Read: Mark 8:22-9:13; Matthew 16: 21-17:13; Luke 9:21-36
Jesus asked his disciples who the people thought he was, then he asked them who they thought he was. They agreed that he was the Messiah. Jesus told them that upon this rock of truth he would build his Church and nothing would be able to come against it. Then he told them not to tell anyone their revelation. They were free to disclose everything after Jesus died and rose.
Jesus took Peter, James, and John up on a mountain and showed them a flashback of when He revealed himself to Elijah and Moses up on their mountain. There God had revealed to these men his plan of the ages. He came down and revealed his plan to his disciples. He was going to be examined by the rulers of the land and the religious leaders, then he would be crucified and raised up on the third day. Peter pulled him aside and tried to talk him out of cursing himself. It was Peter who got cursed. He was called Satan because of the deception in his mind. Peter was seeing things from a worldly point of view, not God’s. This was God’s plan and it was to be glorious.
Lord, help us to see through heaven’s perspective and not our earthly one.
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