At the time I (Moses) pleaded with the Lord: Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant how great and mighty you are. What God is there in heaven or earth who can do the deeds and the mighty acts You have done? Please let me go over and see the fine land on the other side of the Jordan, those good hills and Lebanon.
But on account of you (Israelites) the Lord was angry with me and didn’t listen to me. ‘Enough of that!’ He (God the Father) said. Don’t talk to Me again about it.
Deuteronomy 3: 23-26
One might ask what these verses have to do with the Transfiguration account mentioned in the New Testament (Matthew 17:1-9). Well, the Transfiguration took place in the Promised Land where Moses and Elijah talked to Jesus. Indeed, Moses, long after he was dead, was in the Promised Land talking to Jesus – an ancient prayer answered (Deuteronomy 3: 23-26), for Jesus is the very reason why God the Father gave the Promised Land to the Israelites. God the Father kept His promises to Abraham by the work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
At the Transfiguration, the Triune God also bestowed upon the three disciples an opportunity to hear the Father and see His Faces, the Son and the Spirit. There was Jesus (God the Son), whose clothes became dazzling white, and a Cloud (God the Holy Spirit) came and overshadowed them – just as in the Old Testament days when the Cloud protected the Israelites from seeing the Father’s face. The disciples also heard the Father’s voice coming from the Cloud: “This is My Son Whom I have chosen. Listen to Him.”
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