THE TRANSFIGURATION

6.                     1.   An Elijah representation,

2.   A Moses representation,

3.   Jesus interacts in conversation with both figures in the vision,

4.   All three focused on discussing Jesus coming death,

5.   A cloud wraps them all together,

7.
The three spectators, were intensionally involved in the meaning and application of the vision.  The transfiguration was created specifically in connection with them, as its implications involved them personally.  They need to witness it, remember it and later record it,

"As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead" Mark 9:9 (WEB).  

The vision became valid after Jesus had undergone his sacrificial death and been resurrected. This being the topic the three had been discussing and involved in, as illustrated in the vision.

8.
This vision linked Elijah and Moses in with Jesus' sacrificial death soon to be carried out.  All three were involved in this death.  All three were linked, illustrated by their combined conversation on this all important coming sacrificial death, 

"Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendour, talking with Jesus. They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem" L9:31 (WEB). 

The vision was focusing expressly on the death of Jesus, which would became the legal basis upon which God would build His new Kingdom and temple. 

9.
Eight days earlier, Jesus had said -

"“Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God (come to power)" Luke 9:27 (WEB). 

This Kingdom gained its power from Jesus' death (Mark 9:1).  All three attending disciples later witnessed this sacrificial death of Jesus.  It was this sacrifice that provided the 'power' which enabled the Kingdom of God to be legally created and brought into existence.  Peter, James and John became personally involved, each would become part of this powered up Kingdom arrangement.  Its construction achieved by special power drawn from the value of the ransom sacrifice.  These three disciples saw the Kingdom gain its power before they died by personally witnessing the death of Jesus and the events that the transfiguration conversation focused on.

10.
The three spectators were purposely provided privy to the conversation between the figures of Elijah and Moses talking with Jesus about his scheduled death at Jerusalem.  The Elijah and Moses characters were directly involved and connected to Jesus' ransom sacrifice. The apostles witnessed something that John the Baptist had already witnessed when he baptised and anointed Jesus, the voice of Yhwh stating “And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; (and approved) with him I am well pleased”Mat 3:17 (WEB).  The transfiguration vision was staged to combine the interaction of these two additional characters with Jesus, his death and the Kingdom acquiring power.

11.
Many discerning people living at the time of the vision, understood and anticipated from earlier bible prophecies that three special assignments from God were due to be carried out, firstly, an Elijah work, secondly, a Prophet work,  and thirdly, the Messiah (Christ). The transfiguration combined all these various aspects and focused them all on the Key point, Jesus sacrificial ransom payment his death,  the price that required to be paid to remove  death dealing sin from mankind.

12.
Scriptures verifying these three anticipated activities:

1) "However, the disciples questioned him: “The disciples asked him, “Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?” Mat 17:10 (WEB).

2) Identifying Jesus as the expected prophet, like Moses  "For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you" Acts 3:22 (WEB).

They anticipated a great prophet like Moses would become their King "when the men saw the signs he performed, they began to say:“After the people ... began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet (like Moses) who is to come into the world.” Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself" John 6:14-15 (WEB).

3)  Many at that time anticipated a Christ or Messiah would come,  one whom God would anoint to be king, "The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things" John 4:25. "He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which is translated, the Christ)" John 1:41 (KJV).

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THE SECOND ELIJAH ROLE

13.
People questioned John the Baptist on his scriptural identity, endeavouring to understand which prophetic role model he might play.  They asked him:- "Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” John 1:20,21,25 (WEB).  The ones asking these questions were well educated in the Hebrew scriptures, aware that according to the prophecies, similar works of these three characters were prophesied and anticipated in connection with the arrival of the Messiah (Christ, anointed).  They understood that the activity of these three characters was prophesied to come.  Hence the question to John "“Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” (WEB).

14.
John the Baptist took on the role of Elijah turning people back to God, he witnessed God's vocal declaration of Jesus as His approved son when he baptised him. Following this, John identified Jesus as the Great Passover Lamb of God, taking on the roll model of the character Moses. John started handing over selected and prepared disciples to this Moses role model.   "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"  "As he looked at Jesus walking along he said: “See, the Lamb of God!" John 1:29,36 (WEB).   John's Elijah roll model work ended before these three disciples were fully adopted as Kingdom recruits and anointed (baptised) with Spirit at Pentecost 33.  John was the link used in preparing and baptising individuals drawn from Judaism who he  handed over to Jesus for the next phase in constructing Kingdom building stones, all would be based on the power derived from Jesus death.


