This is after Jesus is seen conversing with Moses and Elijah. Now we have the indicators of the end of the age who represent the Law and the Prophets. The disciples have been living by the instruction of the Law and the Prophets their entire lives and the audible voice of God from Heaven tells them to listen to Jesus. Overall, this reorders their understanding of who Jesus is, not just by a visual transfiguration but by divine fiat, that Jesus is the Son of God and he takes precedence over the Law and the Prophets.
In our time and place, this event also becomes important as a way to address deficient Biblical training that often comes when Christians only study the New Testament. We cannot understand the full message of the Gospel unless we seek to understand what God has been trying to accomplish since the very beginning. The old covenant always pointed to a coming Messiah. That is what Moses representing the Law and Elijah representing the Prophets was about.
Within it, the old covenant contained the beautiful message of God speaking to the people that he wanted to return to loving him. If you only read the New Testament, you will hear the Gospel message, but you will be missing a lot of foundational underpinning that makes the followers of Christ also the spiritual children of Abraham Galatians Jesus is God the Son.
His ministry on Earth was to display the coming kingdom of God and reveal the pathway to citizenship in that kingdom. In order to do this, he revealed his divine nature to humanity in very real ways. The Transfiguration event was probably the most definitive revelation of Jesus as divine next to the resurrection itself.
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Donate Contact. Blue Letter Bible is a c 3 nonprofit organization. APA Format. As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.. This biblical event appears in each of the Gospel books as an important moment in the life of Jesus and evidence of his divinity.
After Jesus performs a series of miracles and foretells His own death , Jesus leads just three of his disciples, Peter, James and John, to a "high mountain. The transfiguration of Jesus Christ was a powerful demonstration of His divine nature and manifestation of His glory, which Jesus possessed prior to coming to earth in the human body. This revelation is referenced in a passage in the Apostle Paul's message to Phillippi.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" Philippians KJV.
The following is a transcription of the video above answering "What was the Importance of the Transfiguration? It's impossible to appreciate what's going on with the Transfiguration unless you consciously factor in the reality that that remarkable scene takes place just a few days after Jesus had, for the very first time, told his disciples He was going to die.
And when he told his disciples, in Matthew , He was going to die, they were offended and scandalized. Peter, speaking for the group, grabbed Jesus and said, "far be it from you [to die], it can't happen. This Transfiguration is about three years into a three and a half year ministry.
This is after for months and years those disciples had followed Jesus, they had seen his miracles, they had done miracles in His name. They knew something palpably and objectively about the power and the reality of who Jesus was, and yet, when He began to talk about dying it was staggering to the disciples and they began to wonder if He was really the Messiah. Therefore, for that reason, Jesus took three, Peter, James and John, into a high mountain apart, away from the other apostles.
Jesus takes Peter, James, and John into a very secluded place and He begins to pray.
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