The Mountain of Transfiguration
Part 4 of 4
The encounter of Jesus with Moses and Elias, seems to be a mystery until you read verse 9 of John 17, when Jesus tells his disciples, "…tell the vision to no man…" Then we have to interpret what does Moses and Elias represent. Moses was known as the law giver, the one whom God gave the sacrificial system to Israel (Deut. 31:24). Elias was a prophet, so he represents the prophets that God spoke through down through time (Luke 8:31).
God was telling them, the time had come for them to listen to someone else. Notice verse 5, of Matt. 17, "…this is my beloved son…hear ye him." Read Galatians 3:19, 10, 24, the Mosaic law that was written in a book (the sacrificial system) had come to an end. All the things the prophets had spoken about Christ, had their fulfillment in Christ. He had come (arrived).
So God was wanting the people to listen to Christ, and what He had to say, He was the Messiah that was to come and die for man’s redemption. But the people did not want to give up the fleshly law (Acts 15:1), Moses law, the law written in a book.
That was the law that was done away, at the cross, not the Ten Commandments. May we listen to Jesus.
Wesley Walker
- Pastor
Church of God (Seventh Day)
P.O. Box 1395 - 5 E. Taylor St.
McAlester, Oklahoma 74501