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Article by Jack Wellman
Jack Wellman is a father and grandfather and a Christian author, freelance writer, and Prison Minister. Graduate work at Moody Bible Institute. His books are inexpensive paperbacks that are theological in nature: “Teaching Children The Gospel/How to Raise Godly Children,“ “Do Babies Go To Heaven?/Why Does God Allow Suffering?,“ "The Great Omission; Reaching the Lost for Christ," and “Blind Chance or Intelligent Design?, Empirical Methodologies & the Bible."
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Great article Pastor Jack!
I must be a little slow today as I was waiting to hear your answer to your original question regarding the disciples who witnessed Moses and Elijah with Jesus, “They already seemed to know who they were, so how did they know?”
You did explain that through the Scriptures Jesus had revealed who He was to these disciples by referencing the Law(Moses) and the prophets(Elijah) but was that enough to make them realize who these individuals were?
My guess has been that verse 3(just before Peter references who these OT saints were), speaks of Jesus talking with Moses and Elijah. My “fill in the blanks” guess is that Jesus embraced Moses and Elijah and greeted them by name. Peter simply overheard.
What do you think?
DocReits
Great point Doc. We know that they love the Lord and by this time they had been with Him for centuries, so you are right in the sense that they must have known each other intimately enough to embrace…but somehow, that is beyond me, I think they would have known anyway. I can’t explain why.