There’s a detail hiding in plain sight in the gospel accounts of the transfiguration.
Imagine being Moses and hearing about this promise God had made to your forefathers. Imagine seeing your people enslaved, wondering when God would make good on that promise.
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Imagine being Moses and hearing about this promise God had made to your forefathers. Imagine seeing your people enslaved, wondering when God would make good on that promise.
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Imagine God saying you can lead to it, but you can’t go in.
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Imagine climbing Mt Pisgah and God showing you that land (and, according to Midrash, the future of your people).
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Until, well over a millennium after your death, you’re standing with Jesus.
The mount of transfiguration is the first time Moses got to stand in the Promised Land.
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Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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