This is why I LOVE the transfiguration. Because it’s pretty much like God saying:

“Okay. You know what? I know that you’re going to try and think yourself out of this somehow, so I’m going to make this one easy on you. Here I am. I appear in a cloud, just like I did at the time of Moses. Here I am, and now, listen up, and listen good. THIS IS MY SON. THIS one. Jesus Christ. He is MY SON. So you know what? LISTEN TO HIM.”

-Aj Neugebauer LCMS pastor