GLORIOUS FROM INGLORIOUS

Today, we embark on a journey to understand the transfiguration of Jesus. I have never heard anyone preach nor teach just what happened to Jesus atop that high place. Journey now with me as we explore the possible change in form of Jesus.

 

One of the most remarkable and least understood situations in the Bible is the transfiguration of Jesus. Note that Jesus was already made flesh (John 1:14) and was filled with the Holy Ghost, or at least had the Holy Ghost on His Person; John the Baptist revealed that when He baptized Jesus, “Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizes with the Holy Ghost” (John 1:33).

Thereupon some saw the Spirit descending, “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him” (Luke 3:22).

The Holy Ghost is a phantom and is invisible, but some, including Luke, saw the Holy Ghost in the shape of a person. He recognized the phantom of Jesus as the person, Jesus. Not only that but Luke saw the Spirit descending like a dove in motion and remaining on Jesus.

Luke has credibility for he was a physician (Col 4:14), ironically a person who had the power to “make whole” (iaomai) (Strong 2006).

Note that the baptism of Jesus added the missing substance from the man. He was made whole since He was afterwards light, flesh and spirit.

As I have written in my book, Adoil Come Down; Arkhas Came Undone, at the crucifixion, Adoil (Light) did come down and Jesus came apart; the Holy Ghost departing from Him. Subsequent to the crucifixion, Jesus was made whole in three processes, or stages : (1) His birth of a virgin, (2) His baptism that added an invisible substance, and (3) some other process. That other process was Jesus receiving Adoil, “Behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a Voice out of the cloud, which said, ‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear you Him” (Mat 17:5).

I submit that at the transfiguration, Adoil in the form of Light and a Cloud came down upon Jesus, and those there beheld it. They saw the cloud if by day or the fire if by night of tabernacle times, “So it was always the cloud covered it (the tabernacle) by day, and the appearance of fire by night” (Num 9:16). No wonder those who were at the transfiguration wanted to build tabernacles for the patriarchs and Jesus. They all were the embodiment of tabernacle worship.

The Tabernacle was the Tent of God; the place around which the Hebrews assembled. The Tabernacle was the foreshadowing of the Christian Church, Jesus becoming the Church and His disciples the assembly.

Note that they did not enter the tabernacle but had their own tents facing the cloud if by day or the fire if by night. That Fire and Cloud was Adoil, not God but His Power, as the Book of Enoch suggests.

It seems that the ‘Transfiguration’ was Adoil coming down, or the completion of the Godhead, or Holy Trinity. It may have been preparation for the crucifixion wherein ‘Arkhas’ came undone, the Father leaving the Son and the Holy Ghost coming out. Of course, Arkhas, like Adoil, is not God Himself, but processes coming about: Adoil, the Power of God, and Arkhas, the Substances of God, as I wrote in my book.

To make whole required one Thing from Jesus. Virtue, or in the Greek, Dynamis, “The whole multitude sought to touch Him: for there went virtue out of Him and healed them all” (Luke 6:19). Virtue is a sort of fluid dynamics wherein goodness corrects faults as Jesus made them whole.

The multitude therein was more than a crowd, but many races of peoples. He made them whole, removing from each of them their defective genetics, and consequently, they became sons of God, not like father and son, but more like the Image of God.

There are several depositions about the transfiguration of Jesus. Since Luke was a doctor whose vocation was to make whole again, Luke’s account would be the scientific version of a supernatural event. He wrote about Jesus becoming wholly God. The transfiguration of Jesus added something to make Jesus Holy God and entirely so.

The transfiguration may very well be ‘Adoil’ coming down, and ‘Arkhas’ coming together in preparation for the Godhead coming apart. Hence Adoil and Arkhas would be the invisible and visible substances — the ‘fluid dynamics’ of the Godhead in a fluidic from — ‘Living Waters’ flowing (John 4:10).

Since Luke would have been the most credible of the any of the apostles, his version of events follow:

After six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart and was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the Sun, and his raiment was white as the light. (Mat 17:1-2)

 Jesus was transfigured (metamorphoo)… literally “afterward fashioned” (ibid). The ‘metamorphosis’ of Jesus was a change in form. The Light of God was added to His features. Adoil did come down, just as Enoch witnessed with the process of Creation. God, the Father, was essentially recreating the Word that made all things into Jesus whose sacrifice would re-create all things.

