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Question.--"Whose wife shall she be in the resurrection,"who had several husbands?Answer.--The Sadducees, the agnostics who did notbelieve in the resurrection, tried to entrap the greatTeacher by asking one of their stock questions. Sevendifferent brothers in turn married the same woman andall died before she did. "To which of them shall she bewife in the resurrection?" They did not ask, "To which ofthese will she be wife in heaven or purgatory or eternaltorture?" for neither Jesus nor the Jews held any suchteaching. The Pharisees and Jesus taught the resurrectionof the dead; and it was against this teaching thatthe Sadducees aimed their sarcastic question.Note the majesty of the Master's answer "Ye do err,not knowing the Scriptures, neither the power of God!"(Matt. 2223-33.) You do not understand the Scriptureteaching respecting such questions, and you ignore inyour question the great Divine power which, at the resurrectiontime, will be exercised to straighten out all thedifficulties of the situation. Then the great Teacherproceeded to inform them that such as would (gradually)attain to the resurrection--such as would get a completeraising up out of sin and death, would "neither marry norbe given in marriage," but would be sexless, as are theangels. Thus the supposedly unanswerable question of theSadducees fell flat, and their ignorance was exposed.page 253====================VOL. XXXIII AUGUST 15 No. 16A.D. <strong>1912</strong>--A.M. 6040----------CONTENTSMark of Crystallization of Character..............255Perfection, Not Consecration, the Mark........255Submission First Requisite--PatientEndurance Second............................256Great Test is to Remain at Mark...............258Loving Obedience Brings Joy and Peace.........259World Called to Repentance........................259Ransom Basis of Hope for World................260Present Message to the World..................260Mental Suggestion a Means of Temptation...........261My Confidence (Poem)..............................262The Sacrifice of The Christ.......................263Human Life-Rights Belong to Our Lord..........263Five Loaves and Two Fishes........................265"I Am the Bread of Life"......................266Teaching by Parables Only.........................266"After Ye Were Illuminated"...................266"Spirit and Life" Words.......................267

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