Two Worlds, Two Types

Luke 20:34-36 presents Jesus' answer to a complicated question meant to trap him in religious technicalities. See below.

“The children of this world marry and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.”

This is how his answer breaks down:

Two opposing types:

This world and that world – one already obtained, the other to be obtained.

Those who are or are not given and those who do or don't receive the given in marriage.

Of the higher type (accounted worthy):

The children of the resurrection are equal to the children of God.

The children of God are equal to the angels – who are no longer bound to the wheel of life and death.

The fact that they do not die “any more” signifies that they used to regularly die 'again'. Whereas they were, upon a time, associated both with life and death, the worthy will have their association to death removed.

That the worthy neither marry nor are given in marriage in no way signifies a situation indicative of “that” other world. It may well be that the non-marrying type, who are accounted worthy of the other world, are simply the type who refrain from marriage in this present world. In regard to this consideration, I remind the reader of the 144,000 virgins found in Revelation 14:4.

“These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. ”

If there is a transition from opposing types, it is not necessarily to be found in aspects associated with this present world. The book of revelation seems only to indicate virgin men, but a transition that follows the pattern of 'worldly to spiritual' may mean a new spirit in women that is equal to the spirit in men.

Is 'that' world a wholly different physical world from “this' world? Consider this question with due diligence. If you took the time to research the word 'world', you would find this list of synonyms: everyone, everybody, people, mankind, humankind, society, humanity, sphere, arena, milieu, province, domain, and discipline. Obviously, a world is more than a physical location.

We have obtained a world that is a physical location, a solid rock speeding through a solid void. The cold vacuum of space is not so empty. The ethereal and invisible nature of spirituality, by the same token, may be more inhabited than previously established. Think about it. Man, as a living thinking soul, could not inhabit this rock called Earth without an appropriate vehicle. The physical body perfectly matches the need, but alas, the body is bound to the cycle of life and death.

Likewise, a soul may not inhabit a world associated with eternal life without an appropriate vehicle. To obtain the necessary vehicle is to obtain the domain. The discipline of immortal angels frequents this physical world, but not as men do. And yet, Biblical accounts of angels depict them as men – as man-like yet untethered to death. In short, an opportunity has been presented to the children of men, an opportunity for an upgrade that is neither physical nor worldly.