SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/26/2022 9:48 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “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."
The first thing that Jesus did was to show loving
care to Peter, James, and John, as He knew that this must have been difficult
for them to see what they saw, even though it was truly a wonderful
experience. He knew that great fear was
upon these men and so Jesus came to them and touched them and said,
"Arise, and do not be afraid."
Perhaps it was a great relief for them to only see Jesus alone and back
in the way that He was when they went up the mountain.
John
MacArthur writes “The impressions of the experience were now indelibly
inscribed in their minds. They could
testify with certainty and boldness that Jesus had indeed manifested Himself in
glory before some of them had tasted death (16:28). Some thirty years later, Peter wrote, ‘We did
not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For when He received honor and glory from God
the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory,
This utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain’ (2
Pet. 1:16-18)”
Now
as these men saw Jesus alone it must have came to them that they saw a preview
of the second coming of Jesus Christ as He will come in His glory. I have to believe that after thinking about
this for a while that the first thing that they wanted to do was to tell others
of what they just saw, as they probably could not wait to tell the other
disciples of what they just experienced. But 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."
In Matthew 16:20 Jesus told the twelve not to tell
anyone that He was the Christ, and now He tells these three not to speak of
what they just saw on the mountain. We
have talked more than once especially in our time in Matthew that the Jews were
looking for a political Messiah, and so if this got out that He was the Messiah
the Jews would want to make Him their political Messiah and this was not in the
timing of God’s plan.
MacArthur
writes “For the people to have learned then about the experience on the mount
would, as already mentioned, only have incited them to try as they did on other
occasions (John 6:15; 12:12-19) to make Jesus into a king of their own kind to
fulfill their immediate selfish and worldly expectations. But when they would hear the story after the
son of Man had risen from the dead, it would be clear that He had not come to
conquer the Romans but to conquer death.”
In
conquering death Jesus was fulfilling the plan that the Father had for Him
before the foundation of the earth, and nothing was going to stand in His way
from dying on the cross for our sins at the exact time that He was suppose to
on the exact day He was suppose to.
10/26/2022 10:12 AM
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