So as a last glimpse of the Transfiguration, I want you to visualize the scene: The King of Kings is transfigured, (He is radiant in glory, his clothing so dazzling as to be worthy itself of comment); He receives as an audience Moses and Elijah, who also appear in glory. The King looks upon them and sees Moses with whom He had conversed many times in the wilderness, whose every prophetic utterance He Himself had delivered. He sees the disobedience of His people Israel; He sees the man Moses standing in the gap when He Himself wanted to destroy the whole nation. On Mount Nebo He shows Moses the Promised Land (which he cannot enter because of disobedience); He sees Moses take his last breath.
Moses dies ‘ outside the camp’ .
Then The King looks upon Elijah; Elijah who defied the evil leadership of the nation Israel. Elijah who worked many miracles and signs; Elijah who stood alone against 450 baal priests, defeated and killed them; Elijah who represents the forerunner to Jesus through John the Baptist; Elijah who is taken to heaven on a fiery chariot and does not see death.
Elijah was taken to heaven , whose body ‘ does not see corruption’ .
Now I want you to see, to look at and imagine, what The Transfigured Christ, The King might in that moment be weighing, more than the words being spoken; The King sees ALL that is in both Moses and Elijah, ALL that they represent both in Prophecy and in their very lives; the essence, the substance of their creation. God The Father sends to His Son ‘these’ two men just before His crucifixion; they speak with The King, yes; But the visual, that which The King looks upon (that picture which is worth a thousand words) was that of His mission, His plan; He sees Himself standing in the gap for all the world, He sees the joy set before Him (the Promised Land), He sees Himself being struck, He sees Himself dying outside the camp, He sees Himself triumphing over the devil, He sees His body incorruptible, He sees Himself ascending to His Father. My God, My Champion!
We are created for His pleasure. And He shares That Life with us. Emanuel.
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