"Transfiguration Sunday"
Our Church celebrated it this past Sunday.
First the text:
Matthew 17
17 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
(Right before completion.
Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension
are all on the horizon.)
2 And was transfigured before them:
and his face did
shine as the sun,
and his raiment was
(Clothing)
white as the light.
3 And, behold,
there appeared unto them
Moses and Elias talking with him.
("The Law" and "The Prophets"
and now something greater than those two
as well as
the coming the fulfillment of them
was on hand.
"Here were the representatives of the Law and the prophets, the principal supporters of the old covenant, honouring him who was introducing the new covenant, which was to fulfil and supersede the previous one. Spurious, degraded Judaism rejected Christ's claims; real, orthodox Judaism acknowledged him and reverenced him as the Christ foretold and fort, shadowed, "of whom Moses and the prophets did write" (John 1:45).
4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
("Tabernacles"
Some versions render as
"tent" or "shelter"
In any event a
"temporary shelter"
is suggested.)
5 While he yet spake,
behold, a bright cloud
overshadowed them:
and behold a voice out of the cloud,
which said,
This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
6 And when the disciples heard it,
they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
7 And Jesus came and touched them,
and said, Arise, and be not afraid.
(Experiencing the Supernatural
first hand
has got a certain way of
"grabbing you by the boo-boo"
to borrow a phrase
by Cheech and Chong.)
8 And when they had lifted up their eyes,
they saw no man, save Jesus only.
9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
(Lots of reasons are offered.
It wasnt his time just yet
and if the disciples
were to blab about it to others
he would have been persecuted for it
seems a reasonable explanation.
But he wanted them to know
without a doubt
who he was.
And by having three witnesses
it would carry a lot more weight
when the time came to tell others
than just having one or two.)
If I heard this preached on 20 different times?
I would probably come away with 20 different things
that "resonated" each time.
This past Sunday,
this is what resonated:
2 And was transfigured before them:
and his face did
shine as the sun,
and his raiment
(Clothing)
was white as the light.
And the first thing I thought of was:
James 1:17
Every good gift
and every perfect gift
is from above,
and cometh down
from
the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning.
God invented light.
First words he ever spoke.
First thing he ever
"manifested"
by speaking it into existence.
Genesis 1:3
And God said,
Let there be light:
and there was light.
And that was the
ENTIRE
electro-magnetic spectrum
of which we only
get to experience 4%
of during our existence
in this earthly realm.
Visible
Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma.
Seven, go figure right?
Seven different components as well:
Red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, indigo, violet.
Seven Spirits of God:
Isaiah 11:2
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
If you honestly knew
just how really weird
light is?
Then why in the world
would you not want to meet
its father?
I mean it is just
INSANE
how it behaves
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
LIGHT, MISSLER, DARWIN, HOVIND, COURTNEYHUNTMD, and
Chuck Missler Genesis session 2
"a lot of background
on the mysterious nature of light."
"...the first quote of God is
let there be light
and we also
to this day
light represents
one of the most
paradoxical mysteries
in the field of science."
(Still true today.
What he is trying to tell you is
that is not an accident.)
"and I want you to notice
the description of Eden it's very different
than your Sunday school coloring books"
(My view equates to a different Dimensionality, or different layers of dimensions)
"every precious stone was thy covering the sardius the topaz the diamond the barrel the Onyx The Jasper the sapphire the emerald and the carbuncle and gold this is a classic way of describing colored light to speak in terms of jewels semi-precious Jewels we find it here we find on the breast of the high priest we find it in the New Jerusalem and so forth it occurs frequently we do understand that God is a God of Light we know the that that the angels and also Adam and Eve before they fell were clothed with light."
Romans 1:20-22
20 For the invisible things of him (Photons) from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools,
Diagram of the eye
by which we experience light:
"To suppose that the eye
with all its inimitable contrivances
for adjusting the focus
to different distances,
for admitting different amounts of light,
and for the correction of
spherical and chromatic aberration,
could have been formed by natural selection,
seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree..."
~
CHARLES DARWIN.
"SO?
