Marriage is Not Eternal
Traditionally wedding vows have gone something like this: "I, ___, take you, ___, to be my lawful wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us part. Did you ever wonder why we say, “until death do us part?” It’s because there will be no marriage in the life after death. How do we know this? Because the apostle Luke tells us that Jesus said so. In Luke 20 some Jewish leaders called the Sadducees came to Jesus asking him a resurrection question related to the Old Testament law of marriage as established in Deuteronomy 25. [1] This marriage law stated that when a man died leaving his widow childless, the man’s brother was required to marry the widow. The Sadducees posed a hypothetical situation to Jesus where a woman marries several brothers who each die leaving her childless, and then she dies. They ask Jesus “…at the resurrection whose wife will she be since the sev