THE MOSES ROLE
15.
At the time of the transfiguration, the three disciples, Peter, James and John had already transferred from the John the Baptist's preparation group, after he had witnessed God's vocal declaration on Jesus, "identifying the Christ as his Son to be taken careful note of"  Jesus' ministry then takes on the second Moses roll phase.  Acting as God's prophet, Jesus carried out a "Moses" like activity between the years 29 and 33. He forms prepared ones into a disciple group through a teaching process between 29 and 33, educating them for qualification as adoptive first born Sons of God and thereby Heirs to the Kingdom.  The role model of the prophet Moses is confirmed on Jesus by the Apostle John when he says "After the people saw the signs Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” John 6:14 (WEB).  Jesus assumed this role of the greater 'Prophet Moses' collecting specially selected individuals initially from the prepared followers of the Elijah, John the Baptist. He like Moses would set up a covenant, a new Kingdom contract for a new spiritual nation with them.

1 Peter 2:9. "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light" (WEB) .

16.
During his three and a half year ministry, between 29 and 33, Jesus fulfils the prophetic work of the Moses roll, educating and feeding this "Moses" group with bread from heaven, spiritual food illustrated by the manna bread overseen by Moses for some 40 years.

"Our forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.” Hence, Jesus said to them:“Most truly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but my Father does give you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” Therefore they said to him: “Lord, always give us this bread" John 6:31-35.  “I am the bread of life. Your forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness and yet died. This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, in order that anyone eating of it should not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live on into the age; and, for a fact, the bread that I shall give is my flesh in behalf of the life of the world” John 6:48-51 (W&H/SJB).

17.
In Egypt, Moses passed on dictated instructions from God, to use the blood of a sacrificed lamb in order to save all the first born Israelite males.  By marking the outside door posts of their houses, a protective flag was created causing the 'angel of death' to pass over their homes and hold back from inflicting death on any first born male inhabitants inside.  These preserved first born males of the Israelite families were then claimed by God as His property and belonged to Him, God said to Moses -

"Set apart for me the first boy born in every family. The oldest son of every Israelite mother belongs to me" (NIRV). v13 "you must buy back every firstborn son" (NLT) Exodus 13:2,13 .

18.
Moses was instructed to replace these saved first born males who belonged to God, man for man by males of the tribe of Levi, God said -

 “I have taken the Levites from among the Israelites in place of the first male offspring of every Israelite woman.  The Levites are mine, for all the firstborn are mine.  When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel,”(NIV) Numbers 3:12-13. 

All 22,273 saved first born males in Egypt, God later had exchanged into priests, (Numbers 3:39-51).  These events were crafted to form a pattern of transposing a far larger group of "first born" ones into priests.


WORLD'S GREAT PASSOVER
19.
A greater Moses, Christ, at God's dictated time, provided a 'Greater Passover', Jesus' all important ransom sacrifice provided in the form of Jesus' slaughtered body and blood.  He then becomes God's High Priest officiating over the application of this sacrifice, applying his body and blood sacrifice to save 144,000 "first born" ones from Adamic sin and death.  These ones God claimed as His property belonging to Him. 

"If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to God," (CEB) Romans 14:8.

"You have come to the assembly of God’s firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God himself, who is the judge over all things" (NLT) Hebrews 12:23. 

"He has caused us to be born again (first born) to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead," (ESV) 1 Peter 1:3,23.

20.
As Moses validated a covenant so the Greater Moses Jesus' validated a New covenant, a Kingdom contract for the purchase of 144,000 'first born' who are to be transposed into positions of priests under their High Priest, "

Happy and holy are those who share in this first raising of the dead. The second death has no power over them. They will be priests for God and for Christ and will rule with him for a thousand years" (NCV) Revelation 20:6.  

21.
This blood validated covenant provided the legal means for these 144,000  'first born'  to be fashioned into 'living spiritual building stones' for constructing into a new Kingdom administration incorporating a spiritual Temple in the heavens.  In this temple they become powerful officiating priests, not just priests but King / Priests,

"Thou hast been offered in sacrifice, And hast purchased for God with thine own blood some out of every tribe and language and people and nation, and hast formed them into a Kingdom to be priests to our God, And they reign over the earth." (WNT) Rev 5:10. 

"Made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father" (NRS) Rev 1:6.

22.
All 144,000 happily offer their "reborn lives" in sacrificial deaths, no light undertaking,

"Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long.  We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter" (WEB) Romans 8:36. 

