Zechariah speaks of a great day of the LORD that is coming when all nations will be gathered against Jerusalem to fight against her, houses will be plundered and women raped (v.1-2).
Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. 4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives... (vs. 2-3)The Mount of Olives will split and the people will flee, but
5 Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. 6 On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. 7 And there shall be a one day, which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light. 8 On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter. 9 And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.
The chapter continues with talk of panic and punishment, but includes this:
Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths. (v. 16)
Everyone who survives, of all the nations, shall go to Jerusalem every year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast.Related to this picture of the the Lord renewing all things and reigning in his world, there are some texts in Isaiah that also inform us:
It shall come to pass in the latter days
that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and all the nations shall flow to it,
3 and many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go the law (or teaching),
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations,
and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore. (Isaiah 2:2-4; also in Micah 4)
Then in Isaiah 4, we hear of a cloud that will cover Mount Zion and the assembly (recalling the Shekinah cloud that descended on the Tabernacle, which may have been expected to return at the consummation), and of a "booth" or tabernacle:
Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy. 6 There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.
To try to summarize how Tabernacles may be related to the Transfiguration:
- the Lord will come and stand on a mountain and manifest his sovereignty in victory
- the true and final culmination of the Exodus is coming
- the Word / Torah / Law of the Lord will go forth from Jerusalem. Justice and righteousness, light and truth, for all the nations shall be brought about on that final day.
- the Lord himself will be our refuge and shelter, and dwell in our midst in all his glory
- we will rejoice with all the nations over God's provision and protection, and in the revelation of his Word, and his executing of justice
I think Peter had some or all of this (and surely more) in mind as he blurted out his offer to make three booths for Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. This vision of Jesus had everything to do with the victory of God in Christ and consummating all things in his glorious kingdom.
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