It Really is About Resurrection!
Marriage is important on Earth, but in Heaven there is no marriage.
All relationships will be perfect and God will provide the intimacy and closeness as our Heavenly Father.
Pharisees
Believed in the OT books.
Believed in resurrection
Believed in angels
Heaven for God and His people
Sadducees (not like Jesus – spoke heaven, judgment and hell)
Only first 5 books
No resurrection
No judgment or punishment
No heaven
Jesus quotes Exodus 3:6 (Jesus knows his audience). Like John 3:16 to us today, Ex 3:6 to the 1st Century Jew.
God is not the God of the dead but the God of the living!