What transpired on the Mount of Transfiguration?
These ancient prophets appeared not only to comfort and prepare our Lord for what lay ahead, but also to join with him in conferring priesthood keys or directing powers; these keys would enable the Twelve to lead the Church of Jesus Christ after the Savior’s mortal ministry was completed. Both Moses and Elijah had been translated in their own day, taken from the earth without tasting death. They came to the holy mount with physical bodies in order to confer sacred authority. Moses the Lawgiver, Moses who gathered and led ancient Israel for forty years, appeared. If we may draw upon modern revelation as a commentary upon ancient scripture, we conclude that Moses conferred upon Peter, James, and John the keys of the gathering of Israel. This is precisely what he did during that pentecostal season in Kirtland, Ohio, at the time of the dedication of the temple (D&C 110:11). Gathering consists of coming to Christ, to his gospel, to his true church, and to the congregations and gathering sit
