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The Mystery of the Transfiguration:
Mark 9.2-
Jesus
Moses
Jesus takes three disciples up the mountain (Mark 9:2).
Moses goes with three named persons plus seventy of the elders up the mountain (Ex.
24:1, 9).
Jesus is transfigured and his clothes become radiantly white (Mark 9:2–3).
Moses’ skin shines when he descends from the mountain after talking with God (Ex.
34:29).
God appears in veiled form in an overshadowing cloud (Mark 9:7).
God appears in veiled form in an overshadowing cloud (Ex.
24:15–16, 18).
A voice speaks from the cloud (Mark 9:7).
A voice speaks from the cloud (Ex.
24:16).
The people are astonished when they see Jesus after he descends from the mountain (Mark 9:15).
The people are afraid to come near Moses after he descends from the mountain (Ex.
35:30).
Introduction:
Echoes are fun as a kid...
Echoing conversations
Birth stories
Wisdom Teeth
Hiking
How many of you have ever climbed a 14er?
I wanted to share in the glory of hiking this mountain
I wanted to share in the glory of hiking this mountain
I wanted to be able to echo one of those hiking stories
And in 2010 I decided to climb a 14er.
However, my climb was not what i was expecting.
my story of climbing pikes peak (14,114)
When i got to the top i was so cold it took hours to finally warm up.
So when Mark does use time markers such as “after six days” we should be alert to its significance.
When I got to the top of the mountain I was expecting to experience a certain kind of glory I hear hikers talk about.
Yet, it was dark, and I was so cold I felt no glory.
Even to this day when hiking comes up, if I do echo the conversation in telling about my hike of Pikes Peak, it remains without glory.
In our passage this morning we see Jesus Peter James and John hiking a very high mountain (mt.
hermon 11,000ft) and when they reached the top it was the most glorious experience any hiker has ever experienced.
Not only that, but when mark tells the story, he echoes some other great stories from the OT.
This time marker alerts us to three important events in the bible
So this morning we are going to look at:
The Echoes of The Transfiguration
Creation
Moses
The Glory of The Transfiguration
So before we look at the echoes of the transfiguration lets look at the context of this story.
What happened before the hike.
Before the Hike...
Mark is very intentional with the placements of his stories within his gospel.
We have seen this time and again in Marks gospel how he wraps stories together, he puts stories next to each other, and he sandwiches stories together in order to better tell the great story of Jesus and his kingdom.
And this passage is no different
So lets look at the context and see Mark prepares us for this glorious hike
So lets look at the context and see Mark prepares us for this glorious hike
Notice what Mark says, “after six days”
Mark is not one who often uses time markers in this way - Mark moves through his gospel at a breakneck speed usually moving from one story to another by saying, “immediately”
So when Mark does use time markers such as “after six days” we should be alert to its significance.
Part of what Mark is doing is calling our attention to the previous six days, or the context that comes right before this story.
Previously Peter confesses Jesus to be the Christ, and Jesus for the first time tells them what is to come of the Christ, that he will suffer and die.
Which peter rebukes Jesus for, thinking Jesus can have the glory without the suffering.
That he can have the crown without the cross.
Jesus goes on to tell the disciples about how they too, if they are to follow Jesus, must take up their crosses and lose their lives.
Jesus tells them about the coming judgement when the Son of Man comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angles.
And promises that some present will see the kingdom coming in power before they die.
For six days Jesus has been talking to the disciples about how to live as followers of Christ.
How to live in light of all that Jesus is doing, which is no less than recreating the world.
And now on the seventh day, he brings three disciples up on the mountain and is transfigured before them.
Echoes of The Transfiguration
Now, whenever we read the NT we need to read with ears to hear the echoes from the OT.
We often think that the NT is written for us today, and the OT was written for the Jews.
Though you will find many pastors and teachers who agree with this idea, I can assure you that the writers of the NT outright reject such a notion.
For the authors of the NT, the OT was their primary source.
They were well versed in the OT and the OT influences every single page of the NT.
In fact, Mark all throughout his gospel has been alluding to the OT - which is why we spend so much time in the OT when preaching through Mark’s gospel.
So what are some of the OT echoes found in this passage?
The first is the Echo of Creation.
The Echo of Creation
The six days calls us back to the creation week.
Jesus spent six days teaching his disciples what it was to be a follower of Christ.
We must always remember the great and grand narratives of the bible when reading a particular passage.
Two great themes that we have picked up in Mark is the kingdom of God, and The New Creation.
(both of which are found in Mark 1:1
The bible over and over again calls the creation motif to mind when we see sequences of seven.
We see this in the construction of the tabernacle, we see this in revelation and we see this here in Mark.
Part of the new creation theme in mark is seeing Jesus as humanity is supposed to be.
He is the perfect picture of true humanity.
He is the perfect image of God.
We see this contrasted with those who have been inflicted by sin which seeks to destroy the image of God in our lives.
So when Jesus is healing the sick, or casting out demons he is restoring true humanity to these people
Another way of seeing this is that Jesus is recreating these people.
Mark is also intentional when he states in ,
marks calls to mind the first words of the creation account in , “In the beginning God”
Mark is giving a hint to his readers that there is a new creation happening in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We have seen how Mark structures his gospel as a creation week with six nights and one morning, when the true son rises.
And here Mark is doing it again by telling us that for six days Jesus has been teaching his disciples how to live as followers of Christ, or how to live as true image bearers.
Part of bearing the image of your creator is by acting like your creator
So when Jesus says that he will bear his cross and die, so you, as followers of Christ, must bear your crosses and die.
So after six days of teaching Jesus, on the seventh day, brings them up the mountain and is transfigured before them.
he is showing them the glory of the seventh day.
Which in creation, is the day of God’s rest, or the day of his glory.
You see, in the first creation Adam and Eve were to be glorified, yet, they sinned before that happened.
This sin removed the glory of God from their presence and enslaved them to death.
But now, Jesus has come, he is the second Adam, he is the perfect one who did not sin, he succeeds where Adam failed.
And as Adam’s sin spread to all men, so Jesus’ righteousness and glory will spread to all who believe.
He is the firstborn of creation as Paul says, he has brought with him a whole new world.
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