Mark 9:1-13
See the kingdom of God come with power. Success last talk to crowd and his disciples in Chap 8.
Jesus transfigured before Peter, James and John at a high mountain.
They saw the real image of Jesus in heaven with Moses and Elijah, and heard God's voice," This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him."
They discussing what "rising from the dead" meant.
High mountain may have been 2700 m/9000 ft Mt Hermon, 19 km/12 miles north-eat of Caesarea. Mt Tabor, another possibility, would have meant a journey south.
The special glimpse of his glory, given to the inner ring of three, must have been tremendously reassuring through all that lay ahead. Moses (Israel's great law-giver) an Elijah (the first great prophet) converse with Jesus, and the subject is his coming death. From now Jesus will talk more about his suffering and death.
Why?
Everyone believed in Jesus will see the kingdom of God come with power, kingdom of God is in our heart, in every believer's heart. The power can transform life of a man, like real man and like Jesus.
We will transfigure to another shape when we left this world.
Listen to Jesus' word is the command of the Lord, He is Son of God, once more an evidence of Peter and John and James.
Rising from the dead they didn't understand at that moment, later under the Holy Spirit inspiration, they understood it, Jesus is the Messiah.
Peter wants to prolong the present moment. If Moses and Elijah will stay if they make shelters for them.
How?
Most significant power of kingdom of God I had experience is the healing of my stomach and my life transform. The transform of life is the most one but usually it easy be forgotten. The kingdom of God is with us in our daily life.
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