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. All Images are links to Google Images. Copyright violations not intended. 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 thos...