But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection (Luke 20:35, 36).
The "children of this world," mentioned in verse 34 of this chapter, are men and women in their present state of mortality, procreation being necessary to restore the loos caused by death; but in the world to come there will be no more death.
"Those who...are 'accounted worthy,' will have a part in the resurrection of the just. Jesus said...that 'they that have done good' shall come forth 'unto resurrection of life' (John 5:29)....All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood of Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had pardon entered against their names in the books of heaven" (The Great Controversy, pp. 482, 483). They have become partakers of the righteousness of Christ, and so are accounted worthy.
Michael Faraday, while showing a friend his laboratory, handed him a beautiful silver cup that he had received as a prize. Suddenly it slipped from the visitor's hand and dropped into a vat of acid, where, to his horror, it melted away like a snowflake. The scientist clamed his friend, and stepping to a shelf, picked up a small piece of mineral and dropped it into the acid. The silver immediately began to be precipitated at the bottom of the vat, where it was collected. "I will send it back to the manufacturers," he said, "and have it recast." And so he did, into a more beautiful vase than before.
So our Creator, in the plenitude of His power, and wisdom, will bring forth the bodies of His redeemed--changed, new, immortalized, fashioned like unto His own glorious body--"the children of the resurrection."
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth" (Ps. 31:5).
The "children of this world," mentioned in verse 34 of this chapter, are men and women in their present state of mortality, procreation being necessary to restore the loos caused by death; but in the world to come there will be no more death.
"Those who...are 'accounted worthy,' will have a part in the resurrection of the just. Jesus said...that 'they that have done good' shall come forth 'unto resurrection of life' (John 5:29)....All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood of Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had pardon entered against their names in the books of heaven" (The Great Controversy, pp. 482, 483). They have become partakers of the righteousness of Christ, and so are accounted worthy.
Michael Faraday, while showing a friend his laboratory, handed him a beautiful silver cup that he had received as a prize. Suddenly it slipped from the visitor's hand and dropped into a vat of acid, where, to his horror, it melted away like a snowflake. The scientist clamed his friend, and stepping to a shelf, picked up a small piece of mineral and dropped it into the acid. The silver immediately began to be precipitated at the bottom of the vat, where it was collected. "I will send it back to the manufacturers," he said, "and have it recast." And so he did, into a more beautiful vase than before.
So our Creator, in the plenitude of His power, and wisdom, will bring forth the bodies of His redeemed--changed, new, immortalized, fashioned like unto His own glorious body--"the children of the resurrection."
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth" (Ps. 31:5).
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