Scripture: Haggai 1:15b-2:9 and Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21 or Psalm 98 • Job 19:23-27a and Psalm 17:1-9 •2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 • Luke 20:27-38
The Sadducees in today's gospel do not believe in the resurrection. They try to trick and ridicule Jesus with their absurd and extreme examples about marriage partners in heaven if people married more than once. Jesus did not treat them with scorn, but with patience and assurance in his answer. What was his answer?
What do you think about resurrection? Especially in a post modern, empirical verification based age? How does that compare with life two millennia ago. Read Debi Thomas' "Children of the Resurrection."
Walter Brueggemann says the prophet Haggai energizes hope in a hopeless situation. Read Dan Clendenin's account of Haggai in the rebuilding of the temple in the midst of Israel's exile and captivity in Haggai and the Politics of God . How does this relate to the gospel and the passage from Job?
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