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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 so we have the prophetic word made more
sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining
in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises
in your hearts.”

Peter had a prophetic word. He couldn’t make it more true. But
he said that, “Now we have a prophetic word more sure. It can’t
be more true but now something happened that made something
true more certain.” And Peter identifies what that was. He said,
“One day I had a prophetic word. A week later I had a
revelation of Jesus and now I understand how to study the Bible.
I have the word and the revelation.”