointing to His faithfulness to persons who, though physically dead, yet live to Him (Hebrews 11:17-19). • The promise anticipates resurrection bodies, not merely disembodied existence, fulfilling God’s purposes for His people (Romans 8:23). summary Jesus uses Exodus 3 to prove resurrection. By highlighting God’s present-tense covenant with the patriarchs, He demonstrates that those who die in faith remain alive to Him and will rise bodily. Scripture’s authority, God’s unchanging character, and the continuity of His promises converge to assure believers that death cannot sever the relationship sealed by the living God. |
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