Chapter-7 We will appear like the angels in our heavenly life

Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection came to Jesus and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.”

Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of resurrection.

And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.” Then some of the Scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” For they no longer dared to ask him another question. - Luke 20:27- 40; Matthew 22:23 - 33; Mark 12:18 – 27.

Jesus the Lord teaches us that we have life in heaven. But Sadducees are always of the idea that human beings do not have resurrection. Our Lord says that when we live in heaven husband-wife or any other relations do not exist. Our relationships come to an end in this world itself. After our death we get resurrected and there is no death once again. We live eternally in heaven. Jesus the Lord says that we will be like the angels in heaven. We are people born of God ; we live in the heavens. Our God is not the God of the dead, rather the God of those who live in heaven. For God all are living beings. Saint Anthony, Saint Francis Xavier and all saints appear to us as the angels in heaven.