Luke 20:27-40

Luke 20:27-40) . . .However, some of the Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came up and questioned him, 28 saying: “Teacher, Moses wrote us, ‘If a man’s brother dies having a wife, but this one remained childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up offspring from her for his brother.’ 29 Accordingly there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died childless. 30 So the second, 31 and the third took her. Likewise even the seven: they did not leave children behind, but died off. 32 Lastly, the woman also died. 33 Consequently, in the resurrection, of which one of them does she become [the] wife? For the seven got her as wife.” 34 Jesus said to them: “The children of this system of things marry and are given in marriage, 35 but those who have been counted worthy of gaining that system of things and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 In fact, neither can they die anymore, for they are like the angels, and they are God’s children by being children of the resurrection. 37 But that the dead are raised up even Moses disclosed, in the account about the thornbush, when he calls Jehovah ‘the God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.’ 38 He is a God, not of the dead, but of the living, for they are all living to him.” 39 In response some of the scribes said: “Teacher, you spoke well.” 40 For no longer did they have the courage to ask him a single question.

The Sadducees proposed a question to Jesus: If a woman whom had married 7 times during her lifetime was resurrected, who would be her husband in the resurrection?

It’s apparent the Sadducees were intent in trying to trick Jesus by proposing him this question, but it's very interesting the responce Jesus gives. Jesus says that “those who have been counted worthy of gaining that system of things and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.”

Evidently, then, those whom inherit the earth as their eternal dwelling place will not be “given in marriage” nor will they “die anymore, for they [will be as] the angels.”

One final thing to note is that these who are to inherit “that system of things” weren't already considered God’s children, that is, they weren't spiritually adopted (i.e. born again). Indeed, for there are those whom are God's children (actually, "sons") because they've been baptized by God's holy spirit (Romans 8:14-16), but these ones here in Luke's account are only considered “God’s children by being children of the resurrection.”