By late afternoon that day Jesus left the crowd and, accompanied by Peter, James and John, started to climb one of the toes of 10,000 foot Mt. Hermon. After a tiring hike, he finally signaled his arrival at the appointed place by kneeling to pray. When the trio saw him bow they also fell in heaps on the ground, watching. As always fascinated by their Teacher, they saw him gaze upward while speaking...an intense quietness of soft Aramaic words as if he and God shared an audible conversation with only Jesus heard.
Their alertness gradually surrendered to somnolence that descended with shadows across the mountain. Exhaustion finally sang a lullaby and they fell asleep in its arms...and slept soundly... until.... Sometime later, after dark, all three stirred from feeling a soft glow of light across their faces. Each thought he dreamed it until all looked a few feet above where Jesus continued to kneel praying, but with a halo of light rimming his body. This was no dream, they knew, and leaped up, fully awake. As Jesus stood the light around him continued to increase until, when completely erect, he stretched out his arms and blinding light burst from his entire body in waves of white flowing out of him in every direction, bathing the entire landscape under him, behind him, around him and above him, luminescence turning night into day! Paralyzed by spellbinding adoration, and hardly adjusted to their Master’s appearance, they saw two other celestial beings materializing at his side, greeted as old friends—Moses and Elijah—both obviously servants of the ONE greeting them by the lesser light showing from them. Unable to control his excitement, but not knowing what to say, Simon babbled out some meaningless prattle about erecting monuments to all THREE magnificent figures before them. And when they thought nothing could equal their wonder, a cloud that towered out of sight in all directions suddenly descended, and from inside its mass boomed a deafening message—and on their faces the three mortals fell. End Part I
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