God of All Generations

UV 3580/10000. God of All Generations BUT concerning the raising of the dead, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, “I am the God of Abraham, And the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? Mark 12 v 26 Jesus while answering questions on resurrection made this statement. Moses who came four hundred years after Abraham, circa 2100 BC, hears God identifying Himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In other words, they were not dead but living persons. From the human perspective, they were long dead and gone but God remembers them and refers to them as living persons. God remains the God of all generations. When we have a personal relationship with God, we are resurrected from death. Christ is the first to be resurrected while we by our faith in Him are resurrected. Though we die, yet shall we live. We now live with the hope of resurrection and eternal life. We have hope of meeting with those who died before us with the same hope in Christ. Jesus also refers to our nature as resurrected beings. We are not like flesh and blood humans but like the angels. We join our fathers or our forebears in death but also in resurrection. Jesus alone has the power of resurrection. Hence, He said, “ I am the resurrection and the life.” Jesus went through both death and resurrection. Once resurrected, we would never die again. The resurrections that Jesus commanded while on Earth were temporary, in the sense, those who were awakened to life from death eventually died, for example the little girl and Lazarus. Hence, the resurrection after death is the glorious resurrection. Only a person who is absolutely righteous in the eyes of the Giver of Life, God has the right to live forever. We, like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, are absolutely righteous by virtue of our faith in the death of Jesus being a once and final payment for all of our sins and unrighteousness. Hence, the life we now live by faith is the life of Christ. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had distinct experiences of the grace of God or Jehovah in their individual lives. Likewise, God manifests Himself in our lives, too in unique and personal ways. God is the same, our faith is the same but our experience and testimony of His grace in our lives can be quite different. No two believers walk and testimony or witness can be exactly the same though there may be similarities.