A Divine Intermission

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A Divine Intermission

• Luke 9.18-36

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The importance of being vocal

• Romans 10.9-10 if you confess with your mouth
  Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God
  raised Him from the dead, you will be saved for
  with the heart a person believes, resulting in
  righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses,
  resulting in salvation.
• Joel 2.32 And everyone who calls on the name of
  the LORD will be saved

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Jesus action as Christ

• Healing miracles
• Exorcism miracles
• Resuscitation miracles
• Miracles over nature

• To suffer
• To be rejected (by religious leaders)
• To be killed
• To raise on the third day

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Jesus mountain experience // Moses

• Ascending mountain with three companions
  (Exod. 24.1, 9 / Lk. 9.28)
• The cloud that covers the mountain (Exod. 24.16 /
  Lk. 9.34)
• Gods voice from the cloud (Exod.
  24.16 / Lk. 9.35)

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Baptism Transfiguration
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Jesus mountain experience // Moses

• 4. A face transfigured
  (Exod. 34.30 / Lk. 9.29)
• 5. Speaking of departure / exodus (Exod. 20.1
  / Lk 9.31)

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Why Moses and Elijah?

• Who do people say that I am? ( 9.18b)
• Elijah
• Other prophet
• Moses is know as the Great Prophet

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Why Moses and Elijah?

• Paired in Malachi
• Remember the law of my servant Moses (4.4)
• I will send you the prophet Elijah (4.5)
• John the Baptist looked like Elijah and acted
  like him (cf Mk 1).

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Why Moses and Elijah?

• Representations of Old Testament
• Moses Law
• Elijah Prophets
• Messianic Manifesto
• ( X Writings )

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Commonality between the three figures

• Mountain top experiences
• Moses Sinai
• Elijah Carmel
• Jesus Tabor

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Commonality between the three figures

• Fasted for 40 days
• Moses in the mountain
• Elijah on a journey
• Jesus in the desert

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Commonality between the three figures

• Unusual deaths
• Moses buried by God / Assumption of
• Moses
• Elijah translated into heaven
• Jesus ascended into heaven (after
• resurrection)

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Jesus death (departure/exodus)

• Took place on Mount Calvary
• ? Golgotha a hill near Jerusalem

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Jesus death (departure/exodus)

• And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud
  voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which
  means, My God, my God, why have you forsaken
  me? When some of those standing near heard
  this, they said, Listen, hes calling Elijah.
  One man ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar,
  put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to
  drink. Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah
  comes to take him down, he said (Mk 15.34-36).

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Jesus death (departure/exodus)

• With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. The
  curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to
  bottom (Mk 15.37-38).
• Moses received tabernacle (later Temple)
  constructionwhich included the veil.

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The Meaning of it all

• Moses and Elijah bear witness to Jesus and then
  fade away from the scene, leaving Jesus alone,
  because the era of the Law and the Prophets is
  over (Luke 1616a). Now it is the era of the
  good news of the kingdom of God (Luke 1616b)
  (Evans 1990 151).