Matthew 17:1-3 “Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up a high mountain by themselves; 2, and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. 3, and behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.”
Dear God, of Glory, Might and Power, the only true source of love and wisdom, and so much more, I reverence and worship You this morning, anew.
I note that Moses was much beloved, and You communed with him directly, in a verbal manner. He like all of us had been born of sinful earthly parents, and which meant he was himself subject to be sinful, and therefore he could not have seen Your face and lived. Your absolute righteous glory has been reported to be dazzling. Like an insect caught in front of certain light bulbs die, so would we with sinful mortal bodies, be slain by being exposed to Your lighted glory.
This is not the case with the angels who live in heaven, even though they were also created by You, they have never sinned, and so can live and interact with you, as will those, who will be redeemed by Jesus when He comes for His own, from earth. What a glorious thought, as opposed to how heinous the sin in my life really is!
It is affirming for our hope of redemption, to remember that Moses now lives in heaven after been buried by the Lord, in a valley in the land of Moab. God the Father, had taken Enoch, and Elijah to heaven, and they had never seen death, and represent those who will be alive when Jesus, comes for His own to translate them, without ever having seen death. Whereas Moses was given a sinless body, when Jesus translated him out of the grave and serves as example of those who having died and been buried, will also be translated with sinless bodies, out of the grave when Jesus comes again; and from then on, be able to live in heaven freely and talk with God face to face. Justice was meted out to Moses when because of his sin at Meribah was denied entrance into the Promised Land; at the end of his toilsome years leading the rebellious Children of Israel. Love was shown when Jesus came and transformed him; verifying Your promise to the rest of us.
Satan must have been jubilant, when Moses sinned, and wanted to claim the body of Moses as his own, and contended with Jesus when He raised him from the grave (Jude 9). From heaven in a blaze of glorious light, Elijah and Moses come down to be with Jesus and uplift Him in answer to his agonizing in prayers on top of the mount of transfiguration.
My hope of being redeemed by Jesus to heaven when He comes again is real, and is revealed in the life of Moses who has gone before, I thank You dear God, for this hope. I sincerely pray, that I will continue to allow You to change my life, so I am Your true child, at the coming of Jesus.
Amen