Transfiguration or Ressurection: The Difference between
A key meditation in the quest to understand the difference between these two states of existence is the following scripture:
Heb 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world (age) to come...
2Co 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
2Co 4:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Transfiguration is the "life of Jesus made manifest in our mortal flesh".
This is the clearest definition of transfiguration that I have found.
What can this life ultimately look like, that manifests in our mortal body?
It can look exactly like:
Mat 17:2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
What are we experiencing when our "mortal body" is "quickened"? We are experiencing the power of our resurrected body in measure as the Holy Spirit quickens us according to the Word of God sown into us. This is why we "taste", first of the Word, and then of the dunamis power. This dunamis power is from the "age" to come. Why? Because the work is completed, and we are walking towards our identity upon the throne that looks like Ezekiel 1:26.
Eze 1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Eze 1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Eze 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
By faith, we can legally draw upon this completed work. We have the faith of the Son of God (Gal 2:20; Mark 11:22). This faith is appropriated when seeing the Glory of the Likeness of that Divine Man, and believing in the identity of the one who sits upon that throne of Corporate Humanity. This is Christ the Son of God, after the Order of Melchizedek, the Original Adam before the fall. Look upon Him, upon His Throne, as the ADaM from the Beginning, bearing the likeness of the Glory of Yahweh, as was assigned to us in Gen 1:26. As you see Him and the likeness of the Glory, then you will be changed in your physical body as your are quickened from the reality of the finished work you are beholding:
2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
1Co 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1Co 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Transfigured or Ressurected?
A transfigured body and a resurrected body are distinct states of glorification, with the former being a temporary manifestation of divine power within the present age, while the latter is the eternal, incorruptible form that believers will receive in the resurrection.
