The question can then be asked: If God would have his children be married—i.e., not just married, but married forever!—then what about God himself? Would it be of any less importance to him? Modern thinking would have us believe so.
What purpose would it serve God, if all his children had forever spouses and he did not? His children would then be in possession of something that he himself did not possess! Pretty unthinkable, I would imagine.
This leads us to the question that invariably arises when discussing this issue, if this issue is ever discussed:
“For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.” (Matthew 22:30.)
In context, Jesus was answering a trick question put forth by the Sadducees regarding the Hebrew practice of a widow who’s husband died without issue. She would first go to the oldest brother to wife. Should she then have a child, that child would belong to the first husband in order to carry on his name. (See Deuteronomy 25:5-10.)
In this case, the woman allegedly went from brother to brother six times after the death of her first husband, having children by none of them.
The question put to Christ was: “Therefore in the resurrection [which the Sadducees didn’t believe in] whose wife shall she be of the seven? For they all had her” (Matthew 22:28). (I can almost see them smirking and rolling their eyes at each other—wink, wink. “Ha! Ha! We got him now.”)
I will admit that Jesus’ answer, relative to the text, seems a bit baffling. Yet, Jesus states there is no marriage given in heaven. He did not state there is no marriage existing in heaven.
Anything beyond this adds even more speculation to the picture, not that speculation is ever frowned on in here.
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