The lives of these 'first born' ones take on a far greater value after having been acquitted of their Adamic sin, by a rebirth facilitated by the power from Jesus' ransom sacrifice, 

"How can we who died to sin go on living in it? ... all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death,.. For whoever has died is freed from sin" (NRS) Romans 6:2-7.

Ref. Baptised into Jesus Death

23.
Their elevated reborn lives now take on a similar value to Jesus life.  All 144,000 are reborn as new creations, belonging to God, claimed as His 'first born' ones. In God's eyes, they now have a clean uncorrupted life value, equal to Adam's original condition.  Jesus ransom bought a mechanism to cancel the Adamic inherited and personal sin of 144,000.  Each of these 144,000's personal sin could be caused by their substandard weaknesses and deficiencies, weak on moral strength likely to make stupid mistakes.  After being reborn these ones are still subject to these weaknesses, dealt with by an ongoing forgiveness or cancelling of these sins as committed, based on credit purchased by Christ's death.  By means of this ongoing forgiveness facility, their mistakes (sins) are as if masked from God "blotted out" and so He is able to recognise them as if sinless.  To help them make up for their deficit the helping Holy spirit was provided.
 
24.
Jesus announced " “When the Advocate (helper) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me"; John 15:26  (WEB) 

Jesus explained all personal sins are forgivable, except wilful sin and opposition (the same sin as Adam) - 

"Truly I say to ​you,​ all things will be forgiven the sons of men, no matter what sins and blasphemies they blasphemously commit. But should any who have holy spirit blaspheme against it, has no forgiveness forever, but is guilty of everlasting sin.” Mark 3:28-29 (W&H/SJB).

Paul said  "If we (adopted Sons) deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment ... How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as (of no value) ... the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit (with contempt the undeserved kindness)...?10:26-29 (WEB).

25.
This forgiveness concession is only available to these 144,000 because they need to sacrifice their deemed sinless lives in death and only they can commit the unforgivable sin.  When they die loyal to God, they like Jesus die illegally.  So their deaths acquire positive sacrificial value and can be added to the intrinsic value of Jesus' ransom sacrifice,

 "Jesus said to them,.."Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"  They replied, "We are able."  Jesus then said to them, "The cup (death) that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;" (NRV) Mark 10:38-39.

26.
The accredited value when added to Christ's, will eventually provide the power to enable the resurrection of the entire human race, providing everyone a second opportunity to a better life.  A life not subject to the effects of Adamic disease and its resultant ageing into death, a real everlasting life.  This they accomplish as priests administering their own death sacrifices on behalf of mankind.  As God set in the Moses passover pattern, so the role model enacted by Jesus under Gods direction will transpose all these 144,000 ones claimed as His 'first born' into priestly positions under the oversight of His Great High Priest (Moses was a Levitical priest).

27.
As Moses led the nation of Israel out of Egypt, Jesus leads God's spiritual nation out of symbolic Egypt, this opposing world system Rev11:8.  As Moses administered the old covenant and agreement between Yhwh and His chosen Israelite nation, so Jesus performs a greater Moses role administering the New and better covenant between Yhwh and his spirit chosen holy nation of 144,000.  The nation of Israel were all baptised into Moses 1 Cor 10:2,

And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual (food); And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. I Cor 10:2-4 (WEB)

This new  spiritual nation are all baptised into Christ's death (the greater Moses).  The ones selected by God, become one body with Christ,

 
"For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, ... and were all made to drink into one Spirit."   1 Cor 12:13 (WEB). 

"But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. God has set the members in the body, each one of them as he pleased," 1 Cor 12:18 (KJV).   

"But now are they many members, yet but one body" 1 Cor 12:20 (KIV).  

"Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular." 1 Cor 12:27 (KJV).

The spirit begotten heirs of the Kingdom are baptised into one body, one unified group powered by Christ's death. 

Ref. Baptised into Jesus Death.
 
28.
Those educated by Jesus as the greater Moses, were in first position to receive application of the paid "Ransom" benefit to become born again adopted "Sons" of God.  "Sons" for transferring into this Kingdom administration by way of a future heavenly spirit resurrection.  These first 'living stones' chosen for building into this new Kingdom arrangement had this confirmed to them by the power of the spirit baptism they received.  At a later generation in history, it has been prophesied there will be a repeat of these phases, which will again be used to recruit the final numbers to complete the 144,000 (Rev 6:11).  At the appointed time, these living stones will be resurrected as spirit creatures and built into the Kingdom administration as co-ruling king-priests set up in the heavens. 