Based solely on the paradoxical
and other attributes of light,
combined with the complexity
of the human eye/sight etc, its
pretty easy to see
(Pun Intended lol)
Thats there's a lil more to
Genesis 1:3
And God said,
“Let there be light,”
and there was light.
Than meets the eye :-).
Sorry.
had too."
Back to the verse that
RESONATED
the most this past Sunday:
2 And was transfigured before them:
and his face did shine as the sun,
and his raiment
(Clothing)
was white as the light.
Also reminded me of:
1 John 3:2
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God,
and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be:
but we know that,
when he shall appear,
we shall be like him;
for we shall see him as he is.
(That is speaking of us being transformed
into a glorified state when he returns,
like him
when he was on the mountain
at transfiguration
but nowhere near
EQUAL
to him.)
The first time around
only the believers in him
saw him
in his resurrected state
1 Corinthians 15:6
After that,
he was seen of above
five hundred
brethren
at once;
of whom the greater part remain
unto this present,
but some are fallen asleep.
Peter lol...
not even going there lol.
Pastor Bridgette did a great job
preaching her sermon
on this subject this past Sunday.
Suffice it to say,
God interrupts Peter lol.
Like
"Shut up,
you are missing the point."
vs 5
While he yet spake,
behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them:
and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said,
This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him."
Peter wanted to establish
a temporary shelter
on the mountain.
Guess what your body is?
Yeah...
a temporary shelter.
Your soul will be made eternal
by the owner of eternity
IF
you would but accept him
and live your life accordingly.
Brother Joe just hammered on this
continually in his bible study on Exodus.
That our bodies were but tents for our souls
during our time in this realm.
(I looked for my notes from that bible study last night but apparently they are buried in about 8 inches thick worth of papers entitled, "Misc Notes" so I decided there was no need to dig through all of that when I already know what he had said and the point I was to share lol.)
"We just happen to wear/inhabit
a temporary
"meat suit".
(TV show "Supernatural")
Other things that came to mind
during the sermon this past Sunday:
Mary Magdalene when she saw Christ
in the tomb didn't recognize him at first:
John 20:11-18
But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping:
and as she wept, she stooped down,
and looked into the sepulchre,
12 And seeth two angels in white sitting,
the one at the head,
and the other at the feet,
where the body of Jesus had lain.
13 And they say unto her,
Woman, why weepest thou?
She saith unto them,
Because they have taken away my Lord,
and I know not where they have laid him.
14 And when she had thus said,
she turned herself back,
and saw Jesus standing,
and knew not
that it was Jesus.
15 Jesus saith unto her,
Woman, why weepest thou?
whom seekest thou?
She, supposing him
to be the gardener,
(Thats a sermon in itself right there
maybe some other day)
saith unto him,
Sir, if thou have borne him hence,
tell me where thou hast laid him,
and I will take him away.
16 Jesus saith unto her,
Mary.
She turned herself, and saith unto him,
Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
(She didnt know who he was
until she heard his voice.)
17 Jesus saith unto her,
Touch me not;
for I am not yet ascended to my Father:
but go to my brethren,
and say unto them,
I ascend unto my Father,
and your Father;
and to my God,
and your God.
18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples
that she had seen the Lord,
and that he had spoken these things unto her.
(Always loved the fact
that she was the first one to see him
after the resurrection.
It says a lot,
perhaps more than most would think
on the surface of it.
Goes right along
with who anointed him etc. etc. etc.)
So there was that thought going on
in my head during the sermon Sunday
as well as:
2 Peter 1:16-18
For we followed not deceivable fables, when we opened unto you the power, and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but with our eyes
we saw his majesty:
17 For he received of God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from that excellent Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
18 And this voice
we heard when it came from heaven
being with him in the holy mount.
If you experience
the supernatural presence
of God?
UPCLOSE AND PERSOANL
FIRST HAND?
You will never be able to deny it.
Ever.
You will gladly
go to your death
singing his praises
KNOWING
something greater than us
in this realm
EXIST
for you/us
for all eternity.
And I just can not understand
WHY
all the hostility toward
"the father of lights"
and the inventor/designer
of the Quantum world.
Me personally?
I just cant wait to meet him.
And?
Here we go again with
PROBLEMS WITH
THE LECTIONARY
lol.
