{"id":10394,"date":"2018-09-11T19:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10394"},"modified":"2018-09-11T19:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:11:48","slug":"mt-171-4-how-did-peter-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10394\/mt-171-4-how-did-peter-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt. 17:1-4 &#8211; How Did Peter Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a question about this. \u00a0How did Peter know that the two men who appeared to them were Moses and Elijah?\u00a0Moses and Elijah were ancient people at that time. No one had seen their faces, so how could anyone know what they look like?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Matthew 17:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Jesus Transfigured on the Mount<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>\u201cNow\u00a0after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother led them up on a high mountain by themselves;\u00a02\u00a0and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.\u00a03\u00a0And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.\u00a04\u00a0Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, \u201cLord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Leika<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi again.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>That is how it is in the Spirit. \u00a0In the resurrection, for example, you will know everyone in the kingdom of God, and everyone in the kingdom of God will know you. There will be no need for introductions because the Spirit will create within the children of God the knowledge of who is who. \u00a0For another example, if Jesus visited you today, you would know who he is, without being told.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>By the way, Peter is not the only one who knew who Moses and Elijah were in Matthew 17. \u00a0James and John would have also known.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, I have a question about this. \u00a0How did Peter know that the two men who appeared to them were Moses and Elijah?\u00a0Moses and Elijah were ancient people at that time. No one had seen their faces, so how could anyone know what they look like? Matthew 17: Jesus Transfigured on the Mount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}