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NASB | Matthew 22:30 "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 22:30 "For in the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven [who do not marry nor produce children]. |
Subject: female angels |
Bible Note: "The reference to the angels is as witnesses of the Holy Spirit descending onto the earth to reveal all truth"? Now I am wondering why you say that. The idea of angels witnessing the descent of the Holy Spirit, I have never heard of. Perhaps you can provide a cross-reference to it. In the passage at hand (1 Peter 1) from verse 5 on, Peter has been talking about our salvation. He says that it is a very interesting matter which prophets and angels have tried to understand. The prophets wrote about it as the Holy Spirit moved them, but they did not understand fully. At the end of verse 12 he simply says that the angels also have a desire to know about these things. Of course, it is the angels we are interested in because they are the topic of this thread. The person who started the thread is interested in their gender. Aixen is expressing the understanding that angels have no gender and no known interest in sex. (This comes in spite of the opinion of some that angels took on bodies in Genesis 6, and procreated). On the other hand, we are learning from Peter that they do have an interest in matters of salvation. The fact he mentions only their desire suggests that they are unable or not allowed to look into that matter. It is evident that the prophets were told about the fact of salvation in Christ. What they did not understand was the fact that Christ would both suffer and be glorified. They wrote about it (See Isaiah 53, for example) but they did not understand it. Even the people in Jesus day failed to understand, and it seems that resurrection was the main sticking point. In John 12:34 the people were saying, “We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up?” In Matthew 16, Peter himself was saying, “Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto you”. In Mark 9:10 they are questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean. So the facts of salvation, and the manner in which it would be procured was only partially known by the prophets. Of course they have been revealed to us. Paul took lots of time to explain it in 1 Corinthians 15, and we know clearly how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. Meanwhile the prophets who wrote those scriptures searched but could not find the answers. The angels had a desire to look, but it seems they were kept at the "desire to look" stage. |