This one I can kind of understand
more so than I can the past issues
I have had with it
as there are two very
distinct trains of thought
going on from
the Transfiguration
to what follows right behind it.
But it's something
that people just don't know
or don't think about,
or don't preach about
and personally?
I THINK THEY SHOULD BE
we are that close.
Just a lil reminder
of where we were when we left off:
9 As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”
Now with what needs be explained,
preached on
in a lot greater detail today:
10 The disciples asked him,
“Why then do the teachers of the law say
that Elijah must come first?”
11 Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things. 12 But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.” 13 Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.
John the Baptist
had already been martyred
when he said it,
so what on earth is he talking about?
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(11) Elias truly shall first come.—Better, cometh Our Lord’s words are obviously enigmatic in their form, and, as such, admit of two very different interpretations. Taken literally, as they have been by very many both in earlier and later times, they seem to say that Elijah shall come in person before the yet future day of the Lord, the great second Advent of the Christ. So it has been argued the prophecy of Malachi 4:5 shall yet have a literal fulfilment, and John the Baptist when he confessed that he was not Elijah (John 1:21) was rightly expecting his appearance.
Malachi 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming
of the great and dreadful day
of the Lord:
Mathew Henry
commentary on Joel 2
Those on whom
the Spirit is poured out
shall foresee and foretell
that great and terrible day of the Lord,
and expound the wonders in heaven
and earth that go before it;
First time the stars had aligned like that in 3000 years.
Revelation 12:1-6
The Woman and the Dragon
"A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun,
with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth."
About is the key word there.
Christ new church is almost born.
Satan knows it.
His days are over.)
"for, as to his first coming,
so to his second,
all the prophets did
and do bear witness,
(There will be another JTB
wild man from the wilderness
yelling and screaming
at people to get ready.
Sound the least bit familiar?)
He then references Revelation 10:7
“But in the days when the seventh angel
is about to sound his trumpet,
the mystery of God will be accomplished,
just as he announced
to his servants the prophets.”)
It would hardly be right to reject this interpretation merely on the ground of its literalism, or its improbability, or the resemblance which it has to the fantastic belief and practices, which have kept their ground even in modern Judaism, in connection with the expected appearance of the Tishbite, though these, so far as they go, must be thrown into the adverse scale. The words that follow in the next verse are, however, more decisive.
And restore all things.—Better, and shall restore. Leaving for the present the question who was to do the work, we turn to the nature of the work itself. Our Lord’s language generalises the description given by Malachi. That work of “turning the hearts of the children to the fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children,”
was but part
of a wider
restoration of things and persons.
Old truths were to be reproclaimed,
(Genesis 6 anybody?)
and cleared from
the after-growths of traditions.
("And restore all things"
Pertains
MAINLY
to the Bride of Christ
The Church that will meet him
upon his return
without blemish etc.
See:
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Men, as a race, were to be brought into their right relation to their God and Father. The words seem—at least as interpreted by Acts 3:21 (where see Note); Romans 8:21; Ephesians 1:22-23; 1Corinthians 15:28, and other like passages—to point forward to a “restitution of all things,”
the bringing in of order
where now there is
disorder and confusion,
(Oh you mean like now?
Gotcha.)
which shall embrace
not Israel only,
or even mankind,
but the whole universe of God,
visible and invisible.
Christ restores his church
for himself
to be ready for him
on his return
Ephesians 5:26-27
That he might
sanctify
and
cleanse it
with the washing of water
by the word,
27 That he might
present it to himself
a glorious church,
not having spot,
or wrinkle,
or any such thing;
but that it should be holy
and without blemish.
The rest of the restoration
back to the original state intended
as in the Garden
doesn't happen until after
the White Throne judgement
and the New Heaven,
New Earth, New Jerusalem
descend from Heaven.
(See verse above:
She, supposing
him to be the gardener,
(Thats a sermon in itself right there
maybe some other day)
REVELATION 21
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away;
and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city,
new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh
shall inherit all things;
and I will be his God,
and he shall be my son.
So yeah...most people
just hear a twenty minute sermon
but my brain is like
the afterburners have been turned on...
I literally can not write down fast enough
what I am thinking about sometimes.
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