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what to say. When you don’t know what is going on, you 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