Matthew 22:30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
And so, is this verse is referring that at the Resurrection we are all going to be sexually active like the angels?
Christ spoke of a spiritual resurrection and a physical resurrection. For the Sadducees asked Christ a question in regards to which husband will a woman be married to if she had multiple husbands who had died.
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Matthew 22:23-24 NIV and
Matthew 22:28-32 NIV
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
They said,
"At the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
Jesus replied,
“You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’a? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
In other words, Christ recognized two different resurrections. One being spiritual when He said that there was no marriage in any of the spiritual resurrections that lead up to Heaven; And one being physical when He said concerning the resurrection of the dead that, "
He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
However, the best way in order to understand these two resurrections, we must first examine all the various different types of resurrections that the Bible mentions, though. So lets take a look at...
The Five Different Types of Resurrections:
Type #1: - Internal Individual Spiritual Resurrections:
One of the glorious things about the gospel is that it sends out an open invitation for all people to be spiritually born again and to have a brand new resurrected life in Christ. This is a transformation of the heart by God. A life crucified to the old ways of one's life and then risen by creating a new life by walking with the Lord and His ways where all things become new.
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John 11:25-26
Jesus said unto her, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die."
Type #2: - Outward Individual Spiritual Resurrections:
Enoch had been outwardly translated or resurrected into Paradise to be with the Lord (Hebrews 11:5). The apostle John had also been translated into the spirit and taken to heaven to be shown an amazing Revelation from the Lord (John 1:9-11). In addition, the two witnesses in Revelation will be translated up into Heaven after they had been physically resurrected (Revelation 11:12).
Type #3: - Individual Physical Resurrections:
After Jesus had risen, many of the Old Testament saints within their graves had resurrected. Christ had also resurrected the body of Lazarus, too. Paul had also resurrected or brought back to life the boy who had fallen out of the window and died, too. Furthermore, as mentioned before, the two witnesses in Revelation will experience a physical resurrection. This happens three and a half days after they are killed.
Type #4: - Body of Christ's Spiritual Resurrections:
Jesus is the only man who has the power to ascend up to Heaven of His own power (John 3:13). Jesus ascended up into Heaven in front of many disciples. However, today, Jesus lives within the body of the church and He is the head of that body. So Christ eagerly awaits to draw His bride up into Heaven. So Christ looks forward to the Rapture of His bride at the 1st Spiritual Resurrection or those saints living before the Tribulation. Then during the Great Tribulation, Christ will then seek to gather His remaining beloved who will also want to enter the wedding at the 2nd Spiritual Resurrection for the Body of Christ, which is the gathering of those saints who are alive at Christ's Second Coming.
Type #5: - Body of Christ's Physical Resurrection:
Christ is the first fruits of the resurrection. This means He is the first of those who are resurrected and will never die. The 1st Physical Resurrection of the Body of Christ takes place at the End of our current world (or before the Millennium). The 2nd Physical Resurrection of the Body of Christ takes place at the end of the Millennium. However, what is really amazing is that there is a connection between the Spiritual Resurrections and the Physical Resurrections, though. For he that is first is will be last and he that is last will be first (Matthew 20:16). In other words, those who are taken up in the 1st Rapture (or 1st Spiritual Resurrection) will rise bodily at the end of the Millennium last; And those who are spiritually resurrected afterwards, such as those who are beheaded for Christ and those who are alive and caught up in the 2nd Rapture will be the first to be physically resurrected, which takes place at the at the End of our current world (i.e. Before the Millennium).
