The seven, their wife and marriage in heaven.

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The Saduccees, those "which say that there is no resurrection," [Matthew 22:23] as well as saying there is "neither angel, nor spirit," [Acts 23:8] posed a question to Jesus in order to entrap Him...

• Matthew 22:24-28 Saying, "Master, Moses said, 'If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother'. Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. And last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her."
  
  22:29-32 Jesus answered and said unto them, "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, '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."

The Saduccees who say there is NO resurrection posed that question about the resurrection as if they could trick Jesus. What comes to mind is, "Silly rabbits, trix are for kids." This same lesson was repeated in....

• Mark 12:25-26 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err."

"Touching the dead, that they rise," or, as I read it....concerning the dead, the spiritually dead and their rising....God is not of the spiritually dead but of the spiritually living.

If He, as written, "is the God of," those named and "not the God of the dead," then...those living are those so named and all others are...the dead, the spiritually dead. Therefore, we Christians, those that are spiritually alive, are then part of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

My question is, is this speaking about literal marriage and literal children or, as in most verses...is much more being said? Who is the wife the seven had and....who are the seven?

 

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On it's face, the "letter of the word," those Scriptures tell us that after our physical death then there will be no marriage (i.e. children). So, we know that is true. What is the deeper "spiritual letter" teaching?

What I see (and no one else is required to see it this way) is....we are told who the seven brethren and their wife is...the wife that caused them to die spiritually. The wife is the great whore and notice that "last of all the woman died also." The seven brethren are...the seven heads explained below:

• Revelation 17:3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
  
  17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
  
  17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth."
  
  18:3-4 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, My People, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
  
  18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.'

The great whore, the great city Babylon, is the wife of the seven brethren, seven heads which are seven mountains. Biblically mountains are symbolic of nations so....these seven brethren are seven nations or seven continents...the world! "All nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication!"

She spiritually kills the seven brethren, nations of the world and yet she says, "I am no widow." Her endless supply of lovers never perishes but...."last of all the woman died." "And she shall be utterly burned with fire." [Revelation 18:8]

So, where Jesus was asked the question....

• Matthew 22:24-28 Saying, "Master, Moses said, 'If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother'. Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. And last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her."
  
  22:29-32 Jesus answered and said unto them, "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, '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."

In the resurrection, and there are two....the great whore is dead so the seven, the seven continents - the world, WILL NOT be enticed by the "abundance of her delicacies." Satan is locked away, the wicked witch is dead and the nations (those still spiritually dead) will be taught without their influence. The "power of God," allowing all the misled of the world entrance into His kingdom IF they are not again deceived when "Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations. [Revelation 20:7-8]