Ref. Second John the Baptist.

             29.                                              THREE PRE-RECRUITING REQUIREMENTS

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                                                 KINGDOM STUDIES              

KINGDOM STUDY 1      KINGDOM OPPORTUNITIES  FOR CHRISTIANS

KINGDOM STUDY  2    "SECRET MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD"
 

KINGDOM STUDY 3     "A LATE SECOND HARVEST"

KINGDOM STUDY 4      REVEALING THE SONS OF GOD Romans 8:19 

KINGDOM STUDY 5      THE TEMPLE OF GOD  Ephesians 2-21

KINGDOM STUDY 6      DATING THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS

KINGDOM STUDY 7      CONSTRUCTION PLAN FOR GOD'S TEMPLE

KINGDOM STUDY 8      BAPTISED INTO JESUS DEATH  Romans 6:3-4.

                                      RESEARCH PAPERS

  Find Research papers at;   bibletimeprophecies.info

  RESEARCH PAPER No 10  SECOND JOHN THE BAPTIST

RESEARCH PAPER No 11  REVELATION BEAST'S HEAD HEALED

RESEARCH PAPER No 12  TEMPLE RAISED IN THREE DAYS, AND
                                              THE FIRST SECOND AND THIRD DAYS
 

RESEARCH PAPER No 13  MIRACULOUS HARVEST OF 144,000

RESEARCH PAPER No 14  FLOOD; WHY DESTROY A WORLD?

RESEARCH PAPER No 19  IDENTIFYING WISE AND STUPID SERVANTS

RESEARCH PAPER No 34  EARLY AND LATE RAIN?   James 5:9

RESEARCH PAPER No 38  NEANDERTHAL, NEPHILIM? 

RESEARCH PAPER No 40. WHAT IS ORIGINAL SIN? IS IT INHERITED? 

RESEARCH PAPER No 45. WATER CANOPY PRE FLOOD  

                            APPENDIX SUBJECTS
 
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APPENDIX 1   TRUTH DIES WITH APOSTLES

APPENDIX 1A  APOSTASY & CREED DOCTRINES

APPENDIX 2   PROTESTANT FIRST AWAKENING

APPENDIX 3   ISAAC NEWTON BIBLE SCHOLAR 

APPENDIX 4   WILLIAM WHISTON

APPENDIX 5   JOHN DARBY

APPENDIX 6   WILLIAM MILLER

APPENDIX 7   CHARLES RUSSELL

APPENDIX 8   HUMAN LIFE SPAN Can Ageing be Stopped

APPENDIX 8A  CANOPY BREAKS UP AT FLOOD

APPENDIX 9    DANIEL'S 70 WEEKS

APPENDIX 9A  JOHN BAPTIST'S MINISTRY
 

APPENDIX 9B  JOHN BAPTIST & JESUS
 

APPENDIX 9C  WHEN WAS JESUS BORN
 

APPENDIX 10   BIBLE FINAL GENERATION

APPENDIX 11   SCRIPTURE CLEAN UP 

APPENDIX 12   607 + 2,520 YEARS = 1914

APPENDIX 18   BIBLE "GENTILE TIMES"

APPENDIX  24   REVELATION DELAYED RELEASE

APPENDIX  25  TRANSFIGURATION

APPENDIX  26  CLOTHED WITH POWER

APPENDIX  27  UNFORGIVABLE SIN

APPENDIX  30  50,000 YEAR JUBILEE CYCLE

APPENDIX  31   8,000 YEAR TIME FRAME

APPENDIX  32   4,000 YEAR KINGDOM PLAN

APPENDIX  33  THE 50 YEAR JUBILEE PATTERN 

APPENDIX  35  ORIGINAL SIN

APPENDIX  36  TRINITY?

APPENDIX  37  IMMORTAL SOUL?

APPENDIX  38  BIBLE HELL?

APPENDIX  39  2 COVENANTS, EACH  2,000 YEARS

APPENDIX  40  THE OVER LAPPING GENERATION.

APPENDIX  41 JESUS BATTLE PREVIEWS WAR

APPENDIX  42  JESUS PREVIEWS HIS CORONATION

APPENDIX  43  EXCOMMUNICATE, DISFELLOWSHIP, APOSTASY

APPENDIX  44  KEYS TO THE KINGDOM: USED AGAIN?

APPENDIX  45  LAZARUS PATTERN

APPENDIX  46  HOW TO RESURRECT ALL WHO HAVE DIED

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