The Transfiguration

This majestic vision on the Mount of Transfiguration was meant to encourage and strengthen our Lord's disciples and us. One day we shall be together in glory. We shall receive our reward. There is great comfort in the thought! There are great things in store for all true Christians, which shall make up for all the afflictions of this present time. "Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all." (2 Corinthians 4:17) When our Lord appeared in glory on the mountain, Moses and Elijah were with Him, standing and speaking with Him. Moses had been dead nearly fifteen hundred years. Elijah had been taken up by a whirlwind more than nine hundred years before this time. Yet here these holy men were seen once more alive, and not only alive, but in glory!