Figuring Out More Truths From The Transfiguration Experience!!!

Figuring out more Truths from the Transfiguration Experience!!!

Fuller picture of the Transfiguration account in Luke 9 (verses 28-36)👇👇👇 can be obtained by bringing into focus the parallel account preceding the Transfiguration in Mathew's Gospel also, which virtually necessitated the Transfiguration Experience of our Lord before His Core disciples. Let's also understand in and through this Message, why only Moses and Elijah (and not any other great OT Saint) appeared during that surreal experience and why that supernatural experience ends with the Heavenly Instruction to listen to The Son and obey Him...

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_*From that time on* Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life._

_*Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”*_

_Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it._Matt 16:21-25_

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Disappointment

It is important to know that the Disciples knowing that our Lord Jesus is the long-awaited, powerful Jewish Messiah were following him with the anticipation that He would *soon* overthrow the ruling Roman Empire, free the Jews from Roman rule and establish His Kingdom with the Disciples as his Cabinet of Ministers as evidenced in some Scripture portions like ...

_And another time when he appeared to them, they asked him, “Lord, are you going to free Israel from Rome now and restore us as an independent nation?”_

(Acts 1:6 TLB)_

The Disciples were still blissfully unaware that certain events like Disciples ruling alongside Him, would occur only after our Lord's Second Coming after liberation of Israel from Revived Roman Empire of Antichrist (Isa 2:2-5/Matt 19:28/Rev 20:1-6).

As such when Jesus *started* speaking for the *first time* about His Divinely-ordained and scheduled sufferings at Jerusalem in His First Advent, they (with Peter being the spokesperson of other Disciples as usual) were virtually outraged as their hopes ruling alongside Jesus was dashed to pieces.

Appointment (with sufferings)

Hence, *"some" (reiterate some) re- orientation* of their priorities had to be done (*complete* re-orientation would be done in Acts 2) in and through the Transfiguration Experience of our Lord which immediately (6 days later- Matt 17:1) follows the events recorded in closing verses of Matt 16...with our Heavenly Father also instructing the Core Group of Disciples to

_Listen to His Son (without any objections)- Matt 17:5/Luke 9:35_

Added to that was their exposure (just some minutes before) to Moses and Elijah themselves speaking about the impending sufferings of our Lord at Jerusalem...

_They were splendid in appearance, glorious to see; and *they were speaking of his death at Jerusalem, to be carried out in accordance with God’s plan.Luke 9:30-31 (TLB)*_

Why Moses and Elijah? And not any other Prophet? Jewish Bible (Pic of Cataloguing of The Books therein can be accessed at the following Link...https://images.app.goo.gl/GCwb2HKUH5Dy8iTn8) unlike the Christian OT section is divided into 3 sections *differently* (Psalms are not in the Middle Section in the Jewish Bible but in the Last Section as evidenced in the sequencing of Words of our Resurrected Lord ...Luke 24:44).

1. The Law (Genesis to Deuteronomy)

2. The Prophets (Joshua to Malachi) and

3. The Writings (Psalms to Chronicles)

Of which in Jewish Synagogues, *only Law and Prophets* would be given more prominence as only in this 2 sections the words of the Prophets preceding their Prophecies *"Thus says the Lord" in full possesion of the Lord's Spirit* figure more prominently (Prophesying is not only Foretelling but *also Forth telling with conviction and authority*) than in the last section from Psalms to Chronicles (that is why, even the Book of Daniel despite having many prophecies figures only in the Writings Section and not in the Prophets Section as the words *Thus says the Lord* spoken by Daniel in full possession of the Lord's Spirit _is conspicuous by it's absence in that Book_).

The relative greater importance of Law and the Prophets can be gauged from certain NT sections also such as...👇👇👇

_So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the *Law and the Prophets*.-Matt 7:12_

_After the reading from the *Law and the Prophets*, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have a word of exhortation for the people, please speak.” -Acts 13:15_