SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/25/2022 8:39 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Tapestry of the Scene”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
17:7-9
Message of the verses: “7 And Jesus came
to them and touched them and said, "Arise, and do not be
afraid." 8 And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus
Himself alone.
9 And as
they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying,
"Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.’”
As
we began looking at this section from the 17th chapter of Matthew we
stated that this section confirms the deity of Jesus Christ, and so as we begin
this section we will see the fourth confirmation of Jesus’ deity, which was the
entire tapestry of the scene that gave testimony to Christ’s majestic power and
royal splendor. This was less specific
and dramatic than the first three, but in its own way was impressive as we will
see as we go on looking at these verses in more detail.
We
can see here that Jesus was still the center of the scene, and He will also be
the center of the scene at His second coming which is seen in the 19th
chapter of Revelation. When Jesus
returns to planet earth His foot will touch down on the Mt. of Olives which is
where He left planet earth as He ascended up into heaven, and so at this time
we see Him also standing on a mountain, so the scenes are similar. “In that day His feet will stand on the Mount
of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives
will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that
half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the
south” (Zech. 14:4). When He comes, He
will come with His saints as seen in 1 Thess. 3:13; and also in the letter of
Jude. Now just as here He is accompanied
by Moses and Elijah, saints of the Old Covenant. And then when He comes, He will also come to
His saints (2 Thess. 1:10; Rev. 21:3-7).
Moses therefore represented the saints who will have died by the time
Jesus returns, and Elijah represents those who have been raptured.
“Now
symbolically, the mountain is there. The
people with whom He comes are there. The
people to whom He comes are there. And
both the saints who have died and the saints who have been translated are
there.” (This is a quote from John MacArthur’s
commentary on Matthew.) I have to say
that this is one scene that I have never put together like this before, but it
surely does make it all come to gether.
10/25/2022 8:59 AM
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