RETURN OF THE SON

2 Peter 1:17,18 – For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such a declaration as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory: “This is My beloved Son with whom I am well pleased”—

According to Peter when he saw the glory of the Lord on the Mount of Transfiguration it was a glimpse of the glory that will appear to all of us at the the second coming of Jesus Christ. The darkness of this world will give way to the brilliance that we will see at His coming. Apparently there were al sorts of philosophies and theories about the end of days and the coming of the Lord in Peter’s time. He said, “For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty”. That was it for Peter, He had seen the Lord’s glory and that is what kept Him from all of the potholes and side journeys before the coming of the Lord. Here is how Jonathan Edwards describes this.

“This shall be the most joyful and pleasant sight to believers that ever their eyes beheld. It will be a thousand times more refreshing to them than ever was the sight of the rising sun to them that have wandered in a wilderness, through the longest and darkest night. The sight of [it] will fill their souls with unspeakable gladness and rejoicing. It will be a bright day to the saints. The beams of that glorious Sun that will then appear will make it bright. The earth will be lightened with his glory, and the light of his glory that the world will then be filled with will be a sweet light to them. That brightness that the disciples saw on the Mount when Christ was transfigured before them was some resemblance of it: that was most pleasant to the disciples, so that they said it was good to be there, and were for building tabernacles that they might dwell there; and Peter calls [it] an “excellent glory” that they saw there.”

One of the problems we deal with is seeing the world from our limited position. We are limited by where we live and the time we live. Apparently Peter dealt with controversies and philosophies in his day that caused some big problems. What was his solution? It was the revelation of Christ that he had, he said it was pictured by the glory he saw on the Mount of Transfiguration. So Peter set His eyes on this glorious One who had risen from the dead, He would keep him through all of the distractions. As for us today, same thing, put your eyes on Jesus – He is the Son of Righteousness blazing in revelation splendor.