Mt. Tabor, Transfiguration of Christ - Full Video in Description

Mount Tabor is the best candidate for the transfiguration of Christ. It has a lot of evidence dating back to the Old Testament, along with believers after the time of Christ, who set this site aside as the true place of the transfiguration. Learn about this powerful event and see all the sites on Mt. Tabor.

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Location
1. Mount Tabor, rising like a dome-like mountain from the Plain of Jezreel, is the place where Christian tradition places the transfiguration of Jesus.
2. It’s about 11 miles (15 km.) southwest of the Sea of Galilee and about 5 miles (8 km.) east of Nazareth.
3. Mount Tabor stands some 1,500 ft. (457 m.) above the Jezreel Valley plain in lower Galilee.
4. It held a strategic position at the junction of several trade routes. For this reason, many battles have been fought around it.
5. It is mentioned as one of the key mountains in Scripture: The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name (Psalm 89:12).

Historical Background
1. In the Old Testament, Mount Tabor is described as a sacred mountain and a place for worship. It is not mentioned by name in the New Testament.
2. Throughout its history, it has been a place where mankind has sought contact with the divine.
3. It also served as an important fortress during the Old Testament, Greek, Roman, and Crusader times.
4. It is best known as the believed place where the transfiguration of Christ took place, an event in the Gospels in which Jesus is transfigured upon an unnamed mountain and speaks with Moses and Elijah as described in Matthew 17:1–9, Mark 9:2–8, and Luke 9:28–36.
5. Christian tradition in the early centuries named Mount Tabor as the place of the transfiguration of Christ. This location is cited in early apocryphal writings and was accepted by the Syriac and Byzantine churches.
6. The earliest identification of the Mount of Transfiguration as Tabor is by Origen in the 3rd century.
7. During the Byzantine period, due to the importance of Mount Tabor in Christian tradition, it became a pilgrimage site from the 4th century and onward. According to descriptions of the pilgrims visiting this site during the 6th century, there were three churches that resided on the top of Mount Tabor.
8. Some biblical scholars today now question this tradition. These scholars see the much higher Mount Hermon as a more likely location as it was closer to Caesarea Philippi, where Peter’s confession of Christ took place.
9. However, there is great value in considering the 2,000-year traditional history of this site.
10. Scripture says that the transfiguration of Christ took place 6 days after Peter’s confession of Christ in Caesarea Philippi. Mount Tabor is about 40 miles (65 km.) south of Caesarea Philippi which could easily have been reached in 6 days.
11. It’s really not important where this event happened but that it did happen.
12. Today, there are two main churches and monasteries on top of Mount Tabor marking the event of the transfiguration of Christ. They include the Franciscan Basilica of the Transfiguration and St. Elias Greek Orthodox Church.

Places of Interest
1. Franciscan Basilica of the Transfiguration – Main church that is visited and sits at the highest part of Mount Tabor. This church, which is part of a Franciscan monastery complex, was completed in 1924. It was built on the ruins of an ancient (4th–6th-century) Byzantine church and a 12th-century church of the Crusader Kingdom period.
2. St. Elias Greek Orthodox Church – Located on the northeast side of Mount Tabor. It’s named after the Prophet Elijah.
3. Tower & Walls
4. Other ancient structures, chapels, cisterns, and quarries.
5. Descentibus Chapel
6. Melchizedek Chapel
7. Jezreel Valley

[jessicadawson]

Hallelujah, Thank you Father for your Son!!!

[romulourbano]

THANK YOU FOR THE SHARING OF THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST. ❤❤❤

[jimmyjames]

That is one of my favorite verses in the Bible Matthew 17

[goldiaa]

what a blessing. praise God 🙏 Amen Amen

[g.whenderson]

Thank you for the video, what a Blessing!

[FrankPCarpi]

I still believe that it was atop Mount Arbel because of the close proximity to Capernaum and Magdala.

[rsamano]

Mount hermon were the fallen angels first arrived.

[gosialife]

What's the apocryphal waiting that mentions mt Tabor?

[TruckTruck-guvs]

I believe it was Mt, Hermon. "A high mountain"...Tabor ia not high and the location is way off

[Cephas]

It was Hermon. Now you are DRC as false.

[MeatHarmonica]

Stop depicting Jesus and other biblical people as white.

[jasonfowler]

Most people miss this but Moses&Elijah, the embodiment of the Law&the Prophets, are the two main witnesses of the old covenant. They are also Immortals of the highest levels of anointing and they cannot come back into sinful flesh and die a second physical death excluding them from being the two witnesses in Chapter 11 of the book of Revelation at the end of the new testament times. Christ the only MESSIAH is fulfillment of the Law& the Prophets, even of those things still yet to come. In the original Greek the two witnesses are of one body singular just as the HOLY SPIRIT and John the Baptist came as two witnesses of one body to prepare The Way. The HOLY SPIRIT is a witness of all things in both time and eternity even as HE knew the Law, the Prophets, & the MESSIAH before they were knitted together in their mother's wombs.The two main witnesses of the New Covenant are YESHUA the MESSIAH the Great KING of kings who is ETERNAL LIFE and the Second Spiritual Death just as the evil one knows his time is very short and he shall be bound for a thousand years but after the Millennial Reign he will be released for a short time as the dead are raised at the end of the Millennial Reign for the Great White Throne judgements. Time is a prison that the deceiver of the nations and his children cannot be raptured out of as all things are purified by Holy Fire prior to the Eternal State of a New Heaven and earth. But even if an American of religious and political freedom was made an eyewitness of Immortal CHRIST Glorified with Immortal Elijah at HIS Right Hand and Immortal Moses at HIS Left Hand standing upon a cloud according to the will of the FATHER back in the year 2000 yet still antikingdom apostate christian outlaw religious leaders of gentile doctrines of men denominational divisions churches in adultery with the world even the post Christendom secular humanist democratic republic u.s.made in the image of ancient pagan pre-Christian Greco-Roman political religions now of unpayable national monetary and sin debts outside of the New Covenant yet still they would not seek the face of such a man because the mother of harlots and her many daughters prefer the ignorant bliss of being of the fullness of the Biblically predicted global great apostasy falling away from the Kingdom. It is written, "Your sons shall judge you and those sons are kings chosen by the KING of kings who is the High Priest of the Royal Priesthood of MELCHIZEDEK. Love Jason the Baptist of the Bible Belt a New Covenant friend of the GROOM CHRIST and tax collector of the Kingdom who looks forward to the time when even the last enemy to be defeated the angel of the first physical death of sinful flesh who has been at work since the days of Cain is defeated for, "The soul that sins shall surely die.", & not even he shall escape his baptism into the Lake of Fire. The wisdom of the Second Spiritual Death shall is that he shall always be around and if any should ever elect to leave their proper steads in the Kingdom in future times like the fallen angels and so many who prefer the ways of their sinful natures even secular humanist democracy then they to shall share in the rewards of those guilty of Blasphemy of the Holy SPIRIT the unpardonable sin first committed by lucifer. Sow pay your taxes to Christendom unlike the antikingdom apostate christian outlaw founding fathers of the cleverly devised counterfeit antitype u.s. remembering to render unto GOD what is GOD'S and that caesar is in Hell receiving his rewards. Shalom to all who, "Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand!!!", as they pray, "Thy Kingdom come to America. Thy will be done in America as it is in Heaven.", as to not share in the plagues of the district of the false neo-goddess Columbia of a lost, spiritually dead, decaying nation. Praise the LORD for just as the Gospel of CHRIST can cause individuals to be born again so the Gospel of HIS Kingdom can cause even a cursed and damned nation like the u.s.of unpayable national monetary and sin debts outside of the Kingdom to be made into a new creation not of the new world order being prepared as if a bride of the coming Anti-christ of anti-christs. Be ye not deceived. Seek ye first the Kingdom on earth and in Heaven.