Scriptural references, please.
Yes. However there is this scripture which needs to reconciled with your interpretation:
Luke 2027 Some (
AH) of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, (
AI) came up and questioned Him: 28 "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother. (
AJ) (
AK) 29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children. 30 Also the second [
m] 31 and the third took her. In the same way, all seven died and left no children. 32 Finally, the woman died too. 33 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her."
1) We can see in past history (in the bible, in the Qoran and even at the early time of the Mormons) when a woman became a widow, she had no way to survive and she would being cared for by her husband's younger brother. Polygamy often resulted from this practice of survival.
Since carrying the family lineage was important and also since the elder brother received the inheritance as the head of the family in many cultures, he is the primary responsible for the parents.
2) It is good to remind ourselves that past history is fallen history. Jesus is not supporting this practice of remarrying.
3) Ultimately,we can have only one spouse. Also until God can have his own lineage on earth at the marriage of the lamb, all the previous marriages need to be grafted to the Messiah's sinless family. He is the tree of life to which the wild olive branches need to be grafted.
4) Jesus is saying that until the ressurection of the dead, we are all singles in front of God. After the human fall A&E became dead spiritually, humanity still had to continue and procreate but as fallen descendants. We need to be ressurected from spiritual death. Our marriages are outside the garden like the one of A&E. St Paul said the same thing. It is better not to mary if you can. Until the Messiah can have his own bride, many Christians reached a higher spiritual level as a single person waiting for the sinfull marriage of the lamb. Through Jesus and the Holy Spirit (spiritual Eve), we are still born with the original sin and we are waiting for the Messiah to come again.
[
n] 34 Jesus told them, "The sons of this age (
AL) marry and are given in marriage. (
AM) 35 But those who are counted worthy (
AN) to take part in that age (
AO) and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 For they cannot die anymore, (
AP) because they are like angels and are sons of God, (
AQ) since they are sons of the resurrection. 37 Moses even indicated [in the passage] about the burning bush that the dead are raised, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. (
AR) (
AS) 38 He is not God of the dead but of the living, because all are living to [
o] Him." (
AT)
Yes as I already explained Jesus said that we should be waiting for the Messiah like a bride waiting for his bridgroom.
Christianity is the "single salvation" religion because Jesus could not marry but died on the cross as a single man. As his disciples, the first Christians had to follow his course. In the last days all the seeds of the fall are coming out. It is the harvest in preparation of the ressurection of the dead. People in the spiritual world are coming down to receive the benefit of this age.
It will not be on the clouds but in the flesh. As God, humanity has been waiting for this moment when God's true lineage can finally exist on the earth.
The world spreading of free sex, incest, homosexuality, lesbianism, drug use, pornography, stds, teen promiscuity etc is a sign of the last days.
Satan wants to catch as many people as he can now. Smoking (air) drinking (liquid), drugs (solid) are some of satan's weapons to make everything including our spirits rot, from he nostrils to the lungs.
