Mark 9:2-10
- The Occasion of this marvellous manifestation of Jesus as Son of God is the Feast of the Booth/Tents
- It was an important Feast in the Jewish Calendar
- Everyone gathered in Jerusalem and made small tents and lived in them.
- This was their way of joining with the experience of their forefathers
- Who in their Exodus journey from Egypt lived in the Sinai Desert for forty years.
- During this time God provided for them and guided them
- So the conversation of Jesus, Moses and Elijah centred on the topic of Exodus
- But a new Exodus
- In the Old Testament
- Moses lead the Israelites through a purification time in their desert journey.
- Joshua lead the Israelites to an earthly coming into the Land of Promise.
- Elijah showcased the coming of a new Exodus for God’s people from earth to Heaven.
- About the new exodus, through the sea of passion and death of Jesus
- Would lead the God’s people back in communion and presence of God
- Basically the Israelites believed this to be the action of the Messiah, i.e. the New Moses
- So now the Son of Man discusses the final Journey with the stalwarts of the Old Testament.
- Both representing a major section of the Old Testament Scripture;
- Moses the Pentateuch and
- Elijah representing all the Prophets.
- Christians know Jesus as the Messiah
- The Son of God
- The One who come from the Father
- He invites us into God’s Presence
- through Baptism
- And growing in union with him.
- place your trust in Jesus
- and follow him as he leads you through your personal exodus
- from bondage to sin to freedom in the presence of God.
