Matthew 17New International Version (NIV) The Transfiguration
17 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.4 Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.”5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”6 When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. 7 But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.” 8 When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.9 As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”She says she'll go digital. From words on paper to words in pixels.
10 The disciples asked him, “Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?”11 Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things. 12 But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.” 13 Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.
Christianity died on 6Aug1945. What took its place was mickey/mouse (military industrial complex killing everything, you, / misplacing original understanding, sympathy & equanimity)
The supposedly Christian nation of the United States chose to blow civilians of Japan to smithereens in order to show Russia the new toy on the planet. This had nothing to do with ending Japanese fighting recalcitrance.
Christ wept.
Is yet weeping.
Transfiguring into a more peaceful host body, a more tranquil feeling heart.
As the United States tries to ignore its actions, it tries to pretend its two children attempting to gain control of its nuclear trigger aren't, in their own ways, damaged by the sublimated horror of their childhood household.
Domestic violence against human family.
The children are disturbed.
Like Elijah or John, those who've come to show us the way through our insanity, are not recognized.
Jesus is saying 'transfigure.'
We answer with ignorance, 'disfigure.'