The Transfiguration & Preparing for Lent
(Paid Version)- Readings for the Last Sunday After Epiphany- Exodus 34:29-35; 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2; Luke 9:28-36
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Exodus 34:29-35 1
All of our readings today begin on a mountaintop. In Exodus 34, we find the children of Israel, in the desert, at Mount Sinai. In the Bible, the “mountaintop” signals to us the closeness to God. This does not mean that God is only present on the mountain. But climbing a mountain is a symbol of someone seeking G…