God of the Living

I'm not sure if anyone is reading these posts, and that's okay. It's helpful to write things out, and it forces me to read and be thoughtful. I do hope, though, that if you're reading and you've got thoughts, PLEASE share them!

I came across a pretty familiar passage in Mark today that made me think. The story is the one where the Sadducees are asking Jesus about the woman whose husband dies before they have children, so his brother marries her, then he dies and the next brother marries her and so on until she's married all seven brothers. They ask him whose wife will she be in the resurrection.

At the end of his answer (which is the part that made me think), Jesus says "Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said to Moses, 'I am the God of Abraham, The God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' So he is the God of the living, not the dead." (Mark 12:26-27)

So my question is- what does this mean? Those three guys rose from the dead already? Like we die and are resurrected soon after? Are they up in heaven, hanging out with the Most Holy? That what this seems to be saying, they are no longer dead because God is only the God of the Living.

Interesting to say the least...