They asked the wrong question, but Jesus gave the right answer. It is not about what we do but what God has done. The “work of God” is to bring humanity to faith in His Son Jesus, the Savior of the world. God’s work will not be complete until “every knee” bows and “every tongue” agrees that Jesus is Lord.
Will God fail in His work? - NOT A CHANCE!
"Wherefore, also, God highly exalts Him, and graces Him with the name that is above every name, that in the name of Jesus EVERY knee should be bowing, celestial and terrestrial and subterranean, and EVERY tongue should be acclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord, for the glory of God, the Father." (Philippians 2:10-11)
When humans are resurrected, they will all become believers.
"This Jesus Who is being taken up from you into heaven shall come thus, in the manner in which you gaze at Him going into heaven." (Acts 1:11)
"And with great power the apostles rendered testimony to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Lord. Besides, great grace was on them all..." (Acts 4:33)
Peter and the other Apostles understood their job was to tell people that Jesus had been RESURRECTED. They had seen it first hand. Paul also told humanity that Jesus died and was resurrected, and that He would return to resurrect all humans, good and bad.
"...there shall be a resurrection which is impending for both the just and the unjust...I stand attesting both to small and to great, saying nothing outside of what both the prophets and Moses speak of impending occurrences - the suffering Christ - He, the first out of a resurrection of the dead, is about to be announcing light both to the people and to the nations." (Acts 25:15; 26:22-23)
The work of God is saving humanity from death so the just and the unjust will come back to life!
The work of God is saving humanity from death so the just and the unjust will come back to life!
"For, if the dead are not being roused, neither has Christ been roused. Now, if Christ has not been roused, vain is your faith -- you are still in your sins! Consequently those also, who are put to repose in Christ, perished. If we are having an expectation in Christ in this life only, more forlorn than all men are we. Yet now Christ has been roused from among the dead, the Firstfruit of those who are reposing. For since, in fact, through a man came death, through a Man, also, comes the resurrection of the dead. For even as, in Adam, all are dying, thus also, in Christ, shall all be vivified." (1 Corinthians 15:20-22)