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Allusion
Later text
Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”
Earlier text
At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command.
Earlier text
I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
Earlier text
Job 19:26BSB
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
Refuting the Sadducees, Jesus proves the resurrection from the Torah: "Even Moses ... calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' He is not the God of the dead, but of the living" (Luke 20:37-38). The primary text He quotes is Exodus 3:6, the burning bush; 1 Kings 18:36 is a secondary witness to the same covenant formula, where Elijah at Carmel prays to "the LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel." The connection is redemptive-historical: the standing title "God of the fathers" runs as a thread through Israel's history — invoked at the bush, at Carmel, and throughout — and Jesus presses its buried logic, that a covenant God who binds Himself by name to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will not let death be their end. The patriarchs are alive to Him; the covenant guarantees resurrection. The telos is Christ, in whom that guarantee is realized and displayed: the God of the living raised His Son as the firstfruits, so that all who are Abraham's by faith share the deathless life the covenant name always promised — "to Him all are alive" is finally spoken over a people because the Living One died and now lives forevermore (Revelation 1:18).