I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God. This comes just before the Transfiguration, and Luke uses it to frame what's about to happen as a preview of the kingdom.
The kingdom isn't purely future. You can taste it now. You can see it. You can have glimpses of what's coming. That's what the Transfiguration is—a taste of glory breaking into present reality. I think about the moments in my life when I've tasted that—moments of genuine community, moments of forgiveness, moments of justice realized, moments of transcendent beauty. Those are tastes of the kingdom. Not the whole thing, but a glimpse. Enough to know what we're hoping for is real.
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