Ascension Lutheran Church

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could have seen Jesus in His glory as God on the Mount of transfiguration!
Our text begins, “Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them.” No sinful human being can see God in all of His glory and live. When Jesus let Peter, James, and John see His glory as God, it was only some of His glory. But seeing even some of Jesus’ glory was an awe-inspiring site: “His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.” Matthew says, “His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light” (Mt. 17:2). Since seeing some of Jesus’ glory on earth was that wonderful, how much more wonderful will it be to see Jesus in all of His glory in heaven!