Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-22
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Did you ever think what must have
been the chief topic OF conversation be-
tween Jesus and His disciples during
the week that followed Peters great
confession taht He was the Christ the
! Son Of the living God? Peter had been
shocked when Jesus calico him Satan;
all the disciples, with their ideas of
| temporal kingdom, must have been
| greatly puzzled over the supreme test
/ that He had put to them, the test OF
/ discipleship which required them to
/ leave self out of consideration entirely
if they would follow Him. On this part
Jesus must have felt grieved that they
/ did not comprehend His meaning any
better than they had.
/ Under these Circumstances what, do you
think. they conversed about during
those days? Is any light thrown on the
question by the fact that after these
| savings" Jesus took Peter and James
and John UP into the mountain to prayE
He needed the encouragement and IN
spiration which communion with his
rather always gave Him and they need
ed something which would come only in
response to prayer, new conception
of the King OF the Kingdom.
1t must have been after long hours
of prayer, for the disciples had talleh
| asleep, that God granted to Jesus the
very thing He and the disciples too
needed at that time While He was
praying the body Of His humiliation
was TRANSPORTED, and He appeared III
thebodv of His glory He was encour-
aged bv another actual glimpse of the
home from which He had come TO 90
the work of redemption. There also ap-
peared to Him, and talked with Him.
two men-note the expression, TWO men
who were Moses and Elijah. Did any
4ka raaIffW of the lire
after death. or the possibility of recog-
pttion in heaven, here is the answer.
Moses had died and had been buried
hundreds and thousands of years DeIore
tbis Vet here he was living and talk
| ing with Jesus on one Of the peaks OF
| Mt Herman. Elijah had been caught
nm into heaven many hundreds OF years
before this; but He is still ahVe anu
/ talking with Jesus. Neluher OF tneso
had been personally known 70 the t tls.s
disciples Of Jesus, but not one OIL tleIl
/ had anv difficulty in recognizing them
/ or of identifying them as the great ones
of their race in years gone by.
/ The evangelists tell us that Moses
and Elijah talked with Jesus about HIS
/ decease which He was about to accom-
plish at Jerusalem. Did you ever
think about that? Certainly on such
an occasion they would have chosen the
Il most imDOrtant subject III al TIC WIN
that was no time for idle talk or even
| for converse about subjects that might
be of interest and yet of minor impor-
ltance. The subject that they would
select would be the subject OF greatest
! Importance in all the universe.
Now why was His decease sueh SUD-
iect? Some light will be thrown on
This by knowledge that the Greek word
used for decease is also that for depart
IRE or exodus. Moses knew what the
exodus meant what it meant to the
children of Israel, their deliVerance
from the bondage of Egypt and their
entrance into the land of promise. Elijah
knew what his departure meant 1t had
taken him from the sorrows OF earth
To the Joys of heaven and the exodus
OF Jesus was to mean more than either
of these. To Him it would be the lay
ing aside Of His body of humiliation
and taking his place again at the right
hand of the Father in the glory that
He had had before the world was
formed. And by it He should lead his
people out of the bondage of sin into
glorious liberty of the children OF COO
I don't know whether those three
disciples heard that conversation or not.
It is certain that they did not hear all
of it, for they were asleep part OF the
time but when they awakened vision