The Image of God in the beginning was a ‘Phantom,’ or ‘Shadow’ (ibid). Perhaps the transfiguration was God breathing life unto the Man, Jesus, to make Him a Living Soul by adding Light to His face, just as with Adam in the beginning.

God more than breathed life unto the nostrils of Adam but literally his face (ibid). He did the same to Jesus, making Him the ‘Last Adam,’ to wit: “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit” (1 Cor 15:45). Perhaps the transfiguration was the endowment of Jesus with the quickening Spirit of God to make Him the Last Adam, or mankind’s last chance at life.

Jesus was not made into another kind of being but quickened (zoopoieo) — invigorated with Power (ibid), ostensibly from God above. If that had been thermodynamics rather than Divine Dynamics, Spirit (Pneuma) is fluidic — fluids of a divine nature from another realm.

Think of the transfiguration of Jesus this way… He was pumped up with enough Virtue to heal all the nations (Rev 22:2). Likely, Jesus was imbued with all the Power of God to finish what was to come (John 19:30).

To complete the analysis, Luke called the transfiguration by explaining it, “The fashion of His countenance was altered” (Luke 9:29) — His face and inward thoughts and feelings (ibid). The nature of Jesus changed from plain to glorious.

Isaiah conveniently predicted the change; speaking of the coming Christ (the Messiah), Isaiah wrote the following: 

For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. (Isa 53:2-3)

 Isaiah saw Jesus; he beheld his form. Jesus was uncomely — without any beauty in Him. Inwardly, Jesus was reprehensible. I submit that his vision of Jesus was pre-transfiguration. Jesus was made comely from uncomely and his face went from despicable to radiant. That was surely the transfiguration! (As it turns out, according to ancient letters from Pilate to Caesar, Jesus was a radiant and comely person.)

When we think of Jesus, we think of the face that radiates on paintings most of which were made by westerners. Jesus, during his ministry, was surely plain and ordinary like the rest of the multitude, but on that Holy Mountain, God glorified Jesus, making Him as handsome and radiant as the original Adam.

We too will be transfigured in the same fashion at our own resurrection!

The transfiguration did not last long for Jesus because the crucifixion made his Face hideous with the Glory of God departing from Him: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me? (Mat 27:46). Just as God had glorified Jesus at the transfiguration, God forsook Him at his impending death. The Glory of God left Jesus when it was finished. He had morphed back, losing all the virtue that God had given Him, to save mankind!

But God is true to His Word. When Jesus was resurrected, He again was changed. The resurrection was a permanent transfiguration wherein Jesus regained the Glory of God and regained the Power that He had given up.

Jesus said to Mary, “Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father” (John 20:17). Nobody, including Thomas, touched Jesus after He was transformed a second time, to wit: Those who walked with Jesus on the way to Emmaus never recognized Him. Jesus spoke of His death and Resurrection as glorification (Luke 24:26). But after awhile it is written, “Their eyes were opened, and they knew Him; and He vanished out of their sight” (Luke 24:31).

The nature of Jesus had changed. His face was not that of a man who was crucified but a glorified face. What’s more, the flesh of Jesus was of another substance; it was His flesh but of divine material. Jesus vanished. He had regained the Glory of God, the same Image in which Adam was endowed — a phantom like a shadow. His new flesh was much different than while He was in the world preaching.

He could not be touched because His flesh was impermeable to things of the world. He had just walked through the walls of His tomb and rolled back the stone door to reveal that He was no longer in there. Like the walkers with Him, Jesus had appeared as the Angel of God (Mat 28:2) who rolled back the stone. Likewise, the new substance of Jesus merely walked into a locked room where the eleven were gathered, for “As they thus spoke, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them” (Luke 24:36).

Jesus was made whole at the transfiguration, and after losing His Substances to save mankind, He was metamorphosed again in the form of Adam who in the beginning was made glorious. Thusly, Jesus was the ‘Last Adam’ in that He was the last glorious person who was made sin (inglorious) for us to be like us!

How is it that you see Jesus?