Will we be like angels in the messianic age? ~ Cross reference of Mark 12:26 to Exodus 3:6

Some Sadducees come to Jesus and pose him a scenario where the eldest brother dies before he has children from his wife. In succession each of his 7 younger brothers marry the eldest brothers wife and die without having any children.

They ask Jesus which brother will have the right to have the wife when they are risen from the dead. They were testing Jesus as Sadducees do not believe in resurrection.

Jesus explains that they are wrong as on resurrection, people will be like angels in heaven. What is not clear if the people will be in heaven or on this earth.

He then says that god is the god of the living not dead and I have covered that part in another post. Click here to read it.

Here we can focus on the angels part that Jesus said and see if this is what Tanakh says.

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All Greek Text references are from NIV and Tanakh references are from Chabad.

This post is not intended to offend anyone's faith but for those people who are Seeking the truth of THE ONE TRUE G-D of the universe to who we owe all our love, gratitude & devotion.

My encouragement to you is that you read the whole chapter of Tanakh that the Greek text quotes so you get the context and understand what G-d actually said.

G-d Bless and Seek THE Truth.

Mark 12:26 Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[d]? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

Exodus 3:6 And He said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face because he was  afraid to look toward God.

• I think the "second coming", resurrection of the dead, "rapture" in the Greek text is what Tanakh refers to as messianic age.
• I wonder why the two are so different. I have listed a few of the messianic age passages from Tanakh basis which I think what Jesus said is not right.
• All Christians agree these messianic age passages are speaking about the end of days that John & Jesus was preaching about.
• None of these passages talk about heaven, angels or about not marrying. They all refer to a restored earth where people will live in peace and worshipping the ONE TRUE G-D of the universe.

Isaiah 2:2 And it shall be at the end of the days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised above the hills, and all the nations shall stream to it. 3 And many peoples shall go, and they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the Lord's mount, to the house of the God of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths," for out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge between the nations and reprove many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift the sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Isaiah 32:15 Until a spirit be poured us from on high, and the desert shall become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest. 16 And justice shall dwell in the desert, and righteousness shall reside in the fruitful field 17 And the deed of righteousness shall be peace, and the act of righteousness [shall be] tranquility and safety until eternity. 18 And My people shall dwell in a dwelling of peace, and in secure dwellings and in tranquil resting-places.

Hosea 2:20 And I will make a covenant for them on that day with the beasts of the field and with the fowl of the sky and the creeping things of the earth; and the bow, the sword, and war I will break off the earth, and I will let them lie down safely. 21 And I will betroth you to Me forever, and I will betroth you to Me with righteousness and with justice and with loving-kindness and with mercy. 22 And I will betroth you to Me with faith, and you shall know the Lord.

Zechariah 8:23 So said the Lord of Hosts: In those days, when ten men of all the languages of the nations shall take hold of the skirt of a Jewish man, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."

Zechariah 14:9 And the Lord shall become King over all the earth; on that day shall the Lord be one, and His name one.

Jeremiah 32:33 And no longer shall one teach his neighbor or [shall] one [teach] his brother, saying, "Know the Lord," for they shall all know Me from their smallest to their greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember. 34 So said the Lord, Who gives the sun to illuminate by day, the laws of the moon and the stars to illuminate at night, Who stirs up the sea and its waves roar, the Lord of Hosts is His name.

Amos 9:13 Behold days are coming, says the Lord, that the plowman shall meet the reaper and the treader of the grapes the one who carries the seed, and the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. 14 And I will return the captivity of My people Israel, and they shall rebuild desolate cities and inhabit [them], and they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their produce. 15 And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no longer be uprooted from upon their land, that I have given them, said the Lord your God.

Micah 4:1 And it shall be at the end of the days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised above the hills, and peoples shall stream upon it. 2 And many nations shall go, and they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the Lord's mount and to the house of the God of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths," for out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 3 And he shall judge between many peoples and reprove mighty nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nations shall not lift the sword against nation; neither shall they learn war anymore. 4 And they shall dwell each man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them move, for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.

Malachi 3:1 Behold I send My angel, and he will clear a way before Me. And suddenly, the Lord Whom you seek will come to His Temple. And behold! The angel of the covenant, whom you desire, is coming, says the Lord of Hosts. 2 Now who can abide the day of his coming, and who will stand when he appears, for it is like fire that refines and like fullers' soap. 3 And he shall sit refining and purifying silver, and he shall purify the children of Levi. And he shall purge them as gold and as silver, and they shall be offering up an offering to the Lord with righteousness. 4 And then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasant to the Lord, as in the days of old and former years. 5 And I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely; and also against those who withhold the wages of the day laborers, of the widow and fatherless, and those who pervert the rights of the stranger, and those who fear Me not, says the Lord of Hosts. 7 From the days of your fathers you have departed from My laws and have not kept them. "Return to Me, and I will return to you," said the Lord of Hosts, but you said, "With what have we to return?"