Matt 17 – Transfiguration defined in detail. Transfiguration means transformed. We will be like Him.

Matthew 17 This chapter actually starts with the last verse in chapter 16.

Matt 16:28 “Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who shall not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

Yeshua tells them that some of them would see the kingdom of heaven coming in glory. Then six days later, Yeshua takes them up to the top of a mountain. Mark's account of the transfiguration starts out that way (Mark 9:1-2).

Mat 17:1 And six days later Jesus took^ with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and brought^ them up to a high mountain by themselves.

Mat 17:2 And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.

Mat 17:3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.

This was a picture of the Kingdom when it comes. Transfiguration essentially means "transformed." This was a picture of Yeshua in His resurrected state along with Elijah and Moses. In this vision, Moses and Elijah are both transformed also. Moses represents those who have died in faithfulness to Elohim. Elijah represent those who will not taste death before He returns. When Yeshua returns, those dead in Messiah will be raised and those still alive will be caught up in the air to be with Him. We do not know what we will be like, but we know we will be like Him.

1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.