Reading Exodus 4:6-8 there are three messengers when we include Mosses. Understanding Isaiah 11:1-12, 2 are to come after Moses with the second arriving about the time Israel became a nation the second time, in 1948. Thus, the "mountain of transfiguration" with Moses and Elijah reveals who the 3 Exodus 4 messengers are. The voice was referring to that 3 when it said "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him" meaning man should have heard Moses, will not likely hear Yoshua but when Eleyehu comes we must hear him as Exodus indicated.
You will notice in Malachi 3:1 after the messenger(s) who went before him -- Yoshua called Jesus and Dr. MLK -- "the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple [NOTE: Yoshua seldom appeared in the temple but this messenger of the covenant will work out of one], even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come." Also, Isaiah 63:1-7 reveals, as is seen in Exodus, the latter sign, as was moses, will be a mixed breed and not a pure European as Jacob's descendants represent.]
Notice in Matthew 12:39 the words "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas." Recognize "AN evil …" is suggesting it is not the generation when the words were spoken and remember "the three might and three days" suggests a minimum of 72 hours. Comparing that to John 2:18-21 Yoshua said implying himself, he would "Destroy this temple [his body], and in three days [within parts of three days] I will raise it up." Matthew 27:46-50 it was around the ninth hour [3 pm] Friday that he first cried "my god why are you forsaking me" and later cried again as his life-force left his body. When see the word "dawn" in Matthew 28:1 we know it is at "first light" when the girls approached the grave Sunday. If we count the parts of the days we have about 3 hours to Friday's sunset, 12 hours Saturday evening, 12 hours Saturday morning and 12 hours Sunday evening, about 39 hours of death and 36 in the grave. Thus, Matthew 12:39-40 is about Elijah who will have no power prior to his 72 [plus but less than 82] hours in death as Revelation 5:12 reveals.
In that light, Moses and Elijah's appearing on the mountain of transfiguration is a New Testament type of Exodus 4:6-8. Remember, precepts must be upon precepts (Isaiah 28:10).
