2Peter 1:
16 For we did not follow cleverly
devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For when he received honor and
glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic
Glory, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,"
18 we ourselves heard this very
voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.
19 And we have the prophetic word
more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp
shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your
hearts,
20 knowing this first of all, that
no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.
21 For no prophecy was ever produced
by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the
Holy Spirit.
Peter, along with James and John, saw the Lord glorified, along with Moses and Elijah. In light of this it is crucial that we understand his statement "and we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed". Moses and Elijah are the representation of all the law and the prophets; Christ being the very embodiment and fulfillment of these.
In his first letter Peter begins
with this:
1Peter 1:
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
Asia, and Bithynia,
2 according to the foreknowledge of
God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus
Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to
you.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be
born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
dead,
4 to an inheritance that is
imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
5 who by God's power are being
guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 In this you rejoice, though now
for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
7 so that the tested genuineness of
your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by
fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of
Jesus Christ.
8 Though you have not seen him, you
love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with
joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
9 obtaining the outcome of your
faith, the salvation of your souls.
10 Concerning this salvation, the
prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and
inquired carefully,
11 inquiring what person or time the
Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of
Christ and the subsequent glories.
12 It was revealed to them that they
were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced
to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent
from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
13 Therefore, preparing your minds
for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will
be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
14 As obedient children, do not be
conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
15 but as he who called you is holy,
you also be holy in all your conduct,
16 since it is written, "You
shall be holy, for I am holy."
17 And if you call on him as Father
who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with
fear throughout the time of your exile,
18 knowing that you were ransomed
from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable
things such as silver or gold,
19 but with the precious blood of
Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
20 He was foreknown before the
foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of
you
21 who through him are believers in
God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and
hope are in God.
22 Having purified your souls by
your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another
earnestly from a pure heart,
23 since you have been born again,
not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word
of God;
24 for "All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower
falls,
25 but the word of the Lord remains
forever." And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
The Lord, speaking to the jews, had
this to say about Himself:
John 5:
37 And the Father who sent me has
himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you
have never seen,
38 and you do not have his word
abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.
39 You search the Scriptures because
you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness
about me,
40 yet you refuse to come to me that
you may have life.
41 I do not receive glory from
people.
42 But I know that you do not have
the love of God within you.
43 I have come in my Father's name,
and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive
him.
44 How can you believe, when you
receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the
only God?
45 Do not think that I will accuse
you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set
your hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you
would believe me; for he wrote of me.
47 But if you do not believe his
writings, how will you believe my words?"
And to the travelers on the road to
Emmaus:
Luke 24:
25 And he said to them, "O foolish ones,
and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should
suffer these things and enter into his glory?"
27 And beginning with Moses and all the
Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning
himself.
Later to the apostles:
Luke
24:
44 Then he said to them, "These are my
words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written
about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be
fulfilled."
45 Then he opened their minds to understand the
Scriptures,
46 and said to them, "Thus it is written,
that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins
should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
48 YOU ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS
49 And behold, I am sending the promise of my
Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on
high."
All has been fulfilled by, through, and
in Christ. The very moment that he gave up His Spirit the
new covenant of His blood took
effect. He Himself prophesied this while still ”under the
old”.(Luke 22:19-20)
John
19:
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now
finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), "I thirst."
29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they
put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he
said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Hebrews
9:
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of
the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent
(not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
12 he entered once for all into the holy places,
not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood,
thus securing an eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the
sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the
purification of the flesh,
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our
conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new
covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal
inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the
transgressions committed under the first covenant.
16 For where a will is involved, the death of
the one who made it must be established.
17 For a will takes effect only at death, since
it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.
And so the “transfiguration” on the
mountain witnessed by Peter and the sons of Zebedee, in
conjunction with Jesus’ the death, resurrection,
and ascension affirm the Word of God.
All “extra-biblical” revelation, (i.e. dreams,
visions, new prophecy etc etc) is to be
rejected.
They are an “adding-to” what has
been completed. When God guides us by His indwelling
Spirit, or through our circumstances,
or through others; it will line up (fully confirmed)
with what has been spoken and written by
the apostles and prophets.
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