15我们也许说这是主耶稣的照耀,或主耶稣的变化形像,但祂自己说那是国度的来临。主耶稣在山顶的照耀,乃是国度的来临。……国度就是主耶稣照耀在你身上。我盼望这句话能对你留下深刻印象:国度就是主耶稣的照耀,国度就是主耶稣借着照耀在你身上而有的扩展。祂告诉彼得、雅各和约翰,他们要看见祂在祂的国里来临—他们要看见神的国带着能力来临。他们看见了什么?他们看见了主耶稣的照耀。当彼得、雅各和约翰都在祂的照耀之下,他们就在国度里。那些由摩西所代表之死了的圣徒,和由以利亚所代表之活着的圣徒,也都显现,并在主耶稣之扩展的照耀下。
15We may say that this was the shining of the Lord Jesus or the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus, but He Himself said that it was the coming of the kingdom. The shining forth of the Lord Jesus on the mountaintop was the coming of the kingdom…The kingdom is simply the Lord Jesus shining over you. I hope this sentence will make a deep impression on you: the kingdom is the shining of the Lord Jesus, and the kingdom is the spreading of the Lord Jesus by shining over you. He told Peter, James, and John that they would see Him coming in His kingdom— that they would see the kingdom of God having come in power. What did they see? They saw the shining of the Lord Jesus. When Peter, James, and John were all under His shining, they were in the kingdom. Also, the dead saints, represented by Moses, and the living saints, represented by Elijah, appeared and were under the shining of the spreading of the Lord Jesus.