Marriage In Heaven

Read: Mark 12:18-27

When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. --- Mark 12:25

The Bible In One Year:
Job 41-42
Acts 16:22-40

When I was a student at Moody Bible Institute, I knew a professor whose wife had died. Later he married the widow of his best friend. One day a student asked him, "Will your first wife know about your second marriage when you see her in heaven, and if so, how do you think she'll react?" The professor smiled and said, "Of course she will, and because she will be perfect she will not be jealous. Even though we will not live as marriage partners, I believe we will know each other. We will all be the best of friends forever."

In Mark 12, we read about some enemies of Jesus who invented a story about a woman whose husband died and left no son. Under Jewish law, the brother of the deceased had to marry the widow ofor the purpos of having a son [Deuteronomy 25:5]. According to their story, this happened with seven brothers. Jesus' detractors asked, "When they rise, whose wife will she be?" He said they neither understood the Scriptures nor God's power to raise the dead to a glorious new existense without marriage.

I believe that in heaven we will have special feelings for one another. We will love perfectly and enjoy complete healing from all the hurts of our earthly relationships. That will be more fulfilling than any marriage. --- Herb Vander Lugt

The love we've known while here below
In heaven will find its highest joy,
For we will know Christ's perfect love
That memories cannot destroy. --- D. De Haan

THE PLEASURES OF EARTH CANNOT COMPARE TO THE JOYS OF HEAVEN.