Why the bush was not consumed

Jesus proved there is life after death by invoking a Name of God:

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Somehow this is proof enough that there is resurrection from the dead. How? I think in this way:

Jesus' point is that those privileged enough to be in the lineage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are always alive.

Think of it.

These patriarchs, from whom issue the great lineage of Judaism, from which issues forth the Messiah's work of including the Gentiles into the purposes of God -- (we Gentiles in Christ are all sons of Abraham) -- these patriarchs are important enough dead.

But they are dead only from our earthly perspective, in time and in space.

From God's vantage point, they are alive and always have been. Therefore, says Jesus, there is life after death.

This point needs to be savored, as I have been, for days on end. Savor it like a sweet something in the mouth of your being. It is not something that the knowledge of this world can remotely grasp.

He is God not of the dead, but of the living ... for all live to him. ALL live to him. This is the word of God.

Jesus gave this proof to the Sadducees, who deny any resurrection from the dead. He said -- and you can almost detect a certain "don't you guys get it?" tone in His voice -- He said: But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob...

Even Moses. Come on guys. Even Moses knew this.

Moses, who by the time he saw the burning bush had come to the end of his life, or so he thought. Educated in the courts of Egypt, he had been exiled to the desert for killing a man in religious-cultural zeal. There in the desert, he tended sheep for forty years -- forty years -- until God met him in the bush. But at that bush he met the God who is always alive, whose purposes are always alive, whose people who serve him are always alive ...

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Those who are called by this God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ... those who are touched by the God with this Name, never come to an end.

And the fire burned in the bush.

And the bush was not consumed.

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Exodus 3.2 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.

Luke 20.37-39 "But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. "Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him." Then some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you have spoken well."

Galatians 3.6-9 Thus Abraham "believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness." So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." So then, those who are men of faith are blessed with Abraham who had faith.