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want to build something and when people are not seeing the Lord
they want to start a ministry.

Only Luke tells us, in this great scene, that the disciples
fell asleep. Luke 9:32, “Now Peter and his companions had been
overcome with sleep; but when they were fully awake, they saw
His glory and the two men standing with Him.” Luke also tells
us that the glory cloud came down and enveloped them; covered
them.

Those are the facts. Listen as Peter interprets the facts.
I’m putting words in Peter’s mouth but here’s what he said, “I’m
ready to die but I had an experience once that I didn’t understand.
Now it’s thirty years later and I finally get it. I want to explain it
to you. I want to tell you what it meant. I didn’t know at the time
but God was teaching me how to see Jesus in the Bible.”

As he looked back at that transfiguration, God opened his
heart to what it means to see Jesus in the Bible. Peter said that
He had a prophetic word and the prophetic word was, “You are
not going to die before I come.” That was a true word. It couldn’t
be any truer. If anyone went to Peter and asked his testimony,
during that week between the prophesy and the vision, “Do you
believe some people standing here will not die before He
comes?” Peter said, “Of course, it’s a true word. It came out of
the mouth of Jesus. I believe it. He said it. I have no reason to
doubt it.” But a week later he had another experience. He
already had a true word but he is about to have a revelation of
Jesus. He had the true word but when Jesus showed up in all His
glory he never put that together.

Listen as he explains it in 2 Peter 1:16-19, “For 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 is My beloved Son with whom
I am well-pleased’ – and we ourselves heard this utterance made
from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.’ And