R.C. Sproul

brief view of the back of God, Moses' face began to shine with an intensity that no human countenance had ever exhibited before.

He realized that when Moses' face shone, it was shining with a reflection of

of the divine glory that had just walked by him.

That God's glory was bouncing off the skin of Moses as it were.

And it took quite a few days for that radiance on his face to fade away.

But on the Mount of Transfiguration, when the countenance of Christ began to shine, it was not shining

with a refracted glory or a reflected glory.

It was shining not from something bouncing against him from the outside, but it was something bursting out of him from his very deity.

And when that cloud enveloped them and they were terrified, they heard the voice coming from heaven.

This is my beloved son.

Hear him.

Listen to him.

I'm pleased with him.

And Peter's saying, I saw that.

John saw that.

James saw that.

We heard the voice of God audibly on that holy mountain.

We're not telling you legends, fables, or myths.

We're telling you the sober truth of what we met in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Do you remember Peter didn't want to leave?