For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
The words stand as part of Jesus' warning against rejecting the Son of God as Redeemer, addressed to people in every age, that those who refuse Him without repentance will face the doom foreshadowed by the warnings to the Jews.
God's promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob establishes the certainty of the resurrection. The declaration that all live unto Him means that God regards the dead as living because He sees the outcome of His work as already accomplished. His relationship with the dead who belong to Him continues beyond death, and they will live again as His people in a close, tender relationship with Him. The saints who have died will hear the voice of the Son of God and come forth from their graves. They will rise to immortal life.
The words stand as part of Jesus' warning against rejecting the Son of God as Redeemer, addressed to people in every age, that those who refuse Him without repentance will face the doom foreshadowed by the warnings to the Jews.
God's promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob establishes the certainty of the resurrection. The declaration that all live unto Him means that God regards the dead as living because He sees the outcome of His work as already accomplished. His relationship with the dead who belong to Him continues beyond death, and they will live again as His people in a close, tender relationship with Him. The saints who have died will hear the voice of the Son of God and come forth from their graves. They will rise to immortal life.