King’s final utterance, “I have been to the mountaintop,” could not have been said so powerfully if Martin had not stood with Moses at the awesomeness of Sinai and “gazed” on God (Exod. 24:11, Feiler) or if Martin had not stood with Moses in Deuteronomy 34 looking into the land of promise, or if Martin had not been alongside Isaiah when he was commanded to “Get you up to a high mountain” (Isa. 40:9).3
