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.