THE SHINING WAY

^[p. 441] THE SHINING WAY

Luke 24: 4 - 7; Acts 1: 10 - 14; Luke 9: 28 - 36

Two men are seen in each of these scriptures, and taken together they may serve to bring before us what we may call the shining way, the way up. Luke, pointing to the resurrection, shows that the testimony to it is borne by “two men” in “shining raiment”. In Acts 1 two men stood by them in white clothing. Speaking of the Lord’s going into heaven, and that He should come “in like manner” as they had seen Him going into heaven. Then Luke 9, pointing on to what is infinite, shows us two men in glory with Him, men suitable to be there; they are attired suitably to the place; they are in glory with Him, in conscious liberty and dignity, talking with Him. “And lo, two men talked with him, who were Moses and Elias, who, appearing in glory, spoke of his departure”. They are in perfect liberty speaking to the Lord, not now in humiliation, but there in His condition of glory. It says that “As he prayed the fashion of his countenance became different and his raiment white and effulgent”.

It is all education in view of our place in the assembly now, but reaching on to what is eternal, and, indeed, infinite. So these two men in shining raiment, and the two in white clothing, and then the two in glory, would give us substance for our place with Him, the two men appearing, with Him in glory showing us the end of the way up and into heaven, for heaven itself comes into view on the mount of transfiguration.