Daily Bible Readings YLT February 4th

Jesus says to the Sadducees, "Ye go astray, not knowing the writings, nor the power of God"This is a judgment which could fall on all of us. We need to know the writings, the Scriptures, with long and faithful study, and meditate on them and seek to understand with the help of the Holy Spirit, and we also need to seek to know the power of God. Then we will not go astray, we will not get things wrong in our understanding of the Scriptures and the power of God. The Sadducees did not believe that there will be the rising again . Jesus proves from the Scriptures that there is, for God is not the God of the dead but of the living. He is not the God of the dead Abraham, or the dead Isaac, or the dead Jacob. That would be a senseless, pointless, macabre, sinister person to be. But God is God of the living. Alleluia! The Sadducees were wrong in their mocking the idea of "the rising again", by giving a foolish question of how it might be for a woman who had married 7 different men. We see mocking as a reaction to the preaching of the gospel by Paul - it is one of the reactions people will have when they hear this gospel: Jesus died for our sins according to the Writings, and that he was buried, and that he hath risen again according to the Writings (1 Cor 15:3-4) But when people believe the gospel, they are saved from God's judgment of them, as mockers and scorners and disbelieving, rejecting, insulting and ignoring people will not avoid God's righteous judgment of them. Beware! Jesus gives the Sadducees a straight answer and one we can take note of, that in "the rising again" they do not marry nor are given in marriage, "but are as messengers of God in heaven." So our job, under God, in the rising again will be to take God's truth to every situation on earth during the reign of Jesus on the earth when he returns (I Thessalonians 4:14). Our time on earth is to prove our worth in doing this now that we may be rewarded in the age to come - well done good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord