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It was a "vision" whereby Jesus fulfilled a promise He'd made to His disciples about a week earlier:

"...There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom." (Matt.16:28)

"...after six days..." (Matt.17:1) -- Jesus took Peter, James and John into the mountain for them to see Him as He would appear in the Kingdom of God... and how He will appear in the clouds when He returns to earth with the Kingdom of God.

"...Jesus... was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light [see also, Revelation 1:13-16]. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias [Elijah] talking with Him...

"...and when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man..." (Matt.17:1-9).

As Jesus promised... some of His disciples got a glimpse of the Kingdom of God as it would be, along with Jesus' appearance as He is described today.

All the other saints named in The Bible shall be in the Kingdom, also. Jesus' three disciples saw Moses and Elijah. There was no way they could have known who they were, except it had to be revealed to them in the vision.

AnswerActually what the above answer does not recognise is the deep symbolic nature of Moses and Elijah as the two who appeared as opposed to anyone else. It wasn't just a glimpse of the Kingdom of God. It was much more significant than even that.

To the Jew, their spiritual lives were controlled by the Levitical Law and the prophesies surrounding both Jewish life and the coming of the Messiah. To the Jews, the Law-giver was Moses, as he was the agent by which the ten commandments came to the people, and the rest of the Levitical Law. To the Jews, the greatest prophet was Elijah, both from his work as a prophet and man of God, but also because of theJewish belief that he was assumed into heaven on a 'firery chariot' instead of dying a natural death.

Thus, to Peter, James and John, who witnessed the Transfiguration, Jesus was able to summon the representaties of the Law and the Prophets, and thus he placed himself firmly above them. His glorification was also a mark of his superiority to even the Law and the Prophets.

Jesus himself mentions the Law and the Prophets several times (eg Matt 5:17, 22:40, Luke 24:44 and many other references.) and even his great command to love one another, he says, stems from the Law and the Prophets. Thus the appearance of Moses and Elijah signified not only Jesus' superiority over the old ways of the Law and Prophets, not only the dawn of a new Messianiic age, but also his mission, not to condemn the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil it as God wanted rather than as the Jews skewed it to meet their own ends.

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