Who is Jesus and what is His role in God's plan? Luke has been answering this in a series of events - Feeding the 5,000, Peter's confession, the picture of faith that follows Jesus, and now in the transfiguration. Jesus is the one who gives us access to the very presence of God, through His death, by God's grace. The prophet like Moses, but much greater. He is the Rising Sun of Righteousness who will bring in the Great DAY of the Lord, that Second Elijah ushers in
