Time travel & geolocating during Jesus' Transfiguration

 Regarding Jesus mission in Two Realms, seen and unseen 

 

  The verses you asked about Wednesday night are found in Matthew 17:10-13

¹⁰𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘮, “𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘫𝘢𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵?”

¹¹𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥, “𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘫𝘢𝘩 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. ¹²𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘫𝘢𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥. 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴.”

¹³𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵.

 

  It was originally prophesied in Malachi 4:5&6, which probably has a double fulfillment (the spirit of Elijah will/may be a forerunner for both the first and second coming of Jesus).

 The gospel of Mark references this, but with less detail, 9:12&13.

 Luke 1:17 talks about Malachi's prophecy from a spiritual, rather than physical point-of-view.

 

  And somewhat related, after 'Palm Sunday' but before His arrest, Jesus was preaching one of his final messages in the Temple courtyard when the chief priests and elders challenged his authority to do that. (They were likely looking for a way to arrest him right then on the spot and save the 30 pieces of silver) Jesus answers them with a question His accusers cannot answer, but the reader can determine that the answer is: Both! This is another instance when the spirit/heaven parallels the physical/earth.  This is found in Matthew 21:23-27, Mark 11:27-33, and Luke 20:1–8.

 

  The point we hope came across during the devotion was that both spiritual and physical were aligned when (time) and where (space) Jesus made His confrontational declaration, "On this rock I will build MY church..."  (taking authority back)

  The gates of hell will not prevail against her, His bride.

 

More Notes Added 

How could we possibly know what the Spirit realm is like?

Paul tells us we can presently see a hazy outline of it. At the time he was writing, mirrors were polished metal; his analogy was that we have a reflection here of what the spirit realm is (1 Corinthians 13:12). We can know, at least in part, because God created us in His own image (Genesis 1:27). There is similarity. The concept is repeated in Ephesians 4.  Even though we cannot know it completely; we can know in part because we are God-imagers; we were damaged by rebellions, but the potential for restoration/reconciliation still allows a limited view.

The Bible never says that the Earth is a copy of what God has in heaven. Where did you get that?

That's not completely true. Hebrews 8:5 tells us that the plan for the Tabernacle is a copy of Heaven's Temple AND that the duties/service performed by the priests were a typical representation and a shadow of the heavenly things. When they were on Mt. Sinai God commanded Moses, "See that you make all things after their pattern." The heavenly sanctuary is the archetype, the earthly one a copy. There's definitely a pattern being copied as regards the temple, plus, all the festivals and feast days were Earth-provisory shadows of God's Spiritual plan for redeeming mankind, Colossians 2:17, and there are also many other examples where Earth copies Heaven. Spread throughout the Bible, one could construct a lengthy list of similarities:  from musical instruments, to gardens, to horses, to rivers and trees, to streets and houses….

Two assignments/instructions that Jesus gave his disciples show a close connection between Heaven and Earth—that God's intent is to have them reflect each other. They were to pray "On Earth as it is in Heaven" Matt 6:10, and "whatever you may bind on earth will already be bound in the heavens, and whatever you may loosen on earth will already be loosened in the heavens," Matt 16:19.

More patterns and copies? The marriage covenant is an earthly picture of the heavenly reality of God’s relationship with his people. 

Of course there are differences, (a) Heaven worships One God while on Earth there are "many “gods” and many “lords” 1 Cor 8:5.  And (b) some Roles in the Spirit Realm are carried out only on Earth. For example, Exodus 15:3 "The Lord is a mighty warrior. Jehovah is his name," and Zephaniah 3:17 "The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves." This spiritual warfare is carried out on Earth, because that is where the enemy of God is. But the similarities are great: Earth is to reflect God's Glory.  

 

A Few Things I Learned About Drones (mostly reassuring)

There were odd drone sightings over New Jersey and elsewhere toward the end of "the" Biden's term. The public was basically told, "No Worries."   But it's still a mystery. 

https://www.nj.com/news/2025/10/remember-all-those-drones-in-nj-skies-the-mystery-just-got-weirder.html 

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A Few Things I Learned About Drones (mostly reassuring)

• Day v Night — Optical surveillance and mapping generally require daylight; reasons for drones flying at night would likely involve sensors looking for something else: thermal/infrared temperature differences, such as non-dispersive gas leaks; radioactivity, possibly a missing nuclear warhead (more in endnote)

• Range — current standard battery life limits long-range drones; gas engines can go farther but are also noisier. Launching from an offshore ship is possible, but highly wasteful use of power to send and return. Heavy payloads (including weight of fuel) would reduce flight time, and therefore limit range. When government spokespersons say "no evidence the drones are dangerous" you can "guess" they mean no dangerous payloads; data collecting surveillance always has an element of the unknown. 

• FAA regulations on Navigation Lights and Altitude — lights indicate FAA compliance (if a drone did not have lights after dark, it would be a reason to assume nefarious intent). Flying above 400 feet would trigger more regulatory and licensing permissions and rules. It would be "bad public relations" to take down a drone that was FAA compliant. But flying below 400' is low enough to "sniff."

• FCC regulations on communication — Antenna configurations vary and are proportional to range of data collection. [Using 1 watt for FAA compliance, higher wattages require additional authorization,] "typically" a 360° non-directional antenna is good for hundreds of feet, a forward-faced antenna may reach multiple yards, a narrow directional may be a few miles, but for a drone to fly much further than that from its controller requires using a tracking system. That means if a drone is flying more than "teen-miles," its instructions are being relayed through another device.

> Endnote: Going back to the Reagan era ("Mr. Gorbachev, Take down that wall!") During the fall of the Soviet Union, 80 nuclear warheads went missing from Ukraine... Not going there with this post, but more recently, Obama/Biden era, a whistleblower informed the current administration that one of those was leaving Europe headed for the US.