Wed.’s Devo - The Main Character is Jesus!

Read: Matthew 17; Mark 9; Luke 9:28-62
“After 6 days”. Why does God give us this clue? Jesus takes his disciples up on a mountain and shows him his glory and gives them a glimpse into the past and into the future. Second Peter 3:8 says, “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” So, six days stands for 6,000 years. After that we will enter into the seventh millennium where God will show us his glory. According to Jewish calendar we are at 5776.
Why did Jesus meet with Moses and Elijah? I think we have a clue in Luke 16:16, “The law and the prophets were until John; since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it.” Moses gave us the law and Elijah was one of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament who prophesied the kingdom coming. I wonder if Jesus wasn’t taking his disciples back in time and showing how he spoke to Moses on the mountain when he gave him the 10 Commandments and Elijah when he spoke to him on the mountain right before he took him. They were both forerunners of Jesus as was John the Baptist who came in the spirit of Isaiah. Jesus said he will send another spirit like Elijah’s before he comes again. God made it clear that the important one was not the one who brought us the law or the prophet but the one they both spoke of….Jesus!
The next thing Jesus does is casts out a spirit of deafness and dumbness. That is what we need to happen to the Church. We need to be delivered of our deaf and dumb spirit and have our hears and mind opened to understand and see the kingdom coming.
Lord, help us to see with Your eyes and hear with Your ears and may we always keep Jesus forefront in all we do because He is the main character.