Mark 9
Verse 7 – 10
Peter is talking about his building program when God speaks. “And a cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!”
A cloud overshadowed them. God speaks and tells them to listen to His beloved Son. They look around and everyone and everything is back to the way it was.
Verse 9
Now as they came down from the mountain, He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
They listen to what Jesus tells them to do. Now they are trying to figure out what does it mean, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They are still afraid from what has just happened. They could have ask Jesus to clarify what it meant but they do not. They have asked on several other occasions to explain what He had said, but not here.
The encounter with Jesus, The Father, Elijah and Moses has gotten them overwhelmed. This kind of thing does not happen to fishermen. This is what happened to Abraham and Moses way back then. When God spoke to Abraham and Moses, there was no Jesus. Now here was Elijah and Moses and they knew who they were but how? On top of all of this we can not tell anyone about all of this until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. But what, when or where will that be and what is it?
This is faith, knowing something is going to occur but not seeing. Hebrews 11: 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.